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Week 71

It's been 7 days folks. 7 long days. I think this week was long because I'm still not adjusted to the area and I don't know the ward too well. But that will change!! (hopefully soon).
We had some good lessons with the people we are teaching which is always refreshing! We taught an entire Plan of Salvation lesson to our friend Ann and WOW she just soaked in the whole thing. She said that she has had some thoughts throughout her life that line up perfectly with what the plan of salvation teaches, she just didn't know that there was actually doctrine about it! She was beaming and smiling as we taught it and she said she wished she has known this her whole life because she feels so much more hope and motivation with this knew knowledge. It was so cool!! So moral of the story, never take for granted your knowledge of the plan of salvation. If you currently don't find added hope and motivation through the plan, go and study it more until you do. It's amazing, and I am reminded of that every time I get to teach it!
We also found this SUPER cool guy named HB Beverly (you can look him up on YouTube haha he's a musician!) and started teaching him!! He just finished the Bible a few week ago and he has read 20 chapters of the book of mormon, then we knocked on his door! We taught the restoration and he seemed to grasp most of it and it's all new to him! But he loves learning. We went over twice this week and he sang some songs for us on his guitar! It was so sweet and I was in heaven!! He has a good classic country deep voice and I could have listened to him all day long. He also had a little dog named Macy who I give milkbones everytime I come over haha. He is just so cool and I feel like I was buddies with HB in the premortal life. 
Oh we also got to do service on a HUGE strawberry farm!! It was so fun and really dirty cuz we were cutting off a ton of strawberries that were Moldy. But we got to take home some boxes of strawberries which was so good cuz I feel like I rarely get to eat berries (#missionarybudget). That was super fun!
We also did service at a food bank and I got asked if my teeth were real 😂 I took it as a compliment hahaha!
I got to talk to my family on Sunday for mothers day and that was the most fun phone call ever!! It was mostly mom Haley and raimie and wow we are crazy😂 I love laughing with the gals and I'm excited to hang out with them soon! I love my mom and I'm so thankful for her example and her crazy spunky party personality! Happy mothers day to all the mother figures out there!! 
Today we are driving to North Carolina (about a 2 hour drive) to stay in a hotel and then drive 3 more hours tomorrow to south Carolina to go to the temple!!!!! We are going with 2 entire zones, so when we meet up in NC tomorrow, we will all take a big bus together and it's gonna be so much fun!! I'm so excited!! We are heading to NC with the 4 of us today that way we can explore and go to a cool restaurant. It's like a little vacation /sleepover!! I'm SO excited to go to the temple!!!!!

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