it's been a really great week! :) last monday after emails we had district pday! So we drove with the elders to Augusta and when we got to there no one else in the district was there yet! so we did the only logical thing... we went and got ice cream!! :D haha :) and then the rest of the district showed up and we went to a park and we played ultimate frisbee!! It was so much fun!!! :) we did that for a few hours and then on our way home we stopped and had dinner at arby's! and then we kinda took another detour before actually going home and we went to the lighthouse!! again...! :D haha! this time it was too dark to get good pictures...but it was super cool because it was dark outside and when it would light it looked so pretty!!! :) so that was really neat :) and then we went to the royers to pick up our laundry...and then we went home!
Tuesday we had a lesson with Linda and Arnez about prayer! We read in the gospel principles book, shared some cool personal experiences and had a really good discussion talking about their experiences with prayer :) It was awesome :) then we had lunch at our picnic park! and then we went and did service at Melanie's and ate pie and talked about the plan of salvation! We've finally been able to squeeze in some more gospel to our service when we go over so this week we counted her as a new investigator! :D then we came home and we were preparing for our lesson activity for district meeting... so we got assigned to do the activity this week for district meeting and then lesson was on teaching in unity with your companion...! So! here's what we did... we got out all the ingredients to make chocolate chip cookies...we put it out on the counter and then we didn't talk to each other the whole time we made cookies... well you see...we were hoping that the cookies would turn out really nasty... we didn't talk to each other and just put in all different amounts of ingredients... haha... so we bake the cookies and then taste them... and they weren't bad actually! hahaha shoot! so we sprinkled some more salt on them to make them a little more gross... they weren't the best cookies but they weren't bad...so that was kinda a problem for this object lesson.. haha! so for the next batch we put a little extra salt in... then! we made new dough to make the good cookies! we talked to each other and worked together to make them this time! So then i'm putting them on the cookie sheet and i eat some dough..then told sister welch to try it... it was a little salty... so i said uhhh how much salt did you put in here?!??! she calmly said "a tablespoon..." a tablespoon?! hahahahha it's only supposed to be a teaspoon!!!!!!!!!! bahahahaha! so there was some miscommunication there... haha she heard tablespoon...but clearly i said teaspoon... :) haha so then we baked those cookies and made a for reals good batch of normal cookies :D haha it was quite the process.... :)
So wednesday comes along...which means district meeting! we went to augusta again this week! So we did our lesson activity... we passed out the salty cookies but told them not to eat them... oh and all morning i was trying to figure out a way to make it an actual activity...not just all of us eating cookies... and then i was studying that morning and i remembered back to the good old days when we were doing a student government unity building activity and building towers but we weren't allowed to talk.... and so I grabbed some paper, tape, straws and decided that would work perfectly! :D haha so we did that with the district (see pics) :) and then we talked about how communication is so important and how we have to work together in unity! then we let them eat the cookies and told them about our experience and great learning opportunity we had baking cookies :) haha and then gave them the good cookies :) it turned out pretty well :) then after district meeting we drove to topsham!!! :D and we went on exchange!!! sister davis came here with me! and sister welch went to yarmouth with sister buxton!! Oh manny... exchanges were SO good! I love our sister training leaders!!! Pretty much sister davis and I just laughed our heads off the whole time :) haha it was pretty funny cuz we got home and had dinner and we were just laughing and then she was laughing and said "sweet, cute, little, innocent sister tait and then you find out she's so sarcastic and just so incredibly funny!" bahhahahaha! it was pretty funny...she didn't see it comin'! ;) haha :) we went and read the book of mormon with sister russell and then went to the youth activity! they were doing book of mormon clue!! it was really fun! we got to be leaders for one of the teams :)
Thursday we had a really good lesson with just Arnez about agency! We read 2 Nehpi 2 with her! She is really understanding the scriptures now! She thought that it was such a perfect chapter for her especially at this time with trying to quit coffee and smoking! She's almost there!! :) after that we went to Moody's Diner and had lunch :) and then we went to the food pantry!!! So much fun!!! oh and guess what I got??? An award of excellence!! :D haha Lou (the guy in charge) came and gave it to me and one for sister huefner! :) haha :)it was pretty funny :) they were so happy to have us back cuz it's been a while! we weren't able to go last time! Then we went back to topsham and exchanged back and while sister davis and I were waiting for our companions to get there we went into the church and guess who was there?! Sister Smith!! :D she was setting up for the stake women's conference so we got to talk to her for a bit! :) she said that brother eldredge is going to the temple soon!!!!!!!!!!!! He has cancer and is going through chemo right now so he doesn't know when he'll be able to go...but he's gonna make it!!!!!!!! :D i'm so excited for him!!!! :)
Friday was a great day :) oh ya know...just my 20th birthday!!!! :O crazy!!!!! so after comp study i got to open my presents!! :) that was so much fun!!! :) and then we did a little weekly planning... and then went to damariscotta, did mormon.org for a bit and then met the elders at round top ice cream! there were some members there from a different ward and they bought ice cream for all of us!!!!!! so nice!!!! :D and it was just a perfect beautiful warm sunshiny day!!!!!!! :D ahhhh!!! then we had dinner with linda and arnez!! they made tortilla soup :) delicious :) and we had cake :) and then it started raining... we got the best of both worlds that day!!! it was so perfect! then a double rainbow!!!!! :D and then we played book of mormon go fish and matching game and old maid and they loved it!!!!! it was a blast!!! :D then we came home and had cake with sister brooks :)
Then saturday we went with sister brooks and linda to topsham for the stake women's conference and the theme was "drop by drop" it was really awesome!!! linda loved it!! i loved it too :) i got to see lots of my peeps from topsham :D so that was fun :) oh and sister paradis eclairs... mmmmmm :) then we came home and did a little planning!
Sunday we went to church! linda had a migrane and couldn't come and we didn't think arnez would come either... but then surprise! Arnez did!!! so that was awesome!! :D Then we went to the dyers and taught the restoration to Andy (a recent convert that the elders were teaching but now we are) :) it went really well and then we went with the dyers and the elders to a Lutheran church for their first annual springspiration! we sang a bunch of hymns! we knew like 3 of them... haha it was great :) and then we had dinner with the Birds!! watched some awesome mormon messages with them! then went to the church and watched the CES devotional!!! and that was our week!!! pretty great!! :) I love you all so much!!! hope you have a wonderful week!! happy mother's day!!! ahhhhh!!! we get to skype this week!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D just a little excited... :)
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