Lotsa Things

 (Sister Putnam)

Monday: Golden Retriever!!

For Pday we went to WinCo & ran into a ton of other missionaries there, so we talked for a long time & then we went to the mall. On our way in we saw someone walking a golden retriever puppy so we got to pet the puppy and he was so cute! In the mall we got frozen hot chocolates from DQ and the guy at the cash register paid for mine, which was really nice!

Tuesday: Flamingo service

We went to bishop's storehouse & since it was Tuesday instead of Saturday, we were with Elders Wilkey and To'omalatai, and they are so fun! Brother Davis had me put a trivia question on the little whiteboard and so I put "Why do flamingoes stand with one leg up?" the answer, of course, was to conserve heat (and therefore energy). Well we decided to make the flamingo thing into a game (there were very few orders and we were getting really bored) so we tried to see who could stand on only one foot the longest. I honestly don't remember who won but it was pretty fun haha.

Wednesday: Fishy Exchanges!!!

On Wednesday we had exchanges and to begin, we all went to get sushi together, had district council, and we did Relatives Around Me on FamilySearch.  The closest I am related to anyone in that district is 9th cousins haha. Then we had a lesson with a ward member but they didn't show up.

Thursday: AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

We had a Bible study with a lady named Kristen again. She's in Washington, actually, just not in our mission. She wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon and so we taught her about the Restoration. She said that she's also doing studies with some missionaries in California, and that they read a chapter of the Book of Mormon together and it was super powerful. Kristen said she knew ever since she was baptized into her church when she was a kid that always knew there was more than just the Bible. She said she already knew it was true without even having finished read the whole thing or prayed about it yet!!

Friday:

Friday, we had lots of texting lessons, and we dropped off cookies to new people in the ward who'd moved in.   Nobody was actually home when we dropped off the cookies, and we couldn't find the majority of the people we tried to go to, so that was kinda frustrating.

Saturday: Ghosted

It was Elder Wright's birthday so we & the Sister Training Leaders waited for him & Elder Iketau to be at the gym & then we all decorated his door with birthday cards & stuff, so that was awesome, and he liked that. We tried to contact Reba on Saturday, and I sent a text to the group message Sister Madsen and I had with her, and Reba just showed up as "Facebook User" so I went to go and DM her & she again showed up as Facebook user & it says she's not available on messenger. So, I went to look up her profile & there was nothing. She was showing up for Sister Madsen on Messenger but not on FB so later that night we asked Elder King to look her up & she didn't show up, so it appears she's deleted her Facebook account altogether. We're worried about her & we've been praying for her, & we hope she's okay.

I love you all, thank you so much to all of you who read through these emails, sorry they're so long haha

Sister Alyssa Putnam