Wow where to begin! This week has been crazy! On Monday we went to an Amish store and bought some really cool things. Today we are going to Jamesport, an Amish community about an hour from Albany, to go shopping :) It should be fun. President Keyes said we have to go to the bakery and try the cherry turnovers. Cherry turnovers are my favorite so I’ll definitely be trying them.
On Tuesday we had district meeting in Maryville so we got to drive our new car down there and back that was fun :) On our way back we stopped in Stanberry and went tracting. It was 90˚ outside so that was fun. I sure am realizing what a Utah girl I am. This hot weather is going to be an adjustment. Funny story though on Thursday it stormed enough that we didn’t go out because of the ice on the roads. While we were in Stanberry we tracted into a guy named Rick. He is definitely searching for something. We plan on going back tomorrow to see him again and hopefully commit him to baptism!
Wednesday we went over to a branch members home (the one we had been painting) to help her unpack her house. Normally we would be spending our service hours out in the community more but Sister Zundel is having a baby in 3 weeks and her house is still in boxes. So we went over there and helped her move the boxes from the master bedroom to the rooms they will eventually be unpacked in. We got all of that done and unpacked the kitchen before it was time to go.
As we were leaving Sister Grange realized that she had forgotten to bring her skirt to change into after service stuff. So we went across the street to a member’s home that is kind of a pack rat. Thankfully Sandy is a momentum pack rat, i.e. she doesn’t collect junk. She had a bunch of cool clothes from the 60’s, 70’s, etc. Sister Grange was able to find a cute skirt that fit her. Thank goodness for helpful members!
Because of the craziness of Wednesday’s with the branch members, the sisters fed us dinner. They really are the greatest. They are so willing to help us with whatever we need. I don’t know what I’m going to do when I get transferred out of this area. We dropped one of our investigator’s on Wednesday because she isn’t progressing or making an effort to progress so that was kind of sad.
Thursday was the day we had a snow storm again. Sister Grange was complaining a lot about the snow but again I’m a Utah girl through and through I guess because snow in May doesn’t bother me, especially the snow here that dusts the ground and is gone the next day when the sun comes out. :) I wasn’t feeling well on Thursday so we stayed in until dinner. For dinner the branch was throwing a baby shower for 3 women in our ward so we went there for our dinner hour. It was a lot of fun to get together with a bunch of the women in our branch and talk baby stories. We had only planned on staying for an hour (I’m not sure why we thought that was feasible) but we ended up staying for the rest of the evening and going home afterwards.
Friday was another stormy day but we got out and went tracting anyways. We knocked on an older man’s door because his front door was tucked out of the wind :) well he’s now an investigator! We gave him a rundown version of the restoration and left a Book of Mormon with him. He said he would read and he set up a return appointment to have us come back. Friday was a good day for us missionaries.
Saturday we finally made it out to Bethany. It’s been really hard with limited miles to make it out to any of the towns around Albany. Bethany itself is 17 miles out and that’s a close town. But anyways we drove down there and visited with "J" just to check up on him. We aren’t actively teaching him anymore but we wanted to check up on him. We spent the rest of the afternoon tracting and visiting less active members. We got to go and see one of my favorite less active sisters. She is really struggling right now and it’s been great to see her turn to the lord for her strength. We ate at a less active member’s home for dinner on Saturday; man can she cook good Mexican food!! She made us a feast of enchiladas, Mexican rice with Chile Verde, and chili relleno. Our members sure do cook great food out here!
Sunday we had 131 members come to church! Our average right now is about 70 so it was huge to have that many there. The best part was only about 6 or 7 people were visitors so we had a great turn out this week. We nearly had as many there as we did Easter Sunday.
Well for p-day today we went to Jamesport. What a neat little town. It’s predominantly an Amish community so we found some pretty neat stuff, mostly mother’s day gifts :) Funny story (sort of) we were in an Amish country store and I had to use the bathroom. Thankfully they had indoor plumbing; unfortunately there weren’t any lights in the bathroom except for a small window to let in light from the store. So I got to use the bathroom in the dark :) We also went to a little bakery 2 miles out of town that President Keyes told us we had to visit if we went. We got what they called fry pies. Basically they are like the Hostess snack pies that we used to get at the day old store only a 100 times better. President Keyes recommended great! I also got some fresh Colby Jack cheese so I’ll have to let you know how it is next week.
Well not much else going on here just walking our tails off trying to find those prepared for the gospel (and working off some mission weight gain my skirts are getting a little tight :) I love you all dearly and can’t wait to hear back about life back home.
With Love,
Sister Randall
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