Totally "Fort Worth" It!

Hermana Kelsey 4:5 -email-

Mama!

 

This week has been great. There were a few weird things on the way, but all is well. I have decided that I am going to write you differently for a little while to try out how I like it.

 

Monday:

We played soccer for last p-day. Hermana Summers, my companion, is a little crazy in soccer and she's like a freakin wall. If you try to go up against her she will boot you out of the way. We get a little violent with each other, but that is how we do companionship inventory. :) I'm just kidding.

 

Tuesday:

I had a really bad day. We spent a lot of time at the hospital because we have a new investigator who's wife is in the ICU so we go and teach him at the hospital. Anyway, I don't know what it is about that place, but I get really sad and stuff when we go there, and I can't understand what anyone is saying in spanish. It's weird. But anyway, so we were there visiting, and it threw me off for the whole rest of the night. So I pretty much felt completely useless. Anyway, so I cried a little. Then as we were driving home I was crying a little and all of the sudden I see police lights in my rearview mirror. Yeah, I got pulled over! He told me it was because I was driving around without my lights on. I blame Sister Vaughn for that, because she told me they turned on automatically. But it was okay, he just let me off. Anyway, as we were pulling away after that, we got a call from one of our branch members that Jose (our investigator at the hospital) 's wife had just passed away. So then we were all sad. Then about 30 minutes later we got a call from her saying that they had revived her. So she wasn't actually dead. It was crazy!

 

Wednesday:

We met with the Young Women in our branch (there was supposed to be 5 girls, but there ended up only being one). We talked to her about missionary work, and answered any questions she had. It was pretty cool. Then we personalized some Book of Mormons by writing our testimonies in the front. After we got done, the Young Women's president gave us a gift bag with some stuff from Bath and Body Works. It was pretty awesome.

 

Thursday:

We went to the assisted living place by our apartment, and "gambled" with the old people. We played 21 with these giant dice. It was fun. Those old people are so awesome, but most of them are completely NUTS! Most of them fall asleep while we are there. It's funny. Also, we are running low on miles, of course, so we tried to ride them bus today. We ended up getting stuck in downtown Temple, because the bus didn't come when it was supposed to. It was pretty lame. But we had one of the members from the english ward give us a ride. She saved our lives! Just kidding.

 

Friday:

Nothing really happened today, except we decided to tract this one trailer park out in the middle of nowhere. We pulled in, and I asked Hermana Summers where she wanted to start. She said, "I don't know". I didn't know either, so we just drove for a few seconds and then I randomly stopped the van. We got out, knocked a couple doors. We thought it was a bust, because it was all uninterested white people. Then the next one we knocked was a Hispanic woman. She was really interested. We asked her if there were any other hispanic people around, and she told us there was only them, and the lady across the street, who was at work when we were there. It was crazy that we found her!

 

Saturday:

We have a restaurant down here called Billy Bob's. They have an eating challenge called "The Fat Daddy Challenge". You have to eat a hamburger with 6 patties, a large fry, and a milkshake, all within 30 minutes. So a bunch of the Elders decided to try it. It was crazy. Only four of the eight actually did it, but it was really fun to watch. Except I felt sick just watching them.

 

Sunday:

We talked in sacrament today...and I may or may not have almost passed out close to the end of my talk. I accidentally locked my knees the whole time I was talking. It was really weird. But on the good side, my branch president commented on how well my spanish is coming along, so that was cool.

Anyway, I'm a little sad I missed Founder's Day! That is one of my favorite days of the year. I better go now though. Te amo mucho!

 

Love, Kelsey

 

Papi!

 

Happy Father's Day! I wrote you a card that I sent in the mail today. I actually forgot yesterday was Father's Day until our branch president announced it at church. Whoops! That's cool you're working on the apartment. I'm glad you are still keeping busy. I sure am! Our area is doing so great! We have had so many amazing miracles happening. I know the Lord knows that the people here are ready for the gospel. Anyway, I better go now. Te amo!

 

Love, Kelsey