Well it's been another crazy busy week here in Alexandria and
Pineville! It's crazy busy working two wards and planning exchanges with all the
sisters!! President and Sister Wall came to our district meeting on Wednesday
and that was a lot of fun! We got to share with them our district's goal of
handing out 40 copies of the Book of Mormon each week and it was really fun to
share our stories with them and talk about the success we've been experiencing
in meeting our goals! He told us that he can see the difference it's making in
how happy we all are! I absolutely love working with the Walls and it's going to
be really hard to say goodbye to them the end of June! I'm grateful for this
opportunity I have had to work more closely with them this transfer!
I got to go on exchanges with the Natchitoches (pronounced nak-u-dish.
And don't worry, I don't understand how either). It was really fun and everyone
there is very southern! They also have alligators there but I didn't get to see
any during my brief stay :/ it was really fun to visit the area and get to know
the sister I was with. It's interesting to see how different missionary work is
each area too! The town was beautiful though! It's actually the town where the
movie Steal Magnolia was filmed and we got to drive by the house that was filmed
in!
We had a crazy storm on Friday night! We were across the river in
Pineville and heading home when the lightning started and the rain started as
soon as we got into Alexandria. When we got home the wind picked up and it was
CRAZY!!! When we got inside bishop noticed that Miss Robin's flag was about to
fly away so he went outside to take it down. As soon he stepped outside the
power went out. Immediately bishop just stops and says, "well I guess there's
nothing left to do but sit on the porch and watch the storm" and he immediately
just turned around, sat in his rocking chair, and proceeded to watch the storm.
He hadn't even finished taking down the flag :) I was laughing so hard and
afterward we changed into our pajamas we got to go down stairs and watch the
storm with them and it was amazing!! The lightning was crazy and the thunder was
rolling. I'm definitely going to miss these southern thunderstorms when I have
to leave! What's even crazier was the next day was absolutely beautiful and
besides the new ponds created by the rain everywhere, you couldn't tell there
had been such a huge storm the night before. It was an absolutely beautiful
clear day!!
Now onto other news! We set a baptismal date with one of our
investigators this week and that was really exciting! We started teaching her
just a couple of weeks ago. Her boyfriend is a member though and she has been
coming to church with him for a few months now! We are really excited and we are
hoping we can work with her boyfriend so he can be worthy to baptize her because
that would be amazing!! We have another investigator that we pretty much have a
baptism date with too but we haven't been able to meet with her because our
schedules just won't match up. It's really frustrating having to plan so much
time each week to travel for exchanges and then this week we're fix'in to go
to Baton Rouge again for another leadership mtg and then we are teaching our
zone at our zone meeting on Friday so that all takes up a lot of our time. When
we go to Baton Rouge it's basically an all day trip because of travel time :/ we
are really hoping to meet with all our investigators this week though! That's
really our lost exciting news for the week! One of the girls in the YSA who I
was close to, is actually from Pineville and she was home for the weekend and we
had dinner with her and her family last night. It was really fun to talk with
her and hear how everyone is doing back at LSU! She said Quynh is doing great
and is actually her new vt companion and I was really excited about that! It was
really fun to see her though and she had messages from the ward a members to
give to me. I thought that was really sweet of everyone!
All in all it's been a crazy busy but exciting week! I just wish we
could have more hours in each day to accomplish everything we need to! Every day
just goes by waaaaay to fast for my liking!!! So maybe in your prayers this week
you can ask Heavenly Father to give Sister Lindstrom and I more time :) I'm
continuing to love it here in the wards though and I love the south more and
more everyday. I love when you go to find a less active and you accidentally go
to the wrong trailer and the people are always so nice to tell you where you
need to go. They are always very polite when rejecting you and your message
:)
Thank you for your emails and for keeping me in your prayers!! I love
y'all and I hope it's a great week!!!!!
I love y'all!!
Sister Emily Ogden
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