I'm in trio!?

¡Hola!

Wild to think about the fact that last time y'all heard from me I wasn't in a trio! Sister Crouch and I received a call at 7:30 am last Tuesday, which informed us that we would be getting a new companion in four hours. So a very chaotic morning ensued, but it all worked out....kind or....our apartment is definitely not up to the usual standards of tidiness; but I suppose that is to be expected when three people are crammed into a space meant for 2 and one of them is trying to cram her entire life into two 50 pound suitcases! :) It's been a wild time! BUT we're rocking a mega bed, so that's been fun!

Anywho, our new companion is Hermana Magaña! She's from San Diego and has actually been a missionary for a year, despite just getting to the OEM! She served a year in the Nauvoo Historic Sights! She's pretty cool, and a native Spanish speaker for yay! I've been practice teaching her some lessons for language study! :) She's first generation in the US, and the sweetest human to live! She actually hit her year mark the DAY after she got here; so we partied it up! Low-key praying Magaña gets transferred to Garden Valley next, treat her well Forsloffs! ;) JK...unless...

T H E    P E O P L E : 

CHRIS: our guy who's on date. we're definitely going to have to push that back, because this man doesn't know much, or attend church...? wild choice to put him on date, but I guess that's the last Sisters' prerogative. We taught him The Restoration this week, and it was so good!! It was low-key like we were teaching him for the first time, because he remembered nothing...and it was so cool! He's so ready, Satan's just working really hard to frustrate him. It was also Magaña's first ever time teaching a non-member! We handed it over to her for the Joseph Smith portion,  AND SHE KILLED IT! It's almost like she did this 24/6 for a year! :) My girl is a nerd for church history!

MICHELLE: we went and walked Michelle's dogs. She's a lady Sister Crouch found from a dog-walking service ad on Facebook (yeah, it's wild). One of her dogs is probably 150 pounds. She walked with us though, which was cool, usually when you show up to do service for people they give you some tools and disappear for two hours. We had only been talking to her for like 3 minutes when she asked us what our church was about!! We were all shocked for a second, but ended up answering some questions she had (If one more person in this state asks me how I know God's not a woman, I'll throw hands). At the end of the walk she seemed happy to know we wanted to come back, and said she wouldn't mind hearing more about our beliefs too, so yay!!! Dog-walking ads, who knew? :)

PETER: Peter is a returning member, he's got a lot going on but is pretty sweet. He writes a lot of songs apparently, and he sung one for us. It was the first time he'd ever sung in front of people, and he was crazy nervous. It was a pretty rocky run through the song, and then after it was over dude really apologized and said he played the wrong instrumental on his speaker, but was too nervous to change it; so he really just sang this whole song to the wrong beat. Legend. But the he played a song that he worked up with a like real producer....and it's incredible. The pessimist in me doesn't believe it's real....I'm going to attach the file (I asked for it like 4 times so he'd send it) if someone could Shazam it so we can know if he actually wrote it....that'd be nice!

THE BEANS: we had dinner with our WML and his wife last night (they also have a three month old and BOTH of them asked if I wanted to hold him, which was insanely tempting). But these people are legends. Such a stark contrast from my last WML, Brother Bean asked if our message could be about social media. He wanted to know how we use it, and how he -and the ward- could get involved. We ended up talking to him about it for an hour! He was asking us about the algorithm and how the tech missionaries boost it and I was in shock! He thought it was so cool! 

It was the primary program this week, the COVID restrictions are pretty strict here so it was a pre-filmed thing; but it was so cute! The only problem was all the parents were incompetent and filmed the videos the wrong direction. Garbage. Friendly reminder to film things horizontally. 

Also I had my last interview with President Weekes this week and I didn't even cry, so that was incredibly disappointing. :( 

'Til next week!

♡/ Sister Shelton

F O T O S :

1 - magaña one year!!¡¡

2 - sis lee♡