Connors Baptized

So this week was absolutely nuts! Little advice for future missionaries: don't stay up til midnight making dumb videos on exchanges lol. Jk the memories will last forever but I'll never gain that sleep back haha anywho...

November 12th: today a lotta stuff happened! A lotta good and a lotta not so good.. but we started off strong! Got a good work out in and a pretty good personal study! We did weekly planning and I did not do so good...it was just sooo much stuff to plan that I was feeling really overwhelmed. Watertown Sisters came for an exchange!! That was really fun! A random guy said we were beautiful so that made me feel good even if he was a little high on something! Me and Sister Brown had two really good lessons with Marian and Carmelo and Barb got to join a lesson so that was awesome! We had Young womens and young mens that night and the activity was to move stuff outta the shed and to clean it out! We moved so fast and it was pretty fun even though it was buttcold out and I got soot all over my pants! Hopefully it washes out! 

November 13th: District Council! Yay!!! We went to Chipotle after district council and that was the best and the AP Elders came to District council so it was fun talking with them! Then we went knocking and found a cool women named Gale! She talked about how she served a mission for a month in some forgein country for her church. We had a lesson with Drew about church organizations. Then for relief society that night we made christmas ornaments! And that was soooo fun! 

November 14th: It was hectic today! We stayed up til midnight so my journal isn't helping me rn because all I wrote is: I'm real tired. But if I rack my brain I remember that we had a lesson with Darla! She was a really cute old lady who had a whole makeup kit and decided to put her makeup on while we talked to her haha! Then we went to see Crystal again and had a great lesson with her! Then that night we taught the Book of Mormon class before the whitesboro Sisters came over for an exchange 

November 15th: So we decided to stay up til 12:30 and make funny videos! At night I thought they were pretty awesome but waking up this morning I realized they were pretty dumb lol. Today was Connors interview though! Man he's just a stud muffin! He did soo good on the interview and I felt like a proud teacher lol. Sister Robert's friend got engaged that night and so if you are one of my high school friends reading this please wait for me to be at the wedding!! 

November 16th Today was Connors big day!! He got dunked twice cause his head was sticking out the first time haha! But the water wasn't like a sauna this time so that was good! Oh and we slaughtered Connors names on the programs! We spelled it Conner instead of Connor so rookie mistake but it is what it is! We had some awesome speakers who both talked for like 30 minutes! After the baptism we went on exchanges again and me and Sister Gubler went to Mary's house and she has 18 cats so it smelled delightful. She is actually the sweetest lady eva tho! 

November 17th: Connor was given the Hoky Ghost and we had the primary program!! Woo hoo!! There was like 5 kids and one of them was screaming for his dad. But they were so cute! We visited the Boxalls and prayed for them! We told Brother Boxall to pick a random page in the Book of Mormon to read and he chose 126 and so we talked about how we need to pluck the weeds out of our lives to make room for the tree: meaning get rid of distractions and make room for more important things like serving others! And reading scriptures to strengthen our faith! After the Boxalls we made cookies for a bunch of families in the ward! We visited a lotta houses and had an awesome phone call lesson with Carmelo about the atonement! Then at the whites house the Lil boy of the house drew me a picture of a stegasaurse head :) 

❤️ sista Hodges :)