The Rains Came Down and the Floods Came Up

Dear Friends and Family,

So I've been getting a few questions about what kind of food they are feeding me here in the south. Well first of all I've been eating a lot. The members of the Conway 2nd ward are very good to us missionaries and if I'm not careful I will have to be rolled to my next area. I haven't eaten anything really strange yet though we have a member who has promised to feed us raccoon and squirrel next time we come over. Don't quite know how I feel about that yet. But I have had a lot of southern staples over the past month and people are always so surprised when I tell them I have never had _____ before. For example chicken fried steak, southern cheese dip, banana pudding, and chicken spaghetti. Also EVERYONE here has a garden so every veggie that we eat is home grown which is really cool. The best food that I have discovered here in Conway though are pineapple whips. OH MY GOODNESS SO GOOD! They are kind of like pineapple ice cream but without the ice cream and added stuff. So Good! 

Sister Aase & Sister Mecham with Pineapple Whip - YUM

This week was awesome as always. It is really cool to be missionary. I wake up everyday with a purpose and with excitement to go forward and I go to bed each night exhausted but so happy to be where I am. This week we started teaching Tami's grandson Kameron who is seriously the most spiritual 9 year old I have ever met! It was really cool we taught him about the restoration and he was absorbed! He brings his Book of Mormon everywhere, even the grocery store! We asked him after our first lesson to pray about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Then we came over the next day and before we could even ask if he prayed he says "Just so you know I prayed last night and I got a really good feeling and I know that Joseph Smith is true!" #coolestkidever! I wish I was more like him. He is so excited about the gospel and he truly loves the Lord and loves learning about the gospel (I mean seriously who takes their Book of Mormon to the Grocery Store!) He is a great example of why Christ tells us again and again to become like little children. So he is getting baptized with his grandma and he is so excited! Tami and him both came to church along with another one of Tami's grandkids Gracie who is two and the cutest thing ever! I wish I had taken a picture of her on Sunday she was dressed in a pink dress with sunglasses and high heels and she strutted into sacrament meeting #socuteIcoulddie

Also this week Sister Mecham and I became inspired and decided that our ward needed to have a big activity so that members could invite their friends to the church. So we are putting together a carnival. It is going to be awesome! And while the carnival is going on outside we will be giving church tours inside. We are pretty excited!

Yesterday in church the sacrament theme was missionary work. One of the speakers was talking about how members don't need to be worried about knowing everything before talking to a friend about the gospel and he quoted the same thing I've been quoting to myself since I got out here that is "You know enough" Then he added and if you don't know something ask the missionaries. And I suddenly became very aware that the ward looks to me and Sister Mecham a lot. We are suppose to be the experts they can come to with questions about sharing the gospel or teaching the gospel. That is a little overwhelming for a month old missionary. But I love that I'm learning along with the members how to share the gospel and how to be a better missionary and I hope that I would be able to answer their question if they ever came to me with them. 

As always thank you for the emails and letter I read and appreciate all of them!

Love

Sister Aase

PS   This week the rains came down and the floods came up and my raincoat was amazing! Also I am loving my little bike basket. Bike picture next week for sure.