Whoa. Hey there. Sorry this is coming to you so late in the day. I got to see the ocean today so that took a lot of time.
This
was perhaps the MOST INSANE week of my mission... I know I say that all
the time, but I had no idea what insane felt like until this week.
Monday
was fun. We went bowling with the district in DeLand. I'm not a very
good bowler. But don't worry... I got a strike so it's fine.
Tuesday
I was transferred to the New Smyrna Beach Ward with Sister Simpson!
Holy. She is the greatest ever. Right now we are the only missionaries
in the ward so we cover New Smyrna, Port Orange, Edge Water, Ponce
Inlet, and a little bit of South Daytona. Plus we are STLs over the
Daytona, Bunnell, DeLand, and Deltona sisters. We have the biggest
teaching pool I've ever had on my mission and right now we are working
on sifting through everyone to try to decide who is prepared. Tuesday we
taught a WHOLE BUNCH of people. Like so many people I can't even
remember all of them.
Wednesday
we started off the AM with some good old district meeting. We drove a
thousand miles to Daytona and then to Bunnell. I saw my homies Elder and
Sister Corder. They always make me feel like I'm their favorite grand
child. Then we taught another seven lessons. We were on this street in
the hood and this guy in a wheelchair yelled
to us "I saw you give a card to my brother! Can I have one?" So we ran
over and taught him. We also had dinner with the Hendersons.
#GrilledPizza
Thursday
we took a road trip down to Orlando for monthly Missionary Leadership
Counsel meeting (MLC) and it was probably the most powerful meeting I've
ever been in. The entire meeting was on the Atonement and at any given
moment you could look around the room and see someone in tears. It
really changed the way I look at this work. The church was restored so
that through the priesthood we can have access to the Atonement. I wish I
could explain some of the feelings I felt during that meeting, but my
feelings are overflowing and my writing is inadequate, so I'll simply
say that to me the Atonement is everything, and I will forever be
indebted to the one that gave me everything. And therefor, I will do my
very best for Him.
I also found a fellow Lancer (Elder Dummer) and we took a Lancer LL picture. #GoLancers!
After
MLC we taught a few people and had dinner with the Wells and they fed
us black eyed peas #BoomBoomPow #TonightsGonnaBeAGoodNight and then we
taught some more of our friends.
Friday we weekly planned. Then we went to Brother Cintron's and I learned how to transplant a pineapple. 🍍🍍🍍
Then we planted a tree and he told us it was going to be the
"missionary tree." You guys. I have a tree. Then we taught Brian. He is
my favorite. He loves the gospel but just has some things he needs to
overcome before he can get baptized.
Saturday...are
you ready to read about Saturday? Oh man. First of all, we had a
meeting with the ZLs at McDonalds to plan ZTM. Haha good times. Then we
were driving down the road and we see Lemar rolling on the sidewalk in
his wheelchair so we pull over and he's like "HEY SISTERS! I'VE BEEN
WAITING FOR YOU TO CALL ME!" Then he told us he had read the pamphlet we
left him and that he loved it. So we whipped our car around and taught
him more about the Book of Mormon. Then his therapist showed up and we
said a prayer with both of them. Word.
We
taught some other people and then we were trying to visit someone in
Area book, but she didn't want to talk to us so we decided to knock on
her neighbor's doors so we knock on this door and this man with ONE LEG
that looks like he walked straight out of a Pixar Movie answers the door
and introduces himself as Jim. He tells us he lives in a "bear house"
and asks us if we want to see... We both looked at each other and
shrugged. So we go in and for the next half hour him and his wife
proceed to talk to us about the HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF TEDDY BEARS
they have. Like at first we think it's just some odd collection BUT it
was INFACT NOT just some odd collection... After a few minutes we
realized that they did indeed believe that these teddy bears were real.
They all had names that are written in a book. They all also had
stories, many of which we learned about. They all also have
personalities and sometimes they get mad if they can't see the TV.
Sister Simpson was telling the lady about how her mom is a first grade
teacher and every year they have a "teddy bear picnic" and the lady goes
"SHHHHHHHH!" And then whispers "don't let the teddy bears hear you!
They've been wanting to have a picnic!"
Oh man. Florida is fun my friends. #OldiesButGoodies
Later
in the day after we were contacting this blind man when all of the
sudden Lemar rolls up and is like "hey Sisters!" Then he tells us that
"Pop" is his dad. Then he tells the other people there that we are "good
Christian people." Haha what even?
Then
we taught a few more people we were driving down the road and we see
this lady gardening in a dress and so we pull over real fast to ask her
if she needs help and we run up to her and she looked like she had
rolled around in a flower bed for a hot minute. And had leaves and
flowers dripping from her hair. She told us she didn't need help but
invited us to come see her garden... Okay so from the front it looked
like a nice trailer type house with some trees... Around back we quickly
discovered she owned the Garden of Eden and I'm throughly convinced
Rebecca was a Mother Nature's cousin or something. Haha so we taught her
in her garden and it was grand. Then we taught Ryan and I decided I
want to go skydiving someday.
Sunday
we went to ward council and then church. Holy cow. This ward LOVES the
missionaries. After church we contacted a lady on her birthday and said a
prayer with her asking Heavenly Father to help her have a happy
birthday. We also visited the Walkers and they are my number one. Then
we visited the Hewlets. I watched Sister Simpson clean up a WHOLE BUNCH
of cat pee... I tried to help but that didn't turn out too well. Sister
Simpson is a trooper. She gets all the points for the week.
Today
with sister Steflik and her three little kids to the board walk by the
ocean. Oh my. It was so beautiful. Don't worry, we didn't go to the
beach, but it was a blast and a half to be able to see it. Then we had
lunch at her house, we went to Wally World for some groceries, went to
the library for a hot minute so I could send some voice recordings and
update the blog, and now were at home baking a cake. I'll send pictures.
Please excuse my squinty eyes. #SunshineState
That's all I have.
Well, I love y'all more than Floridians love to protest to "SAVE BEACH DRIVING!" And they have posters so....
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