''Dreadlocks in the street! Band name! Call it!'' (week 6)

Hello Hellooo!! Here we are again, another P-day. My old foe. Jk I looove P-days. So here it goes;

Monday after emailing we went to the park, played volleyball, had a blast. Then we had to turn in our precious car to the shop, so we have been without a car all week. Monday we actually had Sister Varner come with us to a lesson with a new member, so she drove us and she took us out to eat after!! Best mission mom ever!!

Tuesday we biked forever! You don’t get much done when biking. But thankfully this week it cooled down and actually feels a bit like fall. Which really feels like a cool summer day here but whatever, it’s nice.

Wednesday was more biking. We biked to downtown on this really nice riverside trail down the Mississippi. In the city we filled out stuff to start volunteering at the Old State Capital which is now a museum, and it beautiful. They are so sweet to the missionaries there. The woman in charge of us is named Caroline and she told us that she is our mom while we are here. So don’t worry mom, I got people looking out for me. Then we biked to a referrals house, wasn’t there. After that we knocked on some doors, and taught the restoration to one dude on his porch. We scheduled a time to bring him a Book of Mormon but he wasn’t home. Figures. Then we biked to another appointment, which we were told was a meal appointment with some investigators, along with the Spanish Elders, but they forgot they said they were going to feed us, so we just did some Bible study with them then went home.

Thursday I was not feeling it. I was dead tired from all the biking, and we just biked some more. And since biking takes so long, you can’t get to like any lessons, so I wasn’t very spiritually fed either, so I was a little grumpy. But the best part of the day was after we did some volunteering at the Red Cross, Melanie, the lady in charge there, refused to let us bike home, so she gave us a ride. She is so funny so the car ride home was a hoot. This was such a blessing because we would have gotten home well after the sun went down if we biked, and that’s not safe.

Friday was a full 4 hours of biking. Tried some people, tried some store contacting, nothing was working. Then Sister Maynard had an impression to bike all the way to downtown. On the way there we saw a vulture eating a squirrel just like a foot off the trail, no biggie. We went and talked to a few people there. We didn’t find anyone to teach, but I hope we planted a seed or did whatever God wanted us to do there.

Saturday picked back up for me. We had little Ashley Scott, a ward missionary here who is living with her aunt until she can go on her own mission, give us a ride to our first two meetings. We met with a referral named Dena, who agreed to read the Book of Mormon when we brought her one, and she invited us to eat Thanksgiving dinner at her house, so we will see. Then we saw Corraine, she missed us but her kids have been so sick that she isn’t progressing much lately. She was on date but that will have to be pushed back. We used the Restoration to teach her how Satan fights his hardest right where we are about to do something good. Pray for her that she will be able to make it to church again. After that we get a lot less productive. It started pouring rain like none other, so we went to Olive Garden with the LSU sisters. I just got a smoothie, because after that they drove us to our dinner appointment. Another cute couple from Utah. They have the most adorable child. After dinner, the mom, sister Piccalo, drove us home, and I saw my first real lightning storm. It was crazy! Almost constant lightning with no thunder, for like 3 hours!! I couldn’t stop watching on the ride home

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Sunday was prime. Ward Council, Church, all that jazz. Then we had Mission Coordination and the ward mission leaders house, and they fed us and the ward missionaries and talked about the work and it was awesome. Then we got a ton more referrals from the East Sisters, then we tried a less active, but nothing. After that we started biking to our dinner appointment, and that was the best bike ride ever. It was a really peaceful road, and it was nice and cool, and I just sang to myself for an hour, it was awesome. And then we get to the neighborhood, and it is the fancies neighborhood I have ever seen. Just big huge houses surrounded by golf courses and ponds and a ton of children playing and I wanna live there. The inside of their house was awesome too, and there were a ton of people there just hanging out and it was just nice. They also drove us home, they are going to heaven.

That’s all! I am emailing from the University Library for the first time and it’s weird! People my age who aren’t missionaries! I don’t know how to talk to them! 

I love love love you all!! Keep me updated! Send pictures! Make good choices!!

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~Sister Danielle Reid