sister pierce, me and megan
Esta Diciembre!!!
It is now officially December! Winter is setting in wonderfully
here! on Saturday it was 40 degrees, which was
absolutely wonderful, and the next day it was 16 Degrees, and today it's 2
Degrees (: my nose hairs almost started to freeze! ah, this brings back
memories from last winter haha but I am happy to be here, things are going SO
good in Austin!
My companion and I spent most of the morning in Jail
today... translating for someone who doesn't speak English. Court is an
interesting place to be. haha so that was our adventure this morning!
Thanksgiving was definitely memorable as well!! We went over to
one of our members houses, the Connetts and there were a bunch of members there
too and it was a blast eating turkey and talking with them!
Afterwards we planned to bring slices of pie to people around
Austin, but... we didn't have any paper plates to put the pie on to give to
people, so we had to go to the store... on black Friday... for
paper plates.
haha that was an adventure and kind of humorous seeing all of
the people in line with their shopping carts FULL of stuff, and all we had was
a package of paper plates
haha the cashier joked with us about how it must be a great
bargain right now for paper plates. So we got our paper plates and drove
around town delivering slices of pie.
So you know, I've come to find that slicing and dishing up pie
in a car is not easy.. but funny none the less (:
delivering pies to everyone (:
gave pie to the walmart girl
That night we decided to go and shovel one of our investigators
driveway and sidewalk because we knew he was going to be out of town. Well when
me and Sister Pierce and Megan showed up with our shovels, a company of
people who shovels snow showed up at the same time (I guess he pays people
to shovel his snow) hahaha it was so funnily awkward!!!
They looked super weirded out that we were there shoveling
his walkway. One of the men said "can I ask you why you are shoveling
this snow?" haha so we told him we were his friends and that we are
doing something nice for him. haha they thought that was the strangest thing...
we joked about it as we shoveled and I said we should
have told them (in a western accent) "we're the new
shovelers here ya see, and this town ain't big enough for
the two of us!" but instead we just laughed about the situation to
make it less awkward because they were shoveling right beside
us, and then we put pie on his doorstep and awkwardly said goodbye to the
paid shovelers.
So that was fun!
This week it snowed a lot! and so we shoveled lots of driveways
and played a little snow baseball on the side, with our windshield scraper
which was fun (:
So we're making good use of the cold weather here (: gotta find
fun when it's 2 degrees outside!!
We've been having really great lessons this week with our
investigators and it's just fun to see how great the gospel is especially when
you get watch the difference it makes in a family. We are teaching a Hispanic
family, consisting of three sisters and all of their kids (10 in all) and let
me tell you the Family home evenings are a blast!!! the last time we had them
dress up and we had them act out the story of Nephi getting the plates haha it
was so much fun! It's just fun to see them learning and how the parents really
like FHE as well. It's making a difference in their family and they are
growing closer and the parents can see that (:
FHE with the carlos family
The Doctor we are teaching is doing fantastic as well. We just
got done teaching him about the doctrine of Christ and the role and
importance of Prophets and he really loved it. We asked him if he would
like to be baptized and he said, you know, I think I should! haha we
thought that was awesome! We are so excited for him!
I hope all of your Thanksgiving was great!!!
Love you all!
Until next time!! Love Sister Ficklin
sister pierce getting an African braid
Sister Poll and lula, they are members from Micronesia
the Carlos Diaz family (:
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