Hey Everyone!
Ok so this
week has gone by so fast! It seems like I was just here emailing on P-day! It
was kind of a slower week number wise but I feel like it was a really good week
for my companion and me. We got in three new missionaries and I really like all
of them! Elder Hatch got a new companion named Elder Judson. He is 21 and he
mostly grew up in Houston but when he was a teenager they moved to Lindon. He
is our new district leader and I really like him, he is pretty awesome! Then we
got our new zone leaders in and they are Elder Eklof and Elder Spencer. We also
have a new Elder Webb in our district who is with the Spanish speaking. He went to Syracuse High. He is only 18 and boy you can sure tell! He
is moving around all the time and chattering about everything but he is really
excited to be out here on a mission and he sure does have a testimony he will
be a great asset here! We all get along
really well and I like them a lot. I see big things ahead with this district we
have and I'm really excited! Elder Judson is very helpful with things Sister
Tevi and I are trying to work on and he gives really good suggestions to help
us. He is a pretty chill guy but he is a very good missionary. Wednesday my
companion really wasn't feeling good so we didn't go out until after dinner
because she could hardly even like stand up and move so I just studied a lot
and then I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Thursday was Thanksgiving and
it was a fun day. We had this great idea to go out and around to parks and talk
to people who were out playing football or games, you know stuff like families
USUALLY do on Thanksgiving before they go eat a bunch of food but we went to
all the parks in our area and not a single person was outside! Georgia is so
weird! We went to Shae's first because she wanted to feed us authentic southern
Thanksgiving food. I have to say that I think I like our traditional food more.
They have this stuff called dressing which is cornbread that you bake and then
you crumble it up and mix it with onion and seasonings and stuff and then you
bake it again. It was ok but it tasted kind of weird and I definitely like
stuffing more. Then she had macaroni and cheese which was pretty good but it
just isn't a Thanksgiving food and she also had collard greens which I have to
say were not very good. Then for our main meal we went to the Galan family.
They live on post and they are really awesome. They have three kids, their
oldest is adopted, and she is pregnant with a girl so I gave her the baby
clothes you sent me from Grandma. They are from the west, she is from California
we had normal Thanksgiving food there. It started out that it was supposed to
just be Sis Tevi and I but then all of the Elders ended up coming because I
guess all of their places fell through. So we ended up having all of the
missionaries there but it was pretty fun! They are a pretty cool family so it
was a good time. We stayed there for a few hours and then we went to the Smith
family because it was their son's birthday so we said we would stop by and have
some cake. The Smith's are also a pretty awesome family. We didn't really want
to knock on peoples' doors because they aren't super thrilled when we knock in
general so we were pretty sure they wouldn't appreciate us knocking on
Thanksgiving. On Friday we had this lady come from the research department of
the church and ask us questions so they could develop a survey to send out to
all of the missionaries about how the recent change have affected the
missionary work and stuff like that. There were about seven companionships
there and it was really good. It was kind of like a group therapy session
because we all talked about our experiences and if things were like what we
expected and it was really good! I liked hearing about other missionaries’
experiences and thoughts on being a missionary. Then after that we went to
lunch with the other sisters from our zone, Sister Sevy and Sister Turner.
Sister Sevy was in Sister Tevi's district in the MTC so she is really excited
that she is in our zone! They are pretty fun we went to chik-fil-a. Funny story
though. So when we were almost done eating I suddenly realized I didn't have
the car keys and I didn't know where they were and then we figured I probably
left them in the car and we were almost done so we would just go out there and
see. So we finish eating and go out to the car and not only had I left the keys
in the car I had left it running! I was dying but doesn't that totally sound
like something I would do? Anyway so we know Heavenly Father loves
missionaries, even when they do stupid things because no one stole our car or
anything from out of it! It was so
hilarious. I still can't believe I actually did it. Then we were knocking
Saturday afternoon, and this one lady answered so we were asking her religious
background and she was like "oh I'm not Christian I'm a witch" so we
were like oh ok that's interesting, haven't heard that one before and then she
started telling us she was pagan and all this stuff and it was really crazy!
Then my companion didn't know what pagan meant so I had to explain it to her.
Then I started trying to make witch jokes, you know like Monty python jokes and
my companion has never seen that movie so there was no one who got my jokes! It
was really sad. Then a few houses down we ran into this Mennonite lady who
started lecturing us about the bible. Then she said we need to research our
church more and make sure we aren't following a false prophet. I love it when
people tell me I need to pray about the path I'm going down. It's like really?
Do you think I would be out here for 18 months of my life, not able to talk to
my family or do anything I love to do for something I wasn't absolutely sure
was true? It just makes me laugh. The scariest is when you run into Pentecostals.
They are crazy and always want to set us on the right path. Then on Sunday we
had set a return appt with a lady who we knocked into and we ended up
mostly meeting with her boyfriend who was studying with the Jehovah's
Witness' and he just mostly wanted to quiz us about our church and he was kind
of stuck on polygamy and how it's adultery and how God didn't even approve of
it in the Old Testament and I am never sure what to say to refute the whole
polygamy adultery thing. I mean really they just need to gain a testimony of
the Book of Mormon but he didn't think the Bible needed added to and it just
really started dragging out and I didn't have the brain cells to be able to
answer the questions because it was fast Sunday and I really couldn't think
because I was so hungry. She seemed really interested but she never got a word
in from what her boyfriend was saying. Oh and he kept questioning my testimony
and how I know all these things for myself and mostly he just wanted to argue
and I get really tired of that. So that was kind of tedious. Then we had dinner
at the Meachams with all of the new missionaries and after dinner we had a
planning session for our ward activity. All of the new missionaries seem
excited and they are really on board with the idea! We made some really good
plans and I think it's going to be a really good activity for the ward! We are
just kind of centering it on how to talk to your friends about the gospel, how
to bring it up, how to bring up talking with the missionaries and stuff like
that. I think it will be really good and I'm really happy the new missionaries
think it's a good idea! I think it's going to be awesome! Well that's about all
for my week and I hope you have all had good week! My companion is still having a lot of left lower
pain, I have made an appointment at the clinic that Meredith recommended. I was obedient though and went to the Dr.
that the missionary nurse said to go to.
They just put her on Bactrim DS and dicyclamine, (I don’t know why they
put her on the dicyclamine, I don’t think she needed that). I have talked to her thoroughly and have made
a list of when the pain is worse and where it is at and how long she has been
experiencing it since I don’t go in the room with her. I think at this point she needs a CT scan and
maybe an ultrasound. Her appointment is
Wednesday so I hope that she can be helped as she is in a lot of pain that
comes and goes.
Love,
Sister Price
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