Jessie in Georgia: Frogs and More Frogs and Miracles!!!!

This week was sooo busy!! Let's get right into it :)

Monday: P-day! We played games as a district and went to a friend of a friend's house to shop in her closet!!!! I got like ten billion things all for free. How awesome.

Tuesday: We found a little froggy in the hallway on the way to the gym! We went to the co-op and saw mother beanie (love her, she's my co-op mom) We said a prayer for guidance and Heavenly Father led us right where we needed to be! We ended up finding someone! (She cried when we read from 3 Nephi 11) Then we had the silliest lesson of all time at the church. We ended it feeling drained and like the spirit was gone... but oh ye of little faith just wait until sunday!!! Then we packed up for exchanges!

Wednesday: Exchanges with the Hermanitas!! First time getting bashed in SPANISH... kind of fun though hehe! The PMG app was down all freaking day and that made it so hard to do contacts but that's okay we pushed through. We saw a snake crossing the road! I think it was a king snake? Then we went to english class! I love pronouncing the words for the students because their eyes are laser focused on my mouth lol it's so funny to me.

Thursday: WOW what a great day!!!! We had DC in the morning then we headed to GUSTO!! Literally the best food ever holy moly. We had a lesson with our little 9yo recent convert Gimena and she talked about her hermit crabs the whole time lol. We went to dinner with the Brandeaus!! They took us to a mexican restaurant that made our tummies hurt lol but it was so great to talk to them. After our lesson about sharing the gospel with those around us, they went out and bought a bunch of copies of the Book of Mormon to give away! Ugh so proud. After dinner, we went GUITAR FINDING! Holy crap it was so much fun lol. We walked around Lilburn City Park and asked people if we could play them a song about Jesus. Who would say no to that?? (like 5 people would but whatevs) So we played them a song and invited them to church with us! It was so great. We went to my Aunt's cousin's house but he wasn't home. We left our number and he texted to set up an appointment for monday night :)))) I'm coming for you andy and angela!!! We knocked probably one billion houses and I could have knocked one billion more.

Friday: We went to the foot doc in the morning to see if sis balls can finally stop wearing her boot, but they scheduled an MRI for it instead. Pray for sis balls foot everyone! Then, we headed to 5 (really 4 because this transfer is a short one) week followup!! I finally got to see Sister Lord again!!!!! I also saw DR. KEVIN QUARANTA!?!? My eye doctor from back home!! He and his wife got temporarily reassigned while they wait for their visas to Mozambique! How coolio!! I finally tried boiled peanuts. They just taste like salty beans. We stopped at whataburger for studies on the way home and a worker guy plopped two cups in front of us so we could get free drinks! How kind! We went to Jackie Watson's place for dinner and she should literally be a professional chef I swear. She makes chicken like no other. She has cancer so she has to eat clean, so she can cook clean. And boy does she rock it.

Saturday: I woke up grumpy as heck but God gave me two frogs on the way to the gym so I couldn't be grumpy anymore. We went to a McDonalds for comp study and we went up to the cutest and I mean cutest family ever. They have a baby boy that's at the age where he can't stand up on his own quite yet and is slobbering all over the place with the biggest brown eyes of all time. UGH I have baby fever. Anyway we talked to them and they said they felt like it was supposed to happen that we met. Yes, Tyrone it was! We set up a time to meet next week and we are so excited! We got stood up for two lessons with our friends but oh well :( We had dinner at the Brito's and holy cannoli we ate the yummiest greek bowls EVER. Wow. I need the recipe like yesterday thanks.

Sundays: HOLY busy day. We had one of our friends come to church (the one with the silly lesson on tuesday)! She was able to go to relief society and ask a million questions. So great. Sister Balls and I taught Young Womens! They ate it up. We had an early dinner with the Nefs and ate the yummiest homemade pasta and cobbler. After dinner, we headed back to the church for a Juneteenth celebration. Can I say I love it here enough? Probably not, but this was literally so cool. There was a political panel of representatives of different parts of Georgia telling us things we could be doing to improve our state. Then, we had the honor of partaking in real soul gospel music where we were up on our feet with our hands in the air singing along. God bless America. Our friend came to that too! Then, we had to rush over to Ashley and Yi Ming's house for a lesson. Our translator, Sister Bui was late so we ended up trying a bunch of crazy foods like needle mushrooms and octopus... it was nasty but I'm glad I tried it lol. We started our lesson using google translate but when Sister Bui showed up, we were saved. We were stuck on the first principle of the plan of salvation before she showed up, but after she came, we got through the whole thing and Ashley was explaining it to us at the end. Thank heaven for Sister Bui. After our lesson we went FROG HUNTING! I wish we could go real frogging where we're waist deep in a pond catching big ones, but the tiny ones are fun too lol. We caught like six in the first 5 minutes. One of them only had three legs!!! So silly.

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xoxo, Sister Anderson