March 3, 2014

Here is this week's email!

Hey!

I am really liking Red Oak! We have met some really amazing members! It's really weird not being in Plattsmouth. I miss it but I also really love being in Red Oak.

There is a couple that I met my first night here and then they went to Florida and today we got a postcard from them in the mail. It was great!

We met this other member couple that live way out in the country and they show animals. The last couple years it has been wolves they have 11 now and 2 are inside. They are just like dogs to them. Kellan, one of the inside wolves, would lick you to death and is so sweet! Over their marriage they have raised and shown all sorts of animals, especially reptiles. They had anacondas, Burmese Pythons, the works. They are so cool!

And being with Sister Harris has been really great! We are really great friends and it has been a lot easier to be somewhere that I don't know anything having her as a companion. And the Nix's are really great!

We had zone conference this week and we went up to Sioux city again. It's fun and so nice to hear from President and Sister Weston, and all the other trainings. This Zone conference they also had mission Olympics, and I won for the Curls. It actually was pretty official. I got a medal, they took pictures, and everything; it was fun!

We were able to see an amazing miracle! We were going through the ward list and were trying a member the house had a huge gate and HUGE dog in front of it. So we were a little nervous. This lady comes out and we talked for a minute. Apparently the couple had moved but she said they might be in a different house on that street. She gave us some house numbers and we tried them. One of the houses there was a lady named Michelle and she said she never heard of the couple but that she liked our name-tags. She told us to come in and we had a very brief overview of the first lesson. She was astounded when we talked about Priesthood and Prophets, and that there was a prophet on the earth today. She actually said "Why have I never heard this before!? where does he live?" She was so excited. We had a return appointment but something came up. When we went over for it she told us she couldn't that day but rescheduled and even said she had been talking to some friends about what we said and they also want us to talk to them. It was amazing!

I am so glad that I am here! I love it! Love you guys!