severe stroming and hard days

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

 

wow. I hope yalls new years festivities were as fun as ours!! :))))

 

so this week it has started to pour. 

I swear yall. The weather here. Its crazy.

 

There is a saying in Louisiana that goes like this.

"If you don't like the weather, wait a couple days. It'll change."

and wow. Ain't that the TRUTH.

(except in the summer when its consistently almost unbearably hot)

 

The week before Christmas it was insanely COLD.

Christmas was really HOT. 

and now all HAIL is breaking loose. It has been raining for the past 3 days and thundering and storming and we are on 'nado watch and flood warning and all sorts of stuff is going on. We are sitting here together as a district in the library just listening to the rain pouring down and seeing the flashes of lightning light up the pitch black windows in the middle of the afternoon and then hearing the thunder CRASH REALLY LOUD less than a second later. 

Its quite an experience :)

(update. the librarians told us all to save our work on the computer in case the power goes out.)

But that was our New Years as well! The rain all started on Saturday and most peoples New years celebrations got rained out. but that didn't stop the diligent few who still insistent to send off the loudest fireworks I've ever heard :) I guess you can do the big fireworks when there is no dry spot to light fire.. the opposite problem than Idaho!

So our New Years Eve celebrations were coming in early because of the rain and end of the month = no miles. So we played Phase 10, got a bit more caught up on our Christmas cards (sorry I know.. we're the worst.) and then got to go to bed early!!! 

Don't worry. I set an alarm for 11:57 and woke Sister Henrie with a flash picture and was going to silly string her up.... but we were just too tired. 

Yay. Happy New Year :)

My new years eve

But seriously and honestly yall.....

Its been rough. 

Its been real rough in this area and we are just trying to rely on God immensely to make it through. 

This has been my first area where people very openly do not want to talk to us. 

We have had a very extraordinary amount of rejection this week. Very hard rejection. and its been really difficult this week not to get discouraged, to stay motivated, and to endure and push on. 

But it is a thing of life! 

We get hard rejection. We aren't having the success we think we should be having. We feel we are at a stand still. We see our weaknesses exemplified. 

 

And what do we do about it?

Well.. I don't know exactly. I'm still trying to figure that part out.

 

But what are we currently doing about it??

We are finding little things to make things FUNNNN!!!

and God helps us have little things to help us keep going. 

 

for example. We had a God wink on Friday.

Friday was a really really rough day. 

We were headed into Zachary to get some FroYo. 

We called the Zachary Sisters on the off chance that they weren't busy that they could come hang out for a couple minutes. 

We call and lo and behold they are on exchanges and guess who's in Zachary!

Sister Steve and Sister Cornia!

And they got to come be with us for a bit.

Can you say HUGE bucket filler upper. huge cheer up. 

It helped me make it for the rest of the week. 

Best day ever

anyways. 

Not a big update for this week. 

Just letting you know that some weeks in the mission are really hard. 

 

BUT I LOVE YALL SO MUCH AND READING YALLS EMAILS FILL MY BUCKET ALOT.

LOVES!

xoxoxoxoxoxxo

sister sades