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| We have to go back into the heat? |
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| When you help a member clean and they get you Sonic milkshakes afterwards- yay! |
It can't be done. Just kidding! It can. Anybody can survive humidity. Although, sometimes, it is necessary to stop and try to figure out how to breathe water. And then you have to make yourself drink some water, even though you might not have the slightest inclination to do so.
Ok. So this week has been really warm and really humid, and somehow, we got to spend all the hot parts of the days outside and the cool parts inside, but that is okay, because I found some sunscreen and got to be really friendly with my water bottle.
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| UGA campus on the second day of classes! |
Last Tuesday after district meeting, Sister Johnson and I had the chance to go to the University of Georgia campus to contact people at a booth put on by the YSA Branch Sisters! There were 12 missionaries talking to people, and I learned that I have a lot to learn about street contacting. Luckily, I will have plenty of chances to learn because we will probably be doing that at least once a week (for anywhere between 3 and 6 hours at a time) while I am here! Fun times!
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| The things you find while tracting... |
Other than that, we did a lot of the same missionary work that is pretty normal. We knocked on doors, helped with some service projects, and taught a good number of new people! Actually, on Thursday, we had spent the greater part of the day outside knocking doors and pretty much nothing good had happened all day. We were tired and not very excited, but we decided that we were going to be happy anyway, because that is what missionaries do! We made it through the afternoon and went to our dinner appointment, which was refreshingly not stressful (food + young family + good video = happy dinnertime). When we left, we headed to an appointment with a lady who had been referred to us by two sets of Elders. Upon our arrival, we didn't really know what to expect, and when we sat down, it looked like she might want to bash, but it turned out that she was super open and really interested in understanding where we are coming from. She committed to read and pray about the Book of Mormon and we even got a return appointment for this week (those are rare things here)! As we drove to give the car to the Elders for the next day, we were overjoyed and decided that it was a blessing resulting from our hard work earlier in the day. Moral of the story: choose to be happy and patient and life will get better over time!
The next cool thing that happened this week was yesterday when we got to church. As we pulled up, we saw President and Sister Marsh (Mission President and his wife) standing outside our building talking with someone. Well, that someone turned out to be Elder Costa of the Seventy, who decided to visit (of all the wards in the mission) Athens 1st Ward before heading back to Salt Lake! Sister Marsh introduced us and we had a pretty powerful Sacrament Meeting with him there, even though his whole talk/focus was not really related to missionary work. Good stuff!
Well, I hope you are all having a wonderful week and that everybody is ready to start heading back into the school year! Don't die in the heat or humidity and drink lots of water! Also, don't look at the sun too much today. Unless you have cool eclipse glasses. I'll send pictures of mine next week (thank you members!)
Love,
Sister Houghton
4315 Lexington Rd
Apt. 12-F
Athens, GA 30605
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