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
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