Where do I begin.....
So I got my new companion. Her name is Sister Armstrong. She is from Dallas, Texas. She is a visa waiter for Brazil as well. She's super nice and we get along well. I am her trainer, but I feel like it's more "the blind leading the blind!" I just barely finished training myself! Sister Garzand is still here with us. We are in a tri-panionship. We got a brand-spanking new Chevy Cruze to drive. It's super snazzy and pretty. We stole it from the elders. They're pretty bitter. We scheduled a meal appointment for Sister Armstrong her first night here. We got to the house and the whole place smelled like vinegar. It was super gross. The couple said "since you're the newbie, we will serve you first!" and they brought out some rice dyed green and some pickled pigs feet on top. They didn't tell her what it was, but told her that it was their favorite. So we're all watching from the kitchen and see Sister Armstrong eating this gross looking pickled pigs foot. There was still bone inside of it and everything. They asked her what she thought and she was like, "it's delicious" and then we all started laughing and they brought out the real food (which they added green food coloring too as well). In case you dont know this specific aspect of Mormon culture, brand new missionaries are called "greenies," so that's where the green food coloring joke comes from.
As for our investigators, Melissa is still WONDERFUL. Just like always. She is 100% certain she wants to get baptized because she loves everything that she's learned. We just have to set a date. She says she doesnt feel spiritually ready, so we're talked about that for a while and gave her some homework to help her learn more about the role of the Holy Spirit. She's wonderful though. We absolutely love her. She's always so nice and happy to see us. It's a pleasant change from the knocking doors.
We are teaching a young man named Ryan. He's a young airmen and he's about to deploy to Afghanistan for who knows how long. It's been an interesting journey with him. He's been very hot and cold with the missionaries for the last 8 months or so. Anyway, we've been talking with him a lot and assigning him talks to read and things like that. His heart has softened a lot toward the church and he told us today that he wants to get baptized. Like he wants to NOW. I don't know if we can get it all together before he deploys.... NEXT WEEK. But who knows. We're meeting with him tonight, so maybe we can set some realistic goals with him.
Lilly is still Lilly. She works a lot, we love her a lot. She's getting married in a month and a half!!! She chose next transfer day, so I hope that we are still here so we can see it!
Those are our biggest people. Other than that, we're working with less actives and some potential investigators. The work is good. Training is good. I miss home. I'm happy here though.
Love,
Sister McElderry
P.S. Did I already mention that 7 out of 10 of the missionaries from my district in the MTC are in Brazil now? Is that old news?
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