I TALK TO YALL THIS WEEEEEEKKKKKK WOOOWWWIIEEE
Guys I'm so excited!!
But what's also really exciting is that the days and the weeks are going by alot faster. So that’s great! P-days come faster and faster!
Yall this week was so goooood. So much Christmas goodness and fun.
Early in the week we had a Specialized Zone Training. This is when President and Sister Hansen come and teach us about a specific thing. Sister Hansen spoke to us about music, using it in our lessons and having appropriate music to uplift us. It’s so cool to see all of these music references coming up in the mission so far! I feel like my whole mission is so focused on music and the power and influence it is on us as missionaries, members, and investigators. President Hansen talked about Baptismal Interviews.
We also get our car inspected and have a fun White Elephant gift exchange with the whole zone. So each person brings a present that you either find somewhere in your apartment or is under $5, serious or not serious presents. So when Sister Hunter and I were at Walmart last week trying to figure out what we wanted to bring for the White Elephant and neither of us could think of something funny and cheap.
Then I had a huge lightbulb!
Shout out to the Stiles and the Spencers! Because I remembered their White Elephant stories of stealing something from the other person so they would miss it and have to trade for it. But it had to be something they would truly miss, like they did the home phone and then once was the toilet seat.
Sooo…. Of course yall know where this was going. We tried to steal the Elders phones the day before but it didn’t work out. We brought a bag an empty box to put the goods in and right when we got to the training we stole a phone, a planner, and a couple of name tags off some elders suit jackets so they would be missing the whole time.
It totally worked.
The Sisters phone that we stole had a history of losing things and so they were really panicked that they needed to find it. The Elders had to put their suit jackets on for the meeting but they didn’t have their tag there!
We ended up stealing 2 more phones and it definitely didn’t go unnoticed. It was even announced that we needed to keep track of our phones and make sure we have our own phones and not someone else’s. Sister Hunter and I were just giggling to ourselves ;)
Then it was finally time to open the presents! Everyone picked a present and then we did the story and had to pass it left or right depending on the story. Then we all opened them and our presents were both the last and one of the last. When the elder opened the first present and pulled out a phone and a name tag it was dead silent.
And then an UPROAR! It was by far the funniest present and greatest reaction. Everyone loved it and even President and Sister Hansen told us not to tell anyone because they were going to do that trick the next day at the Alexandria training!
And we know that Christmas is getting closer and closer because we had our third and final Christmas party! This was the Ward Christmas party.
We have been preparing for this one for a while. We have six missionaries in our ward and we were allowed to make a little music program to sing a couple songs at the party for a spiritual missionary moment.
Sister Hunter and I have been practicing and practicing and killing our voices some nights with all the singing we do. The Elders in our ward are not singers so we have been meeting a lot to get them to practice and get the songs. It went really well! We didn’t get all of it on video but we got 2 of Sister Hunter and my songs and then Elder Barney’s piano solo. You can check those out on my mission GoogleDrive.
That is mainly what our week consisted of! Lots of Christmas things, caroling and practicing for the party.
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| last P-day we had a Tea partyyy! The elders are buddy buddy with the owner of this English tea shop and we get food on the house! so kind!! |
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| Sister Hunters Almond milk herbal tea or something.. It tasted like cough syrup to me! |
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| How the elders feel about having a tea party.... (they were making the nutcracker come to life) |
We eat a a less active members house ever Wednesday, the Nolans (where we ate 1 of the 3 dinners at Thanksgiving) They are the most 'Louisiana people I've met. They are so awesome! Last week we had white beans and rice and this week was interesting! We had Cajun Boudin. It is rice, pork, beef, spices, onions, peppers etc all ground up in a meat grinder and stuffed in a cleaned pig intestine. Its really good!
Okay can we just have a food count real quick? This is some of the stuff I've eaten.
Turkey neck
white beans and rice (not red yet)
Boudin in pig intestine
fried, injected spiced, turkey
fried catfish
fried oysters
fried shrimp
hush puppies
sweet potato pie (like pumpkin pie)
jambalaya
beignets
scones
cheeseburger casserole
let the list to be continued!!!
We had several really great lessons this week and we have been doing so well at finding people to teach! Since I’ve been here we have gather about 10 new investigators and several of them are promising. Slowly getting better at teaching and bringing up the gospel!
I love yall so much and am so excited to see yalls faces!!
I LAVA YOUUUU
Sister Sades
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| I have been rationing my little baby peanut butter but the I finally found a 5lb one!!!!!! |
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