Well! Another week come and gone! Can you believe it's p-day again!? AH! I'm on week 5 out here is that crazy or what?!? Yeah. weird!! Transfers are coming up soon but me and Sister Sowards are really hoping we stay together!!!! We're finally starting to get the hang of this thing... haha
So back to the lobster....all I'm hearing from people is how shocked you all are! haha but it's true Heavenly Father must make it so that missionaries have different taste buds or something... I don't have any other explanation! Which brings me to last night...went to a members house and had fish! AH! gross.... See the lobster was okay because we dipped it in butter...anything dipped in butter has to taste okay.... haha but fish! I wasn't so sure how this was gonna work out... We got there and the mom says "So do you guys like fish?" :D ....don't worry sister sowards hates seafood too...well neither of us have actually ever tried it....but we both hate it ya know? So I didn't even know what to say... I was just thinking oh great...tonights the night...I'm gonna have to eat fish... and sister sowards answered and said, "We do tonight!" haha she told her how neither of us had ever tried it... So she puts it on our plates... I got this huge piece and I tried it and it was just all flaky and fish like... but I just told myself "it's just chicken, it's just chicken...." and ate the whole stinkin thing! AH! It was tilapia... I guess it wasn't that bad but I'm definitely not a fan... haha! so yeah! one night of seafood down! I'm worried for tonight we're going to a members house and last time sister sowards said they had shrimp and it was disgusting.... haha so stay tuned.... :)
Alrighty! So it's been a good week! Monday was good! Alex our investigator who is getting baptized had his baptismal interview and it went really well! We had a lesson with him on Thursday and it was great! The only problem is that he didn't come to church on Sunday so we have to push it back again! So we'll stress that this week and then plan for the 28th for baptism! Ahhh!! So exciting! :) funny story... so we were teaching him and he has lived in Maine and also in Louisiana... met with missionaries before and had a baptismal date before but then he had to get surgery on his foot so he couldn't get it wet! So now he can get baptized! He lives at the homeless shelter though so it's hard to get in contact with him and everything..so that's why it's kinda complicated! But he's so ready! He knows everything and he's just so awesome!! So he was telling us about the missionaries in Lousisiana and how great they were and pulled out a picture of Christ that they gave him... and it said from Elder so and so and Elder Brockbank! What!? That has to be Elder Ben Brockbank right?! haha so I said I think I know him!! So Alex said he was going to call cuz he still keeps in contact with all the other missionaries! So maybe that really was the Elder Brockbank I know! haha it's a small world after all... :)
Oh man... this letter is kinda just all over the place... haha sorry to anybody who reads this I feel like I never even know what to say and then I just start rambling!! You probably need your own urim and thummim to translate my crazy novels to figure out what i'm saying... haha good luck....
So yeah... monday p-day awesome...
tuesday went to the soup kitchen-always great.... then we had some lessons with less actives... That went well! Lots of walking that day! Then we went home and oh yeah this was a good night... haha so Wednesday we had interviews and zone training and all that good stuff... so they called and asked me to play the piano and asked sister sowards to give a 10 minute lesson on how to lead music... haha she was really worried and stressed about it and didn't know what to do! So we were trying to think of how to make it fun! Then...this genius idea came to me.... We have 50 glow sticks sitting over there.... So we got out the glow sticks and decided we would take those and they could lead with the glow sticks :) haha then it got even better when I said we should sing songs about light... so we sang teach me to walk in the light, lead kindly light, the Lord is my light... oh man, it doesn't get any better than that... they were all in different time signatures and it worked out perfectly! It was just deLIGHTful! hahaha... oh too great! so thanks for the glow sticks they are definitely coming in handy...whenever we talk about the light of Christ or anything we go to the glow sticks :) haha so wednesday we went to Farmingdale and had our interviews with the new mission president! Sister sowards taught the awesome lesson and all the elders loved it haha and the interviews were great! :) President Stoker is going to be awesome! He said this is not a tracting mission. He has also shortened our lessons to 20-30 minutes! Umm yeah that's really hard! But we're working on it! and we're supposed to use the pamphlets in our lessons! I really like that cuz that's how we learned in the MTC! :) and also in our mission we now have 8 hours of service per week we can do instead of 4!! So that is pretty great! I'm not sure what we're gonna do exactly though... haha we go to the soup kitchen, the hospital...so we'll have to find some more cool stuff to do!
I can't remember other questions you asked me so I'll probably write that when I send your letters this week! If anyone actually reads this and wants to write or email me I definitely prefer letters sent to me cuz email goes way to fast!! i wish there was time to print them but there's just not! and I have a little more time to write than I do to email so yeah! :)
anyways... wednesday was a good day...! we had our book of mormon class that night that we teach at the church and I was in charge of it! AHH! Scary... but it went well! Lots of people came and participated so that was good! and Greg one of our investigators came for the first time and he even participated!! Ah! see it's all about timing... he's moving along... slowly but surely... just 6 years of investigating and I think we're gonna get him! He's great we had an awesome lesson with him yesterday about faith in Christ! :)
Thursday was good cuz we saw Alex... also we got a nice package...some delicious pecan pies!! AH! Thank you dad!! They were delicious! :)
So friday was a lame day... Sister Sowards got sick... it was not good... :( we tried to do weekly planning but then she ended up in bed all day :/ so I didn't know what to do!! I read scriptures and the ensign...lots of good conference talks... I was so tempted to sit there all day and write letters but I decided I would be obedient! and guess what. blessings really do come from obedience! :) I studied instead of writing letters and then we went to the mailbox and there was a letter for me and a package! AH! blessings... :) haha it was just what we neeeded thanks so much mom for the candy and the hand sanitizer! perfect timing on that... :) haha and I love the adorable bike necklace :) thank you for everything :) so yeah.. that was much appreciated! I was dying to get out of that apartment!!!! I just wanted to go teach people!!!! Finally at dinner time we got to get out of there so sister sowards could get a priesthood blessing! So grateful for the priesthood!
So saturday she was feeling much better and we got out of there and went and saw lots of people :) It was a good day lots of teaching people and we even got some of Sister Paradis famous eclairs! oh my... you know how much i love eclairs.. well homemade ones...amazing!! Best thing I ever tasted! haha so yeah! I think that's basically everything! haha still working on finding new people to teach!!! Working with the ward lots and trying to get new investigators! Faith faith faith! That's what we're working on is faith in finding... so i'll let you know how that goes! We have district p-day today so we're going to see a lighthouse or something I guess! haha I don't know! I'll send some pics next week :) well I think that's all.... Hope you all are doing great and having a wonderful summer!! I love you all so much! Have a great week!! :)
These pictures are at our apartment. The pies and eclairs were super delicious!!!
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