September 16, 2013
I love Mondays. By the end of a long week they become the
day that I look forward to! So today was my appointment at the
dermatologist for my thrush (I still don’t understand what I’m going to a
dermatologist for…) That was a fail! We typed it into the GPS but
the wrong city. We drove 15 minutes away. Come to find out it’s
like a 5 minute drive from our apartment! Oops! Needless to say, I
missed my appointment. Now it’s for next Friday. I won’t miss that
one. After failing with the doctor we drove to the church to
e-mail. Sis. Carrigan and I were hyper or something! We turned up
the music as loud as it could go and were singing at the top of our
lungs. It was fun.
Thank you for e-mailing me every week! Out of my whole
P-day, e-mailing is my most favorite! It’s when I feel closest to you
guys. I love picturing each one of you at the computer typing away!
Even though Idaho and Georgia really aren’t that far away, sometimes it feels
like it. E-mailing helps me remember that it’s actually not that far
away.
Grandma George sent me a letter that she calls her “sisters
e-mail” or something like that. It was nice to hear from her. I
still haven’t gotten a letter from Grandma Syndergaard yet. I know that
won’t happen for a while since she is in Belgium though. Lucky
Hatches! After E-mailing we went to the Mall of Georgia. Oh my
HUGE. It was gigantic. Sister Carrigan was on the lookout for b-day
presents for two of her sisters and I was on the lookout for Sydney’s present
and an epic pirate present. Well, sadly I didn’t find anything awesome
for Sydney there and though I did find a pretty fun pirate present it wasn’t
exactly what I wanted. I almost waited for Christmas to send that to you
Momma, but I couldn’t wait. So, I stuck it in there with Sydney’s.
After the mall we headed over to WalMart for groceries.
When we walked in, one of the first things I saw was the masks for
Halloween. I have ALWAYS wanted a cool masquerade mask and they had some
fun ones. So I got one. ☺ I also
found Sydney her mustache present. I’m sorry if it doesn’t fit. It
was so cute and fun.
We still had about an hour left of P-day. So we went back
to the church and checked for e-mails for the last time and just hung
out. Sis. Wolfert found out about the red shorts and the Elders got in
trouble. They think that Sis. Carrigan told on them so they are mad at
us. She says she didn’t. I believe her. I dunno who did but
I’m glad they did! The Elders said we will discuss it in district meeting
tomorrow. I don’t know why they care. They know they shouldn’t have
worn the shorts.
Oh! Here is something crazy cool that happened. So,
there is a lady who has been being taught by the Sisters in Collins Hill.
Well, one of them got really sick so she went home and instead of putting
another Sister in Collins Hill, they just took the companion and transferred
her. Anyways, this lady wants to be taught by Sisters. The lady’s
name is Kelly (therefore she is awesome). She is friends with a guy whose
parents are in our ward. Kind of complicated. His parents have said
we could teach her at their house so now she is our investigator! We
called her and the first thing she said to me was, “You have no idea how close
I am to baptism!” Sweet! She had a date but the day after she set a
date, her husband said he wanted a divorce. Stupid Satan!
Ugg! So, she is trying to figure all that out… I am sad that she
lost her other sisters but I am excited to teach her. So, that is my fun
thought.
We had dinner with the Higginbothms. They have 2 cute red
headed kids. They are a fun family. We finished our day off with
attempting to tract. It was really dark and the road we were doing was
busy and didn’t have a sidewalk. So, we decided that wouldn’t be so good,
and went to go see Mary. She wasn’t home. By that time it was
almost 9 o’clock so we headed home and called a bunch of people. We are doing an exchange tomorrow with the Sister training
leaders. I’m nervous! I’m staying here so I will be in charge of
our area… Yikes! I’m pretty nervous!
September 17, 2013
Today was quite eventful! First was district
meeting. It went really well. When we split off to do role playing
we found out that Sis. Alvey (she came out with me) was the one who told
Sis. Wolfert about the shorts. I was so glad and pretty proud of
her! She said if the Elders asked her straight up she would tell
them. They did. She told them and now they are all mad at
her. I stood up for her but I don’t think it helped too much…
After the meeting we went to go meet up with the Sister training
leaders. Ahhh! Sis. Hamilton is with me. She is really
sweet! We have been having a good day. We did a lot of service
today. First we went to Marni’s and helped her clean. Did I
tell you about Marni? She is the Pickett’s neighbor who completely busted
up her ankle and can’t do like anything. She is a sweetheart! After
Marni’s we went to a lady named Fae. We tracted into her. She is a
widow and doesn’t want to listen to what we have to say but called and asked if
we could help her fix her railing. She is sweet but unless she lets us
share a message we can’t really go back and do things for her. We had
dinner cancel on us and neither of us were really hungry so we just decided to
tract. A lot of people answered their doors! And they talked to
us! That was kinda crazy but way fun. I have learned how to do
better door approaches from Sis Hamilton. While we tracted, we talked a
lot. I asked how they decide who goes where on exchanges. She said
lots of prayer. Then she said the reason I stayed here was they wanted to
see if and how I led an area. She said that I would be okay and that I
had done a good job leading. It was really nice to hear! Especially
since I had been so nervous!
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Sister Hamiton and me!
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Sister Hamiton and me!
After tracting we headed over to see Stephanie. She wanted
to go outside so that she could smoke while we were talking…yup a little frustrating
that! We taught her the Plan of Salvation and then somehow we got on the
subject of her smoking… Probably cause she was smoking… She said
that she would quit when she was married, had a 4 year old and was done with
school caused then she wouldn’t be stressed anymore. So Sis. Hamilton
asked her why not now?
She told her the church has a program. At first Stephanie was stubborn and
said no. Slowly as we kept talking though she convinced herself she would
try the program! Sweet! Then she got really excited and asked if we
would come in while she told Sis. Rhodes. I
wish Sis. Rhodes would have been a little more excited. Hopefully she will get more excited and
supportive of this program and Stephanie. It’s a pretty intense 7 day
program and she needs all the support she can get! It’s not gonna be easy
but the end result will be so worth it. I’m so excited!
September 18, 2013
We exchanged back this
afternoon. It was pretty fun to be with Sis. Hamilton! She is
awesome! It was nice to get Sis. Carrigan back though. Before we
exchanged back we went to try and see Clara. Sarah Holgado had texted us
and asked us if she could come with us. Sweet. We went and
got her and then headed over to Clara’s. She didn’t answer! Dang
it! Sis. Hamilton turned to me and said, “OK senior companion, what’s the
plan?” I decided we would go tracting for a bit in a neighborhood that
Sis. Carrigan and I hadn’t quite finished. Then we would stop at the post
office cause in Coal Mt. where Sis Hamilton is at, they don’t really have a
post office. It’s kind of in the middle of nowhere. Luckily, I had
the package to send off to you guys so that worked out well. So we did
all that, dropped Sarah off cause she couldn’t come with us. We were
gonna pick her back up after we exchanged back.
We went and drove to the half-way point and waited for Sis.
Alder and Sis. Carrigan. They drove up in a 2014 Mustang (a member was
driving them). It was a nice car. We took pictures, talked for a
little bit and then went our separate ways. I was nervous at first but
the exchanges were really fun! I learned lots and Sis. Hamilton is
awesome!
When we got back, we ran home,
dropped off Sis. Carrigan’s things and went to pick up Sarah again. There
was a neighborhood we passed a few days ago and we have been wanting to
tract. It isn’t gated and the houses are huge. The first house we went to no one
answered. The 2nd house,
the lady came to the window with the phone to her ear. She then started
telling us we were lost sheep… blah, blah, blah. Poor Sarah! She
was pretty shocked. We got out of there and the last thing the lady says
is, “I really hope that y’all end up in heaven. I would like to see you
there.” Well, gee thanks. As we were walking down the driveway I
looked over to the first house we had tried, the lady is on her phone looking
at us and talking… The women were on the phone with each other!
Good grief. We tracted for almost 3 hours.
Then we took Sarah home and we went to dinner at the
Garfield’s. They are crazy tall! Bro. Garfield is like almost
7 feet tall and Sis. Garfield is like 6 feet. Their kids are all tall
too. The 4 year old is as tall as Sydney. Their kids are crazy fun!
They run around and yell and scream. We had a really awesome conversation
with Bro. and Sis. Garfield though. When we were leaving Bro. Garfield
asked if I liked cranberries. He then gave me a 1 lb. bag of them.
They go against his diet. Yah for me. Bummer for him.
After dinner we went to see Ethan Pittenger. A few weeks
ago we went to visit his dad (a less active). Ethan was outside talking
on his phone. He told us he really wanted to talk to us and could we come
back later. He is the only one not baptized and he is a really awesome
kid! He bounded out of the house when we came and listened
intently. He was so focused on what we were saying. It was
awesome! Hopefully we can get him involved in Young Mens and get him
baptized. Hopefully his dad would come back to church if we could do
that!
September 19, 2013
HAPPY NATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!! I have been
thinking about you all day long Momma. I still haven’t gotten my
package… Maybe it is stuck at the mission office. I check for it
every day! Richard cancelled on us this morning. His son is getting
a divorce and so his grandson is staying with him for a little bit. I was
so hoping to find out how his temple visit went! Dang it!! Instead
we tracted until it was time to go see Bro. Hiers. After Bro. Hiers we
went to meet Kelly. She is so cute. Oh boy, does she need to get
baptized. She is so very ready and I wish that she would just get
baptized! She is really cute and I like her lots. I guess Pres.
Wolfert is going to need to interview her though but that shouldn’t be too big
of a deal hopefully… Oh! Fun thing
for the day. I saw a man driving and he had an eye patch on. Haha!
Way to celebrate! Basically that was all that was exciting today.
We had dinner at the Brintons today. They are a really cute family.
They have two little boys and Sis. Brinton is 22. So it was pretty fun to
hang out with members our age.
I saw this bumper sticker when we were driving. I tried to take a picture from the car. So that is why it is a little bit blurry. It says, "My other car is a pirate ship!"
September 20, 2013
Today we went and saw Moses. It was kind of our make or
break lesson. We had no idea what we were going to talk about…
Well, kind of. We had talked about just asking him to be baptized.
Sis. Carrigan asked him to be baptized, which was awesome, but he said
no. Who knows what will happen with him now.
After that we went to go meet Lauren. She is from the
other ward that meets in our church building. She leaves on her mission
to Salt Lake in November. At church she asked if she could come out with
us. We were just going tracting but she was okay with that. So our
last house a lady answers the door. We told her who we were and she
invited us in! We taught her about the Book of Mormon and she was very
open to it. She has 7 kids, they are modest and basically a perfect
Mormon family! We are going back on Monday night to teach her and her
husband. She said he would probably be pretty skeptical. That is
okay. The Spirit can speak to him. It would be so awesome to teach
them and have them all be baptized! I could go to their sealing!!
Ok, getting ahead of myself there. First we need to get them
baptized. So that was fun.
Haha! I have a funny story to tell you! Ok, so, mom,
you know when we were looking for your missionary calendar and we found the
book with the stories in it? Well, just keep that in mind… Ok, so I was
talking to Bro. and Sis. Olson (we were at their house for dinner). I was
telling a story and I meant to say the word fault…only I didn’t say the word
fault but one close to it. (This was a book that had a story
of a man that had a speech impediment where he could not say the letter
“L”. Replaced it with the letter “R”) Ah! It was
so embarrassing and super funny. Only Sis. Carrigan seemed to notice and
she was trying so hard to not start laughing. So was I! I finished
what I was saying and took a drink of water to cover up my laughing. Oh
boy!
September 21, 2013
Since we didn’t weekly plan yesterday. We did it
today. It has been raining pretty much nonstop today and it has
been raining hard. We went and helped Marni clean her house for about an
hour and a half. Actually probably 2 hours. After Marni’s we
went to Yogli Mogli for frozen yogurt. Sarah Holgado just started there
and she asked if we would come to see her there.. We have become really
good friends with her and I love it! She is so cute! After that we
went tracting in the rain. I loved it! Take a Saturday and add rain and EVERYONE is
home. Whoot! We got 24 contacts in the space of 2 hours. We
felt very proud. After tracting it was getting dark. We went and
grabbed dinner and then after we ate we went over to Bro. Picketts. He
asked us to come meet with him to talk about our investigators (he is the ward
mission leader) Not super eventful but fun never the less.
September 22, 2013
So I woke up with a super sore throat. We were fasting for
our investigators today so not only did I have a sore throat but I wasn’t able
to drink any water to sooth it. It was ward conference today. Kelly
came to sacrament meeting and sat by us. She is really cute! I hope
everything works out with her. During the second hour they called Sis.
Carrigan and I up to give like a one minute review on how members can be
missionaries. Sis. Carrigan went first. When it was my turn Bro.
Pett just asked me a few questions and then had me sit back down. After
church we were going to really quick finish figuring out the smoking cessation
program. It turned into like a 3 hour deal. A little frustrating
but I tried to make the best of it.
We had dinner at the Noblits. That was fun! Bro.
Noblit served his mission in Madrid Spain. Is that where Benji
went? It was funny. He actually reminded me a lot of
Benjamin. They are fostering 6 puppies right now. And when I say
puppies, I mean like 5 week old puppies. Sydney! You would have
loved it! They were so cute. They were as close to holding babies
that I will get to for a while. So that was fun.
After dinner we went tracting. We only needed to contact 5
more people to hit our goal of 70 contacts. We made it. We got 74
contacts for the week. Sweet! So that was fun!
Man, I say that a lot. I will try not to. We then went home and
added up our numbers for the week and sent them in.
We were both really hyper so we turned on the Inside Out CD and
filmed ourselves singing the snowman songs in different outfits we improvised
from around the apartment. I would send them to you but the e-mail will
not allow it. Guess you will just have to watch them when I send you my
memory card. I know you will roll your eyes but we had fun! I love
you all. I hope you have a fabulous week.
Molly
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