Hello from Biloxi!
I hope everyone is doing well and I trust that you guys let me know when any important things happen. I should write "cry for help" emails more often because I got a wonderful influx of letters in the mail! Made for a pretty good couple of days.
It's always so hard for me to remember what happened during the past week. Literally we all sat down last night and realized that it was almost P-Day and we couldn't remember where the week went! We taking a break from doing responsible things like grocery shopping and cleaning stuff today and we're going to play volleyball and have lunch with some other missionaries instead. I hope we don't regret this decision. But literally, I'm going to go nuts if I didn't expend some energy in a recreational way.
Update on our investigators: Nykemia has dropped off the face of the earth! Literally we cannot contact her. This makes me SO SAD! I hope things turn around soon. But in the mean time, we have met another young woman whose fiancee is a less active member. Lily and Carlos and this son Jemskdjfiwjefi, or something weird like that from the Bible. The child is 2 and speaks this weird mix of Spanish and English that is unintelligible either way. She is super nice and wants to learn about the church. So far, she has been very aggressive about her desire and welcomes us back every time we talk to her. We're pretty excited to start working with her. We have been teaching a lot of practice lessons with members. It's so much fun to teach the kids and sing with them. I always feel the Spirit so strongly when we teach these lessons. I'm really grateful for them because we don't get to teach very many other lessons. We tried tracting yesterday and an old woman basically told us that she was going to call the cops on us because he pastor said we don't have the proper authority to go out preaching. We just told her to have a blessed day and carried on knocking on doors! I got my first Mississippi sunburn. I was wearing my turtle necklace and now I have a nice turtle silhouette on my chest. I also got homemade jumbalaya and shrimp this week! Yeah!!!! Finally some southern food! The couple who made it work at the casinos down here as dealers. They're pretty cool. They met on a casino boat thing up in Illinois. We also met a less active woman named Jennifer Barger. She lives in a retirement apartment complex and is constantly struggling with cancer and her smoking addiction. It's really sad to see how her addiction has destroyed her body, but her mind is very sharp! She was making us blush telling us about drunkenly marrying a guy and stories about her wedding nights and such. She's a little off color, but that makes me love her even more. She just has a very humorous view of life and I really appreciate that. We're going back to visit her tomorrow. I'm really excited.
The members in our ward are super cool. The women are really excited to go out and work with us (and some want to take us shopping. I'm pretty excited). We have meal appointments every night and sometimes multiple times a day. They ask us to come over and teach their families. We're already getting referrals from them!
Anyway, I can't think of anything else that happened this week.
I love y'all and appreciate all of the emails and letters! I'm making my way through them and trying to respond to as many as I can! Pray for my visa and pray for some pretty cool hurricane weather while I'm down here!
Love,
Sister McElderry
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