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Hey hey hey so another week has come and gone, time is going by so fast it is so crazy! i am on the second to last week of my forth transfer and i have been in lake charles for almost six months! cray cray but anyway i love you all so much and i am glad to hear that all is well becasue i slept for one hour last night and i figured it must be because something was wrong. so hopefully yall arent hiding anything from me.

mon- the elders were being dumb so we just stayed in our apartment and then they showed up and wanted haircuts right as we were leaving for a dinner appt. but i am working on my christ like attributes so i cut elder yeates hair, even tho i really didnt want to. haha but we had dinner with a member man and his LA wife. they are super nice and we had a good talk. we cant figure out why she is LA cause she talked about the church and how much she liked it the whole time. haha then we had an appt with bonnie but when we got to her house our pamphlet we left was in the door and she wrote a note that said she didnt want to talk to us anymore and sorry but then she opened the door to let her dog out when we were still standing there so then she had to talk to us. haha but she just said that we would be wasting our time because she is going to stay catholic even if God told her to change religions. so yeah, got dropped. then we had to drive to orange and we spent the night so we could go to our meeting in the morning.

tue- we had to be in vidor at 6;15 and there were five girls in one apartment so it was pretty tricky all getting ready in the morning. haha but our zone Conference with Elder Golden was AMAZING!!!  he is a really cool guy and he just told us a bunch of random stuff about how we could be better missionaries. one thing that he talked alot about was how our personal righteousness= faith. we show our faith and improve our faith by our personal righteousness, that was an interesting thing that i had never thought about before. but it has helped me. THen we had a leadership meeting and the whole time Elder Golden just talked about the priesthood and he said that the reason why elders serve for 24 months and sisters for 18 is because missions help you mature and sisters are mature and spiritually ready after 18 months but it takes the elders a little longer. I wish elder yeates was in that meeting to hear that! haha But our meetings were really nice and it was a good day. Then that night i stayed in orange with sister erickson and sister Germer cause we were on exchanges. i was really nervous and i didnt want to go! but i put on my big girl pants and sucked it up. and everything went well untill that night when we were getting ready for bed and erickson asked how long it took for ALL (we only had two and they were ones that the elders gave us when they had to change areas) of our gators to drop us after she left. And so i answered and was like we were only working with two? and she was like well I guess only i was working with them cause you did nothing. Ohhhhhhhh no you did'nt. I was so mad. i had to get up and go in the bathroom for a while to cool down. but its whatevs. im over it.

wed- i was in orange all day and didnt really do anything. it reminded me of my first two transfers. then we switched back and we went to dinner with sister Gibson one of only two black ladies in our ward. she is so awesome! i love her so much. she is the one that we helped her clean her school bus. we had a good talk with her about how she joined the church but she gets frustrated cause the missionaries have only ever took her to black investigators and so she told us that if her testimony is good for black ppl its good for white ppl too! so we are going to hopefully take her out with us sometime.

thu- I woke up and i felt like i got hit by a bus. my voice was gone and i had a fever and My head was going to explode i was so conjested. so i stayed in bed and then our DL came over and gave me ablessing and made me some soup and they talked to us for awhile cause they thought it was pretty funny that i didnt have a voice. Then we had an appt with Gloria and Roger so we went to that and sister Barton just had to teach cause i couldnt talk. and then we came home and i layed down for awhile and then i got up agian to do the HOP and sister Barton had to talk to whole time for that too. Then we had Michaels new member lesson with the morris's and susan. I was sad casue i love those so much and i wasnt feeling good so i was out of it the whole time. But It was good. Michael is still doing awesome!

fri-I still felt pretty poopy but my voice was kinda back so we went out and taught a bunch of potentials and we got two new Gators! Robyn and Destiny! Then we had dinner with the Kenneys and we had a scary night! We are supposed to have daily contact with our Gators so we decided to go check on Gloria and Roger. so they live in the projects so #1 scary thing we were in the projects kinda later in the evening. so we got to there house and Roger was outside so he came over and started apologizing to us because he was "under the influence" and had been drinking cause he was mad at his mom. so we were like ok well is gloria here? and she wasnt so we were going to leave but then he started almost crying and was like i need to pray with yall. so we stood there on the grass and prayed with him and then he started getting all creepy and was calling me pretty eyes and was trying to get us to come in his house and was like im not going to hurt you dont you trust me and then there were all these other creepy guys that were walking around outside making cat calls at us so finally we were just like you know what roger we have to go and we jumped in the car and as we were leaving he was like you didnt even talk to me about first nephi and i even read it like you told me to. but it was just too creepy so we had to leave. sister Barton was so mad at me. haha

sat- we went to visit alot of ppl! we visited alot of LA members then we did some service with little Suzie and then we had an appt with a potential but she wasnt home so we went home and had dinner and then we went to visit a member who is having a hard time and had a good talk with her and then we had an appt with a kind of potential. this man we met siad we could come back and talk about God with him and his wife. His name is terrance and when we were talking we were blown away! he is a mormon he just doesnt know it! he was raised catholic but he doesnt agree with some stuff and everything he was saying was stuff that we believe it. it was so awesome and they want us to come back and talk to their sons. so that was pretty cool. we didnt get to teach them so i asked if we coudl come back and "practice" our teaching on them and they said they would love that. so that will be good. Terrance will prlbably be the bishop when i come back to visit! haha

sun- Gloria came to church! she is so cute. she loved it but she had surgery thursday so she went home after sunday school cause she wasnt feeling good and her surgery spot started bleeding. but she loved it and wants to come back! Then we had a mish broadcast from salt lake which was really good. it was alot about members becasue members are the real missionaries we are just here to help. pres monson siad that "now is the time for the members and the missionaries to labor together in the lords vinyard, doing the lords work, Joseph smith said, after all that is said and done the most important work is to preach the gospel." It made me so excited to be a member missionary so yall better get to work finding ppl for the missionaries to teach! this gospel is so amazing and we need to be Bold and talk about it often and to everyone we come into contact with! For i am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ! Be bold, do something out of your comfort zone! invite someone to church. now is the time that we need to step it up and bring souls unto christ. I love you all so much and i am so grateful for yall and the support that you give me. Dont worry about me, i have the gospel, worry about all of Gods children out there who do not have it. I love you! have a good week!