Sister Sadie goes to Louisiana!: out with the old, in with the new!

so sister sades what happened to you this week?

Well let me tell you. it can be summed up in a couple words

boxes

moving

boxes

exhaustion

boxes

hello st francisville

MOVED! yay!

so yea thats basically what happened this week.

yall know about our adventures monday and tuesday #carcrash

then wednesday we volunteered at the food pantry here in st f'ville town and then the rest of the day was packing packing packing packing.

we have a very small apartment right?

I kept looking around and saying "oh yea.. this will be a sinch. small apartment.. we barely have any stuff. all we have is our bunk beds, coffee table, study tables, our food, and our personal stuff that we stuff in our suitcases! heck yea this moving thing is easy!"

fast forward to wednesday aka actually moving.

not easy. there is hidden things that NOBODY THINKS ABOUT

like all the cleaning supplies, medicines, vacuum/broom, iron (who even needs that anymore), our papers and papers and binders of records aka area book and friends, and our COMMISSARY. UGH. WE FORGOT ABOUT THAT. (commissary is the stuff missionaries give out. like pamphlets, pass along cards, bibles upon bibles, and book of mormons on book of mormons. and don't forget those 15 lbs large prints)

I mean like wow!!! lots of stuff!

but it was a good time.

we just put on some christian jams and got to work! we got most of it done wednesday.

all packed up and leaving. this is brother hall who is the member who owns the mother in law suite. we are going to miss him so much!!

Thursday we did some real work and Friday was MOVING DAY

from the moment we woke up at 6:30 we did the finals of packing up stuff like sheets, beds, and rest of the clothes and bathroom stuff, and started loading up our truck to be packed as tightly as we could! we got a ton in there. I was very impressed with Sister Bell's real life tetris skills.

sad to leave... but ready for the adventure!

the crew came at 10 to help us tote the bigger stuff on a trailer and then we headed over to the new hood!

the crew who helped it all happen! we are in the new apt

our apartment yall.......

we have some really nice apartments in our mission, I've just never lived in one!

actual living room!

blurry pic of our kitchen

I had the ghetto covington apartment #termiteinfestations

the green loft #princessstatus #doesntcountasanapartment

and then this cute lil s-laughter suite.

but yall. this apartment is the nicest apartment I've ever lived it!

WE HAVE 2 BATHROOMS. thats exciting. we have a real deal kitchen and a living room with couches and stuff. its fun :))))

(its just a normal casual apartment I just am excited bc I've never had a cool apt that makes me feel like a big kid!)

cute lil st f'ville square apts

apt A (for A++++)

the cute lil park across the street that we went and worked out at this morning! #GETFIT

also we have already seen some cool miracles happen since we've been here! we have this adorable neighbor Ms. Ann and she is 84 yrs old, so sweet, and is always outside smoking and working in her tiny tiny wildflower garden (so she knows everything about everyone in the complex. woo-oo) so she is a friendly face and a kind soul

we also saw one of our past investigators at The Francis restaurant and that was a HUGE miracle. she was actually really excited to see us and wants us to come see her this week! bonus she lives in st f'ville so its 1000x easier to see her

treated ourselves to a congratulatory lunch at the famous "The Francis" is beautiful and schwanky $$$

welcome to my hood

we drove to church in Slaughter for sunday (the only negative to moving to st f'ville is that we live 17 miles away from slaughter aka the church building) and we spent part of the day visiting some people we wanted to follow up with.

we went and visited Denae, the mom of a young family who we have been trying to catch at a time when she isn't busy and it just wasn't happening for the longest time. then we go visit her on sunday... and we have an incredible lesson with her about the restoration. best part is that it was all natural easygoing conversation. she is just so prepared that it was easy to transition to the restoration and help her see the need for the Book or Mormon and a prophet.

so that was an incredible lesson and she is going to start reading the Book of Mormon and come to church on sunday! so we are super pumped for that.

but yall!! things are happening! life is good! places are new!

ADVENTURES ARE OUT THERE!

excited to be doing work in the same branch, different town. :)

happy late valentines from us :)