Jessie in Georgia: Baptism cleanseeee and I'm gonna be famous

Hola muchachos y muchachas!

This week was so short lol! Let's get right into it!

Tuesday: TEMPLE DAY!!! I have literally been counting down the days for so long. It felt so amazing to be back in the temple with our whole district!! We did a session and then we sat in the celestial room for like 30 minutes. I have never been in a quieter celestial room. The Atlanta temple is so incredibly beautiful!!! After the temple, we went out for tacos at Talpa :) We did our P-day essentials (we went to Aldi and did laundry) and then had dinner with the Halls at Los Hermanos! Double mexican food in one day. We learned all about dog shows and how much they love the temple :)

Wednesday: Sister Balls and I both woke up feeling nauseous and crappy in general so we took the morning off. I realized I had forgotten to take my meds the night before so I took them and they knocked me out for three hours. Once we were feeling better, we had our GANM devo, mentoring meeting, and then did contacts at the community garden! The garden is right next to the train tracks so we got to see two trains!!!! So cute. We ran into the elders at the park later (we're psychically synced I swear this keeps happening). At night we had the first ward mingle of the summer!!! Everyone brought food and we had some good conversation with Sister Burke's friend Ellen whose house we're going to go to today to try on her clothes! I'm so excited!!! After the mingle, we went knocking in a nearby neighborhood. Sister Balls followed a prompting to knock on a particular house just as we were driving away. We ended up meeting Brent and Missy! They are both children of pastors and are married with a son. We went on a walk around their neighborhood with them while exchanging beliefs! I thought it was so fun. We gave them a book of mormon! They were not interested in the slightest but it was great to meet them lol :)

Thursday: We started the day with DC where we reported on our laziness of last week (we seriously were so lazy and so pooped out) so we decided to work real hard this week. (we've already exceeded our finding goal hehe! 5/3) After DC lunch at Chick-Fil-A, Sister Balls and I headed to the community garden to film with the social media sisters! Sister Balls sang a song and I shared a message :) Look out facebook!!!! We comp studied at wendy's after and got frosties! Yuuuum! We had a member lesson with a 9 yr old convert afterward and she handed me the tiniest little kitten ever. I held it while teaching her the ten commandments and I was literally just thanking God for everything in that moment. It was the cutest kitten I have ever seen. (I still love you watering can <3) We went to do a member stopby but ended up finding her sister! She had been taught by some sisters in new york before moving to Georgia! She had a baptism date three times but it fell through every time. She still really wants to be baptized and we're going to help her :) She was so happy to find us!

Friday: We comp studied at a park with a pond full of turtles!!!! They kept poking their little heads out of the water. So cute! We weekly planned while the elders TRIED to weekly plan.... (Elder Alder threw out his back so Elder Hogan made him a bed out of chairs) We had dinner with the Forseys! They're senior missionaries that also happen to be our next door neighbors! Dad, Mom, they fed me Japanese Curry. You can imagine the shock on my face when I smelled it and the shock on theirs when they found out I knew what it was. I literally almost cried. I couldn't stop saying thank you. They also gave us Calpico!!!!!!!!! They made me play my violin if I wanted to eat. So I did. After dinner, we took home a crap ton of leftovers then went knocking! We found someone at the first door we knocked!!! Denise is the sweetest old lady who finds the love of God in her family! She loves what we do and wants to learn more. We knocked like 10 more doors and got yelled at but what's new! Live laugh love.

Saturday: Sister Balls pointed out the fact that I'm nonverbal from the time we wake up until around lunch time. I swear it isn't on purpose. My brain just doesn't fully wake up until then lolll. We attempted tabling in the morning but turns out nobody goes to the park on saturday mornings anymore... anyway we talked to one guy who said he finds joy in martial arts. You go guy. We knocked and knocked and knocked some more (literally nobody answered their door) until the last house. We met Dave! He grabbed his heart when he read 3 Nephi 11:10-11 and said "oh wow". Yes Dave. Wow. We talked for like 30 minutes on his doorstep and left him with the same Book of Mormon he read the verses from. The next day he texted and said he doesn't want to meet with us and doesn't need to be saved. He just needs to cook a lil longer :) He's a really cool guy though!!! We visited an elderly woman named Shirley with the elders in an attempt to pass her off to us. Blind, basically deaf, can barely stand, etc. So, we did what we could. We went to the adult session of stake conference! We heard some great talks. I have 30 billion bug bites.

Sunday: I always love Sundays here. My watch tan is horrendous. It looks like a window into the past. One of our friends that has been taught by missionaries since march finally came to church for the first time! She fell asleep and stake conference may have not been the best first impression of church but she showed up!!! Yes!! After lunch we headed to a park to do contacts and called an interesting woman named Raquel. She put in a request specifically to be baptized. We thought, "great!" We called her and she kept saying "I'm in need of a baptism cleansssseeee." She explained to us that she had already been baptized via sprinkle and via dunk but wanted to do it again because her coworker apparently had bad aura to her. So, we explained to her that baptism isn't a treatment you can get anytime you want but we can still help her get it!! We have a lesson with her on tuesday... I'll report back. Some members invited us to their daughter's third birthday party! We made her a card and ate the most delish nigerian food everrrr!!! Their backyard is so beautiful holy moly. We were going to go tabling with the elders but it was raining too much so nobody was at the park. We ended up calling a bunch of grey dots instead!

I hope yall had a great week!! Email me!!

I love yall and the Lord loves yall!!

- Sister Anderson