Week 5

Hey everyone!! I don't have too much time to email today, we had to move our email time to today due to the snow. Everything was closed down so now i have less time since we have appointments right after I finish.

 

My week has been great! I've had several crazy things happen. So last Monday after our long day we came home and our alarm started beeping. It wasn't the regular fire alarm sound though. It was 3 quick short beeps every five minutes or so. Our alarm is a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide alarm, so we wondered if it was detecting carbon monoxide or something. So we called our president and he asked us if we could sleep anywhere else that night. SO we ended up grabbing a few items for the night and movie over to another sisters apartment for the night, where we camped out on their floor! it was a fun experience haha

 

While out tracting this week I thought a house was burning. We were walking by and I saw smoke pouring out of the house and I walked up closer and I realized that the enormous outpouring smelled like laundry....so it was pretty funny.

 

If possible you should look up a restaurant called Ghengis Grill. Its super good.

 

We also went to sing in an Alzheimer unit and we were running out of songs to sing, so we started singing girls camp songs. We decided that one of them would be "boomchicka boom" and One of the black ladies that worked there decided to lead it off, and on the second time through she said that we would be singing it sexy style. So she proceeded to start clapping as if her life depended on it and was attempted to roll her shoulders in a seductive manner and another black woman joined in! it was super hilarious to watch and all the old people just sat there quietly observing.

 

We were going to check out a referral that we had gotten from another district and we had gone several times to the house. Every single time we went to go try to meet Kristina, there was a half asleep black man that would answer the door. And they had this creeper dog that would pop up out of no where and sit in the window and stare at us. We've now attempted to see Kristina 4 or 5 times and I'm starting to doubt her existence!

 

One of the days in this week was super duper windy and slightly snowy and we had finished with an appointment early so we decided to go see someone, but as we were driving towards the house, the GPS we were using started taking us down random roads and then it would lose the signal, so we were a little worried since Virginia has no grid system and I'm pretty sure when someone created the roads they just sprayed silly string on the ground and decided that those would be turned into roads. So we were getting sketched out trying to find our way back, and the GPS randomly started working again...but...instead of leading us to our apartment, it led us to this creepy barricaded building with flashing lights and stuff. Finally after half an hour we were able to find our way back home and by this point we didn't have time to go see the person we were planning on. But I think the Lord was watching out for us. On our way home, we drove down the street that we would've turned on to get to the persons house, and there was a huge tree on the road and tons of police man surrounding it. If we would've gone to the persons house, we would've been turning down the street right around the time that the tree collapsed. Crazy how much the Lord watches out for missionaries!

 

We tracted into a Hindu family the other day and we were trying to teach them and they kept throwing in random things about their religion and wouldn't let us get a word in. At one point the daughter asked us what our belief was about heaven and hell, so we started teaching the end of the plan of salvation. As we finished, the daughter sat there for a second and then said, " well! Looks like we'd be in the 2nd kingdom dad!" and she said it with a huge smile and started laughing, so we all just started laughing because we couldn't believe what she said (but Hindus believe that all religions are correct so they try to find out where they would fit in with other religions and such, its super interesting) .

 

We had another snow storm this week. And we weren't allowed to drive. Our apartment is out of our ward boundaries. So that night we decided that we were going to hike to our boundaries and then start scrapping off random peoples cars for them. As we were doing this, we didn't realize how loud we were going to be, so we kept seeing people peeking out of their windows at us. One house we were stopped at had a man that was already scrapping off his cars, so we offered to help and the man says, "oh, since you don't have school tomorrow are you just scraping peoples cars off??" its super funny, people always think we're high schoolers all the time haha

 

This week has been super great!!! :) We are getting close to transfers already!! I cant believe how quickly they came up! Anywho, love you all!!!

:)