¡Hola a todos, espero que habeís tenido una gran semana! :) It has been a boppin' time here in Klamtucky! Also the title of this email, was truly an experience, proceed to read to learn of it!
S O M E C O O L P E O P L E:
Jaynie - I don't know her last name- she's a member of a few years, and is straight up WILD. We went over for a little member lesson, and it was such an experience. No notes were left about her, so both of us were completely unprepared going into it as well. We drove into her trailer park, passed a lot of normal looking trailer homes, and then got to her's...which had a ton of weird plants growing out of it, and about 900 cats roaming around it. I almost cried when I walked onto the property and smelt the house, but God is good, and we luckily didn't have to go in! Luckily she's like crazy scared of COVID so we got to sit outside with masks on to mask the smell! I think seven stray cats touched me in the thirty minutes we were there, and I almost lost my mind. She owns 10 cats, and four dogs, but has about 7 stray cats that live in her yard and she feeds!! She also low-key might be a witch low-key, but that's another story; so all in all it was just an average Tuesday with the people of Klamath Falls. Got to love it.
My Lady Joann! We went to Joann's and had the first new member lesson with her! She's such a legend. Her roommate Elizabeth was baptized in the 90s- which was actually a huge revelation because all our notes say Elizabeth wasn't a member- but hadn't been to church in years; but when Joann was starting to search for some answers, Elizabeth told her about what our church believed, and Joann contacted the missionaries. :) Elect of the elect. Both of them got divorced around the same time, so they decided to move in together and help each other our financially. Both of them have 3 kids (five of which live at home, and four of which we've actually spoken to), so there's a whole mess of humans running around that house, and the energy is immaculate! None of the children are members, and all but 3-year-old Braydon are old enough! So we just found a whole mess of potentials! :)
Joann also texted us randomly one night and asked us if we wanted to come have dinner with them! Which we can do not on a weekend, because there are non-members in the house! :) When we showed up it was just Elizabeth and one of her kids, Anthony. He's 9 years old, LOVES Pokeman, and most definitely has some ADHD! :) Such a sweat kid! He was teaching us all about Pokeman for quite some time. Eventually Joann showed up with a car load of kids. Two of which were Elizabeth's other kids, Jaynie and Michael. I have no idea how old those two are, some tween age though. We talked to them for quite a while too! :) Plus dinner was absolutely banging! Chicken enchiladas!
Dwight! So when I showed up here, there was a lesson in our Area Book every Wednesday that just said, "Boot Barn" and I was incredibly confused. Turns out it's a member lesson with Dwight, the owner of a boot repair shop called "Boot Barn" at the shop! Hehehe! It smelt like burnt leather and it was fantastic! We went over Come Follow Me with him and it was SO wholesome.
Sister Campbell and I had to talk in church this week, which is funny because we prayed in church last week; but 'tis the life of a missionary I suppose. Guess it was worth it though, because one of the Sisters in our ward brings her non-member sister to church every week and how she want to meet with us! How fun. :) She's met with missionaries a few times before I think, and comes to church almost every week, despite not being a member, so this is bound to be interesting; but VERY exciting non the less! Huge blessing, that definitely made writing my talk on my phone worth it (the Elders wouldn't leave the computer room, and the OEM is against Elders and Sisters existing in the same premises).
S E R V I C E:
We went over to Delores' house again, she's the old lady that all our notes refer to as grandma and forced us to get a blizzard at Dairy Queen with her last week. We're trying to help her organize her garage. My moving all these boxes she hasn't looked in for years into clear tubs for her not to look in. Not a bad time though, would recommend.
We went to a run down Methodist church and fed the homeless! It was quite the time, there was a guy who thought he was a prophet and kept spewing out prophecies while we handed him a sandwich and salad. It was such a cool service beside the part where the building was 439° and all the Methodists working there were very judgmental and rude to all the homeless people! :(
The other Sisters asked if we could come wash windows with them, so we showed up, along with half the Zone! The people are remodeling this really old house so they had A LOT of work for us to do. I also didn't know that windows could be that dirty. They were straight up brown, and the dude gave me a razor blade - with a handle don't stress- to scrape it off. It was crazy satisfying though, and after they fed us all pizza! :)
F U N T H I N G S:
Sister Goth and Sœur Ruegner - it's sister in French, and it's pronounced like "Sir" and I think it fits her personality perfectly- came and pounded on our door at 6:53 in the morning (mid morning workout). Asking us if we wanted to join them on a McDonald's run. We both shrugged and went with them. It was chaotic and at one point Ruegner flipped a U-Turn (which are apparently illegal in Oregon, but drugs aren't?) to pull into a Taco Bell drive-through because she was craving a Doritos Locos Taco. What a Queen.
I also learned that our apartment has a garage, but it's locked and I don't posess the key. Not too sad about it though, I don't want to know what's in it.
Last but certainly not least (not the click bait being at the bitter end of the email, LOL my bad), I learned how to pick a lock this week. This might require some historical context, so here we go. For those of you unaware - we don't knock on people's doors like door to door salesman anymore, and a lot of missionary work is online. Which is great and divinely inspired, but we only have phones; so you will often see missionaries living in their local family history center to use the computer. Well, for some reason the great stake leaders of Klamath Falls have decided not to give any of the missionaries here a key. Reason still unknown.
That has led some missionaries here in the beloved Klamath Falls to get very creative. So far I've only just show up, and a set of missionaries are already there and we ask them to leave the door open for us when they leave, and I haven't asked any questions about how to door got opened; but on Friday night, for the first time in forever, we were the only ones there; so it was our time to step up.
Long story short I ended up video-calling my Zone leaders for ten minutes as they walked me through how to pick the lock with a butter knife from the church kitchen. Say what you will about Elders, but they truly know how to adapt and overcome. It felt highly illegal, but after a few attempts, I got us in. The skills you pick up on the mission truly are incredible, and can never be predicted! :)
The next morning in ward council we asked how we could go about getting a key for the family history center, so we could you know, further the work of the Lord. They pretty much told us we'd never get one and only like five people in the stake have one. They then told us we should take the one that the Zone Leaders have, I nodded along because I didn't know how to tell them that we have the same key the zone leaders have sitting in a drawer in the kitchen; so pretty much that went nowhere, pero está bien.
Everyone should send me mail, because I have a mailbox for the first time in my life, and have received nothing in it, but a Burger King coupon page.
address: 1925 Bryant Ct. Klamath Falls OR 97603
Anyways I gotta run, I talked the Sisters into going bowling this pday!! 
Don't tell Mads White I went without her though, I'm really banking on her not reading my emails!
Don't tell Mads White I went without her though, I'm really banking on her not reading my emails!Much love from your favorite Sister missionary/lock picking extraordinaire,
Hermana Shelton!! ;)
1 - lunch with the other sisters!♡
2 - the "key"
3 - post break in victory selfie
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