Howdy!
Hi y'all! I hope you have all had a wonderful week and are enjoying life and what not! This week was my first full week i
n Greencastle! It was a good one too! Lets see...where to begin!
So on Tuesday night we were coming in for the night when Sister McCombs looks at me and says, "Look, I caught a lightning bug!" Sure enough there in her hands was a lightning bug! Since I am from Utah and have never had the opportunity to catch these little suckers, we decided to go out and catch some more! So, a little while later, we had 6 lightning bugs in our jar. Laman, Lemuel, Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph...missionaries are weird okay... It was a fun experience! Another fun thing that happened this week is that we kind of learned to play Monopoly by the real rules, you know with the houses and hotels and stuff...last Monday for p-day we played some games at the church with the Elders. Both of the elders knew how to play Monopoly and one say that Sister McCombs and I had way too much money not to have houses/hotels...so we bought some! It was cool! I am still not super sure how it works...but I was making money faster, so thats cool! :)
We taught some gators this week and got dropped by an eternigator (eternal investigator). That was sad. This week we mostly spent our time trying to track down some of the less-actives. There are A LOT on our branch list and half are names of people that no one has even met before. So we are trying to track some down and are hoping to start teaching more part member families. It will take some work but there are so many LA here and if we can get them to start coming back, this little branch could be a ward! So as we travel around the county roads and such, we came to some pretty fun dirt roads! It made me want to go jeeping! Good thing Sid still owes us a jeep trip when we get back! ;) There are a lot of back country roads here and some pretty cool red covered bridges. They are cool except when driving over them and being able to hear them creaking underneath the car....I'm not the biggest fan of crossing bridges...
So some other random cool stuff from this week is that we have started giving out church tours officially to anyone! Before we were just giving them to people that we were already teaching, but now we are giving them to the members and we can now take anyone! So if we just meet someone and they want a tour we can take them or we can do the members friends. It is pretty exciting! I really like these church tours that we give. We show them 4 different paintings placed around the church and also the chapel and talk about the sacrament. It is a simple tour but so powerful! The elders took us on one the other night to practice and I was playing the nonmember. It was so spiritual especially when we were looking at the painting of Jesus Christ coming to America. It was such a powerful moment!
One final thought to end with. Next time Satan is trying to tempt you to do something stupid, remember this scripture from Ether 11:14, "...and Moron did that which was wicked before the Lord." Don't be a Moron! :)
love,
Sister London
1. our lightning bug friends
2. Abbie Potter doing some service!
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