To start, I had exchanges on Tuesday!! I was really nervous for some reason, but it was way fun. I went with Sister Williams, and we are literally copy and paste the same. We have very similar personalities, and we like the same music (which basically means we are the same person). We were just driving, and I randomly said, "this is random, but you strike me as someone who listens to dayglow." Then she looked at me with the widest eyes and started freaking out cuz she LOVES dayglow hahaha I am a seer. We started listing off other bands and she loves the wombats! tommy just went to their concert, so he sent me a video of our favorite song from the wombats, so I showed sister Williams and she was bouncing up and down in the car cuz it was her favorite song, and she hasn't heard it in well over a year hahahaha it was so fantastic. Her and her cousins also love love love the youtuber marla catherine, and i went to high school with marla (we had the same classes and went to school dances in the same group n stuff) and so im gonna ask marla to send me a video of her saying hi to sister williams! She would flip haha its gonna be great. We went out for dinner together, taught lessons together, and had the whole day. It was super fun. It was probably the most fun day I've had on my mission so far.
Update from the last email, we got the lock on our door changed, so hopefully people don't come in again in the middle of the night hahaha. But there is a really creepy situation in the ward haha. So there is this guy (I'll call him brother hill) and he has been acting weird lately. He has been a member a long time and he knows the rules of missionaries, but he still comes up and hugs my companion and I. We were just like "well, he's super friendly and he sneaks up on the side so we can't really push him away, so whatever." But then it got weird. When he would come give us a hug, he would come in from the side so we couldn't stick our hand out for a handshake. And when he hugs us, he rubs my back. It's awful. We try to avoid eye contact with him after church cuz when we make eye contact, he follows us around until he hugs us. Then he asked sister jones to send a picture of us for our "profile pic" (which is sketch cuz missionaries switch out so much, profile pics are useless) but sister jones didn't think anything of it, so she sent one.... oops. Then he came up to us and said "we have baby goats!! Come over and see them!" Then he started saying we have to come over to do yoga with the goats... ummm... yoga?? With a 50 year old creeper? He invited us to do yoga like 3 times and at first, we didn't think much of it, but the more he asked the more we realized that it was kinda suspicious. So, we talked to the Dabell's about it and the said to STAY AWAY. Apparently, he is known to be a creeper when it comes to young girls, especially the missionaries. But he only touches a select few. And with my luck, I'm one of them. The Dabell's says that he targets certain girls, and although he hasn't been charged with anything, they said it is smart to stay away as much as possible. I can't do anything about the fact that he follows us around, but when he tries to hug, I'm going to physically stop him and shake his hand. (Oh, and the Dabell's said that he has previously gotten beat up in a church parking lot for doing bad things with someone's wife). So yeah... Pray for me hahaha.
We also were knocking on doors and there was a house that didn't have a front porch hahaha so the front door was like 3 feet off the ground. I felt so dumb knocking on that door😂
We did service at Billy's house, and it was quite the experience. We cleaned his kitchen, and it probably hadn't been cleaned in a month. Let's just say there was lots of mold and rat poop. There was a pot of spaghetti on the stove, but it had been there for quite a while.... cuz half the pot was fuzzy mold and when I opened the lid the smell made me gag. We also discovered that his downstairs crawlspace is flooded with 4 feet of water... so we are gonna try to get him a subpump or somethin. I love Billy so much, but I wish there was more I could do for him. The conditions he lives in are unbelievable. Cleaning his kitchen took a long time and a lot of gagging. But we did it!! It won't stay clean for much longer, but it made him happy for sure.
Our friend Ben is going great! We had a lesson with the Dabell's and that helped so much. He wants to be baptized, but not quite yet. He wants to feel intellectually ready. But he knows that one day he will be baptized. It was his 70th birthday on Saturday!!!! He has no one to celebrate with because he is going thru a divorce and has no family in Tennessee, so he just went to work and wasn't doing anything too special. So, I decided to make him a card:) I got a bunch of card stock and make a big fancy card! We went to Walmart and bought a bunch of random stuff to put in a gift basket for him. We stopped by his house and have it to him and he was so happy😁 I was so happy too. This is a different kind of happiness than what I'm used to. I was happy to see him happy and know that he is loved. He later texted us saying how much of a difference that made to his day. Service is AMAZING! If you want to feel what it is really like to be happy, go serve someone. That is what real happiness is. I'll put in a picture with ben when we visited him:)
But yeah, that was my week! I'm trekking along and I'm learning lots on the way! I am so blessed with safety and health, and in return I will work my hardest. Thank you to everyone to has supported me so far! And thank you to those who send emails as well, it makes all the difference:) I love you all! (I'm not saying y'all yet... it's my goal not too haha)
Oh, also we found a massive (3inch) spider centipede thing on our ceiling, and it took me like 10 minutes to kill it, I was so scared. Apparently, they are super common here...☠️ tis the season for all the creepy bugs to come out of the ground.. I'm not ready for spring
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