Walking in Memphis

Dear friends and family,

Another wonderful hot humid week here in the south. This week we went to Memphis. We spent Tuesday through Thursday working with our sisters over there. Memphis is a whole other world. I don't exactly know how to describe it but we crossed the ridge and we both could definitely tell we were not in Arkansas anymore. One thing that is really cool about serving in Memphis is that these sisters get to work super close to the temple and so when describing what church they are from they often refer to "the white building with the gold man on top" aka the temple. They get to talk to lots of people about the temple and describe to them how it is a place where families can be sealed for time and all eternity.

 

Speaking of the temple, this week for our Mission Leadership Council meeting we get to go to the temple. Sister Mathison and I are so super excited! Also this week is the 40 year mission reunion celebration. All the past mission presidents will be coming back along with lots of returned missionaries from this mission. It should be a really neat experience.

After we returned from Memphis on Thursday night Sister Mathison got sick which meant we were stuck inside until she got better. Being sick on your mission is the worst. The next worst thing is having your companion be sick on your mission. Luckily she is starting to feel better and hopefully will be 100% healthy by the end of the week.

 

As always thank for all your prayers and support. Y'all are the best

Have a wonderful week!

Love

Sister Aase

 

Photo - this is what you do to not go crazy while your companion is sick in bed.  Here are some of the other things I did to keep myself occupied.

- read scriptures

- read Jesus the Christ

- organized the area book 

- watched "together forever" which made me laugh and cry my favorite quotes "chance of a life time jack" and "you bet your life"

- cleaned the house

- wrote letters

- made cute things 

- ate food because what else are you suppose to do when you are bored

- danced

- did a puzzle

- took a nap

- ate pie

- started transferring all our records into the iPad.