Howdy y'all! I have many great things to report this week! Many good stories and a few awkward moments. Stay tuned. Possibly some good pictures. Really, I might be hyping it up too much just slightly, but this may be the best thing you read today.
So, Monday night we had music Monday, and it went grand. Tune in, please! We do it for the people! And, would love for you to see us awkwardly sing church hymns at our camera. We are thinking of ways to make it cooler. I might throw knives and Elkins can juggle. Or, we will throw in the kalimba. We will see.
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We had this awesome lesson with a man named Keith! He referred himself and was so sweet, so we called and had a Bible study and restoration lesson with him! He told us he was ready to jump all in with the gospel and wanted to read the Book of Mormon and when we asked him to pray he said he was gonna pray as soon as we hang up and then texted us saying he is really excited and feels really good about what we teach him! He's amazing!
We had a really good discussion with a woman named Judy, who messaged us before asking if we were Mormons. We told her "yes ma'am I am" and she said we could have a study if we read the same Bible and we had an awesome discussion with her! She loved it so much and got a more clear ideas of the church and really wants to do another!
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Jasmine is another Bible study and last week we'd talked about what we believe and she told us she's been researching and praying and we were able to share the restoration with her and it went pretty well! She is so sweet! She was telling us her thoughts on personal revelation and she said the most profound statement I've ever heard. She said "what I've learned is God is not a microwave God. We can't put a prayer in the microwave and automatically get an answer. He's like a crockpot God, slowly preparing and adding more and more." Amazing woman right there.
We also got dropped and blocked like 40 times, but why focus on that?
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I also somehow got a sunburn while staying inside all day, what even is life at this point?
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So, on Saturday and Sunday we had member lessons so we decided to try something fun. We made a pb&j sandwich and related it to the gospel of Jesus Christ, except, Sister Elkins was my arms making it. I have not cried from laughing in a long time, but I had mascara running down my face during both lessons it was so funny! The members were all crying, too.
So, here's an awkward moment for y'all. I don't know if the amount of awkward that was in this situation will be transferable, but I'll do my best. So, we had done the PB&J analogy with the Brown family, and I was wearing my PINK bandana in my hair. Well this family thought I was in a gang because it looked RED. So, they made a gang joke and then I had jelly all over my arms so I was stand there with my arms in the air. As I sat down and put my hands up, the husband casually says “oh, now your flashing me" and my dress had a lot of buttons so obviously I'd think "oh dang it" and started checking all the buttons and he freaked out for making a mistake. He explained it that he meant that my hands were in the shape of a gang sign (???) Wow, it was awkward and so funny and the whole family was crying from laughing and and I was crying for many reasons. Haha jk. It was great. I love them.
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One day for our break we went to this river side walking trail. And it had been a long day, and I was bored on this trail and wanted to loop around so I took a short cut. And Sister Elkins was not happy with me as I led her through waist high grass fields of nothing, many, many spiderwebs, thorns, trees, bugs, and just about any thing else out here because I somehow thought we'd crossed this huge river without ever getting our toes wet and thought it'd loop around. After about a mile I looked on the map, and we were about a mile off. Picture included. My comp wasnt super happy... but when we turned around we found a trail that we'd been walking close to the whole time and it took 1/3 of the time, was a lot easier and I didn't get any more spiderwebs in my eyelashes. If you think about it, there is probably a gospel lesson there, email me any thoughts you have.
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So, I told you about my crazy ward mission leader who holds my entire future in my hands. Well, he called again, and this is how he started "hi sisters, I'm really excited to tell you what I have to share. Because what I have to tell you is the "secret sauce that will make you MAGNETIC!" and wow. Basically he tore us down for 30 minutes and taught us how to talk about other people, quit talking about ourselves so much, and then told us our voicemail is boring (apparently he got paid $42,000 for his voicemail) and hung up. This man is going to help catch me a husband, I swear. He wanted to schedule another lesson but we told him we will check our schedule.
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I love you.
Bye,
Sista McKee
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