So this is my 2nd Birthday! And.... I am not going to be transfered. Neither is Sister Miller. Another 6 weeks in Camden and I am actually really glad. I did not want to leave in the middle of teaching some people. The other sister that was supposed to come out this transfer is not coming yet because she could not get her visa in time. So that is probably why there is not going to be any change for any of the sisters in the mission. I would not really want to go to any of the other sister areas anyway. We are having more work done here. But I have been eating all the food I have and have not bought anymore in case I was moved and now I have no food. Ha so we are going to have to do some shopping today at good old Walmart because that is pretty much all there is here.
We are teaching a bunch of awesome people that I am excited about and you will probably be sick of hearing about it. So there is Geneva and Troy and their two kids. Troy did not come to church yesterday but Geneva, Tyler and Zoe did. Which is great! Troy we are still working on but I have bonded with him and I am afraid that me leaving would be really bad. Anyway so I am not so that is great. But since we are friends it is better because there is a lot more trust. I am going to cry when I leave. I may be here next transfer too because one of us will probably go and Sister Miller has been here longer unless they close the area or whitewash (put all new missionaries in) it. Hmm probably not though because we are having a lot of progress and Elders do not do well here. So next there is Jim and Jimmy Hendricks (awesome names I know) . We tracted into them and they are super awesome. Jim was actually raised in the Restored LDS church. Which is interesting. It is weird teaching someone who is not of our exact faith but believes very similar in most areas. Like a belief in the Book of Mormon and the plan of salvation. But he does not practice it. She is Baptist but does not really go either. She told us she would never change from Baptist but I think it is only a matter of time. We went over to East Camden and there are a few people over there that we are teaching or going to start teaching that are promising. A young girl named Nina who has been looking into church's. Amanda who is really interested but her Grandma is dying so we will teach her soon. Keri who took the lessons in high school and is really nice but she rescheduled because her older sister wants to come too. And Dillen who has had a lot of crap in his life and when we met him he said he was athiest but I convinced him otherwise and that God does love him and he really wants to change. So we will see where those go. Oh and Arthur. Who is just the cutest old man who has been Methodist but is actually receptive and we had a cool experience with. His whole family has died. Including his siblings, parents, wife, children. All he has left are a few grandkids that were adopted. He is super lonely and we felt like we needed to talk about temple work a lot and he actually came to church. Man we had to convince him but I feel his family wants him to hear it.
And in Camden we met a cool lady named Lavette who when we talk to her on her doorstep said we could come back and she had gone to our church a few times in New York. When we go for the first lesson she tells us she actually went straight for 4-5 months and her and her daughter had baptism dates. She had stopped smoking and everything. But the area she was in was whitewashed and new Elders came in. Well they had an appointment with her and she was sick and called their apartment to cancel. Well they never got the message and came. They did not answer the door and the Elders knew they were home and they started throwing rocks and snowballs at her window to get her attention. Well that is not cool so she got them in trouble and she felt so bad going to church with them there when she had gotten them in trouble that she decided to stop going until they were gone. Well they moved here a few years ago and I guess she thought that the church was only in New York. Well here we are and we are like well are you still interested in getting baptized and she is like yeah. So we set up a baptism date for her and we are teaching her and her 5 kids. Awesome. OH and when we were leaving her puppie peed on Sister Miller's leg and I laughed a lot. Haaaaha.
Man there were tornado warning all over Arkansas and Tennessee this last Saturday and man there were bad storms. So we go to give Jim and Jimmy cookies and the tornado sirens start going off and they are like. Yeah you guys should not leave it is not safe. So we stayed there but Jim was just sitting on the porch watching and he was like. I know if it is going to get super dangerous and we will go inside to the bathroom. Well there was a tornado 20 south of us and a few 2 hours north but nothing too close. But is was totally cool. Ha. The Martinez's called and they were in the basement and we were sitting on Jim's porch ha. Yeah and the humidity is getting pretty bad. I am SUPER (sarcasm) excited for June. Sigh Well anywho that is all for this week.
LOVE SISTER BROADHEAD
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