So last week was Thanksgiving and boy was it ever so crazy!!! We had transfers the day before Turkey day and so Monday and Tuesday were spent running around teaching people and Sister Grigley saying her goodbyes. I have a new comp now! Sister Flores and I were in the MTC together.
Her family is from Mexico and so her first language is Spanish! She is awesome and I love her to death. We are going to have a lot of fun this transfer. Also, I am constantly being reminded of how small this world really is. Sister Flores is from Hyrum, UT and she worked as a custodian in the apartment complex where I lived while going to USU. I've seen her in "real life"!! That was a crazy connection!
Thanksgiving Day we went over
to the recently released Stake President's home. President Shumway will one day
be a general authority, I just know it. Thanksgiving there was great we ate with his family and a
lot of the other missionaries from our zone! They have this tradition where they
place three corn kernels at everyone's place on the table. Since there are three
kernels, everyone says three things they are grateful for. It was so spiritual
and basically like a testimony meeting, tears were shed and tissues were
needed.
From the Shumway's home, we went over to the Baumann's. The Baumann's are a
family in our ward that our just awesome. They had the Semone's and the Harris'
over as well. It was a ward gathering with the missionaries. Tons of fun. I ate
so much food on Thurs. it is ridiculous. Do people normally have key lime pie as
an option at their Thanksgiving
meal? It was an option at both of ours! The food was delicious and I am so
grateful that we were fed so willingly by members. One thing I really missed at
dinner was real, from scratch, cooked in the bird, stuffing. Other than that I
was perfectly content.
After dinner we all tried to rip body parts off of one another in the form
of a board game of course! We played Candy Man, which is basically a parody of
Candy Land. Everyone is a gingerbread man that is running along from piece of
candy to piece of candy. As you pass other players, you attack different parts
of their gingerbread body. Like the gut, head, arms, and legs. And you collect
trophies once the limb has been attacked so many times. It was pretty vicious
and super hilarious.
Friday morning, not so fun. Sister Flores and I were both sick. Luckily, we
felt well enough a few hours before dinner to go out and invite people to a
multicultural, interfaith Christmas Festival that is the weekend of December 7th.
Saturday was full of lots of
painting and tearing off wallpaper. Over the holiday, the Simons (the family we
live with) were out of town and the Gouldings had family coming into town and no
room in their home to house them, so the Simons being the wonderful and generous
people that they are, had them stay at their home. So as a huge thank you and
because Sister Goulding has always wanted to redo the Simons home, we fixed up
one of the bedrooms upstairs. It was an all day project because it had to be
done by Sunday since that was the
day the Simons came home. I love the love that these ward members have for one
another!
Well, not much else to write about here. Our investigators have been afraid
of us or something cause they are avoiding us like the plague, so we did a lot
of work with the less actives in our area.
I love you all and hoped you ate a piece of pie for me!
Miss ya more than homemade stuffing!
Sister Fish
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