Wow, time is flying. This week has gone pretty fast. It has been a little cooler which is really not that much cooler but I have new standards. ha. Not a whole lot significant has happened. We are just working on the area a lot. I am about ready to hurt some less (happy) actives. So I might be getting a little blunt in days soon to come. One fun thing was it was Elder Summers 20th birthday. We have a lot of fun with the Elders and I thought we should go get him "presents". Sister Pabst agreed. And due to our very tight budget and well it is just funner we headed to the dollar store. We knew he would have fun with it so we bought him some of the most ridiculous stuff. A stick with a dinosaur head on it. Like one of those horse toys kids have and some fairy slippers (he likes to prance, it is really funny). Lets just admit it most of the time I come up with ideas and end up paying for them. Oh well. It was so worth it. I also got dollar rapping paper with toys on it and big green bows. We had dinner at a members house that night for his birthday and they also cool awesome stuff. And for dessert oh my gosh Teramisu (not really, that has espresso. She put berries) it is really creamy and just one of the yummiest things I have every tasted. We then gave him his birthday presents. Elder Robinson said he was scared. It was a big success. He then proceeded to bug Elder Robinson with the Dinosaur head and named him. It might be one of those had to be there things but it was super funny!
We also had a few interesting missionary moments. We went back to Sister Oravis's. The less happy lady to made Sister Pabst cry. It was much better. She was so much nicer and apologized but her huge fuzzy dogs were still all over me and you just can't get all the long white dog hairs off of a black skirt. Ugh. That was a good visit though. We tracted into a few Buddhists and Hindu's this week. I have no idea how to approach them. I am so used to the Bible belt where everyone believes in Christ already. Oh we go and teach this old Catholic black lady in Horn Lake. I don't think she has any idea of what we are talking about. She is missing a leg and has these long creepy fingernails. She was complaining how she can't get to a salon to get them painted. So loving sweet Sister Pabst volunteered to do it. She ended up getting roped into clipping them too. They were long like claws. One of them had fungus and they oozed this green/grey stuff as she clipped them. GROSS!!! I am not that loving to do that. I think I would have to sanitized my hands and then light them on fire. ewwwww
Oh the Elders have some drama with investigators that we almost got roped into but not quite thank heavens. Sister Caulson called us and wondered what we thought about Miss Bonnie Ivey (investigator from a crazy very southern family, her husband is a member now coming back to church and 3 of their grandchildren,who live with them, just got baptized). Well Miss Bonnie was sitting with the Caulson's at the linger longer and Sister Caulson felt like she had an Evil spirit as they talked about missionary work and the church and then jumped up and went and hugged Elder Summers and whispered something in his ear. And she was concered that it did not seem to concern him. I said he was probably just keeping his cool and I don't know the situation with Miss Bonnie. Well I called the Elders to give them a heads up that she had already talked to the Bishop about it. They told me Miss Bonnie does not specifically like the Caulson's (Brother Ivey, her member husband, does though so that's they sat with them). She does not like them because #1 her granddaughter wants to date their son and #2 Sister Caulson is black and Brother Caulson is white. Awesome. Good old southern racism. So she will not listen to anything they say. I was just taken aback. It did not even occur to me. Wow, how exactly should they explain that to her. Poor Elders. Ah
That's about it. I am a bit frustrated with people this week. Freak just come to church!!!! Other than that things are good here in Mississippi! I like the ward and the area.
LOVE FROM THE SOUTH
SISTER BROADHEAD
P. S. I am almost at six months! Yay!
No comments:
Post a Comment