Hey friends!
This one's been a crazy one..... A crazy awesome one! Especially Wednesday..... Oh, that Wednesday... It started off awesome and ended awesome, but what happened in between the awesome was.... Well.... I don't really have words for it.... I mean..... I called 911 for the
first time in my life.... So.... No worries. Our investigator that we had to call for is doing just fine. And we're good, too, and then we went on our merry little way.
Before that, though, we woke up bright and early and headed over to the mission office to pick up our brand new car! #42miles We had to hang out at the office with the Abingdon Sisters and the Watauga Elders until they could install the tiwi's in our car, aka the worst thing ever that only missionaries have to deal with, but hey, we'll survive. It was quite the party. Seriously, just hung out with some of my favorite missionaries for a few hours, and it was awesome!
Then, to finish off our Wednesday, we picked up Essence and got Aiyana to come with us, and we walked over to the church for Young Women's. We were in charge that time, and so we just partied because we could. We also had our investigators, Sam and Debra, come, and they loved it. We played Uno and Bounce Off, and it was the best! Seriously love those girls!
On Saturday we set up a booth with our branch over at Riverfest. It was pretty awesome! #alldaypantsday We had coloring pages, and Book of Mormons, and all sorts of fun stuff! A few hours into it, President Griffin and his cute family showed up, and it became even more fun
because let's be real now... Who doesn't love President Griffin? Nobody! That's who!
We also had our investigator, Ella, invite us over to her church for their "Youth Explosion," which was super awesome, so we snuck away from our booth for an hour to watch it. It was at a black Baptist church, so everybody was just feelin' it, and my hands were very sore from all the clapping that happened by the end of it, but it was so awesome. They also had shirts that said, SWAG: Saved With Amazing Grace.
We ran back to the booth after that and finished up there. President gave us permission to stay out late and watch the fireworks they had. It was super fun!
All right, friends.... This is the end of my time here in Loudon. We had the transfer call this morning, and I'm going to go to Knox South to serve with Sister Hamp. I've actually known more or less where I was going to go since Saturday when President gave me a ton of hints trying not to give it away, but so obviously did. Lol! Silly President! Also, my dear companion, Sister Parry, is going to be turned into Hermana Parry for the last three months of her mission, because we don't have enough Spanish sisters in the mission to train the amount coming in this transfer, and hermanas have to be trained by hermanas. We've know about it since Saturday, too, so she's been brushing up on her Spanish, and I've been saying random sentences in Spanish that really probably don't mean anything at all trying to encourage her. We knew it was coming, though. Really I just don't know if I should laugh or cry for her! But hey, that's just the life of a missionary for ya!
Loudon, Tennessee: The place that stole my heart. T-2 days. Over and out.
-Sister Shelton
That one time I went to Fields of the Wood in North Carolina.
That one time we got a brand new car.
Quotes of the week:
Me: Being in pants and having a booth and staying up late with you guys makes me feel like a college student with a nonprofit organization like "Save the pandas!"
Elder Leon: Oh yeah! Save the pandas!
Essence: What if there was a missionary Pokemon Go, and the rare one was Jesus? Would you play it? Jesus would be the rare one and the 12 apostles would be the second most rare, and Judas would be the one that runs whenever you get close to it.
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