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Week 20

This week was honestly pretty slow, but we survived!! There were so many cool things that happened this week! To start, we ate squirrel at a members house that he shot himself!! I chomped pretty hard on 2 pellets that he used to shoot the squirrels, so that was fun haha! It tasted like chicken kinda! Then right after dinner we went and fed an alligator turtle haha. 
The most stressful part of the week was filming for a video devotional that we are working on as an SMS team. We had to film audio for a music video, we had to film the actual footage, and then we also had to film member testimonials for the devotional as well. It was a lot of filming, but it was so much fun to have time to play the cello and work on SMS stuff. 
Another miracle that happened this week was we had a prompting to visit a person that we have never met, so we did, and we talked with her and her friend named MaryEllen. They were both not interested in the church at all and told us they would never convert, but they thought missionaries were the nicest people ever. We just went on with our day, then the following day we got a call from MaryEllen and she was in tears and asked if we could come visit her today. So we did and she told us some difficult things she was going through and how she had no one. The friend from yesterday told her that she didn't want to be in her life anymore, so she had no family or friends to turn to, so she called us! We had such an amazing visit with her and we are going to come back once a week to do service for her. It was such a cool experience and it makes me so happy that she reached out! Moral of the story: be kind to everyone and be a friend to everyone cuz there are people that need you! 
Transfer calls are this Saturday and I am so scared. I don't want to leave. I will be so sad if I leave. I love this area so much and I love the people! I have gotten really close to Chris and Claire this transfer. Chris took all of us to a steakhouse on friday in celebration of him finishing finals and he paid for all of us! It was so nice of him and we all felt special that of all people to celebrate with, he chose the sister missionaries. It was such a fun dinner full of laughing, good food, and fun conversations. We also got Claire to some member meals and that went so well! Claire's husband came to dinner on Sunday and it was my first time meeting him!! He was super quiet, but he has a good heart. The Chuggs (the family that fed us) were so kind to them too, and I think now that we know her husband better, he will better support her decision to be baptized. But that's that! Thanks for all the love and support everyone! It really means the world to me:) I love you all and I know that this gospel is POWERFUL cuz I have seen what it can do! Nothing else in this life can bring us the peace and happiness that the gospel brings. There is no replacement for it and I can promise that if you remember the act on the teachings of the gospel and remember your covenants, you will be happier than you could ever be. I love the gospel!!! 

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