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Week 39

Alrighty. A lot of stuff happened this week, so I'll list out a few, and then talk more about them:
Transfer calls, general conference, yard sales, spent lots of time with the Hobbs, lunch with Johnson's, visit with Basil Marceaux, and a bunch of little strange southern things that happened, but I'll write about the big stuff!
Ok so transfers! I'm staying in Hixson with Sister Kirkman!! YALL this is the 1ST time I've kept a companion for more than one transfer!! It should be fun! I was expecting to stay in Hixson, so I was prepared for that, but I was convinced that I was getting a new comp because this will be sister kirkman's 3rd transfer in Hixson! AANNDDD sister garbett is staying in Hixson too🙏🙏🙏 I would have cried if she left. But we will still be in the same ward and district!! So at the end of this transfer, sister garbett and I will have served 7.5 months of our mission together. All I have to say is God is good:) 
General conference!! WOW! It was so good! If you missed ANY of it, go back and watch them. For the first session we went over to the Hobbs (Katherine Hunter is her maiden name and we both grew up in idea in the same ward, and she used to babysit me!) and I took some good notes (😉) while playing with little Hazel. For the second session we went to our apartment (we had to go help a lady move some stuff for the first 15 minutes of conference). Then on Sunday we watched a session with an older lady who isn't a member, and we watched the 2nd session with the Hobbs again!! Man I LOVE the Hobbs so much. Their home feels like home and I love being with Katherine so much. 

On Tuesday and Thursday we got to go to the Hobbs in the morning to help with some yardwork. Y'all, this was the mental break i have been needing. It was the most relaxing, decompressing thing to just help out with some yard work for a couple hours and talk with a friend:) It was therapeutic honestly! 

This was so funny. We went to visit a less active member, and when we pulled up to the "driveway" we pulled off to the side of the road cuz this driveway was like mountain climb straight up with the most uneven rock. Our car would have scrapped the bottom and probably lost traction it was so bad. So we decided to walk up the hill. We didn't know if there was a house up there (the trees hide it), but sure enough there was a super beat up trailer home that almost looked abandoned. We didn't end up finding the member that we wanted to talk to, but we talked to her husband named Basil Marceaux for a while... Let me rephrase that.... Her husband, basil marceaux, talked to US for a good while 😂 we didn't do any talking hahaha. He was hard to understand, but of the stories that I did catch, this guy has some interesting stories😂 let me sum up a few: he tried to steal a flag by tearing it down with a fishing pole, so he got tazed by 6 different cops all at once, he is running for some position in the state, the cops are coming to his house tomorrow to investigate him, he wrote a Christmas song called "come Christmas" which he sang to us on his porch😂(it was so awkward), he asked us if we had ever had s** and then told us about a pill that he have to make sure our future boyfriends arent taking 🤔 then he proceeded to act out some interesting things, and then talked about how the government owed him $39 billion dollars, then he told us to get all the Mormons in Tennessee to vote for him. But before he told us all this random stuff, he made it clear that it was against his covenant in his church to talk to Mormons... Then he proceeded to talk to us for another hour HAHA I love these deep southern people with crazy stories and no shame. It's awesome. (Also, I googled him, and wow he wasn't kidding, he actually did write a Christmas song and he has no small reputation lol) Oh also, the whole time he was talking to us he was holding a kitchen knife😂

I am excited to start another transfer here in Hixson! I love the people and I love my companion! I hope to be here for at least another transfer. And thank you all so much for the love, support and prayers. Thank you to family, friends, and the mapleton 23rd ward! 

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