Wow, this week was just jammed full of greatness, haha.
Monday -
my companions and I went to Wakulla Springs, and I saw lots of amazing alligators, a momma and baby manatee, AND I got to ride on the boat, with permission from the Mission President of course :) It was great and now I have way too many pictures of alligators than I know what to do with haha. A non-member couple took us and I think we all had a hoot.
Tuesday-
We went to help Nancy, a non-member, set up her printer... She lost her paper so we really couldn't do anything. And then spent the rest of the day trying to contact formers and potentials cause we're in an investigator drought right now! But things will come together.
Wednesday-
Nothing too exciting, was another contact/tract day.
Thursday-
We went to the Family History center with Miss Nancy for a bit. Had Sister Ladle take us down. It was pretty good for me. I was able to look at some things for my 4 generation chart, but not so much luck for Nancy. Her parents only exist on two censuses. We couldn't figure out anything else... I think that there's two options for this personally 1) They were spies! 2) They traveled with the Doctor and liked it in the 1900's. I think 2 is more realistic but that's just me :D
Friday-
We were asked by Sister Mills to write a little paragraph about the work we do at the Shelter and send in a few pictures. Well this was the day to take them!!! There's a newer volunteer there whose name is Maurizio Bertoldi, yes he's an immigrant from Italy :) And one of the sweetest old guys ever. He's a Physics prof. at FSU. Anyway he pulls out the chair s for the women that come in and on Friday he brought roses :) Sweet huh? He gave us all one and then one for each of the women that came in. Then he randomly asked if he could get a tour of our church after we were done... YES! So we did and it went pretty good. We didn't have a key so we called the Elders and asked if they could set it up, we have amazing Elders because everything was great when we got there!! We owe them BIG time. We invited him to church, totally forgetting it was fast Sunday (so we could explain), and he said yes!
Saturday-
We did the biggest clean up project I've ever seen in my life. Sister Sanchez is a less active and her yard probably hasn't been done in 3 years since her husband passed away. It took us three hours to get the front done and the backyard about 2/3 done. The pile of bags/dead trees/trash that was there was HUGE! Got a picture of all us missionaries on top of it :) We look awesome!
Later that night we had dinner with a member and her cousin. It went well until her 7 yr old cousin up chucked. It was really funny (weird) to see everyone's reaction. My companions just looked away her cousin looked away after handing her a bowl and I was just like okay let's clean up. Her cousin just looked at me and said sorry. Haha, it wasn't that big of a deal because the whole thing wasn't bad. She told me I was being well trained for motherhood and told me I passed haha. Yay for me huh?
Sunday-
MAURIZIO came to church for sacrament evening :D YES, he had to leave for mass afterwards but he felt something he didn't intend to feel. Spirit? Yes! Then we went over to a member's home and had some pretty awesome steaks :) I was like yes, my family isn't the only one :)
We had a few appointments cancel but our last one didn't and it was great. The Ramsey family is less active and divorced. Sista Ramsey wants to get back into activity she's just trying to get her kids along with her. We are going to try and have FHE over there some times. Plus? Her kids love service, and this ward is going to have a lot of service projects pop up! Score :)
So we have a family that gave us some food, awesome right? I didn't want to buy cereal so my companion and I just used the stuff they had given us..... After we had gone through a bowl we saw that there were webs in the bag... Then.... my other companion saw a worm.... Needless to say we feel a little sick even today.
I always have the intent for these emails to be super short but they never are... I blame me not writing in my journal haha, sorry :) Anyway, I hope all is well!
Fique firme na fe!!
Com Amor,
Sister Irons
P.S.
DRUM ROLE........................
