Well hello there my beloved friends and family! How are things? Let me know, I'm pretty sure the world's low-key on fire, but I don't have access to the news. :)
Anyways, Monday and Tuesday consisted of a lot of goodbyes. Campbell and I went and said goodbye to everybody, and then to each other once we got to the transfer spot. Turns out my new comp is Sister Regan Hansen, who is Hermana Coca's old companion, so we're really just switching comps! Hehe.
♡ O U R P E O P L E : ♡
LORI: Lori was sick (kidney stones :( so we didn't get to meet with her this week). But we've rescheduled for tomorrow and are teaching her the first lesson finally!!
BETTY: What a sweet lady. She was obviously not doing well (being chronically ill for over 10 years, tends to do that to a person); but she still met with us. I asked her all the baptism interview questions without her knowing, and confirmed that there is actually no reason this women isn't a member of the church. She pretty much bore her testimony of the restored gospel to us for an hour and a half. This week we're going to teach her The Gospel of Jesus Christ lesson (aka the soft baptismal invite), and pretty much ask her why she won't get in the water. Will keep you updated.
ANTHONY: an absolute king. He started our lesson off by showing us that he memorized all the steps from the gospel of Jesus Christ lesson (for those of you that don't have PMG memorized, think the 4th article of faith). Then we taught him about the 10 commandments! We used the hand signals and he loved them, and remembered almost all of them! He's so excited to be baptized. If only he wasn't at his dad's every other weekend.
JAMIE: Anthony's older sister, age 11. We went over to have a new member lesson with Joann (The Law of Chastity, yay!) and she came up to me and told me she wanted to be baptized!!! I was like... "Sick, but we kind of have to teach you what the church believes in first." So we're now going to be teaching her too, now if Michael (14) can just get with the program! :) He will in time, we're homies, we've talked about Pokemon together.
I actually started to map out the week to see what day we're looking at for Anthony and Jamie's baptism...and general conference is right where I need it not to be. :( Which is fine, it'll just be further out than I'd like.
☆ F U N T H I N G S : ☆
We once again had the privilege of going to Volleyball, and it was a grand old time. Sister Hansen invited some guy over Facebook like 30 minutes before, and he came!! AND we have a lesson set up with him this week! Say what? We'll have to hand him off the STLs because they cover the YSA, but still! :)
We went over to Delores, and had lunch with her (which is what we usually do before helping her "organize" her garage). We got Jalapeños, which was immaculate; and Delores asked us to get her a Jarritos (those Mexican sodas in a glass bottle, that are straight up burp juice). We got her one and while we were eating Sister Hansen asked Delores a question, and she turned and faced Sister Hansen, and let out the LOUDEST burp a 93-year-old women has ever released. Then just started answering the question, as if nothing had happened. I snorted but covered it like a cough, and Sister Hansen kept it together remarkably well (she told me after that she had to say a little prayer to keep composed). I love Delores.
We had stake conference this week! Which President and Sister Weekes drove down for, which was fun! And our new member Gary came! Gary is legit the best! I asked him about Stake Conference last night though, and he wasn't a fan! :) Below is the conversation Gary and us had, written as if a 5th grader was asked to make a screenplay:
"Hey Gary" -me
"Hey Shelton" - Gary
"I saw you at stake conference, how was it?" - me
"Weird and confusing." - Gary
"Oh, well-" - Hansen
"Why did I even go?" - Gary
"Gary, you're a member of the stake, and-"-me
"We didn't even take the bread and the water." - Gary
He low-key had a point...but anywho...hope this week is amazing for all of you, by the next time I write you I'll be double digits on my month marks, so that's gross.
Til next time,
Hermana Shelton
《 F O T O S : 》
1 - sad bye bye @ the transfer spot
2 - last sistrict picture :( (literally, they changed the districts this transfer)
3 - bye bye to my second born
4 - the worst cowboy boots I have ever seen
5 - bye bye to chaotic energy with Soeur Ruegner.
6 - cute little box o sunshine I received :) gracias Nelsons!♡
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