Jessie in Georgia: "Thank You for Allowing Us to Be Your Daughters"

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This week, we were stressed about a number of things but miracles came and swept some of that stress away. I think Jesus is just the raddest guy of all time and is also an actual sweetie pie. Please pray for us because we feel like chickens with our heads cut off. Thanks.

Here's my short week:

Wednesday: Finally P-day. After 9 days of praying to make it to p-day, it came. Listen, I love being a missionary but doing it for 9 days with no break at all is not for the weak. We hung out as a district for the last time and signed bye bye books with each other. We then hurried to the church building so we could teach young men's and young women's!!! We taught them how missionaries teach so they can go out into members homes and share dinner messages with them this week! How fun! We also got to watch a youth in the spanish ward open her mission call. Let me tell ya, this was like no mission call opening I have ever been to. It was set in the chapel (there were like 200 people there) and there was this big acting thing at the beginning. After 30 minutes of that, Camila opened her call to El Paso Texas spanish speaking!!! Then there was more acting and a big dinner after. Quite the event.

Thursday: Transfer day! We of course did not go because we aren't moving. It's sad not going to transfers because you can't see all your missionary friends! Don't even fret tho we had a great day still. We did a bunch of stopbys and spoke a bunch of broken spanish. We talked to a fella in Zaxby's who had just watched Heretic... IYKYK... and he was like fangirling that two missionaries came up to him irl. It was so funny. There was a guy on the way to someone's house that was singing a song at the top of his lungs then started rolling around on the street while dancing to it. When I say literally everyone is high here I mean EVERYONE Only got bashed once

Friday: Meetings and more meetings. We had district council with our new district and they're actually really cool yay! We weekly planned and our brains were all over the place so it was really hard to stay on track but that's ok. We had to turn a bunch of people grey because we got some wise council from Elder Hildreth that we can't keep contacting people and exhausting ourselves if they aren't even responding just because we love them. GUH! It's hard to let go of people you were so sure about. We had a lovely phone lesson with Aria and she said a BANGER line in her prayer that is in fact the title of this email. ACTUAL BAR Anywho then we had another meeting from 9-10pm. It was really good though trust.

Saturday: The day started out great with the Lilburn Elders' friend Arnold getting baptized! He is so devoted and kind. We had a lesson with Marri and Malaisia and tried to put both on date, but Marri said she doesn't want to get baptized still. We still put Malaisia on date for November 8th!! She's really excited! We had a meeting with the Zone Leaders and planned Zone Focus together. We went to Ashley's house for her baptismal interview and she gave us dessert and plopped us in her massage chair until the elders arrived. Sadly, she didn't pass because the translation wasn't working quite right. We're going to try and find a solution to that. Then we caught a frog of course.

Sunday: On the way to church we were turning right onto a street when BAM WE'RE BEING SWALLOWED UP BY A STORM OF PIGEONS like they were all around our car and flying around tornado style. Naturally we started screaming bloody murder because what the freak is wrong with them. We made it to church shell-shocked. None of our friends came to church, but Relief society was so amazing. We studied a conference talk: Ministering—“That Ye Love One Another; as I Have Loved You" and it made me realize how crazy good of a ward I am in!!! It reminds me so much of Allen Ranch. It's a family. I am so grateful for wards that come together to support one another! We had a ward linger longer and talked to everyone we love and hold dear to us. A few tears of love were shed. Our goat Eshetu had to cancel his lesson so we got bashed by some Jehovahs witnesses at the park instead. Oh joy. We stopped by Meehyang Kim again (the Korean lady who was baptized at 15) and set up ministers for her!!! She showed us wedding photos and such. So cute. We had dinner with Jessica Alarcon and had the best peruvian food of course. We had a really great conversation about not listening to the adversary. We helped her with her english and she helped with our spanish! We had Zone focus with our zone and stake leadership and it was really good! There's some drama in our zone that we're trying to deal with so that put a damper on the situation but we're pushing through.

I love yall, the Lord loves yall! Email me!

xoxo, Sister Anderson