Hey Everyone! January
21, 2015
Well it has been quite the week! Ok I will go through
day by day and tell what happened. Well, what I can remember of what happened. Last Monday we went to bible study at another
church with this lady who we met who loves us but isn't super interested in
converting. It was fun! I have never really done anything with another church,
even on my mission. They were studying Acts. I was really glad they weren't
doing Revelations! The only thing that threw me off was everyone had the “New World”
translation of the Bible which has a lot of changes to phrases and things, and
some whole chapters are just left out!! It makes me really appreciate the King
James Version Bible. They had some interesting theories but overall it was
good! Tuesday was kind of slow, it was rainy and dreary and no one really
wanted to talk to us and everyone canceled. We had a lesson with Dana and
Dustin and that went really well. They are doing super awesome! Dustin has gone from 4 packs of cigarettes a
day to just one!! So impressed, quitting
smoking is so, so hard!! Wednesday was better but it was really cold! It was
really humid so even though it was like 40 it just cut right through no matter
how many layers you wore! My beautiful coat that Karen and Tammy sent me
finally “died” it has served me well!!
Can you please hurry and send me my blue coat with the tie, it’s not
super warm but I can last for two months with that. My valiant shoes are also
getting holes in the bottoms, but my boots are doing fine! So on Wednesday everyone canceled that day
too so we ended up stopping at Dana's and reading the Book of Mormon with her.
She is super awesome! Thursday we saw Dana and Dustin again and Dana surprised
us and said she had made it to Jarom in the book of Mormon! When we read with
her Wednesday she was on 1 Ne. 11 so she read a ton! We were really excited. I
have never had someone read that much. She loves the Book of Mormon though! We
taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we were talking about baptism and
Dustin says that when he gets baptized he wants to get baptized in a river! We
tried to say we could put trees and some algae in the font and a blow up
alligator but he wasn't having it. He wants to be baptized in a river! Not sure
who will baptize him as most of the priesthood holders in our branch are over
70 and wading into a river in February just might be their “demise”! It was
funny, but hey, he is talking about baptism! Oh and he got a bunch of his deer mounts
back so now the living room as Dana says is the “room of death”. Friday was a
busy day! We have a less active older lady named Sister Wommack who has had us
teach her great grandson who she is raising. He is doing awesome and they came
to church on Sunday! Then Saturday was really hard to focus because we had
transfer calls. Sister Woodard got transferred! I wasn't expecting it. I am sad
I only got to be her comp for one transfer! Then Sunday we had to say good-bye
to lots of people. We had eight investigators at church though! That is a
record for me! I have never had that many. It was really awesome. Pretty soon
the chapel is going to be full! Then Monday was spent packing Sister Woodard
up. We also had some time to kill because we didn't email so we went over to
the Ference's and did our nails! Sister Ference has all the stuff to do gel
nails so I did those on myself. I was pretty proud of myself because they look
really good! As good as when I get them done in the salon. Then transfer
meeting came! It was weird because three of my companions went home! Sister
Tevi and Sister Sevy flew home Monday and Sister McNeely flies home tomorrow
because she wanted to wait and fly home with her sister who is in the South
Carolina mission so I got to see her yesterday! It was weird because I am like
an “Old missionary” now! I only have one more transfer left after this one! My
new comp is Sister Baker. I knew her when I served in Columbus because she was
in Phenix City. She is really awesome! She is just what the branch needs. She
has poofy, curly red hair and looks like Merida from “Brave”. She is from St.
George. I love her already! She is going to be an awesome last companion.
Things are a little better with the Branch President. We made him cookies and
wrote a really nice thank you note, we used one of the cards Angela made and
his wife loved it and said she makes cards too and this one was really well
done! Shout out to Angela those cards have served me well throughout my
mission, I only gave them out to special situations- you were inspired!! He was actually a lot nicer after Sister
Woodard left, I guess he could sense her “fear” of him. Things will keep getting better! The branch is
just going to experience some growing pains, there are so many that are
interested and like it or not to the Old-Timers the Gospel will go forward it
cannot be stopped!! I am excited to serve with Sister Baker though! It's going
to be awesome! Oh and yesterday one of the new missionaries coming in used to
ride at the barn! She is a few years younger than me but I vaguely remember
her. Her name is Kimberly Wood and she went by Kimmy. She said she came back
and rode over the summer and everyone told her I was in a mission in Georgia
and then she got her call here! It was really cool to see her. It was fun! Don’t
worry about me getting “anxious” here at the last, It has not sunk in and I
still feel like I am in the middle of my mission still, so much to do, I have
alot of work yet left to do and many people to teach and a Branch to pull along
and a future Ward to create!! Oh, there has been a stray puppy that has taken
up residence at our apartment. It is a boy and a mutt but he is cute and he may
or may not have some “refuge” with the missionaries. He may or may not have
received some “TLC” from these missionaries for his benefit. We do have to be
careful as here in the South all animals have fleas, the fleas live in the
grass and everywhere, but the missionaries may or may not have gotten him a flea
collar. There is also a kitty that randomly finds refuge with the
missionaries. We must be kind to all God’s
creatures, just sayin! Well have a good
week everyone! I love you all!
Thanks for the forwarding letters and pictures of Caleb. Oh, the flooding
of apartments! The Elders do it all the
time here, maybe its just an “Elders thing”. The only problem is if Peru is as
hot and humid as here that lovely “Black Mold” sure takes over, watch out! He looks good, although until he mentioned in
his letter he does look a bit “Less” on top, love genetics! Your doing awesome though Caleb!
Love,
Sister Price
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