First the worst, second the best

Monday 27 April 2015

So the first week here was a little rough because I was adjusting but

this week has been much better.

Monday: We spent all of our p-day cleaning the house. Now it is really

liveable. Then in the evening we had a lesson with Paxten and we were

just arranging his baptism for Saturday. Then went over to the Gines

who are Ward missionaries in the Urie Ward and we were just talking

about the missionary efforts.

Tuesday: Mainly a day of contacting, and meeting with relief society

presidents and widows: widows are just so funny and cute.

Wednesday: We had the Jensen's move their exercise equipment out of

one of our rooms. The elders had borrowed it and since Sister White

and I don't plan on being able to lift 400lbs by the end of the

transfer (I have given up on 4 months till sexy) we thought it would

be fair to let them have it back. I was sick in the morning, I think I

had altitude sickness. I was very nauseous and faint so I had to drink

some sprite and lie down. I slept for 2 hours! #Standard I could have

slept for more but I was well enough to go out and work which is what

I wanted. Then we were contacting for the afternoon. After dinner we

went and met with the third Ward relief society president and then we

met with the 4th Ward bishop. "I can really respect someone if they

can manage to get what they want to say out in 3 minutes or less"

plain straight and to the point, I like that man. Then we heard that

our 2nd Ward bishop wanted to speak with us so we waited outside the

office for 20 minutes. We were about to write him a note because we

were having to go home, Bishop opens the door and we said "we heard

that you wanted to speak to us" "I just wanted to say hello." I said

"that was the best hello ever" he asked how long we had waited and

then he found out that we had waited 20 minutes, it was the best hello

ever though.

Thursday: Weekly planning, holy cow we had to get so many things

organized it took FOREVER. We met with another relief society

president then after dinner we had visits with some Ward missionaries

and then we went out on splits with the Urie Ward which was so much

fun! We went around wishing people happy birthday which was nice.

Friday: District meeting which was good as always. A quote I really

liked was shared by our district leader in trying to help someone in a

situation that we have never been in and they say that we don't

understand

"You're right, I don't understand. But I am human and we experience

all the same emotions" it was so good.

Then we went to lunch and after lunch the Gordon's (over housing in

the mission) dropped off a chest of drawers for us, this was way too

exciting. Then we had to finish our weekly planning. After dinner we

had a lesson with the Cole family on the 10 commandments which was so

good. You could feel the spirit, the children told us that they wanted

to get baptized so we'll be working with them on that, but we will

have to work with the parents too because they are not active. Then we

were contacting for the rest of the night.

Saturday: Paxten got baptized! He was someone that the elders had been

working with and was already on date when we arrived. The baptism was

so special. The family was crying. His dad had been not active for a

very long time so it was really special for him to be able to baptize

his son. Then we were just contacting for the rest of the day but it

was SO GOOD!

Sunday: #SundayFunday we spoke in 2 sacrament meetings which was fun

this is how I started my talks:

"I'll start off with a brief introduction. I'm Sister Hughes I am 20

years old, I have been out on my mission for 14 months and I am from

York, England, which is in the county of Yorkshire and according to other

missionaries my dad looks like Bilbo Baggins despite him being 6 ft 3.

So in the mission I am known as the hobbit from the shire.

I think that it is pretty safe to say that you all have the accent."

They all got a kick out of that.

Then we had a stake meeting and then we had dinner with Bishop Ellis,

chicken enchiladas.......sooo delicious. The 4 year old was

singing at the top of her lungs a song about eating crocodile pie

which was hilarious. Then we were just contacting some referrals that

we had received. Not interested but super friendly :)

Anyhoo that was my week! Rough start but great finish.

We also are seeing some potentials tonight which is super exciting.

Love you all!

Keep it real, keep it righteous and make good choices.

Sister Hughes x