the klamath curse?

Wow, okay. I have no idea how to begin with this one. It's been one of the craziest weeks of my entire life, but none of it is my story to tell. The Klamath Curse seems to be raging quite hard, for almost everyone except my companion and I, so here's what I can inform you of.

 T H E   P E O P L E : 

A N T H O N Y :  

My dude Anthony is doing so good! We've taught him The Restoration, and the Plan of Salvation! They've both gone so well! He's super epic and is working on his prayers! :) Best of the best. We love this kid. He actually says some pretty good prayers to end our lessons! :)

J O A N N : 

We went over to Joann's this week and helped her paint! She was painting her bedroom purple, living out all my childhood dreams.  Sister Ruegner and I- ended up going on illegal exchanges due to the circumstances of the week- came in and got it down in two hours. Ruegner is practically a professional edger so it all worked out.

M C C R E A D I E S : 

Wow this is a group of purebred humans. They're one of the key families in the ward but I haven't met them yet because everyone and their dog is vacationing all summer. They had us over for dinner on Saturday though, and I've never met more outgoing humans in my life. I was awe-struck. Also Sister McCreadie has a set of scriptures that have to be fifty years old. They are straight up deforming in front of my eyes. I learned more about that family in one hour of talking to them, then I learned about some of my comps in six weeks.

B E T T Y : 

My lady Betty! She's the sister of one of the members here, and wanted to meet with us after we talked in church. :) We went and met with her and it went so well. She's met with missionaries before, but she has some things to overcome. She's the sweetest though! Such a sweetheart she even made us lunch after our lesson.

F U N   T H I N G S : 

 

We went to Jalapenos to celebrate my NINE MONTH mark! Say what. Only four of the six sisters could make it, and one of the ones who didn't make it was my companion; so that was interesting. But it was still a good time! Sadly, the month mark curse that has formed on my mission seems to still be in effect (don't think I've previously mentioned this, but every third month mark -3,6,9- have been a train wreck). The Mexican food was good though, so yay!

Third Thursday, I have no idea what it's about but it's some community thing all us missionaries went to and made a booth for. Not much interest was shown, but it was a light in this week for sure. Especially when I watched some local band do an awful cover of Hotel California. Still better than nothing I guess. :)

My district leader, Elder Anderton - or Senator as well all call him, due to his dream of being a senator- dug through his suit coat and showed me that he is always carrying the US Constitution with him. He also listens to that one Dallin H. Oaks talk at least once a week, so he's got my vote. 

We headed up to the pear farm this week! Who knew picking pears was such serious work? It was pretty fun though, except for the mean workers that kept yelling at us for picking the wrong row. Still 8/10 would recommend. The only downside was that our only way there was the youth in the ward, so we ended up having to go with them to some family fun center, and playing the LONGEST round of mini golf of all time. I thought I was going to die. Then once we were finally heading home, my comp slammed her phone in the car, and that's the end of that. Three weeks out and onto phone number two. :(

I learned this week that my mission president proposed to his wife while in the movie theatre watching Karate Kid II. So, at least that's not your life story.

Also some of the Sisters and I went to Crater Lake today, and it lived up to the hype. The craziest blue I have ever seen! So cool, I can't believe it's real!

Sadly I don't have a lot of the photos from this week because we took them on Campbells phone....but here's what I got!