Georgia is a literal jungle 07/18/22

This week was really awesome. There was transfers on Wednesday and Sister Case and I are staying together. Just us and the sisters we live with are the only one's in the Zone that are staying so that's hype. Sister Case and I saw so many cool things back to back to back that happened from Tuesday to Thursday. It showed to me that there really is a reason for everything and there is a reason why we are staying together!

We were in Forsyth on Wednesday about to go into a lesson with Debby and Renae when a lady drove past us and stopped. She rolled down her window and waved at us so we came up to the car and said how she will be off on Friday this week and how she would like us to come do studies again. Sister Case and I were SO confused. She told us that sisters in the past would come over and study with her from the Bible and she couldn't remember the other book so we said the Book of Mormon and she said yes! Her name is Brenda and she gave us her number and her address then told us to call her. Sister Case and I were so shocked what had just happened, super cool miracle! 

My mission does a lot of missionary Facebook work. Sister Case and I help run the local Facebook and run ads for it. Every day there is a different companionship who watches it and the messages that comes in. Well on Friday we were on the page and I saw an old message and opened it. Well I reached back out and within 10 minutes we were on the phone talking! She even lives in OUR specific area in the stake. It is super cool to see the positive influence media can have.

Darrell! He has been taught for a few months and Sister Case but I haven't been able to teach too much recently. Well on Sunday we were standing by the door greeting with Freddie (he does it every week) and Freddie goes, "Hey Darrell is here!" Sister Case and I were like WHAT! We looked over and Brother Chase went and picked him up! Freddie then said "I saw him before yall did!" Then we laughed and it was really cool seeing Darrell at church. We haven't been able to see too many of our friends at church.

MACON STAKE SPANISH GROUP? SAY LESS! A few days ago Hermano Villanova had a meeting with all 8 of us missionaries and told us that the stake is going to do a Spanish group starting the 1st week of August. It's going to be after the Macon ward! We are all so excited! It will be really cool to see a start of a Spanish group here. Plus, now I get 3 hour church again lol!

I have been reflecting a lot lately on my growth from the beginning of the mission to towards the end and it has been really cool. Seeing where the Lord has needed me and how it has helped me grow and gain a deeper conversion. The biggest thing that has helped me to gain this conversion is reading the scriptures daily, specifically the Book of Mormon. It is something so simple that many people don't do daily. If we read the scriptures every single day we would have so much more peace and guidance. I hope everyone can make Christ a high priority in every day and open the scriptures because it truly does give us strength. There have been so many times where I read something that morning and the spirit told me someone needed to hear it. I love you all and so does God! Thanks for the emails throughout the week!

Pics: 

- our hike as a district from last week (I'm pretty sure GA is a jungle) AND there were MASSIVE spiders

- the sky from this week

- last district pday lunch as a district before the transfer

- us outside after the meet and greet from last week

The Macon Funk and Frog Frisbee 07/11/22

Our tire EXPLODED on the freeway on the way to our meeting... our minivan SWERVED like crazy and was bouncing while we were on a sky ramp because there was some metal bar on the road that we couldn't avoid without wrecking. We slowed down to 7 mph with a fat line of cars behind us and pulled over on the bridge/ramp only partly out of the lane because there was no more room. We evaluated and got back in the car to call the elders on their way to the meeting too and right then- MIRACLE. Two cars of elders were passing and pulled over when they saw us! The dang spare was underneath the seats on the bottom of the car. We couldn't even find it for a while, then we couldn't get it out because we didn't have the right wrench. Our seats were just chilling on the side of the freeway. A policeman pulled over and helped us, he didn't know how to get the tire out either. Poor decisions were made, and the elders put a Chevy Equinox tire on our Sienna minivan. It was pretty dumb, they followed us for SEVEN MILES going 10 mph on the freeway and we made it to the church an hour late for the meeting we were leading haha. After the meeting, we put the right spare on and had to get a new tire! It was crazy. 

We got transfer news and we thought that Sister Case was leaving because she has been here for 3 but we get to stay together! I'm super excited! We were trying to convince president Needs and Farias to put us in a trio because I have to leave a week early but no trio (sad days). The sisters we live with also are staying!!!

Eric! Eric is someone that has been taught for a SUPER long time and we have been a little confused how interested he is. Well on Saturday he signed up to feed us dinner and after we had a lesson. We asked him what he believes and he told us some of his concerns. We ended up inviting him to pray to know if the Book of Mormon isn't true and to read it every day this week and promised him that he would get an answer. The Spirit was super strong!

We are finding a lot of people up in Forsyth which is about 30 min from the church. It's been super cool being able to find in a place that hasn't had much finding in the past. Really cool story: we were driving down a little road in Forsyth and there were a few houses and we passed one that has a women and a little girl outside on their porch. We drive past and I keep thinking we need to stop. So we turn around and walk to them and she was so sweet. We shared that God loves her and talked a little bit about the Book of Mormon. She said that she needed to hear that and we set up a time to go back when we go up to Forsyth this week!

-also I learned what frog Frisbee is...our apt complex gets so many frogs and every morning they are sadly ran over and on top of it the "Macon Funk" was so bad this week. Macon has a nasty funky smells it smells like chicken guts. 

Pics:

- hike from last pday along a a river

- when we found out all 4 of us are staying together 

- us in the car as our tire is FLAT on the freeway

-our car with the Elders spare tire because ours was under our car and couldn't get it out(we are the only area in the mission that has a van)

- dinner with Yvonne 

- zlc of the transfer 

New Mission President! 07/04/22

Sorry for the short email but here are some good pictures!

- little peach stand in Forsyth!

- LOVE IS NEEDED

- on last Monday we went to Okmulgee National Park as a district!

-we have a new mission president! President and Sister Farias! They are so sweet. They are from Brazil and have been in the U.S. for about 2 years so far. President Farias English is decent and he translates a lot for Sister Farias.

- last week was the half way mark to Christmas so we had to match as a district!

- Saying bye to the Needs!