Well this week has been
rather eventful! I mean I went to my first Zone Conference which was super
awesome. It made me feel all pumped up and ready to do missionary work! It's
not like we did a whole lot except for talk about missionary work but I think
it was being in a total missionary environment where everyone I turned to was
experiencing something similar to what I'm going through was just the
best!
Other than that, I turned
20 1/2 last Tuesday! Yay for half birthdays! This family in my ward, the
Kitchen's actually threw Sister Craig and I a half birthday party for us since
both of our birthdays are in March. It was so great! Especially since they sang
"Happy (Half) Birthday" to us. And get this! They even made funfetti
cake for me! The best! I have some great people in my ward.
After we ate at the
Kitchen's, we took Sister Kitchen out with us to visit some people in the ward
since she's a ward missionary. Well it turns out that every person we planned
on visiting was gone. We asked her if she had anyone in mind to go see and she
asked if we could go visit the C family. We didn't really want to
especially since the C's haven't contacted us since K came to church
with us... So we thought that they hated us or something. But we went ahead and
saw them anyway. It turns out that they don't hate us, K's phone just
broke and they couldn't get a hold of us. Then we invited them to go to dinner
with us the next night at a member's house and they said they would go!
So we got to the member's
house the next day and I was praying that the C's would show up... And
they did! They always surprise me! They really seemed to enjoy themselves and
the members did a great job at making them feel comfortable about talking to
them. The members didn't even bring up the gospel at first. The C's totally
brought it up! It was so neat! We have a return appointment on Wednesday and
I'll be sure to let you know how that goes :)
Also Sister Craig and I
have been working with this less active, Sister H and she is nothing but
wonderful. She was kind of offended by somethings that went on in the church so
that's why she was driven away from it, but she loves us! We've been painting
her fence and she'll pay us by feeding us. I guess she just thinks that's the
greatest thing because she tells everyone about us - family, friends,
co-workers, etc. She told us about that when we went over on Saturday! I mean she didn't really like the missionaries before us so the
fact that she loves us is fantastic!
Sister H was talking to
me about missionary work that day and asked me what the
community could do for us since we do so much for it. I told her they could
give me a Southern accent. ... Yeah. I really said that. She started teaching
me some slang around here and it cracks me up! Like saying hose pipe instead of
hose or buggy instead of a shopping cart. Oh goodness. She also feeds us a lot
of Southern food like when we went over on Saturday, she let us try what
they call "liver mush." It was kind of weird... But I like it! It's
like sausage almost but you can taste the liver and it has corn meal in it. It's
like a meaty corn bread. It probably sounds gross... But it really wasn't that
bad. The big adventure will be trying fat back which is fried pig fat.
Apparently Sister H is just dying to make us it. Sister Craig isn't too
excited about it but I sure am! I'm just excited to experience the culture here
in South Carolina while I can, you know?
- Sister Amy Christensen
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| Check out what street sign I found on the way home from Zone Conference! |
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