Hello
Family!
Let
me first start off by saying, I have officially made it 1 month!!! Whooo! I had
a kinda rough week.. Linsey thought she would be sad that I wasn't at her
wedding but man did it really hit me on Wednesday and I got pretty down and
homesick.. All I could think about was the wedding and the whole family being
together. But I am better now! So let me tell you about all of my crazy
adventures for the week.
On
Monday i got to eat dinner with the Warner family. They are friends of the Barnes family so it was so nice to eat with them! We joked around and talked for
a while it was great! It was nice being with someone who knew people back
home!
So
most of my stories this week will involve eating so brace yourselves because
that is mostly what I do. Eat and teach! Haha so on Tuesday we had dinner at
the Ellis home. They are the sweetest family! They basically had a zoo at their
house though! They had dogs, fish, a parrot, turtles, and then they found some
bird outside that had a broken wing and they nursed it back to health, oh and
they had snakes! Well they brought out this bird and asked if I wanted to hold
it... I was terrified but I said yes. Haha remember a few months ago when the
birds flew into our back door and I couldn't even open the door to see if they
were ok I just watched them through the window.. Yeah i was just as scared this
time! Haha but I am proud to say I held the bird and of course I made them get
a picture of it so I had proof that I am not a baby anymore. Although I may
have screamed just a little when I went to hold it and it started to move..
Haha
That
night we found a new investigator while we were out tracting! His name is Ben
and he is a dentist!! It made my day being able to talk gospel and dental to
someone! Haha
Sister
Sorensen sang in church on Sunday so we spent a few afternoons practicing her
song at the Matthew's home. They are a sweet old couple in our ward. They
joined the church about six years ago and are so strong in the gospel. Brother
Matthews likes to ask us difficult questions to see if we know the answer, just
in case an investigator asks us the same question. Haha he is a funny old man
and jokes all the time. He is from Wales so he has an awesome accent as well.
I had to laugh when I found out his name is Dave Matthews though. Haha while Sister Sorensen practiced her song at their house I played with their little
granddaughter Paisley. We made crowns and played doctor and princesses. It was
fun!
I
have not told you about brother Wink yet, he is our ward mission leader and he
is amazing! He joined the church about 3 years ago and is so strong and
dedicated to the missionary work in the ward! He is so involved in everything
we do and is always so concerned about our investigators and all the less
actives in the ward. It is so great!
We
had zone conference this week! It was an amazing meeting! I learned so much! We
had a big talk on charity which was cool because I had been studying charity in
my personal studies this week! We talked about understanding who we are and how
by doing so can humble us and bring us to be more charitable! We talked about how
we can better love others. I learned that in order to love others we must love
ourselves first! This is so true! I have been working on loving myself more as
well as continually striving for that love for those around me! There were two
quotes I loved,
"Each
one of is is irreplaceable, God did not create us to fail!" This one
helped me better realize the importance of just being me! God created me to
succeed and I need to just trust him that I will :) the second quote says,
" We never fall in love, we must create it!" -Elder Bernar. I just
love this! I think I have gone my whole life just expecting to fall in love
with someone but never realized that it takes effort and we must do our part in
creating the love. Anyways it was an amazing zone conference and I learned a
lot that I can apply to myself to come closer to my Heavenly Father and better
serve the people here on Florida!
We
were able to teach Paula again this week! She is so amazing! I think I told you
last week about our miracle with meeting her. Well this week we taught her the
restoration and she was so excited to learn! We pulled up to her house and she
was already waiting outside for us. She instantly told us how she had gone to
lunch with her boss who was a member and he answered lots of her questions. She
also said how he gave her a Book of Mormon and had written his testimony in it!
It was amazing! I just wanted to cry i was so excited for her!! We taught the
lesson and it was amazing! The spirit was so strong! I invited her to baptism
at the end of the lesson and she said yes! She is going to read the Book of
Mormon more and then we can set a date! She came to church yesterday and loved
it!! She is so amazing and I can't wait to keep teaching her and seeing how the
gospel is changing her life!
So
last night we decided to go visit this inactive sister in our ward. She goes
by Sister Roberta, she is like 90 and the craziest old lady ever! I love her!
She reminded me so much of Grandma Webb! Haha so we get to her house and she
doesn't realize we are new sister missionaries. So she asks us what we have been
up to so we tell her. We then ask her how she has been. She starts to tell us
how her dog bubbles died yesterday.. She then is like "remember the one
dog I had that was real cute and fluffy?" Haha we didn't have the heart to
say no so we were like yeah we do! Haha she then starts to tell us how the dog
had stomach cancer and died and then she starts show us this photo album full
of pictures of the dog.. Haha and then to make things funnier she tells us how
the dog is now in the process of being cremated! At this point it was taking
all I had not to just burst out laughing! I was almost crying cause I was
trying not to laugh.. Haha after that she was like "well, enough about me,
what's new with you?" She asked us this question about 10 times and we
just kept telling her the same answer. Haha she then got off on this tangent
about how we shouldn't throw anything away because everything can be recycled
and used for something. She then made us follow her to her covered patio where
she had boxes full of light bulbs she was cleaning and painting and turning into
decorations and Christmas ornaments.. Haha after that she showed us her birds
and she kissed them and made me pet them and then asked if I wanted to kiss
it.. Haha I kindly said no.. Haha then she took us into her bedroom and she
starts showing us baby blankets she made. And pot holders she made out of scrap
material and then she made these weird angel pins out of old ribbon.. And
then.. She makes me pull this box out from under her bed and in it was toilet
paper holders that she had made to look like creepy old lady mice.. Haha
instantly she asked us if we still have ours at home... And instantly I am
reminded of the first day I got to my apartment and went to the bathroom and
there was this creepy old lady mouse toilet paper holder on the toilet and I
had thrown it out to good will..cause it creeped me out! Haha I instantly felt
bad and lied to her and said yes we had it and we loved it! She then pulls out
this long stick of hair scrunchies she has made and asked if I wanted some. I
said sure and took one.. That was apparently not good enough because she gave
me two more! Haha and the whole time she just kept explaining that we shouldn't
throw anything away because look at what we can make! Haha the whole time I
was trying not to laugh! It really reminded me of grandma! Haha I wanted so
badly to share with her all about grandma and how I had received many gifts
from recycled things! Haha she is a cute old lady though and I can't wait to go
back to see her dogs ashes!
So
some more funny stories for the week. I learned to never eat the lunch meat you
find in the fridge... I was so hungry and we didn't have much food but I had
some bread and I found some lunch meat ham in the fridge but I wasn't sure how
long it had been in there because it was in there when we moved it. Well I did
the sniff check and it smelled ok and it looked ok so I started eating it on my
sandwich and it tasted a little funny but I ate it anyways. Bad idea!!! I got
so sick from that!!! I thought I was going to die!! Nothing is worse then being
outside in the heat, your stomach is churning and then you start to get what I
like to call the poop sweats! Hahaha I had to hold it for an entire hour until
we were able to get home from our lesson we were having outside in the 100
degree heat! I thought I was going to die! So lesson learned, never eat old
things you find around your house! Haha
Another
story, so I had been using this hand soap in my bathroom for about a week and
could not figure out why it was not lathering up every time I washed my hand..
Well it took about a week and one day I was reading the bottle as I washed my
hands and realized it said hand lotion instead of soap.. Hahaha yes, I am truly
starting to get blonder and blonder out here! And my hair is really starting to
show it. It is getting blonder and blonder every day! Well I hope those stories
made ya'll laugh!
I am
also starting to pick up on all of the southern talk. I now say: ya'll, and
wooder instead of water. Haha
So
we have still been trying to teach Aleidon. It has been quite the struggle..
The language barrier is so tough and he doesn't like us to use google translate.
So I have been studying up on my Albanian words lately. We went over this week
and taught him and his family English! It went pretty good! Hopefully he will
let us teach him again real soon!
Heidi
is still on track for baptism on the 28! So cross your fingers that she will
still be ready!
It
is still super hot here and only getting hotter! This week it hit 110 degrees
and everyone said that it will only get worse! I've been trying to jog in the
mornings to wake up and it is just miserable. Not to mention I only have sweats
to exercise in.. Haha
Well
that is all I have to say about this week.
I'm
so glad to hear Linsey's wedding turned out amazing! I am still sad I missed it
but the picture really helped! :)
Have
a wonderful week! I love you all and miss you all like crazy!!
Love Sister Webb
(Note from Carolyn: Olivia sent pictures and descriptions this week but the pictures didn't come through. Darn! I sent a note to her so I'm sure she will send them next week.)
(Note from Carolyn: Olivia sent pictures and descriptions this week but the pictures didn't come through. Darn! I sent a note to her so I'm sure she will send them next week.)
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