we're getting vaccinated? :)

Hello my people, hope this week's been good to y'all. Here's a little overview of mine:

Last P-Day Sis. Hawkins and I showed the sisters the Heceta Head Lighthouse. It looked a lot like I remembered it looking, but this time there were a few more people. That seems to be a common theme this transfer, it's getting a little warmer, and the tourists seem to be coming out. I assume it can only get worse from here as well, which is truly enlightening. It's definitely made backing onto our street a bit more difficult...

At the clothing exchange the zone leaders came for exchanges with one of the sets of Elders (I forgot which ones?). By the second hour of us being there, three of the Elders ended up wearing one pair of pants together. It was a super wholesome bromance moment, and we actually had to end up cutting them out of the pants (they already had holes in them so we had to throw them away anyway). 

Velda's lesson this week was a lot less eventful...to say the least. She didn't even mention the incident from last week, we just had a normal lesson. What a legend. 

The four of us taught the Law of Chastity to the Youngs this week. That's all I have to say, actually it's not because BP usually comes to these lessons with us, but not this week. It seems that when he heard the lesson plan he conveniently had a scratchy throat and didn't dare infect us...convenient. I'm just kidding!! But also it was rather suspect.... ;)

We pulled some Ivy for a lady named Fawn. Who was the most Oregonian lady of all time!!! She had these epic long braids and has just so into her garden, and when we went into her backyard we got a REAL good sniff of weed; so as I said she truly was the manifestation of Oregon in the flesh.

Our lesson with Jeffrey was epic. We talked about so many topics I my head spins thinking back on it, I genuinely don't understand how the Sisters that taught him ever got him to stay on topic. Maybe they didn't and that's why it took about three years. :) Jeffrey's the best though and loves having us come over. It's so sweet!

Okay so, Wednesday morning Sister Phillips told me that she had gotten a message from a friend back home asking if he could talk to her before her mission was over (which is like a very broad question because she's only been out for six months). Sister Phillips was like "Well I can either say no, or we can turn this into a missionary opportunity and say only if you'd be willing to hear a message from us". So she decided to make it a missionary opportunity and we low key taught him a lesson last night. It actually went really well and we shared a verse from the Book of Mormon. Which we asked him if he knew about, he knew about it. He had apparently asked their other member friend about it, and he started saying "It's like really important to you and a dude named Joseph wrote it or something-" and I instantly was like, "Yeah, it's a record of ancient prophets that lived in the Americas that Joseph Smith TRANSLATED for us." Then we went and explained how it coincides with the Bible. False doctrine corrected...hopefully it sticks.

We were also able to sign up for COVID vaccines this week. We will be getting shot up at the Lincoln County Fair Grounds on the 14th (first dose). Kind of exciting!! :))

Hope everyone has a good and uplifting week, treat yourself well. Enjoy a Holland talk, I personally recommend, "The First Great Commandment". I listen to it on average twice a week.

Con Amor,

Hermana Shelton