Apparently my email from last week never sent? It said it was "queued"? Anyway this is the email I typed last Monday. If you're only going to read one from me this week, I'd recommend the one that'll be coming later today though!
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We do service at a clothing exchange every Tuesday. It's with these people from another church that don't believe you should eat fruits and vegetables in the same meal (apparently it'll make you die faster, but I'm not shooting for 100). We were there hanging up donated clothes for over five hours, and just when we'd finish hanging up a box, another would come in. They get an INSANE number of donations, we were sorting and hanging all day and their pile just kept growing as people dropped more off! It was super cool and the people were really nice. Although during lunch I thought this guy that looks exactly like the uncle from Duck Dynasty was going to get in a fight with this other lady about the ecosystem.
We have about two member lessons a night, which are always a good time. As I mentioned last week we live in a retirement community, so Zoom lessons are required (missionaries can't go into the house of someone over 60) and they are always highly entertaining!!! The angles that people hold their phones at are always amusing me. Here are some of the highlights this week
○One family decided each of them would be on their own devices during the Zoom call, which took over 10 minutes and the silence was deafening.
○a member showed up partway through the lesson dressed as santa and started taking deep doctrine about the plan of salvation.
○ one guy always holds his phone so I can see up his nose !!
There have been a few days where it DIDN'T rain?!?! How excited I was! We walked outside and actually got to have dry hair for a bit. Seeing the sun again felt VERY nice.
Friday night the YSA bishop asked my companion and I to talk. Which was a bit of a RIP, but he neglected to mention a time frame so they was nice. I had to write a talk at a speed I've never been able to imagine. I was pretty stressed for a while, and then I remembered the turnout to the YSA ward and I calmed down a bit. Just as I expected there were about seven people in the chapel (and about 8 on Zoom); so it kinda felt like I was just talking to myself. Which was pretty nice.
We had two nonmember lessons set up this week.... and BOTH of them cancelled; but we have them rescheduled and have been in contact with a few people we could potentially teach from our Coast 4 Christ page (one of them sent me an absolute novel of an email)! Hopefully something happens there.
Apparently the "Coast 4 Christ" page has been booming recently. Big shutout to all y'all that liked the page for me, you're making us look really good. Hopefully some of the people that joined are actually people from the area we can teach sometime!
If any of you are free at 6 o'clock Oregon time on Wednesday watch the other Sisters and I go live on the Coast 4 Christ page. The Elders got almost as many views as us last week and I refuse to let that happen again, please boost our stats. Also it'll be fun and good for the soul so watch!!
Anyways have a GREAT week everybody! Stay safe and healthy and read your scriptures!
Hermana Shelton (or Sister, depends on who you ask !!!)
PS: I live in a tsunami hazard zone, so that's fun. We've been given instructions on what to do in a crisis (it was the first thing they told us when we showed up), and I really hope my companion remembers! Overall would recommend, the thrill of the unknown is quite fun!
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