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Week 62

BUCKLE UP...Alright.... Yall are never gonna believe how powerful your prayers were... Remember when I asked for prayers that we would reach our goal and find 8 people to teach this week? Well, yall prayed very hard because we found TWENTY new people to teach!!!! 2-0!!!! Twenty! I have never seen a number that high my entire mission, and I was BLOWN away!!! I know without a doubt that I couldn't have done it without the prayers you sent my way. It seriously made such a huge difference. So THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I am super excited about the new friends we have to teach. We have appointments with most of them this week, so stay tuned for next week!!
So many good things happened with week, and I got to go back to my very first area (crossville♥️) for a day! It was the trippiest most nostalgic thing ever. I saw Dustin Dannel who was our most progressing friend a year ago. It was actually crazy cuz he was at a members house and Sister Hunt didn't know him, so that only reason we figured out it was him was because I recognized him from a year ago!! He didn't recognize me, but that's ok haha I don't look the same at all. But it was crazy!! Being in that apartment reminded me so much of my greenie days, it was so crazy. And just driving around in the town of Crossville took me way way back. I even got a selfie with the same old lady in the same old living room as another selfie that I took with her a year ago! It was fun:)

Our ward also had a hoedown dance and I went HAM. I forgot how much I love line dancing hahaha it was so MUCH fun! It was also great to listen to country music;) I danced so hard and had so much fun. Not many people showed up, so my companion and I kept things alive haha.

Do yall remember the Stewart-walls from Hixson?? WELL, they drove all the way to Cookeville to come see me!!!! They took us out to lunch and it was so good to see them♥️♥️♥️ qelsi and xandy and their mom were the ones who came, and I was beyond happy to see them:) it made my heart so happy that they came all the way here. Qelsi said that she told all her friends that she was going out of town for the weekend to see a family friend🥰 awwwww. I gave her my name tag for her to keep:) (I have another one haha). I love those girls so much.
I also got to play a cello this week!! Shannon adams (a member) has a ton of instruments, so I sat down and started playing with their guitar, then she said "you are the one that plays the cello right??" so she ran downstairs and brought up a SUPER nice cello. It was way out of tune, so I tuned it up played it, tuned it again, played it, then kept tuning it until it stayed. It was honestly so therapeutic playing. I was in heaven!
That was my week! Overall we spent a ton of time walking around parks talking to people, knocking doors, walking around neighborhoods, and I basically army crawled to my bed every night because I was so exhausted by the end of the day. Ive never been this tried in my life, but I definitely earn my pillow at the end of every day. God has been so good and I love the people I have connected with here. Especially Samantha❤️ she has changed my perspective on life and what it means to be a good person. I love Tennessee!!! 🧡🧡🧡

✌️sister hilton

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