Tuesday- Sisters conference was so great! we had three workshops, one was a painting class, one was a lesson about positive attitudes, and the other one was a yoga session. hahah and then at the end president donaldson gave a devotional and it was so good. apparently they do sisters conference once a week just for fun haha. it was so fun to meet all the other sisters in the mission and to see my homegirls from the mtc! Some things i took away from sisters conference was to develop habits of positive thinking, and make a decision under 5 seconds and then go with it. like when your alarm goes off in the morning make that decision under 5 seconds that you will get up. But the conference was in the church building and the heaters were broken that day so it was literally freezing! we were all wearing our coats in the church and then they brought in heaters and then one sparked and went out so we had to turn off all of them because of the one. hahaha just making memories. Then since my flight wasn’t till the next morning, a few of us had to stay at the mission home that night and the mission home is so old fashioned, i love it. president and his wife had us (about 8 girls) wait in the living room until dinner and so we were in there bored out of our minds cause we had nothing with us so to do so some girl started playing the piano and someone started singing and we were trying to think of games to play and it was straight out of the movie Pride and Prejudice. it was so fun. hahaha then we had dominoes pizza for dinner. blessings! after we had pizza sis donaldson was like oh my goodness today is pancake tuesday! so she went into the kitchen and she made us english crepes hahaha thay were so good! I’ll tell ya, the Lord really answers prayers because i needed those crepes! we also had a meeting during sisters conference about eating healthy. i could not stay awake in that one.
Wednesay- We flew back to Portadown. we got on this little dinky plane and it was crazy!!! i had fallen asleep on the plane cause we’re always tired and then next thing i know i’m woken up by the plane legit shaking. there was so much turbulence. so i looked out the window and we were right over the ocean. like i legit thought we were landing in the water we were that close! and this lady a couple rows behind me was screaming. hahaha it was so funny. but yeah sketchy plane ride. then we got off the plane and had to walk to the train which was like a 25- 30 min walk but it was sooo windy. if you put a small child on the ground it would have blown away. it was hard to walk and the birds couldn’t fly hahah. We taught carlos in a cafe but then got kicked out so we had to find another place to teach so we were just on the street trying to teach it was crazy. he had so many questions. i dont even remember what i said to half of them. but just gotta trust in the lord and it will all work out hahah. he wants to meet again so that’s good.
Thursday- i woke up and was walking down our stairs and straight up biffed it. hahaha i had my blanket around me (because our heater isn’t working so we have to wear like five layers to bed haha) but i had my blanket around me and so when i started to fall I couldn't brace my fall cause i was holding tight to my blanket. hahah but i bruised my heel pretty bad. so that was fun.
Friday- two of our lessons fell through but its all good. haha We GQed all day. We had dinner at this guy in my ward’s house named Eamon. we had salmon and that was rough. haha but i just soaked it in ketchup so could get it down. Then we went chapping after dinner and i had to pee sooo stinkin bad and i was like sis. lough we still have an hour to chap and i need to pee. so i went behind this three foot cement wall. haha it was raining too lol.
Saturday- We were GQing this morning and we started talking to this guy and he just went off about joseph smith and all this crap about him and i was getting so heated and i started to go off on him but then i remembered to be Christlike which can be very hard sometimes. but yeah that was a great way to start our day. haha So we had a first lesson with a guy named berry, and while we were teaching him i asked him if he would be baptized and he said yes and i froze up. i didnt know what to do because we had never practiced when someone actually says yes to baptism. so i looked at my companion but she was waiting for me to say something so i was like well alright sweet dude. I could've done that way more spiritual but yeah. haha so that was exciting.
Sunday- literall the most crazy day of the week always. we went to church. the ward is funny. there’s not a ton of people and its always freezing. I swear they don’t know what heaters are here. haha. we have a set of elders in the ward too. so this is gonna be a straight up missionary story). then we went back to our flat to grab lunch and i was just so out of it and it was pouring outside and we both really didnt want to go out cause it was so cold and we had 3 hours of GQing. but of course we went out and had positive attitudes. but since it was pouring there was nobody on the street but we were like lets just walk around the street 3 times and then go chapping. so the first time nobody talked to us. then the second time i was walking past this guy and i said hi and i started to walk away. then i was like no i need to talk to him and i started to talk to him and he was super interested and we got an appointment with him. it was awesome! then we got another appointment right after him! it was so amazing and definitely the boost of confidence we needed. haha then we ran into this guy who only spoke spanish so my high school spanish kicked in (those of you that know me well know that i know little to nothing of spanish) but he needed to get to Belfast. so we got him to the train station and then he needed to go buy cigarettes before the train. so we had to run all around town trying to find him some. it was crazy but we got him on the train and helped him. so yeah thats why you always do what you’re supposed to even when you don’t want too sometimes. hahah Then we had dinner with Rosa and she made fish and vegetables, literally what i always have for dinner. but portuguese people just make straight up fish, like eye balls, teeth and everything. so it was a challenge getting that one down. then her husband came home drunk and told me and my comp we had to eat the eyes of the fish so we did. hahaha then rosa wanted to sing karoake with us so we sang and danced. hahaha it was so fun
I miss the temple! I never thought I would say that but I really do. haha dude it’s freezing here but it’s great.
on top of pratts hill when we fist arrived to the mtc!
rains so much the bottom of my dresses are always soaked
snowing in town
when it was snowing like no other. my cheeks get so pink when i go outside but my comps doesn’t
at sisters conference and got to see my homegirls from the mtc, missed them so much
us at the mission home, pretending its pride and prejudice
selfie in the mall
