Well it's official, in the wise words of Sister Cook, they should make a movie about my mission. Whoever said "stateside" missionaries never have any good stories, clearly didn't serve a mission in the states. The office couples have officially blocked my number because if they get one more call from me this mission is going bankrupt..... ;) I have now been in two crashes, one of which totaled both cars involved, cracked a phone, had my phone stolen, had a tire pop on the freeway, had a nail in another one of my tires, maxed out my free chiropractor appointments, been to a specialist for supposed gallbladder problems, started losing my hair, and am still kicking thanks to my probably exhausted ancestors on the other side of the veil. All jokes aside, I seriously have loved my mission and have big news!!!! EMILY AND EVIE WERE BAPTIZED THIS SATURDAY!
Monday: All is fun and games until someone looses an eye. Or in this case until someone crashes their car. This crash was honestly probably the scariest thing that has ever happened in my life, but I have to talk about it because it was the biggest miracle. For about 5 minutes or more Sister Hunter and I thought we had just killed two 20 year old friends. It was the hardest thought to even bear, while calling 911, Elder Smith and President Reese. Sister Hunter was in medical shock, so I had to do most of the handling of the adult stuff. It was pretty scary, but now I can say I did it. Miraculously all four of us walked away from the accident, no one went to the hospital and everyone made it out with not even a scratch. If that's not proof that God is real and that he loves us, I literally don't know what is. God is good and he protects his missionaries.
Tuesday: Honestly today was a whole lot of phone calls, and sleeping. We were exhausted and super sore. We did end up going to dinner and one lesson with Emily and Evie before their baptismal interview so we called that a huge success.
Wednesday: Today was by far the worst day pain wise. We made it through ten contacts before we both fell asleep in the recliners. Let's just say the only thing we went to was a member dinner and the chiropractor..... triste.
Thursday: Today we were feeling a little better so we decided to go teach our English classes and it was super awesome! I am teaching English Connect 2 again which is my favorite by far. Our students are so awesome and are all really close to completing the program.
Friday: Today Sister Hunter had a two hour meeting about going home so I had three hours of personal study time. So, I got a lot done. I wrote so many funny stories in my journal, read all the way to Enos, and even listened to 3 general conference talks. Today we attempted to go on foot to two of our appointments but failed and ended up having a member come pick us up a quarter of mile into our walk. We had a good visit with Amber and Sister Crump who is working on getting to the temple. We ended the night with enchiladas at the Riggs house and went to bed early.
Saturday: Baptism day!!! We didn't really do anything until about 1pm when we went to go set up the baptism. Emily and Evie got there 30 minutes early and had everything all ready to go and they were SO EXCITED. I have loved working with them and watching them take this step was truly amazing. The ward represented and we had probably 35 people there which was awesome! When the girls got up to bear their testimonies you could just see the light in their eyes and it was so amazing. My joy is full that's for sure.
Sunday: Today we went to church, found this really awesome guy named Felimon, sadly he speaks Spanish so we passed him off to the Elders, but we got to teach and chat in Spanish which was awesome. My new goal is to be able to take over for Sister Hunter in translating sacrament meeting for a recent convert by the time she leaves. We've been grinding on language study so I'm pretty confident I can accomplish that goal. Also, Evie and Emily got confirmed today which was so awesome. It was the first time my whole mission we were able to do it in sacrament meeting so that was a really special experience. We ended the night with cookie baking and haunted house decorating which was super fun!!! Totally a memorable Halloween.
All in all the Lord loves effort, he blesses the obedient, and he never leaves us alone. Love you guys! Ft. Some amazingly cringy pictures of us being bored and remotely sad from all the stuff that happened this week.
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