Hello my people! I honestly don't know where to start...
The Elders joined us at the clothing exchange this week, after months of seeing our scores, I guess they wanted in. We got done early - thanks to the combined power of four extra people, and the donation bin having been closed for a couple weeks- so obviously we went to the church and played "Secret Hitler"! :)
Sister Peterson and I got a referral Tuesday night! It was for a lady named Jodi, who just moved here from Alaska! We texted her and made plans to go over on Thursday. Jodi warned us about five times to text her before we came in so her dogs wouldn't bite us; so when we got there we did just that. We parked the car and called her, it became pretty apparent that she had forgotten we were coming. Eventually she told us her friend was coming with a truck in 30 minutes, and asked if we could help unload. We figured service a better way to build a relationship anyway and told her we could be there in 30 minutes- while sitting in her driveway- and went to go put on service clothes (she lives like 5 minutes from our apartment). When we came back, we saw her talking to someone in a TINY little Honda in her parking lot. Something had gone wrong and the truck didn't end up making it to Waldport yet. But she invited us in and talked with us for a while, and we actually ended up teaching a bit (very very small bit, but still) of a lesson in our service clothes. She teared up a bit at the "Because of Him" video- because honestly who doesn't- which was super cool! I'll be a long road, but she seems really genuine so I'm excited to see what happens there!
Wednesday's Water and Fridays Feast had an ambitious cross over this week where we played "District Feud" courtesy of my mom! Unfortunately while making the event for Wednesday the Coast District had a complete brain collapse and forgot how to spell. I misspelled feud (spelling it fued) and I was all embarrassed; but Elder Zimmerman then named the event "Wesday's Water" which was phenomenal. I think I laughed for forty minutes after we realized. Thanks to anyone who still watched it, despite the horrific advertisement! The Sisters somehow won, even though we had a HORRIFIC showing for the first part of Wednesday night. For obvious reasons we played Secret Hitler after our live videos ended.
We had to go to Corvallis yet again this week, we were having a combined district council for some reason (I don't know I just work here); so us coast sisters left at 7:30 so we could be there for New Missionary Training in person. One of the zone leaders came and joined our district council and played our closing hymn. I literally did not know that someone could make a piano sound that loud. I'm pretty sure I was screaming "How Firm A Foundation" yet I couldn't hear my own voice. Turns out the Elder is really good at playing the piano and after he asked if we had any requests. I asked him what her knew by Billy Joel and he played "Piano Man", which was a really basic choice, but I was so happy. The next thing I knew another Elder had whipped out a harmonica (he keeps it on his key chain?) and we were having a whole musical production.
Elder Zimmerman had decided we would cook burgers after, it started out pretty sketchy; but luckily some random Elder that had worked at "Five Guys" in the past so he took over. After we played "Secret Hitler" obviously! (You may be sensing a theme here).
Our apartment has been having some absolutely crazy construction done on it, for a time period on Saturday we didn't even have a door... but today has definitely been the best part of it, Sister Peterson and I left for Walmart only to be greeted by our deck having no railings of any kind (earlier in the week they'd taken out the bottom part by our apartment leaving a gaping hole, which is now covered by a piece of plywood that is desperately near snapping!). I have never doubted my ability to walk more, never have I ever touched any of the railings, but I like to know they're there I guess. Anyway that's been a wild adventure, and the constant banging against our apartment has made study time a bit difficult this week.
Sister Johnson and I were companions for a day again (any excuse to come down to Waldport again I guess), and we had the glorious experience of teaching Jeffrey together. Jeffrey is a new member who TALKS a lot! He's so cool though! He tends to go on rants every once and a while and it's kinda hard to get things back on track. It was super fun though, and we ended up being there for two hours on accident, time moves differently on this man's porch I'm telling you. Over the weeks with Jeffrey there are a few topics I've learned to avoid, COVID, Family History, Latin, YouTube, and Washington DC. He lived in DC and could talk about it for HOURS (one time I think he did). I prepped Sister Johnson, and then ended up being the problem because we were talking about missions and I mentioned my sister served. He asked me where, and I painfully had to say "Washington D.C. South". That was a good thirty minutes I burned there, but you live and you learn.
As always this ward is the cutest and this week has been nothing but amazing! (except losing an hour of sleep Saturday night, but it not being dark at 6 even made that worth it)
Hope everyone had a great week, and if not then have a good one this time for me! :)
Much love
Hermana Shelton :)
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