Get your own gift of the Holy Ghost!

I've never pinkwashed before but Sister Casey said that it's the best pinkwash she's had. (for those that don't know.. pinkwash is when you're both new in an area that previously had Elders) The ward is super psyched about it. Our meal calendar filled right up hahaha... so it's been good so far. We have a lot of work to do... because they were only teaching like 2 people... so we're kinda working from the bottom up. But we're hopeful!

Hilights of the week!

~We went mini golfing with the college park homies as our last hurrah and I held an alligator!! It was a party and a half!! 

~ Our apartment is the best apartment I've ever had. 2 bathrooms. Natural lighting. 2 couches. it's lacking dishes and pans but hey it looks cute.

~ The Lord has actually filled our schedule. Because the Elders neglected to weekly plan before we came so we had zero plans in our schedule... Thankfully our Ward mission leader is the best ever and gave us lots of awesome names and everyone that we've contacted has been home. Miracles. 

~ The Cute Japanese lady S-i that we're teaching prayed for the first time! We taught her twice last week. She has a less-active husband and he doesn't really speak Japanese and she doesn't really speak English. And Her in-laws are Hispanic. The member we bring speaks all 3 so I hardly know what's going on the whole time.. but She's super awesome and keeping commitments. She's gonna get baptized sometime.

~The other girl we're teaching M- is also pretty solid. She has a learning disability so she kinda struggles with comprehension of the gospel but she's super consistent and has come to church for like 3 months. She really wants to know if it's true and if it is she wants to be baptized in December. So we'll see what happens.

~We saw a chincilla and it was adorable.

~ I turned 21!!! Woooo.... So now I get to drink... Raspberry Lemonade... And sparkling cider... yeah. Gotta love me some non-alcoholic beverages.. But it was good. I made crepes for me and Sister Casey and then we weekly planned. Yay. And the cute Hermanas brought me a candy bar and a card. And I got nice emails from people. Then Chris, Warren and Blake from my last area came down and took us to dinner! It was the best. Such a good day. We came home and watched church videos and Sister Casey painted my nails. 

~ J- got baptized!! It was the best day. I got to see my people, J- was hilarious oh my goodness. She was so self conscious about how she looked in all the pictures and she's just posing the whole time. She's the most valley-girl Floridian I know... She kills me... So all of our pictures are her Tyra Banksing it. Too good. She had a really powerful experience after she was baptized she just looked different. I've never seen anyone literally glow. But her demeanor was different. She was less stressed and more joyful. She said that it was way better than she'd anticipated.. And afterwards during the Holy Ghost talk the person that was speaking gave her little gifts that represent the Holy Ghost and one was a blanket. And I got to hold it for a little bit and I was joking that I didn't want to give it back and Jessica is like "get your own gift of the holy ghost." She's a riot. She's gonna make a good member. 

Life is good. God is better. Keep me posted on all your lives because I'm just going to assume most of you are dead hahaha. Love you all!!