"I am not about to pick a fight with the fire marshal. The fire marshal can do whatever he wants." (Week 19)

HI EVERYONE!! In my head I feel like this was a normal week, mostly because it wasn’t as crazy as last week, but when I actually think about what happened it was just as nuts-o as ever.

Tuesday was P-day. We emailed for like an hour, then the library kicked us out because it was supposed to snow. And when it snows the whole world shuts down here. So we got some lunch, then us and 4 elders went to the mission home to play games and finish emailing. It was pretty chill. Then that evening it started snowing, so they had us go home and told us not to drive till the roads were clear, which wasn’t for another few days.

So Wednesday we did fat nothing except chill in our apartment. I did read and paint a lot, and we watched some church movies. Not a bad time really.

Thursday once again everything was closed, but we tried our best. We ended up doing a little bit of service, and having dinner with Kathy again.

Friday we visited a ton of referrals, and got a really cool new investigator from it! His name is S. Then that afternoon/evening we had district meeting. I gave the instruction, and I focused it around a quote by Jill Bolte Taylor (shout out to mom for telling me her story), the quote is “Please take responsibility for the energy you bring into this space.” And I think that is just an awesome quote. Energy is very real, and it can also be called your spirit or countenance. As missionaries we are representing the Lord, and the Lord would bring good energy everywhere he went. So it is important for us, really not just missionaries, but everyone, to be aware of the energy they are carrying with them. Because you can control whether it is good energy or bad energy, it’s all in what you choose. And then I talked about patience and how we choose to be happy. It was my first instruction and I thought it went pretty well. Then we went to Cracker Barrel as a district ;)

Saturday we had a FIRE lesson with our investigator C and her fiancée L. This was the first time we taught L, and he was soo into it! He was really excited about the Book of Mormon. He knew there was more he didn’t know, so he likes having a new resource to study. He asked lots of awesome questions, and agreed with everything we said. So that was cool. They have already excepted baptism, and they might even push up their wedding date so that they can get baptized sooner. We will see!!! Then we had a 4 hour technology training zone conference because we are GETTING SMART PHONES FINALLY! I am so ready. These will help out so much.

Sunday we had church and mission coordination and all that fun stuff. We also had a dinner appointment with the Bishops family, which was delicious. Then we had weekly planning and that fried my brain.

Monday I hit my 1/4^th mark exactly. And we also had zone conference with A GENERAL AUTHORITY!! Elder Costa. He is the best. He is so loving and funny and bold and a great story teller and I left that meeting feeling very encouraged. I also made some new friends so that was fun.

Tuesday we had a lot of appointments with referrals, and all of them fell through. We did have an awesome lesson with C about temples and family. I love the temple y’all. It’s the best. Unfortunately our temple here is getting torn down in like a week, so some people won’t be able to go for over a year :(. Then that night we had a dinner appointment and I finally had some good Mexican food. There are no good Mexican restaurants, so you have to make it yourself.

Then this morning we took our roomies to breakfast because it is Sister Jones’s birthday, and 12 other missionaries surprised her. Then we had a tour of the LSU stadium and that was cool. If I liked sports I probably would have thought it was even cooler.

That’s all y’all!!!! I hope everyone is doing great!!! Keep emailing me! Or email me for the first time! Either way:) I love you all soooooooooooooooo much!!!!!

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~Sister Danielle Reid