Inspiration Apples: April 6, 2015 Letter & Pictures

So many shenanigans in Alex City. It has been said that this is the craziest/sassiest area in the mission by many. HAPPY EASTER YESTERDAY! Conference was legit! We must make dalek conference a tradition when I return. The Saturday session no one came to the building to watch it so it was just us and the Elders. We only have a key to the building and not the clerk's office so we couldn't get the TV out to watch it. We ended up all crowding around and watching it in the Family History Center. haha I love this place. After conference we went to visit one of our investigators, Stephanie, she has two girls Montasia and Lanasia. She is always saying, "I might surprise you and come to church." Which means yaaa.... I ain't coming. But during the Sunday morning session on conference there was an hour left and the door opens in the back of the chapel. It's Stephanie and the girls walking in. The girls had already been to church before and this was Stephanie's first time. She came during some really good talks, so she really enjoyed it and said she will have to come next week to see what a normal Sunday is like. Love them.

THEN. Sunday, we were supposed to have a Potluck with the Elders cause no one invited either of us to dinner but that morning, our ward mission leader, calls us and is like don't make plans for tonight cause you're having dinner at my house. Sweet. BUT he gets to the church to pick us up...without his wife. So he can't give us a ride. So I tell him "we don't have enough gas or miles to get there." "No, my wife will be really sad if you don't come. You have to be there."...so we bite the bullet and drive there on a quarter of a tank. I didn't know that he lived in. the. middle. of. nowhere. Turns out he lives 30 miles away. We follow him out there thinking that we would have enough gas...nope. We got there, but we needed to fill up to get back. So I put the nearest gas station in the GPS...its ancient and closed. Put in the next closest...doesn't exist. We are legit in the middle of nowhere. So I face it that I'm never going to live this down and call the Elders to come save us. Sister Rogers thought we were going to die and I'll admit that I was kinda scared too. So they show up and put gas in our car...then it wont start back up. The battery died. So we try jumping it and.... Nothing. So now Big Blue is sitting in the middle of no where all alone and we have to get it towed somewhere today. We then had to break the rules and ride back with Brother Ermer cause ya.. he wasn't about to leave us out there and I was not about to stay out there. The Elders sat in the back of his truck and loved that so yes. That was Easter.

But yeah its getting hot. Can you ask mum and dad to send me some of the clothes I left? Anything plain really. I'll send them money to send it. And Sister Rogers skim boards too! She gets home 4.5 months after I do, so we should all go. She reminds me of you too. We have a good time. I can't wait for you to meet all my companions that are a party...we are going to have a party all of us. Anyways, be good, Love you!

Montasia and Lanasia

Us broken down taking selfies while the elders fix our car.

And now we have to walk because I don't fill up the car when it needs it...and Brother Ermer

Conference in AC.

And what we do in between sessions.

Uncle Fred. He is always sitting on his porch enjoying the weather. No matter what the weather is. He is crazy though hahaha. We always go talk with him and share scriptures and all that stuff. He used to be a Reverend. But one day we brought up the Book of Mormon. We asked him if he knew what it was and he said, "Ya it is about a different God." and we were like...mmmm. No. So we explained it a little. The next time we were in the area we said we would bring him one. So we did!