I think I may be cursed.... (Oct 20)

So according to the other missionaries last transfer there was
usually about 40+ people at church, while I have been here there has
been no more then like 20. Things have been crazy we had district
meeting, Zone Conference, and a trip to Baton Rouge to have our car
inspected all in a three days. It was crazy and then pretty much every
one either cancelled on us or didn't want us to visit, so we weren't
able to see as many people as we would like.
Oh and guess what last Monday we got put on lockdown because a good
chunk of the state was on tornado watch. It was crazy though. So we
spent the night cleaning out what we called the closet of doom. It was
filled with clothes that sisters had been leaving behind for the past
year. But we spent lock down sorting through them and bagging them up
so that we could get rid of them. It took a good bit of time.
Lucky for us though a less active member named Tanya has been taking
care of us by providing meals. She's great. She reminds me a lot of
you dad....she got a kick out of some of the stories that I have told
about the way we do things back home.

Here are some pictures from this week.
Number one: Sis Plumb and the contents of the closet of doom.
Number two: a car that we saw in Independence...can you see the driver?
Number three: a wooden statue of Jesus that we found...he's darker
then most that I have seen.
Number four and five: so a cup fell off in our dishwasher and
melted...this is how we found it. We weren't sure how it happened
until we took it off.

Seeing what it is actually like - Oct 13

This week has been crazy. We have been working our tails off. Wetaught double what we did last week. The branch is really small. It is
to the point that I am in charge of pushing the buttons on the piano,
not playing but it has the hymns and primary songs on it. We also
teach the youth Sunday school when we have youth. We had one
investigator at church. Ya this defiantly is a small unit and probably
the smallest unit I will probably ever serve in.
 
Sister Plumb is cool. She's from Arizona. she is 19. I feel old. The
elders I serve around (Smiley and Hillam) are awesome. Smiley is from
Savannah, Georgia. Hillam is from Provo.
So here are some pictures from this week.

First week in Amite - Oct 6

So ya I am now in Amite, Louisiana. It is a small town that is mostly
black. It is nothing like my other areas. The elders here are really
cool. One is the most white black kid I know and the other is ADD and
has OCD (which brings a lot of life to this area) they are awesome
though.
My district here is really interesting. Three of us go home together
and  most of us have been out longer than a year. They're awesome
though.
It has been hard leaving Vidalia, especially because they made that
area an all elders area. Which will be really hard for the ward
because of how many single sisters there are in the ward and the lack
of priesthood available to do things with them.
Other than that things haven't been too hard. But conference was
great. My companion, SIs Plumb, and I got to watch priesthood session
at a members house because the elders happened to be there too.
Anyways hope y'all have a good week.

The first one is me and a less active family...the daughter and other
son weren't there.
The second is us and our investigator Patsy....she's a hoot.
The last is us with our LSU shirts (Sis Pearson's idea)