Jessie in Georgia: The Cheater Upstairs and More Frogs of Course

Hello!

If you want the juicy stuff skip to sunday lol

Welcome back everyone! Happy second transfer!!! Sister Balls and I get to stay together for another awesome transfer in Lilburn.

Monday: Yay P-day!! We went to the Hindu temple in our area with our district and it was so beautiful. Like wow. All hand-carved white marble inside and out. I got a couple souveniers from the gift shop :) We played games at the church building afterward yippee! I got to play rummikub and smoke everyone in the lightning round per usual. (I love you grandma Janna) We went to the Baron's for dinner and I learned how to make a malted milkshake :) Brother Baron is from England and knows how to make it gooooood. We had the opportunity to visit my Aunt, LaRae's cousin Andy and his wife Angela! We got to know them and shared a scripture with them!

Tuesday: Whole day felt like a fever dream. We watched departing devo for all the departing missionaries in the morning (so sad) then went to work at the co-op! We love Beanie so much. Literally the cutest old lady everrrr. She threw her hands up and squealed when we walked in the room. We scared her when we told her we didn't know if we'd be back next week due to transfers. We didn't eat lunch but instead napped during our whole lunch hour. It was great. We had a member message with a unique family afterward. They're both pilots and met in a flying club. He was a member of the church beforehand, and it wasn't until they honeymooned in SLC that she started to express interest in wanting to go to church. How interesting. She was endowed in December, and they both have super strong testimonies, and they come to church when work allows them to :) Then, we had a member message with the Calloways! They took us to Bruster's for ice cream in the rain while we shared our message. Then... TRANSFER CALLS! We will be staying together this transfer yay!!! I'm killing my sweet companion.(For those who don't know, I'm not actually killing her, that just means I will be her last ever mission companion)

Wednesday: The day started slow and gloomy with a bash at wendy's. Lovely. We decided one of the ways we want to try finding this week is by leaving brownies on people's doorsteps, so we went to walmart for supplies and baked them during lunch! We had a lesson with our friend, Michalle, and Sister Paulukaitis. We got through a bit of the plan of salvation in an hour and we put her on a goal date! We went to the ward mingle afterward and Michalle came! She brought a food too! The mingle was fun as always, and then we did basically a billion stopbys.

Thursday: Holy craziness. Transfer day, but we couldn't go to transfers, so we went to IHOP for breakfast! We shared the yummiest omlette and pancakes ever (the cinn-a-stack. go try them) We headed to the park for contacts and ended up on the phone with someone for 45 minutes. A productive 45 minutes, though. This girl has had a ROUGH life. We headed to the library to finish contacts and study :) When we got outside, it looked cloudy but not too bad. We stopped at QT to pee and it starts to DUMP rain outside. We could barely see anything out the car windows. Then, we got a tornado watch on our phones and started to freak out a bit. We called a sister in the ward to ask what to do if a tornado touches down while we're driving, and she just said drive safe... so we drove to the church lol. We made a bunch of pamphlets and stuff inside while it continued to dump rain. We headed to dinner with Sister Brackett at Always Fresh and holy actual MIRACLE!! Our waitress, Tonya, was asking questions about what missionaries do and what church we were from. Then, she asked if she'd ever see her mom again. She let us know he mom passed away last October. Sister Brackett (Sweet, old, strictly turquoise-wearing 93-year-old Sister Brackett) said "I know!" and told her all about how she'll be able to. We got Tonya's information and set up an appointment to teach her more. YAY!!!! Then, we headed to Ashley and Yi Ming's house! Our lesson was an hour and a half long because Ashley had SO many good questions and also translating into Vietnamese takes time lol. We were gifted a million snacks per usual. When we got home, Sister Balls and I wanted to go frogging. So we did! We grabbed a tupperware and filled it with 6 frogs and toads. We got so wet and had a blast.

Friday: We talked to a guy named Skip at Chick-Fil-A and he politely bashed us but we left him with a Book of Mormon lol. We did studies at a big park and walked around the whole thing twice. We ended up in the woods lol. We weekly planned for three hours then stayed at the church for our member meal! The Noahs brought food to us because the restaurant they wanted to go to was outside the mission! We ate in the young women's room lol. I tried collard greens for the first time and I actually loved them. So good. After dinner, we did a couple stopbys and got caught heart attacking someone. We got so scared haha!! We ended the night calling members and friends at the park :)

Saturday: What a blessing to have sisters in our district now. Like holy moly. We ate lunch at chick fil a after DC and can I just say they have the best everything ever? I love chick fil a. We met a cool fella at Wendy's named Jaden. Pray he reaches back out. We were literally dead and could. not. focus. during our studies because our upstairs neighbors were at it again all night long. (Stomping, getting it on, etc.) We had a great day after we took a 20 minute power nap lol.

Sunday: Oh boy. So, those upstairs neighbors I just talked about... we woke up to some crazy stomping, crashing, and yelling. Suddenly, a partly-dressed man JUMPS OFF THE BALCONY into the bushes. We're like 99.9% sure someone got caught cheating lol. On Father's day too?? We told the elders at church and they were gobsmacked. We had three of our friends come to church! So good. The primary kids sang the cutest song ever. We had a great lesson after church with one of the friends that came. I got to call home for Father's day! Shoutout dad! We had a member message with a sweet old lady in a 55+ facility who we had the best hour-long discussion with about how incredibly grateful we are to have modern prophets. We went to do a referral stopby later but the spirit was absolutely absent so we said peace out. Super heebie jeebie. Overall a great day though lol. Pray for our upstairs neighbors.

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xoxo, Sister Anderson