This is Harvest Fest!

 

What's up yall! This week is a train load of info so buckle up it's a bumpy ride lol. Jk it was actually a great week...I just didn't know so much stuff could be done in one week! Back home I'd get all this stuff done in a month maybe haha 

October 28th: It was a hectic p-day!! We said good bye to Sister Ham for the last time and I started crying then Sister Ham started crying and then Sister Nelson started crying and we were all a hot mess. Then we zoomed to zone p-day and played volleyball, pickle ball and cover your assets ( I won...at the very last activity..I suck butt at the other two haha) Then after p day stuff we had dinner at Rilee's then a lesson with Connor! Connor is back on date! Yay! Our lesson was about the importance of prayer and how we can always repent! Connors such a trooper and I felt the spirit during our lesson! Than after that we went to Barbs and gave her a hug cause she was sad the Hams left :( We talked to her for a bit and listened to some of her childhood stories growing up! She is the sweetest lady eva. After that we raced outta Barbs and it's like 9:45..then as we are running out this old lady sees us and yells "Your late!" And me and Sister Nelson give each other the look: " huh? How does she know?" ( when you spend 24 7 with someone you begin to be able to read their minds) anyways apparently the lady had met with missionaries in the past and knew that we were supposed to be home at 9:00so counidink? I think not! So we will have to find her again! 

October 29th Today was pretty productive even though it didn't feel like it cause it was a heck load of phone work but phone work is pretty important too especially cause it was about time we organized our teaching pool. So we start off the day..I had a pretty efficient personal study...I don't remember exactly what I studied I just know it was efficient. We had a lesson with Josh and Maggie this morning and Josh talked about how his grandma needed to be carried away on a stretcher?? It was really random..but i hope his grandma is okay. We tried to talk about the atonement of Jesus Christ but baby scarlet kept crying. Then we picked up Sister Atwoods mop at the Hams, the Hams called our parents and told our parents how awesome we are...news flash I didn't feel so awesome when I locked the keys in the car! Ahh! I felt so stupid but then I prayed that things would get resolved and work out! So we called the mission car person and he called a lock Smith to come open the car! The happiest lock Smith of all time frolics over to us and unlocks the car for free and then just frolics away pretty much! And he opened the car in a minute! It was pretty awesome! but now that I think of it the mission probably paid for it...lol oh well it happens. Then we had to go back to Rilees and get our laundry cause we left it there oops..then young women's was canceled and so instead we called a bunch of refurals and then got Bible bashed hard core by this one lady for 40 minutes...but she was nice for the most part. Then we found out one of the guys we teach is actually phyco and worships Hitler...so we quickly stopped teaching him! So it was a really interesting day! 

October 30th: We had district council today and it was really helpful cause we did role plays haha everyone's favorite thing to do! But fr it was actually really helpful cause the scenario was to persuade someone who is really stubborn to meet with missionaries so in one rp I got to be the person being taught and I was pretty stubborn but it was cool to see how the other missionaries were able to get me excited to see what the gospel is about! After district council we had a lesson with Lily and she is the best and the cutest ever! Our lesson was about the restoration! Then after her lesson we helped a women rake her leaves for her! Then we had a lesson with Ephraim and Brother Atwood about the Sacrament and what happens at church! Then we returned Katie Atwoods mop finally and then Katie gave us some soup so we carried an entire ninja pot of soup into the car, then we went to the gagnons and gave Addy some clothes. And we had a lesson with Connor about the ten commandments wowzah!

Halloween!: Harvest Fest! So we do service for these super sweet ladies but they don't celebrate Halloween so instead of singing "this is Halloween" we sang "this is harvest fest" to each other. We did put on fake Halloween nails though and fake tatts. After service we had interviews with the president, then dinner at Barbs with Rilee! Then we had a lesson about tender mercies and how we have felt the lords hand in our life. Barb made us a Thanksgiving meal on Halloween so that was awesome! Then for Halloween we weren't allowed to go out door knocking or contacting in public so we got to play pickle ball at the church with the district.

November 1st: We called like 40 people today and no one was interested and we went contacting in public and no one was interested...but you gotta laugh sometimes and realize it's okay to have bad days.

November 2nd MAN!! Today was crazy! We went refural finding and found no one..apparently no one was home! We went to this one place and rang 7 doorbells all at once and everyone pocked there heads out the doors and it was really funny cause we didn't think anyone would actually come outta there apartments...but we tried talking to them but they all just went back into there apartments. Then we went finding at Walmart! Then we had a lesson with Barb about the importance of temples! Then we had a lesson with Connor about tithing and keeping the sabbath day holy! We had a lesson with Lily about how Jesus is always there through the ups and downs! Then we had a lesson with the Robinson family and they are so cute and goofy! 

November 3rd: Sundays are thee best!! So we got to sleep in today cause fall back day light savings! Lily was at church and we had testimony meeting! Katie Atwoods testimony was so powerful! It was about a women who got in a car accident and was able to walk away unharmed! So God is watching out for everyone! Then we made cookies and delivered cookies to a bunch of ward members and Lily! 

-♡ Sista Hodges :)