Hey everyone!
Wow this week has gone by really fast! it seems like I was just barely sending an email to everyone! I remembered my camera today so you all even get pictures today! Ok so I'm not sure what my mom posts on my blog or sends to everyone so some of this might be a bit of a repeat from what I sent in my letter. Last Tuesday we all went to macon because elder Aitoukidas from the seventy was speaking to our mission. he was so great! He talked to us for a long time and we kind of got reprimanded for not doing things right. He told us how we were suppose to plan and he talked a lot about having faith. he talked about how miracles don't happen until after the trial of our faith. It was really good! He talked about making goals and how to make good goals and he totally called some missionaries on the carpet for making bad goals. Thank heavens my companion and I were some who made good goals. I learned so much! The about faith was good because I'm pretty sure this week was the trial of my companion and I's faith! He also really pushed having members present and lessons and stuff so this week we tried really hard to have members come with us. On the way home from the zone conference we had carpooled with some sisters from a rural area and I was driving. The borrowed GPS system did get us lost by directing us onto a gravel then dirt road called "Road", what is up with that! We eventually found our way home. That GPS was pretty sketchy, speaking of sketchy we go into places that Meredith would just die if she knew about it! We have the "Progressing Projects" in our area so not as bad as the "Projects" but still pretty sketchy, we can't really go over there after dusk because it's not safe. That is kind of where most of our crazies are. This week we did really good and had members to come to a lot of lessons. However everytime we had a member with us the person we were suppose to be teaching stood us up! Every single time!! it was a little bit ridiculous, we are determined that this week is going to be better though. We have worked really hard this week and we have found every inactive person that is in our area. We have started visiting them but most of them aren't home and a lot of them have moved. One guy we visited wasn't home but his brother was and this guy talked to us for like an hour and a half about how he didn't believe in our church and how he was Pentacostal and he thought we were wrong and he really wanted to argue with us but we weren't even going there! Another guy we contacted told us we should just give up and go home and get married because we were just to naïve to be out here. He said if you looked Naïve up in the dictionary our faces would be right there as the definition, Ha, Whatever!! We went back to the lady who renamed us last week and she would only crack open her door and then said that her Preacher told her she couldn't talk to us anymore. That happens a lot here! We have also had a lot of people tell us NO as we are knocking doors because they are "Very strong Christians and they aren't looking to change that" They must have a class out here on how Mormons aren't Christian and we all worship Joseph Smith because that's what everyone seem to think. It's pretty funny. We had a lot of people feed us this week so that was good! Most of the meals have been good, we have only had one that was not good and that was on Thursday. It was this family that lives on Fort Gordon and they have 10 kids and she is pregnant with her eleventh! It's crazy there are so many of them! We had white rice and this sauce with vegetables in it that they called "Curry". I'm not sure what curry is suppose to taste like but I'm pretty sure it's not like that! It was bad I kind of just had to shovel it down and say no to seconds. They are feeding us again in two weeks so hopefully it will be something different! On Saturday Sister S fed us, she is one of our recent converts, she is great. She made homemade chili and some cornbread and it was AMAZING! The chili was so good, it even had chunks of pepper and onion and stuff and I still just loved it. We are going to go over again on Thursday and she is going to make us fried chicken, I'm excited. You would love S, she is a tall black lady and she is super spunky. She loved watching Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons so I always ask her about that when I go over. She is a really solid convert, her daughter K is coming along great and she is set to be baptized Nov. 23! They are both awaesome. S has had a really hard life and was into drugs and stuff for a long time but she shaped up awhile ago. She drives trucks for work but is out of a job right now so she is trying to get into some sort of truck driving class in Dallas so she can get a better job. Saturday the ward had a trunk or treat and that was really fun. We decorated our trunk as "Footsteps to Christ" I am going to send some pictures of it. I wanted to do the "Land of Desolation" but everyone thought that was not missionary enough. I love my district, they all have a really great sense of humor and we always have a great time. Elder Phillips (the one from Australia) sometimes doesn't have the greatest sense of humor but everyone else does so that's OK. I guess back in Australia he was some sort of professional cyclist and he won all sorts of National races and qualified for the Olympics and the tour de france. he is one of the biking Elders so at least he still gets to do what he loves! I'm stuck out here without my horse! Oh well. Oh my companions brother plays football for the U. He is a defensive end and he is number 32 (Tevi). She says he gets to play quite a bit so watch for him if you are watching any games! Yesterday church was good, all of the speakers did a great job. The talks were on faith, charity and service. After church our whole district had dinner with a member and she invited one of her friends who is sort of investigating. They made crepes which were really yummy! Oh and funny story the zone leaders made Elder Phillips try peanut butter and he hated it! he started gagging and stuff it was really funny (stick to vegemite). Then we went and taught K and had a good lesson. she has basketball tryouts today so we had one of the ward members they were close to come and give her a blessing because she was nervous. Then my companion felt like she needed a blessing so he gave her one too and it was good. This member and his wife are awesome. We don't really have big Zone parties, sounds like Gage had a good time at the one they did. We just don't have time between washing, cleaning shopping and emailing my day is full. We only have P-day until 6:00 then it back to work. Elder Aitoukidas also discouraged doing big things like that because its to distracting (where have I heard that word before) from what we are suppose to be doing as a missionary. This week has been good even though we got stood up a lot! Hopefully this coming week we make more contacts and get more new investigators! I have to say that the Evans Meadows Ward mission statement is Awesome, (its been on the program for a long time, but until I really was a missionary I never appreciated this statement). The ward I'm in now has a super lame mission plan. No one can even tell us exactly what it is. Everyone there should help the missionaries make it three member present lessons taught! That would be super awesome! I am feeling so much better this week! My attitude is so much better and I am so thankful for that! I prayed so hard last week and tried so hard to have a good mind set and now it's finally coming. I can honestly say that I am starting to love it out here. Four days ago I was 100% sure that was something that was never going to happen. I am really starting to love the people and area I am serving in. I am also learning the importance of Visiting and Home teaching and how it helps members and inactive members just by the service and the time of someone taking an interest in what someone else is doing.
Love everyone at home, especially Gary!
Sister Price
P.S. Dad can you check the Georgia weather and let me know in the emails what to expect, with no TV or radio be nice to know what the weather is doing. Love you again.
Wow this week has gone by really fast! it seems like I was just barely sending an email to everyone! I remembered my camera today so you all even get pictures today! Ok so I'm not sure what my mom posts on my blog or sends to everyone so some of this might be a bit of a repeat from what I sent in my letter. Last Tuesday we all went to macon because elder Aitoukidas from the seventy was speaking to our mission. he was so great! He talked to us for a long time and we kind of got reprimanded for not doing things right. He told us how we were suppose to plan and he talked a lot about having faith. he talked about how miracles don't happen until after the trial of our faith. It was really good! He talked about making goals and how to make good goals and he totally called some missionaries on the carpet for making bad goals. Thank heavens my companion and I were some who made good goals. I learned so much! The about faith was good because I'm pretty sure this week was the trial of my companion and I's faith! He also really pushed having members present and lessons and stuff so this week we tried really hard to have members come with us. On the way home from the zone conference we had carpooled with some sisters from a rural area and I was driving. The borrowed GPS system did get us lost by directing us onto a gravel then dirt road called "Road", what is up with that! We eventually found our way home. That GPS was pretty sketchy, speaking of sketchy we go into places that Meredith would just die if she knew about it! We have the "Progressing Projects" in our area so not as bad as the "Projects" but still pretty sketchy, we can't really go over there after dusk because it's not safe. That is kind of where most of our crazies are. This week we did really good and had members to come to a lot of lessons. However everytime we had a member with us the person we were suppose to be teaching stood us up! Every single time!! it was a little bit ridiculous, we are determined that this week is going to be better though. We have worked really hard this week and we have found every inactive person that is in our area. We have started visiting them but most of them aren't home and a lot of them have moved. One guy we visited wasn't home but his brother was and this guy talked to us for like an hour and a half about how he didn't believe in our church and how he was Pentacostal and he thought we were wrong and he really wanted to argue with us but we weren't even going there! Another guy we contacted told us we should just give up and go home and get married because we were just to naïve to be out here. He said if you looked Naïve up in the dictionary our faces would be right there as the definition, Ha, Whatever!! We went back to the lady who renamed us last week and she would only crack open her door and then said that her Preacher told her she couldn't talk to us anymore. That happens a lot here! We have also had a lot of people tell us NO as we are knocking doors because they are "Very strong Christians and they aren't looking to change that" They must have a class out here on how Mormons aren't Christian and we all worship Joseph Smith because that's what everyone seem to think. It's pretty funny. We had a lot of people feed us this week so that was good! Most of the meals have been good, we have only had one that was not good and that was on Thursday. It was this family that lives on Fort Gordon and they have 10 kids and she is pregnant with her eleventh! It's crazy there are so many of them! We had white rice and this sauce with vegetables in it that they called "Curry". I'm not sure what curry is suppose to taste like but I'm pretty sure it's not like that! It was bad I kind of just had to shovel it down and say no to seconds. They are feeding us again in two weeks so hopefully it will be something different! On Saturday Sister S fed us, she is one of our recent converts, she is great. She made homemade chili and some cornbread and it was AMAZING! The chili was so good, it even had chunks of pepper and onion and stuff and I still just loved it. We are going to go over again on Thursday and she is going to make us fried chicken, I'm excited. You would love S, she is a tall black lady and she is super spunky. She loved watching Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons so I always ask her about that when I go over. She is a really solid convert, her daughter K is coming along great and she is set to be baptized Nov. 23! They are both awaesome. S has had a really hard life and was into drugs and stuff for a long time but she shaped up awhile ago. She drives trucks for work but is out of a job right now so she is trying to get into some sort of truck driving class in Dallas so she can get a better job. Saturday the ward had a trunk or treat and that was really fun. We decorated our trunk as "Footsteps to Christ" I am going to send some pictures of it. I wanted to do the "Land of Desolation" but everyone thought that was not missionary enough. I love my district, they all have a really great sense of humor and we always have a great time. Elder Phillips (the one from Australia) sometimes doesn't have the greatest sense of humor but everyone else does so that's OK. I guess back in Australia he was some sort of professional cyclist and he won all sorts of National races and qualified for the Olympics and the tour de france. he is one of the biking Elders so at least he still gets to do what he loves! I'm stuck out here without my horse! Oh well. Oh my companions brother plays football for the U. He is a defensive end and he is number 32 (Tevi). She says he gets to play quite a bit so watch for him if you are watching any games! Yesterday church was good, all of the speakers did a great job. The talks were on faith, charity and service. After church our whole district had dinner with a member and she invited one of her friends who is sort of investigating. They made crepes which were really yummy! Oh and funny story the zone leaders made Elder Phillips try peanut butter and he hated it! he started gagging and stuff it was really funny (stick to vegemite). Then we went and taught K and had a good lesson. she has basketball tryouts today so we had one of the ward members they were close to come and give her a blessing because she was nervous. Then my companion felt like she needed a blessing so he gave her one too and it was good. This member and his wife are awesome. We don't really have big Zone parties, sounds like Gage had a good time at the one they did. We just don't have time between washing, cleaning shopping and emailing my day is full. We only have P-day until 6:00 then it back to work. Elder Aitoukidas also discouraged doing big things like that because its to distracting (where have I heard that word before) from what we are suppose to be doing as a missionary. This week has been good even though we got stood up a lot! Hopefully this coming week we make more contacts and get more new investigators! I have to say that the Evans Meadows Ward mission statement is Awesome, (its been on the program for a long time, but until I really was a missionary I never appreciated this statement). The ward I'm in now has a super lame mission plan. No one can even tell us exactly what it is. Everyone there should help the missionaries make it three member present lessons taught! That would be super awesome! I am feeling so much better this week! My attitude is so much better and I am so thankful for that! I prayed so hard last week and tried so hard to have a good mind set and now it's finally coming. I can honestly say that I am starting to love it out here. Four days ago I was 100% sure that was something that was never going to happen. I am really starting to love the people and area I am serving in. I am also learning the importance of Visiting and Home teaching and how it helps members and inactive members just by the service and the time of someone taking an interest in what someone else is doing.
Love everyone at home, especially Gary!
Sister Price
P.S. Dad can you check the Georgia weather and let me know in the emails what to expect, with no TV or radio be nice to know what the weather is doing. Love you again.
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