THANKSGIVING PICTURES, VALDOSTA GEORGIA 2014, NOVEMBER 27, 2014

THANKSGIVING AT THE ROBINSONS IN VALDOSTA GEORGIA. SISTER WHEELWRIGHT, SISTER PRICE AND A VERY FURRY CAT! HARD TO FIND IT EYES!

ALL THE SISTERS AT THE ROBINSONS: SISTER WHEELWRIGHT, SISTER PRICE, SISTER WAYCOTT, SISTER MICHIE! LOOKING HAPPY AND WELL TAKEN CARE OF!

RAIN AND THE PLAGUE! November 24, 2014

Hey Everyone!

     Well this week everyone except Sister Wheelwright got what we have dubbed "the plague!" Basically it starts out with your throat getting super sore and your tonsils feel like they have tripled in size. Then you feel like death for about 24 hours and then it just goes back to a sore throat and you start feeling better. I hit the death stage yesterday (Sunday) and today my throat is still pretty sore but I no longer feel like death(until the Advil wears off! It was a good day to feel like death though because it was storming like crazy so it would have been hard to get work done. Ok now to remember what happened during my week. 

     Monday was fairly uneventful. We finished up P-day and then we went out to tract but then Sister Wheelwright didn't feel well so we came back in. Tuesday we had district meeting and then I headed to Douglas on exchanges with Sister Madsen! It was really fun! I love Douglas because everyone there is SO southern and they all have really strong southern accents. It's awesome! We had a really good time and talked about lots of things. She really helped me with some of the things I have been struggling with lately and I was able to help her get better at using the Pamphlets especially on teaching the "Plan of Salvation" she says that one has always been hard for her to teach.  She is a pretty awesome missionary! I went to the meeting with their ward mission leader and he has one of those" Segway" (pretty sure I spelled that totally wrong) things that you stand on and zoom around on that he wanted us to ride, like the "zoomy" things off of "Mall Cop" the movie!  He was really impressed that I didn't fall off the first time because he said that most people do because its a weird feeling. Whatever, I just have skills! It was really fun, those things are cool! Then I came back to Valdosta. I don't really remember what happened on Wednesday. We had coordination meeting and then we did something. Thursday was a good day! That was the day the other sisters had the" plague "so they stayed in all day. We went to Quitman (small town) and spent quite a bit of time out there. Then we had dinner with the senior couple and went to a lesson with them! They are way cool! They are both converts, from the South-ish. Sister Swank's dad was a Presbyterian minister! She said he had a hard time with her conversion. Then they went with us to a lesson! We had a lesson with Dot, she is always interesting. Last week she told a story about how she cast out a "demon" and this week she said she believes in "Black Jesus"! That is a big thing in the South. You have to be careful with how  you talk about Jesus or people will go on a rant about"Black Jesus". It was a pretty good lesson though! Then Friday we worked on our map a lot. We got a lot done! There is a ridiculous amount of less actives though. If we could activate everyone in Quitman they could totally have their own branch! Oh and we did visit an old lady who lives in Quitman who kept asking us the same questions. It was pretty funny. She is really sweet though. She asked us if we were enjoying the weather like four times. Saturday was good, we had lunch with Mary,she is so cool! She is going to take us to Cracker Barrel Thanksgiving morning! We have not had any Thanksgiving invites this year! It has been so weird! Last year we had a ton. I take that back we just had a family invite us over and they are awesome so we are excited! The poor Elders haven't had any invites yet, I feel really bad for them! The Stake is doing this really cool "He is the gift initiative",  kind of like what they did at Easter except bigger! We even get special pass along cards for it! I am super excited! Saturday I started feeling really bad, I got the fever and chills and my throat felt so sore and swollen but we had an appointment to teach a recent convert family who are really cool and love us to come over and talk with them about what they are reading in the Book of Mormon. (their house is not the cleanest but they are cool).  I did not want to take my germs to their kids or them but my companion had a bit of an issue about going with one of the other Sisters in our apartment because of this house issue.  I told her that these people needed to be visited and they were expecting the missionaries to come!  I finally lost my "temper" a bit and told her that If she did not go that I was going to "shiver" my way to their house with her in tow and that she was not having "Charity for them and they just wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon"!  She then went with one of the other Sisters and they were visited and it all turned out well! Yesterday (sunday) I mostly just felt like "death" all day, though we did have a lesson with the part member family. He has been almost two weeks without smoking! Yay! We also got a call from the temple square sisters who have been working with him and they get to skype in for the baptism! It's going to be way awesome! It was weird to get a call from Utah.  I have been reading" Acts" this week and I have decided that Paul is kind of like the New Testament version of" Elder Holland". He is pretty intense. Anyway I was reading and I really loved this scripture! Well I can't remember the scripture so it will have to wait until next week! My Advil is wearing off and I am starting to feel really awful again! Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Remember to say "Thanks" for your blessings!  I am saying Thanks for having the knowledge to know what drugs to take that my super smart Dad had me bring out here just for these occasions of sickness!  I love you all!

Love,

Sister Price

 

(Note from Sis. Price's Mom, she is feeling much better as of Thanksgiving Day.  The sweet family that fed them dinner sent us a text and picture of her and we were able to ask some questions that she could answer, so we know she is again Healthy and strong!  We are thankful for the kindness of the members in Georgia assisting our loved Missionaries!)

I CAN REMEMBER, MY BRAIN DOES WORK RANDOMLY! NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Hey Everyone!

     Ok so I totally remembered what happened this week! Yay! Miracles do happen! For real though, last week was terrible. Last Monday was fairly uneventful. Not much happened. Most of the week we spent planning for Grandpa Red's memorial ( the old fellow who passed away after we cleaned his house). Tuesday morning we had a really great lesson with the part member family we have been working with. We taught the Word of Wisdom. He has a smoking problem and has been working on quitting since last December and said that it was ironic we taught that lesson because he had just started smoking again! He has since recommitted to quit and has been smoke free for 5 days now. They are pretty awesome! Then we helped plan the memorial for Grandpa Red which was interesting....mostly because neither of us really knew him and the family had no idea what they were doing! Then we had a lesson in this town named Morven which is about 30 minutes away from Valdosta. We cover a bunch of little outlying small towns that are each about 30 minutes away in all different directions. We cover Quitman, Morven, Hahira, Lake Park, and some others that I can't remember right now. It's fun. Anyway it was a referral from the ward mission leader and its a lady who comes into his dentist office. I guess she was taught by the missionaries a few years ago and she was recently telling him about it so he decided to ask if she would like to meet with them again! It was an interesting lesson but she let us come back and we had a really good lesson last night so its good! She is really nice, she has some very interesting theories and experiences but then again most people in the South do, they love talking a bit about demonic spirits and casting them out and they are always a bit obsessed with gifts of the spirit!  We just have to really stay on task and firmly teach what is true!  Wednesday was not real exciting, and Thursday we had ZTM which was a tad bit boring. I honestly can't really remember a lot of what we talked about. Oops. Friday we had Grandpa Red's memorial. They had Sister Wheelwright give a talk so she freaked out about that for a long time. It was a very interesting memorial. There weren't really many people there and the people from his family who spoke were really short in their thoughts and didn't really say much about his life. It was very different. Oh and on Friday there was a senior couple who came to the memorial service, They are here as military relations. Their name is the Swanks and they are from Cedar City. They both seem really nice! Then on Saturday we spent most of the day weekly planning because I wanted to do a really good job and have lots of plans so that we always have something to do. I have been slacking on that a little lately so it has been a little more difficult. Yesterday was really awesome! Church was good and we had a lesson with the part member family (the Dad is not a member and asked me the question about Jesus being a God also).  He was talking with us and all of a sudden he was like" oh ya I am getting baptized Dec. 6."!  We were like oh ok really? I guess he had a lesson with the temple square missionaries and they put him on date! I had been feeling like we could put him on date for sometime in December but it never felt like the right time so I guess they were supposed to do it! It was awesome though! lt has been fun working with them and then hearing about the temple square missionaries. It's pretty awesome to see how he has progressed from being unsure to being totally dedicated to baptism! He does have some medical problems but as long as he takes his medication he is really good and he understands and is accountable for his choices, his wife is really good about helping him.  He knows he has to work hard and he has studied and prayed very hard so that he knows the difference between the "Holy Ghost" and then the other more random thoughts that he struggles with.  It's awesome how he has been blessed as he has learned gospel principles with all aspects of his life! Caleb will be just fine as he heads for Peru today!  Each missionary has different types of being homesick.  I know that for me it feels like an "Eternity" since I have seen ya'll, and I mostly can't believe that I have actually survived because I didn't think I would.  I mean I knew I would be the best missionary I could be but I also could not imagine on Oct. 2, 2013 where I would be or how I would survive a year from that time. I can't say that time has gone by fast and I feel like a part of me is "missing" everyday, I hope that all makes sense!  Just yesterday in our apartment the other sisters were saying that they rarely get homesick, I was like "I'm homesick all the time!  But I have just learned to deal with it and compartmentalize it in a corner of my mind and then I work just as hard as I can because "Work" is the best cure and sharing the gospel and watching how peoples lives change there is no words to describe! The Lord always sends us Tender Mercies to lift us up, sometimes we don't realize it at the time until we look back at recognize it for the blessing that it was for us. For me it was the letters and packages that would randomly come from Karen and Tammy and family members, its amazing how much just a simple card with "Have a good week" on it is such a blessing.  I was blessed with the Meachams the older couple who helped with the ward in my first area but also really helped us missionaries, I don't know how I would have acclimated for the first 6 months of my mission without them.  So Heavenly Father is always watching out for us even when we feel our lowest, prayer is awesome and you can communicate with him anytime anywhere!  We have a really great week planned so it should be good! We have exchanges this week and I am going to Douglas again so that should be fun! I don't have a specific spiritual thought this week just kind of some thoughts. I have been reading the New Testament and I am currently in Acts. I am really enjoying seeing the growth in Christ's apostles. They start out dedicated and knowing they want to follow Christ but to see their testimonies grow is cool. Especially Peter, he goes from having faith and dedication but not being quite sure how to do what he wants to do, to this amazing leader of the church with unwavering faith! It's pretty awesome. I am enjoying the cool weather and am still thankful every day that I only had one summer here! I love all of you and hope you have a great week! It was great hearing about Sister Woods homecoming, sometime soon it will be mine!

Love,

Sister Price

PICTURES OF MY VALDOSTA DISTRICT AND MY HAIR KEEPS ON GROWING! NOVEMBER 10, 2014

MY VALDOSTA DISTRICT-R-L- SIS. PRICE, SIS. WHEELWRIGHT, SIS. MAXFIELD, SIS. WAYCOTT. (NO NAMES FOR THE ELDERS)

AT LEAST MY HAIR IS LOVING THE HEAT IN GEORGIA! I EVEN CUT OFF 4-5 INCHES RECENTLY!!

STOMACH FLU AND WARD PARTIES! NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Hey Everyone!

     Well it has been another fairly uneventful week. I think. I might remember something exciting. We have mostly just been working on finding people. Seriously though I can't remember. This is probably going to be the lamest email ever. I apologize. On Friday we had interviews with President Cottle in Tifton basically he asks me how am I doing and I answer "Fine", and then we are done.  I rarely go into details about stuff cause I don't want to take his time, he always seems so busy and when it is interview time he always seems behind and pre-occupied, but you know me, I just be obedient, follow the rules and work as hard as I can. We also had an activity for the recent converts/less actives/investigators on Friday night. We didn't have the greatest attendance but it was the first time! It was good for a first time Ward and Missionary activity since we didn't really know what we were doing. We watched some mormon messages and then had ice cream and played an interesting combination of pictionary/family feud. Then Saturday Sister Wheelwright got a bad case of the stomach flu that has been going around and she got it! I felt really bad for her! I also think I slightly offended her because I kept following her around and disinfecting where she had been. I just didn't want anyone else to get it! I did get sick last night but it was only a few hours and I took some Zofran and this morning I feel fine. Sorry this email is so short and non descriptive! I seriously feel like I am losing my mind because I can't remember anything. I will repent and do better next week! The weather has been nice this week. I have been reading the New Testament the past few weeks and I have decided that I really like the book of John! It is one of my favorites. Our lesson in Relief Society yesterday was on prayer and I really liked it. This is probably one of my favorite quotes from the lesson, "I wonder if we ever stop to think why the Lord has asked us to pray. Did he ask us to pray because he wants us to bow down and worship him? Is that the main reason? I don’t think it is. He is our Heavenly Father, and we have been commanded to worship him and pray to him in the name of his Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. But the Lord can get along without our prayers. His work will go on just the same, whether we pray or whether we do not. … Prayer is something that we need, not that the Lord needs. He knows just how to conduct his affairs and how to take care of them without any help from us. Our prayers are not for the purpose of telling him how to run his business. If we have any such idea as that, then of course we have the wrong idea. Our prayers are uttered more for our sakes, to build us up and give us strength and courage, and to increase our faith in him." We pray because we need it! Prayer is meant to help us align our will with Heavenly Father's, not to just give him a list of things we think we want/need. There is a section in Preach My Gospel that I really like that talks about prayer. It talks about how when we pray we should be guided by the Spirit as to what to pray for. Definitely easier said than done! That is about all I have for this week! I hope ya'll have a good week! Love ya!

Love,

Sister Price

P.S. Tell Sister Wood Hello for me, and if you see the Meachams a super hello to them!!  I can't believe Sister Wood is home!!

HALLOWEEN COOKIES, ALLIGATORS AND GIANT TURTLES! NOVEMBER 3, 2014

"HELP AN ALLIGATOR HAS MY ARM"!

"RIDIN' ON A GIANT TURTLE"

STARTING OF THE HALLOWEEN COOKIE DOUGH

LETS MAKE "GREEN GOBLIN" DOUGH FOR HALLOWEEN! LOOKS AWFUL!

ZOMBIE HALLOWEEN COOKIE MAN! HOPE HE TASTES GOOD!

Happy Halloween and Now it is November! November 3, 2014

Hey Everyone!

     Well this has been quite the week. I feel like I have been doing everything but missionary work this week! I don't like weeks like this, it makes me feel like not a missionary and then I get more homesick and stuff. Not cool. It all started out with Monday. Remember when I talked about the old fellow whose house we went and cleaned? Well he passed away on Monday and after we were done emailing the grandson called and asked if there was anyone who could bring them meals. Well I called all of the relief society people to no avail and so there wasn't anyone answering. Finally they got back and said that no one could take food that night but they would do something for the rest of the week. We felt bad so we decided to make them some food. We had a ton of stuff to make spaghetti because along with the 90 lbs of rice someone dropped off enough spaghetti and sauce to feed an army so we made that and took it over and that pretty much used up the whole night. Then that night we get a text from the AP's and the Elders saying that the Elders couldn't find a ride to transfers so could they please take our car....that meant we would have to walk all day Tuesday which I am fine with, I am actually getting really good at walking and can walk like 2 miles in 35 minutes and feel fine. However the closest people we visit are like 5 miles or more away because we are a driving zone so it kind of killed our plans for the day. Plus our car is only 3 weeks old and I mean seriously....Elders taking it all the way to Macon? We knew it wasn't going to return the same!! That just started Tuesday out. We were supposed to have a meal with a family at five but we weren't sure if our car would make it back in time! We called to let them know and they were like freaking out about it but we got it figured out. Then the Elders called 45 minutes before we were supposed to be there and said they were an hour behind schedule and wouldn't be there for another hour at least! So then we had to call and cancel dinner and that made the lady super mad. Ugh. Then they didn't get our car back until 6:30 and they had scratched and dented the trunk with the bike rack! It looks awful! Our poor car! It's not even a month old! We were also late for our 6:00 appointment. That just started out the week and the whole week went pretty much like that. Sister Waycott is training this transfer and her trainee is really cool! She is from Alaska! She says that I can totally come visit her and go hunting/fishing. It's going to be awesome! We have driven a lot this transfer so we were pretty much out of miles on our car this week so we decided to redo our map! It looks super awesome! We even got laminate and made it really pretty looking. Also, funny story. So we haven't gotten any supply orders for stuff we needed last transfer! That meant that we didn't have any planners to use for the new transfer! We had to end up using some spanish planners that we found in the apartment. It has been super funny. We got supplies this week though so I now have an English planner again! We were on lockdown Friday and Saturday because there was a huge rival football game happening in Valdosta so they postponed Halloween to Saturday. Fun stuff. Lockdown was good, we made the cookie mix it looks disgusting but it was Halloween, they tasted good.  We also did our weekly planning, played the Book of Mormon card game you sent and then our apartment just had a "Harry Potter Clue Game" that was left here.  I made clam chowder, I forgot to put in a diced onion but it tasted good anyway.  Then when we woke up Sunday morning the Elders had Colored all over the windows of our car! Seriously we couldn' t even see. We will get them back though. We are going to be super nice to them and pretend like we don't care and then in a week or two when they aren't suspecting it we are going to put glitter and pink streamers all over their bikes! Oh and Mary took us to lunch at this pizza place on Saturday and it was super delicious! Probably like the best pizza I have ever had! It was way good! We also had a really good lesson with the Bush's on Friday. It was funny because I started out asking if he had any questions and he said "yes" and his first question was "Is Jesus Christ God?" and I was expecting a question with a complicated answer so it took me a minute to process that one! I was like well ya! I guess he was watching some you tube thing and the lady said that if you ask a mormon if Jesus Christ is God they will always say no. I was glad I passed that question! I just hope that the whole "Trinity" question does not "rear its head".  Ok so my spiritual thought this week. I was reading in D&C and this scripture just really popped out to me when I read it! I think its because sometimes I struggle with loving people and loving my area. I have always struggled with that though, I really like to build walls around myself! It's a revelation to Thomas Marsh and it is D&C 112:11  " I know thy heart, and have heard thy prayers concerning thy brethren. Be not partial towards them in love above many others, but let thy love be for them as for thyself; and let thy love abound unto all men, and unto all who love my name."I just really liked the part where it says  "let thy love abound unto all men, and unto all who love my name." When I read it I just felt like that was something I really needed to do! It is something that I will be working on! Well I hope everyone had a fun Halloween! I love you all and hope you have a great week! 

 

Love Sister Price

TOGETHER AGAIN AND SURPRISE VISIT FROM PRESIDENT COTTLE, TRUNK OR TREAT, OCTOBER 27, 2014

Hey Everyone!

 

  Well another transfer has come and gone! Sister Wheelwright and I are staying together again which is going to be good.  A week ago Monday my companion decided to have some issues with some teaching skills that are required throughout the mission, I thought that we had come to a pretty good co-operative working situation.  Living in an apartment with 4 girls does have challenges namely "Girl Head Games".  I don't play those games, at the pharmacy when my Dad was irritating me we "Hashed it out" then all was good and life went on!  So  I made her talk things out last week which made her a little huffy but she got over it and things have been going better. Wow this week!  I feel like I am losing my mind because I can hardly remember what has happened during my weeks. Everything just kind of blurs together. Sometimes I am just super EXHAUSTED AND TIRED and mostly feel like a zombie. Speaking of zombie's, each of us in our apartment have taken turns having ebola/zombie dreams. I had a dream where Ebola mutated into some sort of Zombie causing disease. Probably because we have 90 lbs of rice at our apartment and so we were joking with the Elders that in case of the zombie apocalypse they could get permission from President Cottle to come hole up in our apartment and we could live on Rice and canned chicken until it gets all figured out because we have like 20 cans of chicken and tuna. Thus the Ebola/zombie dreams. Tina chastised us for not watching the news and said that we need to use hand sanitizer all the time so we don't get Ebola! Apparently its the new big thing that everyone is talking about. 

      Ok so trying to remember my week. I also forgot my planner which I usually use as a mini diary to remember what we did during the week. I am a mess. Tuesday was a really good day and we talked to lots of people and had some really good lessons. The part member family we are teaching is doing really well. The Dad says he wants to be baptized, he just has some issues to work out first and he wants to take it slow. They also have a 14 year old son who is coming around! We had some very interesting lessons this week with some interesting people with some very interesting beliefs. We are still mostly in the finding process. Sister Wheelwright is really good at contacting though so I am learning a lot from her in that area! (ya'll know how I love tracting)!   I am helping her read" Jesus the Christ"  because the length and the long words and complicated language Elder Talmage uses intimidate her so that has been fun! We have come up with some fun new phrases like "transcendantly glorious" and something else that I can't recall at this moment. (I do love big, thick, books with wonderful descriptive Words).

     Our ward had a trunk or treat this weekend which was really fun! We had a really good turnout with non members and less actives that came! It was pretty great and our trunk was decorated pretty fantastically! We cut open a bunch of glow sticks and sprayed them all over the car and the next day it hadn't all come off so we got super paranoid because it is a brand new car but then it faded so we are very relieved! We tried to take pictures but you couldn't really get a good picture of the glow stuff but its still cool! Everyone loved it! We modeled it after the scripture story in" 2 Kings" when ELISHA the PROPHET dies and they bury him in a "Sepulchre" (our trunk) Then quite a bit of time passes and the Israelites are having a funeral for a man who has died. Suddenly they are descended upon by a marauding band of men. The Israelites get scared and hurry and throw the  dead man into the Sepulchre of Prophet Elisha. When his body touches Elisha's bones he comes back alive and jumps out of the Sepulchre! Now that beats all this fake Zombie stuff and continues to show the POWER OF EVEN A PROPHETS BONES!  All of the ward members looked at us  Sister Missionaries like we were crazy when we told them the story but it was still really fun and fits HALLOWEEN!  I got your package mom and it came just in time for our Saturday trunk or treat so we all wore the "flashing pumpkin necklaces".  Then a bit of sadness the Elderly fellow that all of us missionaries super cleaned his house so he would not get evicted, well he passed away.  I think the house was to clean and the germs were keeping him alive! I loved the emails, Camille looked very concentrated on her ballet.  Thank you for the information on Uncle Burt, he was truly a great man, very quiet and super busy all the time. He will be missed, but he was a trouper there were many times I remember that he was not suppose to survive a lot of things!  I have not heard from Sister Wood, she is probably in flight headed home as I email today, so I don't know exactly when in November her homecoming will be or which church in Vernal.  Oh, well.  I got the IPOD!!  It has all conference on there and the other favorite talks, we all love the Lemonade song from Alex Boye, you did real good!  I also absolutely love the "Gary Bracelet" I can wear it no problem, thank Sister Cox for braiding the hair and you did good Mom getting the ends into those little things so it can clip, I love it!!  Just saying only 23 more P-Days! The days just whiz by and I feel like I am hurrying but there is so much to do and boy am I "Tired", I have never felt so tired!  But its all good it means the work is hastening forward!  I can't believe the Holidays are upon us!  Oh and if anyone is wanting to send me packages (this is not me begging for packages, just an informative thing) please don't send me candy! We get so much candy from the ward members and everyone that I don't need anymore! I also don't need chap stick or hand sanitizer.  I hope everyone has a fun Halloween! Read "2 Kings" it is like a Halloween spiritual thought, especially chapter 13. I will be on lockdown in the apartment doing weekly planning. Yay! Love you all!  Love to Uncle Burts Family!!

Love,

Sister Price

 

P.S. I forgot to include two weeks ago President Cottle came to our zone and did a surprise visit.  Well us Sisters were doing well and were up and doing what we were suppose to. But the Elders were still in pajamas, lounging about not doing anything-they got Chastised- We have an Elder serving here from South Africa, he has been a  member for 5 years, not sure what his deal is but really disobedient!  Well lets just say our whole little disobedient group of Elders have been split up and transferred all over the mission!  Will be interesting to see who gets transferred in.  Anyway, Love you all lots, thanks for the support!

DOUGLAS EXCHANGE PICTURES! OCTOBER 20, 2014

LOVE THIS SIGN IN A LITTLE CAFE IN DOUGLAS!

AWESOME DEER FOOT LAMP! DAD WOULD LOVE THIS!

THE 4 SISTERS GOING ON EXCHANGES

OUR NEW INVESTIGATOR! PHOTO BOMBER MAN BEHIND ME!

DOUGLAS SISTERS, TRUNK OR TREAT "ELISHA'S BONES", OCT. 25, 2014

GOING ON EXCHANGES TO DOUGLAS, GEORGIA

SISTER WHEELWRIGHT AND HER EXCHANGE TO STAY IN VALDOSTA

ONE OF THE TRUNK OR TREAT VANS

VALDOSTA TRUNK OR TREAT- "BONES OF ELISHA", RANDOM TRICK OR TREAT GIRL



GETTING READY THE TRUNK OF "ELISHA'S BONES" WEARING OUR FLASHING PUMPKIN NECKLACES! SISTERS MAXFIELD, WHEELWRIGHT, AND WAYCOTT AND MYSELF!

MIRACLES AND EXCHANGES, OCTOBER 20, 2014

Hey Everyone!!

     This has been a good week! Sister Wheelwright and I still have a few kinks in our relationship that I'm not sure how to fix. Oh well. I will start with Tuesday. Tuesday we had exchanges and I went to Douglas with Sister Taylor. It was awesome! Douglas is fantastic and I love it! I want to serve there before my mission is over. The members are great and I just had a great time there. I loved the small-ish town. That is like the first place I have been on my mission where I got there and I was just like I love it here! Anyway it was super fun. Wednesday wasn't super exciting but Thursday was good! We got a media referral last week for this guy in our ward and it is a part member family. The message just said they wanted to learn more! So we called them and set up an appt for Thursday. Turns out the wife is a member and the husband is not a member and has been pretty anti their whole marriage so she hasn't come to church so that they can kind of keep the peace. I guess the husband has struggled with some mental health disorders and so he gets emails about various things people say about mental health issues. He got an email that some one from the LDS church had shared a message about mental health but he deleted the email so when he went to watch it he wasn't sure which talk it was. He ended up watching all of the April General Conference in one sitting! He said he did it because he was looking for things to criticize and complain about to his wife. Instead the opposite happened! His heart softened and he got on mormon.org and started chatting with missionaries. Then they referred him to us and we have been teaching him and they came to church on Sunday! It was so cool! As soon as he started sharing his experience the spirit came into the room and it was just like BAM. It was awesome. On Saturday we went up to Hahira (ha long a hira long i) and parked and then walked around for a few hours. We walked quite a ways! It was really fun and we talked to some pretty cool people. Then yesterday was good! We had another lesson with the part member family after church and it was good. There was also another part member family who came to church and the wife wants to learn more so we are going to start teaching her this week! Miracles are just happening right and left here! Those are pretty much the mail things that happened this week. Sorry this email is so short, I feel like a slacker! This week just wasn't super eventful. It is the last week of the transfer though! I can't believe it! It has gone by really fast! When Elder Kopischke came he told us that we need to start memorizing scriptures so I have been working on that! My goal is to memorize 170 scriptures before I go home! We will see how that works out. Ha ha. I hope everyone has a great week!

Love,

Sister Price

VALDOSTA PICTURE HIGHLIGHTS, COTTON FIELDS AND COMPANIONS! OCTOBER 20, 2014

MY TAN LINE! SOME HEALING SCRAPES FROM FALLING DOWN. I ESCAPED THE HORRIBLE BUG BITES THAT THE OTHER SISTERS GOT ALL SUMMER ON THEIR LEGS!

I FOUND SISTER MCNEELY AT ZONE CONFERENCE IN VALDOSTA, SO GOOD TO SEE HER!

SIS. WHEELWRIGHT AND I IN FRONT OF A COOL OLD HOUSE IN VALDOSTA!

GOOD-BYE SISTER SEVY, I WILL MISS YOU SO MUCH!!

LOVELY PURPLE BLAZER!! JUST HAD TO TAKE A PICTURE, I LOVE PURPLE!

FINALLY A GEORGIAN COTTON FIELD!! VALDOSTA

STAR TREK "SPOCK WEINER DOG".

I TOTALLY AGREE!!

MY SHOES ARE HOLDING UP, A LITTLE SQUISHED OUT THOUGH