March 10, 2014

The latest from Sydnie!

Hey!

I loved seeing the wolves at the Kosho's house. When we were there last time they told us that they had had anacondas, Burmese Pythons, tons of reptiles, rare forms of Geckos. I think they have had basically every kind of animal. The wolves are really cool. It's awesome to be that close. We are trying to find a day to do service out there. They are both older and it's harder for them to take care of all the animals, but they are great, and do a great job!

I did the Bicep Curls so just lifting weights. Sorry I wasn't super clear with that.

It has been really great this week in Red Oak too! Last Monday night we had about 15 minutes left before we had to go in, and all our plans had fallen through for the day. We decided to try one house close to home. We knocked on the door and the lady was initially really mad. She thought it was like really late, our conversation went like this

Emily:" Don't you guys know it's like 9:30 it's really late! "

(she turns around to her husband behind her and says)

"It's the Jehovah Witnesses"

" I don't know if you have ever hear of it but we are RLDS"

Us: "Oh my gosh we are LDS!"

Emily: "Oh my goodness! Come inside it's cold out there!"

We talked for like 45 minutes that night. Her husband who is also RLDS made us homemade hot chocolate while we talked. They are really interested in our church. They just moved here from Texas. We had like an instant connection with them. We talked a lot about the differences between our churches and got to know them, and they asked us to come for dinner on Friday night so we could meet the rest of the family. We had dinner with them and stayed for like 2 hours talking about their church and our church and all about what we believe. We also read some from the Doctrine and Covenants. We really had to go, but as we were leaving she just said "But I am not done, I have more questions" and she decided we needed to have dinner with the family again and invited us for Mexican and to talk more. So tonight we are going over again! They are so great! We have all become really good friends and have had some amazing talks with them. They even wanted us to come with them on a weekend trip to Nauvoo with their whole family. It was hilarious! But they understood why we couldn't. Funny enough though I think they are planning a trip for us all when me and Sister Harris are done with our missions though!

We also had the great opportunity to have stake conference this weekend with a general authority, Elder Golden of the 70. The topic for all of conference was hastening the work. It was really great and very needed and we even got to meet Elder Golden. We were sitting pretty close to the front and he was trying to meet a couple people and he came over and talked to us. He thanked us for our service and shook our hands as well as a couple of other missionaries that were sitting nearby. It was also great because I got to see a ton of people from Plattsmouth, actually most of the ward! It was a great week!

Thanks! Love you guys!