December 9, 2013
Hannah, Happy Birthday.
Happy birthday baby girl!!! I’m
glad that you are mine. I hope that you
had a great day. And school was
cancelled? You lucky duck. Guess what?
Your new boots look like mine. We
are twinners, sweet! Daddy said you like
your name tag. Good, I am glad.
Today was pretty dang fun.
E-mailing was great. That is the
fastest e-mailing that I have ever done.
Just think, next week when I have e-mailed there will be less than 2
weeks until we get to see and talk to each other. Ah! I
am so very excited! For now, we are
planning on doing it at Sister Fullwood’s.
I’m not sure what time yet. We
will get it figured out. It sounds like
everyone is doing really great! You all
sound happy. Good.
So the elders borrowed our car today to get groceries. This is a vital point in our day. Just remember, they took our keys in order to
drive the car. When they got back we
headed over to Gainsville. Whoot! It was and adventure driving over there. It was pouring rain. I had my windshield wipers on as fast as they
would go. No worries. We got there safe and sound. Then, we hopped in the car with Sister Hooker
and Sister Parrins and went to their member’s house. I have always wanted to learn how people do
the roses out of frosting. Guess
what? She taught us. I think that mine turned out the best.☺ We had a blast laughing talking and
decorating. No worries. I took pictures. You will get those before you get this
letter.
Me
The ever lovely Sister Knight!
Me and my heart's friend Sister Hooker!!
Sister Knight, Me, Sister Hooker, Sister Parrins
Sister Knight and ME
After we were done, we went back to their apartment and sat
on the floor and just talked. It was SO
nice to just feel like a regular girl for a moment! Not that we didn’t talk all missionary stuff
cause we did. It was just fun to have it
be more than just Sister Knight and Sister George. Although we are pretty awesome when it is just us!! We all just had a great time!
We headed home for dinner at 6. We ate with the Cooks tonight. They are a sweet older couple in the
ward. It was fun. Boy, can they talk your ear off. ☺ They talked about their kids and the ward and
everything in between. We had a blast with them!! When we left Brother Cook handed
us presents. They got us cute fuzzy
socks and chocolate. Brother Cook kept
asking us if Elder Hales was okay? Brother
Cook is worried that he may have some lingering effects from his crash and a
concussion.
Ok, now on to why the elders took our car. So we get back home and start to plan. I look over at our tree and there is the
little gold box we had given the elders yesterday that had the heart in it. We looked but the heart wasn’t in the
box. Finally we found it in the fridge. Those sneaky buggers. We were laughing hard though. All in the name of good fun I guess.
December 10, 2013
Holy Cow! Can you
believe that I have been out for 5 months.
I sure don’t feel like it has been that long. It is crazy how time can fly by when you’re
busy. I’m glad that I am still in my
first area and that I haven’t been booted yet.
Today turned out to be one of those unplanned days. It started out with zone meeting. I had to give a training :\ “How to get investigators to come to church”. According to the ZL’s we have had the most
consistent number of investigators coming to church. Well great.
So we get in there and before we start, in walks President Wolfert and
the AP’s. OF COURSE! The one time that I have to give a training
in zone meeting, the president shows up.
I hate giving training. I really
do. So I had a training to give and
President Wolfert was there. I was a
wreck. But it turned out okay. President told me it was good (even though I
think that he has to say that, like when your parents have to compliment you).☺ The rest of zone meeting was just long.
We went to lunch at Panda Express. I got to be with Elder Harmon and Sister
Hooker. So that was fun. Our meeting ran late so everything was pushed
back. The elders didn’t come to lunch
with us because they had a lesson with an investigator. They did text us later and said “Investigator
with a baptismal date? Check!” I’m
really excited for them.
We were getting ready to head to Marni’s when the elders
called us and said they had a broken bike.
Sisters to the rescue. We
borrowed Marni’s husband’s bike and took it to the elders.
We went back to Marni’s , cleaned, and then went to get our
dinner from Sister Rodriguez. We had to
drop it off at home. We didn’t have time
to eat because we were headed over to the Qureshi’s to help them move. Sister Queshi has cancer and they decided to
move back to Arizona to be by family.
None of their family knows, they just think that they are coming home
for Christmas. We showed up and knocked,
and rang. Nobody was home. The McKennas live next door so we called
Sister McKenna and asked if we could come over and visit. She was making sugar cookies for our ward
Christmas party on Friday. So we helped
her with that.☺ It was lots of fun.
Making cookies with Sister McKenna - doesn't get better than that!
We listened to Christmas music and made and
ate cookies. Daddy! The song that David Bowie and Bing Crosby
sing together was on. You know the
Little Drummer Boy? I know that you like
that song. It made me think of you.
December 11, 2013
Oh my goodness. At
the rate this week is going we are never going to have a normal day! So this morning was a little crazy. First, our elders came over to get some
materials from us and then the Buford Spanish-speaking elders came over. They are getting transferred and President is
shutting down the Buford Spanish area for a little bit. President is changing some sisters over to
Spanish-speaking and they will probably open that area back up later. So they came over so that we could sign each
other’s books.
After lunch, we decided to try and go see Mary and
Arianna. They still haven’t moved. They weren’t home though. We didn’t have any appointments so we went
tracting. Ugg! Nobody was home today. We tracted for over two hours and only got
one stinkin' contact. Last week our
numbers were amazing. This week, not so
much!
There was one house that we thought was really cute. It had a bridge to the front door. We knocked and nobody answered, so we rang
the doorbell. Nobody answered. Sister Knight wanted her picture taken on the
bridge and I thought that would be fine because nobody was home. I was taking her picture when a lady throws
open the door. Sister Knight turns
around and says “Oh, hi!”, and starts
talking. The lady turns around and starts
doing something at the entry table. She
whirls around and slams a paper on the door, yells at us to read it, and SLAMS
the door. I didn’t even bother reading
it, we just turned around and started walking away. Suddenly we hear the door fling open and she
starts yelling at us again, telling us that we woke her up, that she is a Jew,
and that nobody wants to hear us, and that they were going to put up a no
soliciting sign. Then, she SLAMS the
door again. I have never seen someone
with such an ugly countenance before. It was really sad. I guess that just goes to show that our mood and actions really do show on our faces. It
was 2 in the afternoon and how would we know someone was sleeping. What does it matter that she is a Jew. They need Christ in their life too. People do want to hear us! Our families, the members here, the Lord, our
investigators. The list goes on and
on. And as for having a no soliciting
sign out in front of the neighborhood.
A) we are not soliciting B) it’s
actually illegal for subdivisions to put that out and C) a sign isn’t going to
stop the Lord’s work.
At 3 we went over to
the Qureshi’s to help them pack to move.
They have been packing all week and are moving back to be by their
families. Sister Qureshi said that
everything just fell into place for them in the space of a couple of week since
they found out about the cancer. So we
helped them pack everything. The elders
came over too. We will miss them they are a great family.
We had a relief society activity tonight, “The Christmas
Social” oooh, fancy.☺ We invited Brittany and she came! It was really fun. Sister Gertson took our picture and sent it
to you. She is a funny lady. She kind of reminds me of Jenny. There was shrimp but it was still a little
frozen. So Sister Gertson stuck hers on
a toothpick and put it over a candle so that it would thaw. It was pretty funny. Oh!
Just so you know that was Brittany with Sister Knight and I in the
picture. Have you sent any photos to the
sister’s families in your ward? I hope
so.
December 12, 2013
Good heavens,
December is just flying by.
Last week we had made an appointment to see Richard for
today. We called him to just make
sure. He didn’t want us to come. I haven’t told him that I will probably be
leaving soon. I’m afraid he won’t let
the missionaries come any more once I’m gone.
He is pretty leery of missionaries that he doesn’t know. I am the only one left that he knows. I will try to stay in touch with him when I
leave. He has made so much progress!
We went over to Bro. Hiers today with Sarah. Because of the rule, we don’t get over there
much anymore. Tomorrow is his birthday
so he really wanted us to come. The
elders still go over there and they had told us that Brother Hiers didn’t have
any ornaments for his Christmas tree. We
all ended up writing on an ornament. He
was pretty pleased with the ornaments.
It was the elder’s idea, pretty good one too. Good job elders!!!
After Brother Hiers we met up with Kiaundra at the
church. She is leaving for North
Carolina for 3 weeks. This is probably
the last time I will see her. Someday
she will be baptized. Another seed has
been planted. She will get there, I know
she will. Heavenly Father has a plan. I don’t know what the heck it is, but He has
one. I did my part in His plan and I
will continue to do so…
We went and helped Marni after that. Ah! I
love her and her kids and her husband!
They are all just amazing. I
cannot wait until I get the call that they are getting baptized. I know that it will happen. I will do my darndest to be there when it
happens. I love that little family. I am amazed to see how intricate the details
of our lives are and how Heavenly Father works little things into our lives to
make big differences.
We tracted before dinner and then headed over to the
Watkins. They were coming with us to
visit our family, Wes and Julie. They
took us out to eat. They are funny,
those two. ☺ I sure do like them.
We went over to our family’s house but Julie said to come
back later. Hopefully they really do
want to learn. It would be a bummer if
they don’t.
December 13, 2013
Momma! I forgot to
tell you. I got your letters Wednesday
and the one from Sister Allen too. That
one letter was from forever ago. It was
fun to get though. I like having you
send it straight to me. They get here so
much faster! So you said to write
Lindsay Kuhn. I e-mailed her a letter
but if she wants a hand-written letter then I need her address. She said she would give it to me and never
did. Thanks for getting me Trevin’s address from his mom. I can’t believe that Boston and Tanner are
home! Crazy. Have you seen either one of them yet? Have they changed at all?
I got quite teary when you said you had talked to Zach at
Thanksgiving. I don’t think he will ever
really know how much it meant/means to me that he would be so nice to me in
high school. He will forever be one of
my favorite cousins! He probably takes
the cake for the George side (though I do love a lot of my cousins on that
side). I so wish I could be at his
wedding, I pray that I can be at the sealing!
I would love a wedding invite.
Even if I can’t make it. I got
one from Wes a few weeks ago. That was
fun!
Missionaries can have headphones for the computers when we
go on P-day and are all watching different
Mormon.org messages….(totally random).
Today was grand ole’ weekly planning. Nothing eventful happened there. Afterwards we got ready and headed out. The elders had texted us and asked us if we
wanted to do service. We had an hour
until that so we headed over to the church to make copies of a few things. The elders bikes were there and we saw them
in the family history center. The door
was wide open so we said hey. Turns out
they were having a lesson. :\ I felt so
bad. They should have shut the door
though. It was with their investigator
that is getting baptized on the 28th. I’m excited for them.
We got a media referral so we headed out to see her. Her husband answered the door and told us
that nobody with her name lived there.
We double checked in the phone book.
She does too! We will try again
later.
Tracting was pretty boring.
We did knock on one door and the lady answered and when I told her who
we were she said, “Oh! Well you had
better get out of here because I am a pagan.”
I still talked to her for a few more minutes. She was pretty nice. It was like she was warning us that something
bad was going to happen.
Sister Watkins had asked if we would help her with the food
she had to cook for our ward Christmas party tonight. She was cooking turkey and they had asked
people to make gravy out of the drippings.
Sister Watkins was looking at and she kept saying she had no idea how to
make gravy. Well, Momma, I had watched
you make it enough times that I figured I could do it. I told Sister Watkins last time she wasn’t
allowed to call and talk to you while I was there. Darn that lady! I’m making gravy and next thing I know she is
on the phone with you. I don’t think it is
bad for her to call and talk to you when I’m not there but it’s another story
when I’m RIGHT THERE. She just was so
proud that I had watched you enough times to make gravy and she wanted you to
know it…oh boy! She's a stinker but a stinker that I love.
Before we left for the party we got on the topic of
stockings and I said that Sister Knight and I had some hung up with our names
taped to them. Sister Watkins rolls her
eyes, grabs my arm and pulls me to the hallway.
Hung up are 10 stockings. On one
of them it says “Molly”, The other missionaries also had stockings as well
as Sister Fulwood. I just lost it. I couldn’t stop crying. I just kept thinking how grateful I was to Heavenly
Father for placing this amazing lady in my life! I got a stocking with my name on it.
My Name on my Stocking
Don't look at the date cuz it's a little confusing
This is REALLY Christmas Day
But I wanted you to see the stockings
Sister Knight's Stocking!
Sister Watkins let everyone know about the gravy. Tons of people came up to me and talked about
it. It was pretty funny. Ben came.
I’m so very excited for him. He
is so elect! I almost feel like we are
not really teaching him. I’m just
grateful that I get to be his missionary.
I just hope that he know how much I love him and what it has meant to me to be blessed with the opportunity of teaching him. The primary put on the nativity for the program. It was pretty cute. They did a good job.
We helped clean up and talked with people. As we were leaving we got handed these huge
pots of mashed potatoes. They wouldn’t
not let us take them. I am not sure what
we will do with all of those potatoes.
Happy Friday the 13th!
December 14, 2013
We did a bunch of stuff this morning. Service and a luncheon. We stopped at the Galts on our way home to
drop off some extra decorations Debbie had that were being given to Brother
Hiers. We ended up talking with them for
about an hour. Momma, Sister Galt is
very excited to meet you. Do you remember
Theresa? She was the one walked into the
church needing some help. Well, she
hasn’t been meeting the elders anymore.
That is sad to me.
We had dinner at the Adams tonight and we taught Ben. He is just super awesome! I am so excited for his baptism. It is going to be awesome! Then we went to the stake choir’s Christmas
concert. It was really good. I was super tired though and trying to stay
awake. We get to go to it again tomorrow
night too. So I can pay attention better
tomorrow night.
December 15, 2013
Only 9 more days.
It’s weird to think that I haven’t talked to you guys in almost 6
months. Lately it seems to me like I
just left. Sister Knight and I are
getting along great we really love each other, both us and the elders are picking Suwanee back up, we are
all friends, I love my ward, the list goes on. ☺
Today we were at the church all day long! We had ward counsel at 9:15 this
morning. We got out to the car and the
battery was dead. Oops! We had left a light on. Luckily Brother Pickett was picking up the
elders so he came and jumped our car for us.
Of course, all we did was drive to the church so we had to get it jumped
again later. Both Ben and Will (the
elder’s investigator) came to church.
They are both great.
After church, Sister Johnson asked if I could play the piano
for her family while they sing at sacrament meeting next week. So we practiced that. Then we helped set back up for the Christmas
concert and all the props. They had a
stable made out of birch.
This is how I found out I am allergic to birch.
Kinda glad you can tell I am allergic yet.
We set that
up, and then the itching started. My
arms and neck and face. I was red
everywhere! I couldn’t stop
scratching. Sister Galt looked at me and
said, “O, sweetie! I think you are
allergic to the birch!” It was about
5:00 by this time. One of the ladies
went and got two Benadryl. We went over
to the John’s for dinner and that is when it hit me. Man, was I tired! Then we went straight back to the church. We got there and President Galt had saved us
2 seats. So, we were in the front AND by
President Galt. I was SO tired!! My eyes were closed for more than half of the
program, I wasn’t sleeping but I was on the verge. Sister Knight kept feeding me candy to keep
me awake. She was a life saver!!
After the program we ran into the elders and they “kindly”
told me I looked just about dead. Elder
Rahman said something and I couldn’t even respond. He laughed and told me that is how he knew I
was tired, because normally I don’t have a problem talking.
We got home and I got straight into bed. I would fall asleep and then someone would
call us and scare me awake. Ah
well! Life as a missionary on Benadryl.
I love you fam! I
can’t wait to talk to you. Make sure you
get me the facetime information by Monday.
Love, Molly
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