Week 57

Dear family,

This week was pretty eventful! For the big news! I am staying in Meridian...which I am ok with. I will still be with Sister Richards and it will be great.  Also I do not know if you all checked the date yet but it is June 25. That means I am now 13. I am now a teenager and as of Friday the second oldest Sister in the mission. 2 went home friday and after this transfer I really will be the oldest. Scary. President also goes home at the end of this week. Sad day. I am sure going to miss that man. The new president I will not even get to meet for I believe three more weeks. Weird. That is ok though.

As for this week! It was  a great one and really productive. Tuesday one of the ward members came with us to a referral. She is awesome. A very typical southern lady. She is black and so very sweet. She is probably in her 60s. She was so receptive. We taught her a little about the Book of Mormon and she told us she would read and come back any time. We have already been back once and it was awesome. The only hold up is that she has a lot of health problems and may not be able to make it to church and stuff so hopefully things come of that. Wednesday we saw a few other people and were able to contact a lot of referrals that we once had. We also got taken to a Thai restaurant. We get it a lot and it has become my new favorite kind of food. Thursday was soo busy. We saw an LA named lady who we see each week. She does not come to church all too often because she does not have transportation and her husband is not super supportive but she sure does have a strong testimony and she is awesome. Then we decided we were going to start tracting every other day even if it is just for 15 minutes and we actually had some interested people. One lady even is going to let us come back this week so that is awesome. We are really trying to work hard on finding new people to teach, whether it be through the ward or us. We also started a Book of Mormon class here. It was not very successful the first night but maybe this week it will be ok. It turned out really good for those who were there. Friday we went and volunteered at the soup kitchen again. It is always so funny there. Like they were handing out these dessert things and they were only allowed to have one and one girl came and got another and so the lady told her no and she freaked out and threw a fit over it. It was hilarious. Ah i just love the south. On saturday we were able to hand out 40 mormon.org cards and invite even more to listen to us. it was awesome. We have one of the highest records for it. That is kind of what we have to do because we can never find people at the same address twice here in the south. Then yesterday church was awesome. It was all about missionary work and doing it. And how the gospel=joy and doing missionary work =your duty which = your joy. Our relief society president took us out yesterday too to visit people and feed us lunch and she is just so funny. she ended up talking to us for an hour about twilight haha. We also were able to teach her husband because he is not a member so that was great. Then that was about the week.