On the Road Again

It was great to see Sister McQuay again.

Hey, Mama, so a lot happened the past few weeks. 

First, I was sick for a couple days and I got a blessing and I started to get a lot better. Sister Payton did a great job at taking care of me while I was sick. I would say I am now 100% better so that's good. I was sick for about four days I think. 

Just as I was getting better and after I had settled into things rather nicely we got a call saying that I was being transferred. I packed all day Thursday and bright and early Friday morning we drove out to Wichita. So now I'm in Pratt and and I'm serving with Sister McQuay again!! I miss everyone in Lawrence but I’m so happy to be back in Western Kansas and with my trainer again! It’s so awesome! The Williams will be going to lunch with us today because they only live like an hour and half away so we're so excited.

Pratt is a small branch and we had a record breaking 63 people at church on Sunday. That’s including children. I counted about 25 adults. But the people all seem really nice so I’m excited. It’s my first time serving in a branch. The church building is the smallest I’ve ever seen. 

Ukulele lessons 

Last Monday the Williams came to visit us! We chatted with them for a while and we went to lunch with them and then came back to our apartment and sang some songs as Elder Williams played the guitar. And he gave me some music to learn on the Uke. I'm having trouble with strumming patterns and whatnot but I’m working on it. 

Wednesday we did service at the little museum in town, we helped organize yearbooks from way back when and that was fun although nothing really eventful happened.

Another place we give service is an assisted living place which of course brings back memories of when we would visit grandma and there was that lady that would just call out 'help me.' for no reason. Or people in walkers that would get caught on a corner. Assisted living places make me uncomfortable. But anyway we help with arts and crafts and I was enlisted to help one particular lady who had trouble seeing and hearing. I just let her speak to me and I relied on giving appropriate facial expressions to her stories because I knew speaking to her wasn't really an option because I don't like yelling. When it was all over and she was about to leave she turned to me and said "Don't you feel sorry for me?" Surprised and not sure what to say, I said "No, this is a great place.” Her response was "I want you to feel sorry for me" I said, “Oh, okay,” and she then left the room. I had to laugh. 

Oklahoma temple

General Conference was awesome. We met at the chapel early and had breakfast as a district. Then we had lunch as a district between sessions and watched the last session. I think so far my favorite talk was Elder Hollands. But I’ll have to reread them when we get the Ensign. 

TOMORROW we're going to the temple though!! I've been lucky enough to be transferred to two zones that are going to the temple! This time we're closest to the Oklahoma Temple and we will be going to that one. I'm so excited to see another temple and another new movie and to see other missionaries. The nearest missionaries to us are a half an hour away. ANYWAY I’m excited about the temple!

So this week we went to the Temple!! We went to the Oklahoma City Temple and boy is it small! We didn't see the newest movie, it was the same one as last time, but it was still really good and we spent like an hour afterward with the temple president who answered a lot of questions. 

We've been doing a lot of service this week and we’ve been teaching a lot of people. Four came to church and we’re working with some great families. 

Happy Easter! Love you Mama!