I
don't have any good reason for saying Hola this week, I've kind of
fallen off the wagon with Duolingo. I seem to have less and less free
time every day. I'm perpetually a week behind in my journal. La camisa
es muy guapo (I think that means "the church is true"). But you know
what's usually great about not having free time?
You're
busy! That's right, we did a ton this week! I know last week's email
was kind of negative and I actually have a funny story about that. So I
sent last week's email and it was talking about all the obstacles and
trials and discractions we had and I meant to say that yeah it's hard
but it's a positive thing because that we face the most opposition in
our lives when we're trying to do right. But I guess I made a couple
mistakes: first, I sent that email to my MTC companion who's also in
this mission. Apparently you're not supposed to email anyone in the same
mission as you??? I thought I just wasn't allowed to email sisters in
my mission which isn't a problem because why would any of the sisters
want to talk to me. But I guess he was worried I was depressed or
something or maybe his companion heard what I said and he was worried.
So yesterday I get a call from the Zone Leaders and they tell me how
it's going to be okay and that missions can be hard sometimes but I just
gotta push through it! Obviously those are true things but I already
know that, and I tried to explain that I wasn't clinically depressed or
anything. I don't think they believed me because they kept saying "we're
here for you when you're feeling like you can't make it". I CAN MAKE IT
GET OFF OF ME
Anyways
that was kind of funny. This week was awesome! We went down to Laurens
and Clinton last Tuesday for our weekly trip to our actual area and it
was an action-packed day. We taught 6 lessons. 2 were to investigators.
One is this super drunk guy who's missing a couple fingers and a few
more teeth but he's super knowledgeable about religion in general. We're
making good progress with him. The other person is this lady who is so
super baptist oh my gosh. Our lesson with her was basically asking a
question every once in a while, and then listening for five minutes as
she just rambled and preached about her beliefs until we found a break
in her speaking so we could ask another question. Lady's got great faith
but wow does she take a long time to express it. We managed to get in
just enough information about us and our church and how the Bible and
Book of Mormon work together that she accepted a copy of both (not that
she needed another Bible but she probably took so she could see that
"our" Bible really was the King James Version). The important
thing is she took a BoM and promised she would read some and call us. We
also taught 4 LARCs (less active/recent convert lessons for you
gentiles out there 
)
to various people and families and they were all wonderful. We had
dinner at the Hopes household as usual and that was great as usual.
They're a super interesting family.
The
rest of the week was basically a service extravaganza! We're only
supposed to do 10 hours of service a week, but we ended up doing more
like 12. Whoops! I guess we were a little too Christlike! 
Simpsonville
is great. It's not humid here yet either which is awesome. At the
Dollar Tree they sell these Star Wars 7 trading cards and they're my
favorite. If any of you ever want to send me anything, just send me some
packs of those and I will be so golden. I'm trying to get a holographic
Kylo Ren but they're either super rare or I made them up. No but I'm
serious please send me some so I don't have to spend food money on them
and I can eat. Oh yeah our mission has decided effective in April that
we're not allowed to have meals at any members houses anymore. UNLESS we
bring a less active or investigator. So basically we're begging some of
the active members in the ward who actually feed us to stop coming to
church so often so we can eat. Also apparently we have banned tracting.
That's right, we no longer plan to go and knock doors! We're supposed to
find entirely through actives, less actives, and referrals. I would say
it's gonna be hard but that's basically what we've been doing this whole
time, plus I hate tracting, so it's no butter off my back! (is that a
saying?)
As
always I hope everyone has a good week wherever you are and if you feel
you want to forward this email to anyone, just make sure it's not my
Zone Leaders, who knows how they'll interpret it this time. If anyone
has any questions please ask them! I get so excited when I get emails
during the week so feel free to send them!
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