But let's start from the beginning, and as always, the title will make more sense later. :)
The clothing exchange was a pretty good time as always! I took a sweater, just in time for the warmest week of my mission so far, but all is well. Also Sister Phillips and I sorted baby clothes for a good hour at one point, and I've legit never seen a group of teenage boys (officially I should call them Elders, but they are what they are) get so hyped over baby clothes. It was definitely an experience.
By the end of the clothing exchange all of us were pretty dead, Sister Phillips most definitely fell asleep during personal study,; and it most definitely made a loud thud sound as her head hit her desk. We had two member lessons that day, as well, and little did we know what one of these member lessons would have in store for us.
We did our weekly "Zoom" lesson with Velda, she's so cool and always asks us the wildest questions. I love our lessons with Velda. She broke her leg last week so we didn't meet with her though, so this week we started out the lesson by asking her about breaking her leg. It's not really a riveting story by any means, she's old and she fell and broke herself. She started telling us about how she had this really nasty bruise on her but from it, and asked if we had seen it yet. We obviously hadn't, so we said no, like a bunch of idiots. Then she was asked us if we'd like to see it, the cute little greenie- brand new missionary for those of you not fluent in mission language- next to me said "Yeah," and thus our destiny was set. I could feel that things weren't going to end well at this point, and watched as my companion dove off screen and started laughing. She unlike the greenie and Sister Hawkins, had obviously heard where the bruise was located.
Homegirl Velda then proceeded to stand up (which was ambitious for someone with a broken leg? Apparently she really wanted to show us this bruise?) from her chair. She than changed the camera angle, and then said the fatal sentence, "I'll try to be discrete and not show you my crack". At this point the other two had finally caught on to what was going on, but it was too late. About a second later it was done, we were being mooned by a 70 year old women over a church zoom call. The next ten minutes were just us trying to compose ourselves; but who could blame us. She also asked Sister Hawkins and I if we were new at the end, so she really just thought she was mooning four missionaries she had never met before, she's a legend, and we should all have her self-confidence (actually maybe not, that would be a little intense). :)
The rest of the week was a bit less wild, but still really good. We did some yard work for a member, and she's planning on inviting us back to help her non-member neighbor so yay! Thursday we had to drive to Corvallis for interviews with President Week, we got some Thai food while there, and Sister Hawkins and I might have gotten it a little bit too spicy and lived to regret it, silly us! We also had an AMAZING member lesson with a less active member!
I also started friending people that have liked/interacted with some of my posts in the local Facebook groups, one of the people I friended liked my post so I messaged him, and we may have gotten a new! Say what!? His name is Jason, and we talked with him over messenger video call last night! It was actually so cool, he was so fascinated with our missions and how they work, it was really cool. We talked about the Atonement (but didn't call it the Atonement, because that's a very our church phrase apparently? learned that while on the mission). He's knows the bible REALLY well, and asked us our favorite verses, I blanked for a hot second, but luckily Isaiah and 2 Nephi are fraternal twins, and my freshman year seminary teacher played songs for scripture masteries and those will never leave my brain. :) He said he'd like to talk with us about what we believe again too! We're so excited!
And of course we can't end this email without talking about GENERAL CONFERENCE! It was so good, but also where was my guy Elder Cook at? It was also the first time on record that Ballard's voice hasn't knocked me out, so that's epic! I can't wait for the talks to come out so I can re-read them, I also will NEVER forgot the shock and yells that came out of us when they announced Eugene Oregon was getting a temple. I'm sure a lot of tears came to the eyes of all the people that I love here, the Waldport Ward Information Page was definitely blowing up!
We actually got so hyped for Eugene, that I didn't even hear the Prophet say Smithfield! Crazy! Cache Valley really is moving up in the world getting our second temple! I hope they find a hill for it, I'm sure they'll have no issue finding pretty grounds (or a hill, we are taking CV)! Just look at Sky View's campus vs where I went to school...I love you Mountain Crest but I said what I said. Maybe they'll put it right next to 'La Unica' and we can go to the temple, then get street tacos after! :) That'd be the dream! :)
Till next time, I love you all, God loves you all, and I hope you have an amazing week!
Hermana Shelton :)
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