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Monday, December 22, 2014
FORD FUSION STUCK IN THE MUD!! DECEMBER 22, 2014
GET A LITTLE MUD ON THE TIRES!- OR ALOT!! MERRY CHRISTMAS- DECEMBER 22, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well this has been quite the week. It felt really slow after all the
craziness of last week but it was still a really good week! Monday we had a
lesson with Dana, she is super awesome! We taught her the stop smoking program
(I asked her what was in this smoking cessation package-it contains- New
toothbrush, cinnamon mouthwash, cinnamon toothpaste, vitamin C chewable tablets,
Grapefruit juice. Sister Price says it does seem like an odd combination but she
has seen this work time after time on her mission with success. Even over all
the expensive patches and pills and programs that people have tried over and
over- Sis. Price also says that this pack contains one more thing that is the
best - Faith and the help of priesthood blessings). One thing about Swainsboro,
EVERYONE smokes. Pretty much every house you go in reeks of cigarette smoke and
I have to wash my clothes all the time because I feel like thats all I smell
like. It's bad. She is super excited to start though! She just has to wait until
she can afford all of the supplies. She is really great though and we love her.
She has a super cute little girl who is 2 and everything is "cute" or "purdy"
and she love to get our cameras and look through the pictures. She calls it the
"cheese." She loves to find my lipstick and methodically take everything out of
my bag and then put it all back in again, she randomly likes to try on our
shoes! Our next project is her husband. He is awesome and will be a great
member, he is just a little wary of churches because he grew up going to" Church
of God"(think hollering and speaking in tongues) and it scared him! We also have
to convince him that going to church on Sunday is more important than hunting
and fishing! It's really funny because since Dana has started meeting with us
she has been bugging him about going to church but he has gone off hunting every
weekend. I guess she told him that he wasn't going to shoot anything because he
should be at church and since she said that he hasn't shot anything! I thought
that was really funny. She says he is really stubborn but I have a lot of
experience with people who are really stubborn. Myself included. We were at walmart and I had a prompting to buy some advil, I knew that I did not need any but I have learned to follow promptings, I bought some and then we had an appointment with Dana, she answered the door and had a really bad toothache and did not have anything. I had the advil! I gave it to her and she was so thankful, always follow promptings!! We usually have
a really good mix of tracting and finding and teaching. We have found some
really awesome people this week! Saturday we tried an old referral from online
and they didn't live there anymore but we found this really awesome lady who
said she would read the Book of Mormon and we have a return appointment with
her! Yesterday we were tracting and trying people and almost everyone let us in
and were really nice! We even had a few who were interested and we got return
appointments with them! It was really awesome but also really not normal. It
felt like we weren't even really in Georgia. On Saturday we made cookies with
the Ference's. They are a less active family we are working with and they are
really cool. We went over and made tons of cookies and then she was so sweet and
bought us these cute Christmas tins from the dollar store and wrapped them up
for us to give out to people! She is super nice. They feed us twice a week and
we have been having THEM teach us the lessons so that is fun too! We are also
teaching their granddaughter who is living with them because she just turned
eight and they want her to be baptized. Well now I will tell about the adventure
of last night. It had been raining all day yesterday and it was raining pretty
hard last night. We were trying to find an old referral and were turning around
on a dirt road and Sister Woodard was trying to turn around without me having to
get out and back her up because it was raining. Well we ended up getting stuck
in the mud! We tried many things to get unstuck but to no avail. We were stuck.
The problem is, everyone in the branch is old, so they can't help push us out
and they all have small cars! We were going through the list of people in our
phone trying to decide who could help us. Finally we tried calling a guy we used
to teach who is the son of one of the members. He was really nice and came with
his truck and pulled us out! We gave him some Christmas cookies after. It was
quite the adventure though! We got super muddy and wet trying to get ourselves
unstuck. The guy who helped us had a super thick southern accent. I will have to
try and imitate it when we skype. It's pretty great! It is truly the South here,
some of the sayings I hear frequently "Cut the lights on" and "Buggy" for a
shopping cart. I am doing well and we are working hard, we have a lot of little
towns surrounding Swainsboro that we go to, the people here are kind and
welcoming although they don't have much. Our little church is small and
adorable and meets our needs. Serving in a branch has been really great. Our
branch mission leader is 87! Well I hope you all have a Merry Christmas! If you
haven't watched " He is the Gift" yet you should! You should all choose one
thing you can do to as a gift for Christ this Christmas it does not have to be
expensive just even a change of heart or attitude or a smile. I love you all
tons! Skyping with the family will be great, there is the less active family
that wants us to come over, so it will be 5 your time but 7 for me, so excited!
Happy hot dog roasting!! Merry Christmas Elder Thomas! Merry Christmas Elder
Harrop!
Love,
Sister Price
Monday, December 15, 2014
SWAINSBORO- I GOT TRANSFERRED! DEC. 15, 2014
Hey Everyone! December
15, 2014
I am going to end this because I
don't have a whole lot longer on the computer! The branch is very interesting.
I guess the branch president can be a little cantankerous at times and has made
Sister Winward and Sister Woodard cry but I think I will be ok because I have
been around a lot of slightly belligerent men throughout my life. Right Dad? And
Grandpa Price? So bring it on!! Just
kidding. But I do have a pretty thick skin! I really like Sister Woodard she is
from Boise, Idaho and she went to Capital High!! She is “healthy” no allergies,
no pains of any kind can go running and
exercise so that is awesome because I have 4 months to get back into shape! I
secretly was praying that I would get a “healthy companion”! It is pretty
awesome here and I love it so far! I hope you all have a great week! Love you
all!
Love,
Sister Price
CARRIES BAPTISM! NEW COMPANION SISTER WOODARD- IN SWAINSBORO, DEC. 15, 2014
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| CARRIES BAPTISM!! SO JEALOUS! with Sister Wheelwright and her companion, 12/13/14 |
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| NEW COMPANION SISTER WOODARD-SWAINSBORO, DEC. 9, 2014 |
Monday, December 8, 2014
Good-bye Valdosta! Transfers - December 8, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well
this has been quite the week! Monday we had a great lesson with Tina and her
daughter. They are doing really great. Then on Tuesday we had an awesome lesson
with the part member family! He totally got baptized on Saturday. It was
awesome! Ok and then funny story that happened on Tuesday. So on Monday we got
a media referral who wanted a Book of Mormon. Her name was Shamika. I don't
know about ya'll but when I think of the name Shamika I think of a black
person. I mean, I have met quite a few black Shamika's. So we go to contact
this person and this white guy opens the door. I was thinking ok, this guy is
white, but Shamika is still definitely black. We ask for her and the guy points
to this white girl sitting on the couch! We were totally shocked! A white
Shamika. Anyway we ended up teaching her and she is going to come to church
with her family this next Sunday! Too bad we won't be there, that is the
hardest part to leave investigators! Then on Saturday Chris got baptized! It
was super awesome. We got to skype the temple square sisters in so they could
watch! It was all super awesome. This year we got to see the Christmas
Devotional because the Robinsons had some investigators over to watch it with
us! Last year we did not get to see it since there was no investigators
with us. Sister Robinson took pictures of us and sent them to you Mom
through text. I am going to miss her and their family. Her husband
is the Branch President of the Young Adult Ward. I never did get to
go to the Alligator Farm that was here, it was always raining or we were busy,
so as of yet I have not seen an Alligator!! Thanks for figuring
out how to copy and paste some of Calebs email/blog letters since
I can't open blog sites. Caleb has done really well with his letters,
lots of good information and letting us all know how things are with him
(Gage will be proud of Calebs letter information abilities) and now he is
in PERU! Glad at this time he is doing well ! Crew did a super
job decorating our tree and I hear his brownies were a hit that he made all
from Scratch, no box, sorry though about losing track of time and getting in
trouble. I am kind of in shock and I don't know what else to write.
Sorry if this is a pathetic email. I don't really know what else to say. We
were saying good-bye to lots of people yesterday! I am really sad I won't be
here for Christmas, the Robinson family had a way awesome Christmas Day
planned and we were all set to Skype from their computer! That's
alright, Heavenly Father has another plan and I'm excited to see what I am
needed to do and where I am going to serve!! Well my brain is not working
very well so this is probably about all you will get today! Sorry it's so
short! Have a good week everyone!
Sister Price
Monday, December 1, 2014
Thanksgiving and Now its December, December 1, 2014
Hey Everyone!
Well I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! Mine was good! It wasn't
very eventful though. Monday towards the end of P-day I started feeling really
terrible again so I just stayed in and rested. It was pouring rain all night
anyway and there were tornado warnings so it wasn't a terrible night to have to
stay in. Tuesday morning we went and did service for a group called "Second
Harvest" who were giving out food for Thanksgiving. It was pouring rain pretty
much the whole time! Let me say, raincoats are great, but they don't keep the
rain out forever when it's pouring rain! I thought for sure I was going to make
myself sick again but I survived. We did it from 7-12 in the morning. The Elders
wouldn't stop making fun of me because my hands got cold and so they turned this
weird gray-blue color and it was creeping them out. I had to go home after and
take a really hot shower and then I wasn't feeling so hot so I thought I would
lay down for a bit and ended up like passing out for 3 hours. Apparently people
tried to wake me up but I wasn't having any of it. Then Wednesday I was finally
feeling like a normal person again! Plus it stopped raining on Wednesday so we
could go out and actually do missionary work and not have people think we were
crazy! Yay! Wednesday we had our district meeting to introduce the initiative
the church is starting. It is called "He is the Gift" and it is a pretty cool
video! The website is really awesome too! It has tons of info and really fun
short movies. It's pretty great. Then that evening we went and saw this slightly
crazy referral. That was an interesting experience. Then Thursday was
Thanksgiving. The eating marathon! We started out the day at Cracker Barrel
around 11. I knew we would have Thanksgiving dinner so I got breakfast! I got
french toast and it was super yummy. Then we had a dinner with a less active who
lives at a retirement home. That was interesting. I just have to say that I
strongly dislike dressing. It is just not good and I am very thankful I don't
have to ever eat it again! Also, macaroni and cheese is just not a Thanksgiving
food! Then we had a break to digest for a while and we went over to the
Robinsons. They are super awesome! They had normal Thanksgiving food like
stuffing and rolls and potatoes and gravy. It was really delicious! I was super
full though. Then we went to a family after that and had dessert! It was a
pretty full day. Then Friday Sister Wheelwright got sick but we struggled out a
lesson with the family we have been working with. He is getting baptized on
Saturday so that is super exciting! Another exciting thing is that his son was
at the lesson also and he expressed interest in going to church and learning
more! It is all super awesome. Friday night a member of the bishopric called and
asked if I would speak on Sunday so I ended up giving a talk on keeping the
commandments/following the savior/whatever I felt like I could talk about for
ten minutes at short notice. I talked about how keeping the commandments relates
to having a broken heart and a contrite spirit. I have been reading the bible
dictionary lately because that is what you do when you have read everything else
multiple times. I came across the scriptural definition for the word "peculiar"
and I really liked it! The scriptural definition for the word "peculiar" is "the
Lord's own special people or treasure." We have always heard ourselves described
as a peculiar people, thinking we are odd, which we are, but when the Lord calls
us peculiar people in the scriptures he means we are his treasure! Ya'll might
have already known this but it's a new discovery for me and I thought it was
cool. That's about all I have for today! Hope everyone has a great week!
Love,
Sister Price
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