12/2/13: Thanksgiving Week :)

Hey all! Hope you had a delicious Thanksgiving! We certainly did! And I didn't even stuff myself, or eat dessert, which makes me quite proud :) Although I wish I had some leftovers...

We ate at the Wilmotts, with the English Elders, the Hmong Elders, and Quentin, and one other lady from the ward. We played Cranium. The food was amazing :) Christmas lights are up! I LOVE them! People go so all out for the holidays here! It's awesome :)

Monday Sister Newton and I bought some Packers shirts at the thrift store. It was about time :)

Wednesday we had an exchange, and it went really well and we think both the girls learned a lot--just hoping they apply it! We talked a LOT about it afterwards. It's kinda fun to analyze people :) Plus on the exchange we got to contact a bunch of people we really needed to! But also we taught Quentin tithing and ever since things have been...weird. Tithing might be his holdup. His life also just is horrible right now.

So is Kim's. :'(

Thursday was weekly planning and Thanksgiving. Not much else. It was an awesome day, though :) We made some fun demos for whatever we could come up with since we figured no one outside really wanted to talk to us. Plus, everyone loves visuals!

Friday we played vball--for the first time, Quentin didn't come :( He hadn't talked to us all day, which is really weird for him.

Saturday we did SERVICE. At the Railroad museum!!!! They are now doing the Polar Express and it was AWESOME! I really wish I remember that movie. It was SO fun. And we didn't even get to go on the train. Just the pre-show stuff was awesome. no wonder it was sold out in like June. We're totally doing it again next week :) Plus Sister Dresang was there (not a member, but will be someday), Bro Grant was dancing in his conductor uniform, a girl named Garla has a Mormon sister, some guy named Chris had met with the Elders before and loved it. It's just Potential central. We'll take pictures this next time :)

Sunday Quentin came to church, but he was super reserved and seemed kinda really bitter about something. We were fasting for him. Seems like a lot of it is mostly not church related--just a really bad week. But he doesn't talk to much about it, so it's hard to tell!! Poor kid :(

Kim's like downright depressed right now. I don't know how to fix depression, geez! And Chad didn't come to church, but I'm sure he has a good excuse. He's pretty good about things like that. We met Priscilla and Michelle on the exchange and they said they were coming to church, but they were in the hospital for something...great. Satan works in too many ridiculous ways.

I was feeling sick Sunday night and we almost didn't go out because we didn't have any appointments but I remembered a lady in our ward saying how on her mission her and her companion would get sick every time they stepped outside, and that was how Stan prevented them from working, so I decided that we should go out anyway and try to contact some people, and it was hugely successful! Almost everyone was home! And it was amazing. Still felt sick through it all, but I'm so glad we did it :)

Besides, it involved CAROLING! We sang our Ward Mission Leader and his wife our rendition of "Jingle Bells" while we delivered them chocolate because Sister Newton's mom sent wayyy too much of it. It was hilarious :):)

A bunch of other stuff happened too, but I can't remember because I didn't bring my planner. You know. Short-term memory loss over here. But it was a good week! A lot of personal preparation because I know changes are coming, and not gonna lie I'm just a bit nervous for them 8/ These last few transfers have just been so wonderful...I'm nervous about going back to not-extremely-blessed areas and companions and investigators. I know we'll be blessed, but I have a feeling it's gonna be hard.

As President Cutler told us: "If you get transferred [someplace horrible], then you can rejoice, as did Job of old, that you get to suffer." Whooo!

Sister Neal