Whoa, whoa, whoa. Today I realized that it is February.
HOLD DA PHONE.
Calendar say whaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
Can we all just take a moment and back up to the year 2013 when I got on a plane in JULY? Or JU-ly if we are saying it like my friend Wade hur in Prairie Du Chien.
This Thursday marks 6 months in the actual mission field in Wisconsin. 6 months down, 12 to go. And trust me, I am NOT counting down.
This week was great!
Monday and Tuesday were kinda weird cause Sister Asper had to pack. The worst thing about a mission = packing up and moving. It's crazy how fast a place becomes your home. And then you have to somehow put it all in two suitcases and leave all of the people you have grown behind with some stranger and you eat your feelings and cry. And Prairie was Sister Aspers first and only area, so we ate a lot of oreos and chocolate. ....and donuts.
Monday night we went to dinner with Brother Wentz and his daughter and her two kids. That was fun.
We had a lesson with the Lafaves on Tuesday and they threw away all of their coffee and cigarettes!!!<3 #tearsofjoy Then Doris took us out to get pizza and we talked about the Book of Mormon because she just read the whole thing in two days. #what? We saw Jonathon and Matt and it was good. I was really sad about Sister Asper leaving. Transfers are stressful for everyone involved.
Wednesday we drove 2 hours to get to Madison. Sister Asper met her new comp and off she went. I was the only sister at transfer point and there were like 20 elders, but they apparently can't keep it together if theres only ONE sister around, so they shipped me off to Cottage Grove for 4 hours with the Sister Training Leaders. That was awkward. I hope I am never in a trio. haha. I just sat there awkwardly and the people they were teaching were like, "who are you?" and they were like, "this is sister butler. shes just spending a couple hours with us. Will you read verse 17?" I felt realllllllly weird. But they are nice and they fed me lunch and then took me back to transfer point and then I still was the only sister there for like 30 minutes until the FunBus from Oshkosh came carrying my new comp, Sister Lybbert.
Sister Lybbert is hilarious. She is one months older than me....to the day. She is from Queen Creek, Arizona! PARTAAAAAAY! She was going into law enforcement, so shes legit and serious. But shes funny and chill. And we are already finishing each others sentences. And I just really like her.
I got to drive back from Madison- that was fun.
Oh. I also saw my very bestest friend from Neenah Spanish in Appleton Zone named Elder Museus at transfer point and we legit almost hugged each other and had to correct it and go in for the handshake as he was very excitedly telling me that the husband of a less-active lady in Appleton 2nd ward (who I love because she only speaks spanish and made us delicious spicy legit mexican food and always cried because she felt the spirit) is getting baptized into the Neenah Spanish Branch and I just about died because that is so exciting and I wish I could go to that baptism. #newslikethatshouldwarrantahug #thegospelblessesfamilies !!!!
Thursday was great! We had a super awesome lesson with our new investigator Dennis. (Let's all just take a moment to be thankful that we got a legit investigator from tracting, please) Sister Fitzner came with us and we taught the Restoration and Dennis was tearing up a few times and then we bore down in solid testimony and then invited him to say the closing it prayer and it was awkward for a good 3 solid minutes and then he said the most touching and heartfult prayer and when we all opened our eyes, we saw that his had actual tears. #tearsofjoyagain #spiritisessentialtoconversion
Friday was great too. We volunteered at the nursing home and it was so much fun.
I'm being lame because I worked so hard that instead of writing in my journal on Thursday and Friday, I went to bed. hahaha. So now I cant remember. BUT. It was awesome and we walked a TON and got some new investigators and had some really good laughs.
We spent Saturday in Boscobel visiting our peeps. Got a new investigator named Alan. Shoveled some drive-ways/side-walks.Talked to our friends. got a lot of return appointments. We talked to our legit farmer friend named Wes, who is married to a less active sister. He is a hoot. So Wisconsiny! So typical Wisconsin farm boy. He was telling us all about his dairy cows and hes so funny in a dry, serious way that I almost died laughing.
QOTW: "My cows LIKE the cold. They'll go up on the ridges with the wind and thats not good. That's when you get yourself some frozen tits. And thats a death sentence."
Okay. That's not that funny. But just imagine it in a thick Wisconsin accent said in a super monotone voice from a guy covered in mud. Hilarious.
Sundays in PDC are always good because I love the branch. Favorite humans ever. I am DEFINITELY coming back here. I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaay closer to the members here than in Appleton. I think that just comes from being in a branch...
Robert came to church. He's so great. He leans over to me and said, "This truly IS the church of Jesus Christ". To which I smiled and replied, "Yes. Yes, it is."
And I will end on that<3
OH WAIT! I lied. You've got to watch the skeleton runs in the winter olympics on Feb 13th-15th. Marc Antione is a likely medalistand is FROM PRAIRIE DU CHIEN and the whole town is freaking out. #letsputpdconthemap
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