Jessie in Georgia: Baked Squirrels and Sick as Flip

Good morning everyone! This was my best week as a missionary EVER. Sister Emp and I were struck with the actual plague on tuesday but we saw miracle after miracle. Let's get right into it!!!

Monday: We took all of the new people in our district to the Hindu temple!! Such a pretty place wow. We had dinner with the Ellisons!

Tuesday: We both woke up feeling AWFUL so we called the mission nurse and she said to go back to bed. As a missionary, those words sound like freaking HEAVEN so of course we went back to sleep right away. We decided we'd probably feel better if we got out of the house so we did and that's when the miracles starteddd!! ️ We found a woman at mcdonalds who had just gotten out of Jail that day and was feeling lost. We read some scriptures with her and the smile on her face was just UGHH . We stopped by a referral who is just the sweetest country fella who used to live in Salt Lake so he knows a bit about us already. We stopped by another referral who wasn't home but we started talking to this one fella who was walking by and he said he's been looking for God more lately. We started talking to him and he started like... drifting into outer space for like 20 seconds at a time? And then snapping back to talking normally and then going back into outer space. Bro was FRIED. We asked to pray with him and mid-prayer he gets a phone call and says "I GOTTA GO" and starts booking it up this hill. Bye fella! Anywho then we went to another referral who wasn't interested but her husband was! He was a sweetie pie. We felt like death at this point and decided to call it a day. We found 5 people!! Holy miracle.

Wednesday: We woke up deathly ill again and found ants in our apartment. At least it isn't roaches ️. We found a sweet girl at mcdonalds who just lost her mom and is now homeless. We cried and prayed with her. We ended up eating lunch at 4pm because we were so busy lol. We had dinner with Andrew Dearhart (he had a heart attack 4 weeks ago but nothing is stopping him) at Longhorn Steakhouse. He's actually nuts and we love him so much. He makes us laugh like no other

Thursday: As a mission, we've been stressing the importance of calling referrals the minute we get them. We get in contact so much easier. We got one during district council and found her! These people never remember putting in their referrals even though they did it like two minutes ago. We had a lesson fall through at the church but we saw president dent! We love president. He's actually my goat. We went to dinner with sweet Sister Brackett. "I don't know why I'm still here" (she's 93). We had stake correlation and pres was thereee! We got taken out to Bruster's afterward!

Friday: Holy cooked. We had Mission Leadership Council from 10:30-4:30. GUH my brain was hurrttingg but I learned a lot about what it actually means to be an STL. We had a lesson planned with a gal we found last week but when we knocked on her door we saw the blinds move and then nobody answered. Rip. We had dinner with the Dahnekes and that healed us

Saturday: Being an STL makes us so BUSY! We're constantly in meetings and such and never have time to get ready for bed or journal. Journaling is sacred to me We found another fella at Wendy's named Happy. He was sooooo sweet. He told us he wants to get baptized and when we invited him to read 3 Nephi 11 he read the whole thing mid lesson. Ok king! We stopped at another church on the way to lunch because they were giving out free clothes. Who could pass that up??? After lunch we headed to the temple with Aria, the Barons, and Sister Burke. We got to do baptisms with Aria for her first time ever!!! She got to get baptized for her grandma so sweet! We got to see some of the GAM elders doing the same thing for one of their recent converts!

Sunday: Guys I think I'll always love Sundays. It's just my favorite ever. We had one friend come to church! We always go to choir practice after church because there are 5 of us missionaries in the ward and about 5 other people in the ward choir. We had a lesson fall thru at the park which was sad. We had dinner with the Duffields and Rollins. Bishop Duffield and Brother Rollins are very involved in missionary work. Brother Rollins was a mission president in Brazil about a month ago and is now our ward mission leader! It was so nice. NOW... The explanation of my email title!! At the park these squirrels were acting WEIRD. One was just straight up walking. Like not bouncing around or running but just... walking. It looked so WEIRDDD. Also we saw some other ones getting you know what. At this park, I swear this was straight up revelation but I had the sudden thought that we needed to stop by this referral we had gotten. We said no more and drove straight there. We knocked on the door and the handle was covered in spider webs and had obviously never been used so I thought "they're coming out the garage aren't they" and bam what do I hear? The garage. That's quite common here actually. We told her why we were there and she didn't care at first but told us to come in anyway to help her figure out her Facebook marketplace. We sat in her living room for like 30 minutes helping her work her phone and somehow turned it into a lesson. She told us missionaries used to come by every week but then they stopped. She already knows so much!!! We're excited about her.

That's all my goats! I love yall and the Lord loves yall!

xoxo, Sister Anderson