Helloooo everybodyyyy!! This week has been a good one and one filled with a lot of interesting stories so let's get into it. I'm warning you now this letter will be long, but there are some funny stories so read it if you want.
On Monday at about 4:30 Sister Todd who lives in Flint called us and invited us to play pickleball with them and the Flint district so we hurried and got our stuff together and drove over to Flint. We played a few rounds of pickleball and then they brought sandwich stuff so we had dinner with them too. Afterward, we played volleyball and it was SO fun!!
Tuesday was an interesting day... a few days earlier we got a referral for a kid named Ethan. I think I mentioned him last week but anyway, he doesn't live in our mission so we had to have a pass-off lesson with him and the Elders that live in his area. Before this Zoom lesson, we had only had phone call lessons so he had never seen what me or Sister Stevens looked like. To preface, I had my hair in 2 French braids because it was super hot on Tuesday. That detail will be important later. Anyway, we are on the call with the Elders waiting for Ethan and right as he entered he looks at us and says "You two are gorgeous!" Right off the bat, we were embarrassed because the Elders were just there and we didn't know what to say. Right after that he looks at the Elders and said "You two should date the girls" and one of the elders literally goes "maybe in two years." I was baffled. Some of the lines he pulled on both of us were as follows. "Sister Stevens your brown hair is making my eyes glow" "Sister Welch your braids look freaking hot" "Can I still call your phone number to plan our wedding?" "let's decide who the prettier one is" "Please bless that Sister Welch will be my girlfriend" Needless to say...very interesting.
On Wednesday, we had interviews with President and Sister Johnson and we found out a little bit of transfer news. Let's just say he told me if I stayed in the Lapeer for any longer, they would call me as Relief Society president. Pres did pull a prank and told me that there was a spot in Tiffin opening up that fits me and then he just wheezed thinking he was the funniest guy ever.
On Friday we went over to Gina and Andromeda's house and Andromeda asked me if it was ok to be a member of the church and also be into astrology. I said yes and she said, "That's good to know for future reference." I got so excited I almost cried but she said it very fast so I couldn't react.
On Saturday we were over at our friend Peggy's house. It was our first time over there and as we were leaving she wanted to show us her plants in her backyard. She lives right on the lake and has ducks walking to get to the lake quite frequently so as she was showing us these flowers a duck was walking in front of us and one of her dogs runs up and starts attacking the duck. The poor thing already had a hurt wing so it couldn't get away but Peggy grabbed the dog and put it inside. Me and Sister Steven are awful people and couldn't stop laughing. Peggy told us we could take some of her lilacs which we both love so our apartment smells scrumptious.
Sunday was soo good!! We had 2 recent converts at church and Andromeda and Peggy came too!! The best feeling in the world is seeing your friends change and become happier because of the gospel. I was a bawling mess in church because sometimes you just miss your mom especially when everyone is with theirs and talking about theirs.
One of my favorite stories in the Book of Mormon is when the stripling warriors are telling Moroni that they aren't afraid to die because of the faith of their mothers and they didn't doubt what their mothers taught them. The moral of the story is moms are SO important so go hug your mom for me because I can't and tell them you love them.
Trust in the Lord
Love,
Sister Welch ♡
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