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Week 18

This was a good week! I was really bad about journaling, so I can't quite remember exactly everything that happened, but here's a few things:)
1) We got a new branch presidency for the YSA and the president is super cool! He comes to all the activities which is fun!
2) there is a less active family that we went and visited last week, and we talked with the mom for a little bit, and she was going thru a lot. She mentioned her birthday being on the 6th, so we came back this week and brought her a card and some flowers, and it made her so happy! It was really sweet to see:) serving is addicting! 
3) we also drove a while to go visit someone in our area book who we have never meet to give her a cookie pie and she how she'd doing. She was so touched that we came to visit, and we even got to come back a few days later to have a lesson with her! Her name is Kayla and she is a young single mother of a year old baby and she is seriously the sweetest girl ever. I really hope she progresses, cuz i can see the amount of potential she could reach if she were to be baptized. 
4)we got back in contact with Shirley and Joanne! They are the 2 sisters that live with each other, and they fell off the face of the earth for a good month, but we were able to have a lesson with them this week which was much needed!
5)On Friday we had 3 dinners... it was terrible😅 the food was good! But we all wanted to die, we were so stuffed. We had a lesson with claire right before our dinner appointment, so we told her to not feed us (in her culture, if you have any company over, you ALWAYS make a meal for them. Apparently it's disrespectful if you dont) but she made us a meal anyways😂 she dished us up big portions, and we had to eat it. Then right after we went to our dinner appointment, and then we went to the institute building for the movie night with the YSA (we watched the chosen) and the new branch president showed up with 5 boxes of pizza cuz he wanted to be nice/helpful. But there were only like 4 people there, so my comps and I felt so bad that he brought all this food and no one was going to eat it. So we each ate some and it was so hard to swallow it down. I've never been so full in my entire life. Sister Williams was up in the middle of the night throwing up, and the next day we stayed in the apartment until 7pm cuz she was so nauseous and sick. We drove to the store to get some 7up for her and she slept in the back seat haha. I felt so bad for her. She took a 2 hour nap while sister garbett and I worked on fb ads and calling people (perks to being in a trio!!). But it was still a good day!
6) we were at a gas station and Sister Williams thought the pump clicked, so she pulled out the nozzle while it was still pumping😂😂😂 it was so funny and we all smelled like gas for a good while. 
7) we went and visited a lady in the ward who hasn't been to church in a little over 2 years. It was my first time meeting her and when she walked out, she reminded me of my grandma Teresa. I don't know what exactly it was, but I felt like I knew her. So talking to her was really special. She has been going thru a lot of difficult health things and other problems with her family. But she was so sweet and hobbled out to her yard to pick us some flowers and give us Goodluck buckeyes from her tree. I was also talking to her and I randomly asked if she liked having her nails done, and she said she used to get them done every month, but then when she stopped working she couldn't afford it anymore, so she hasn't had them done for a long time. I told her I love doing nails and I'd love to do them for her and she got real excited! So next time we come over I'm going to do her nails:)
I can't remember anything else noteworthy from this week, but it was a good week and SUPER fast! 

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