1. So the other day I was a little discouraged, I received a letter from my last area saying they have 2 baptisms coming up and they are both people that Elder Farris and I met and taught but they weren't there yet. But now they are ready and primed fro baptism so it was a little bit of a bummer to do all the work but get no result. But President Smith made me feel better about all this, he told me to read D&C 18:15 "And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!" He then told me that nowhere does it say we must baptize these people, but as long as we help their conversion we did our job! So that made me feel a lot better about that!
2. The weather has been crazy bi polar! It was in the 80s then it rained for a bit, then it was super humid, then it got to freezing! Oh man it was so darn crazy! The weather can't make up its own mind! One day we were out biking and we were triyng to find some people but then it started to sprinkle. It was hot so we were in short sleeves, it started to pour and pour so we decided to bike home. It turned out it was a flash flood and just starting as we got back on our bikes! It poured and poured and we were soaked to the bone by the time we got home, but it was a fun adventure!
3. We had a tough week and all our appointments feel through, it was a really big bummer! But as we were riding one day I was a little sad but then people started to ask us what we do! So we got three new investigators and they all came up to us!
4. We had a morning surprise this week! We woke up and went out side and there was a big parade coming by right outside! It was a little funny good morning thing! No one told us Monroe has a Christmas parade but we got front row seats!
5. I got to eat squirrel! A member decided to fry us some squirrel, which ended up being really good! It tasted almost exactly like chicken but a little tough. I encourage you all to go out in your backyard with your 22 and get a squirrel then fry it up! It's a tasty little snack!
6. I heard a great analogy about hogs! So people are like hogs, they will eat acorns all day long but they will never look up to see where these acorns came from. Just some words of wisdom from a ward member! I really like that because we need to be grateful and we aren't very grateful very often. We need to look up to our source of acorns more and more often!
7. I loved the Christmas devotional on BYU TV last night! It was the first presidency of the church talking about the true meaning of Christmas. The best part was when Elder Nelson talked about the little children and they all sat around him and sang "I'm trying to be like Jesus!" If you watch closely there is one little boy who winks at a girl during a closeup of that song, I almost died! It was so darn funny! But kids really do capture the essence of Christmas! So y'all should to!
8. So we have some celebrated celebrities from this small town of Monroeville who include Harper Lee and Truman Capote, both are from here but we got one more awesome famous celebrity person to add to that list! The fruitcake lady from Jay Leno! A random guy decided to show us some videos of that, that was a fun awkward experience!
9. So i will be staying in Monroeville for the next six weeks! I will be great, I am very excited to see what will happen and where things will go! I also get to spend Christmas here! So I'm excited for a blue and orange Christmas! go Auburn!
-------10. This is the negative ten of the week! So to start off the week we were walking home last Monday and I saw a kitty in this big abandoned field so I ran after it cause it kept meowing. After a while it wouldn't come to us but it would follow us. So Elder Milne named him after Troy Bolton from High School Musical and he kept following us onto the street, so I tried to scare him back into the bushes and he ran all the way around and back into the middle of the street and missed a car then got nailed by the second car. Our kitty was murdered right in front of us! It was on a road that we walk on daily so we have to walk by his body every day! Ann if that wasn't bad enough, three days later we were riding bikes and Elder Milne named a cat Troy Bolton Jr. and it too got nailed by a car right in front of us! Elder Milne agreed to not name any more cats and I think that is a very good thing!
Pictures!
Riding in the rain
Robert E Lee Street
I cook! Our apartment used to be a sisters apartment so it has all this cooking stuff here
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