Week 54

Dear family,

This week was good as usual because that is what I always say. We actually got to see alot of people and it was pretty great. Plus we had zone conference and that is always fun.

So monday we went to the mall because Sister Richard's wanted to buy clothes with her b-day money and so I was trying to talk to as many people there as I could about the church. So we were able to find 2 really neat people. One was a worker at a JCPenney and she actually came up to us and wanted to know who we were. We are going to try calling her this week to see if we can meet with her. We also found this guy in this really random store that sold random tshirts. He actually asked us about it too and said he knew some members and asked some basic beliefs and we were able to refer him to mormon.org. It was cool because he said he was going to look at it at soon as we left the store because he had his laptop open. On Tuesday we were able to do some service for one of my favorite families. They are getting ready to move in the next few months to Tupelo MS. Which is out of our mission which means I will propably not see them for a while. It stinks. But they are moving to a small town and are really nervous about it so I told them I am from a small town and told them all about it and they said it really helped so I guess thank goodness we lived in green river. Wednesday we got to see Shavanka and her family. They were all really depressed when we came and they were not really in the mood for a lesson so we offered to come back but they said they knew they needed to hear from us and that is what they wanted. So we started teaching them about obedience and the 10 commandments. We have these hand symbols/actions for them so you can remember all 10 in order and they loved it. It really helped them to be happy and to actually get into the lesson. We tried to make it based on keeping the sabbath day holy so they would come to church but it turned more into honoring thy father and mother which is what the kids were struggling with anyway. It turned out to be good. And the kids said they would come to church because the mom had to work. We also got to have dinner with one of my other favorite families. They are hilarious and she graduated from the paul mitchell in st george. So they are just alot of fun to be around. 

Thursday was zone conference in Hattiesburg so we had to wake up super early at 6 and drive. It was such a good conference. We wanted to be in Hattiesburg early so we could finish cleaning our car because it is a requirement. So we go on this long adventure trying to find a place where there is a car wash and it took forever and they didnt even have free vacuum's  it was so lame and they took off our bike rack because apparantly it could not go through the wash and then they were supposed to put it back on but they tried to blame us that we lost the pin that holds it in but we were in our car the whole time and it was dumb. Anyway they found the pin and could still not get it back on so we are outside on the ground in our skirts trying to put the bike rack on but we cant get it so we just give up and leave but we did  get to give both the guys books of mormon and tell them a little. It was awesome. .we arrived at the conference with only 20 mintues to actually fine tune our car. Any way the conference was great. Usually we are combined with other zones and this time it was just one zone so we are the only sisters there so that was kind of lame. But we have won the hearts of all the senior couples so it was worth it. We did not win the clean car award but the car guy after did tell us we would have won but because I have won every time it would not have been fair especially since our car is brand new. So its all good. we would have won. President Tucker introduced a new finding tool which is really cool. Because as a missionary we are literal representatives of Jesus Christ so we are going to start leaving blessings on homes. not actually blessing it but i dont even know how to describe it. It should work. Our mission doctor also told us about bugs and bites and stuff. it was sick nasty the pictures he showed us. We then drove back to meridian in pouring rain and a tornado warning. It was scary. The sky was green and it is so intense to see.

The rest of the week we just tried to find more people and on saturday we saw a lady. She was looking alot better from her previous depressed state and said we could come back this week. We went to a park to find people and we ended up watching a dance contest. This thing was so legit. Black people really know how to dance. We found three people there. One guy gave us his phone number to call him later that night and i tried calling him later and his number already was saved in our phone. So we didnt call him and will be giving him to the elders. But we did find two really nice ladies that may be interested. We also went to a farmers market to find people. It was kind of lame though. Like not very much stuff but there was this kettle corn man that was hilarious. people were gathered around him to watch his "show". Then we went to this little store we saw in the down town area and I was telling the lady about mormon.org and I wanted a video for her to watch but i could not remember her name and all of a sudden it popped into my head as to who she needed to see. It was so cool. The spirit is amazing. The Lord really is preparing people here in Merdian and it is amazing. Sunday we got to church and 2 of Shavankas kids were there waiting. It was amazing. They are so neat and they really do love the gospel. Miracles are happening everyday. I also got to take sister R to the hoarders house yesterday. Her face was priceless. It made my week haha. Just kidding.

I hope you all have a great week. the church is so true. If you want to see miracles in your life, do missionary work. I love you all.