October 21 Letter

Hello all!

I'm trying to remember what we did this week.....

Haha.  Two weeks ago, I discovered that one of my zone leaders has dinosaur socks. I asked him to wear them, but he said he would only do it for a special occasion.  So I told him that my birthday was this last Wednesday. (that was a lie)  One of the elders who serves here in Biloxi with me, overheard our conversation and asked to make me a cake.  I told him later that it wasn't actually my birthday, but he insisted and said he wanted to make a cake for our next zone meeting anyway.  So I show up on Wednesday and there is a cake with candles and everyone (like 16 people) sing to me and I got a present and everything.  My zone leader said, "Sister McElderry, how old are you today?" and I said "21!" (not a lie).

I was given a $1000 sewing and embroidery machine by a random woman this week.  If it weren't so dang heavy, I would contemplate sending it home.  

We have been tracting like crazy the last two weeks.  We have hit like 10 houses with "No Soliciting" signs on them.  Only 1 person was nice to us about it.

This is just a quick email today.  My comp. and I had to have an extra extended companionship inventory.  It was good.  There were tears (not mine).

I spoke in the Spanish branch yesterday.  My favorite comment, "when I asked you to give a talk in spanish, I wasn't sure how it would turn out.  You actually surprised me." 

My friend Shauna came to support me.  Have I ever mentioned her before? She's 30 and recently divorced.  She has been less active for a number of years now.  Anyway, she has become SUPER active since we sisters got here and we LOVE her! She just got a calling and she went on a date with a nice LDS man she met.  I picked out her outfit and did her hair for it.  I'm living vicariously through her.  She also helped us scrape cat poop at that lady's house.  A few days later, she bought me a little "Scrapper Jr." keychain for all of my future cat poop-scraping endeavors.  Anyway, she came to hear my talk.  She listened to the translation of it on some headphones.  She told me afterward that she cried because she was so proud of me. I love that girl.  

We're going to Goodwill today because I don't have any warm clothes! I better get my Visa soon because I'm going to be cold and broke here soon!

Love you guys.  The gospel is true.

Sister McElderry