Last week started off great with a zone conference, where two zones got together and had a meeting with President and Sister Alexander and a lot of the other mission leaders get together with us. It was really great. Sister Alexander told us some interesting history about North Carolina, and particularly the Battle of Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary war, which was pretty neat since that's in our area! We even had General Cornwallis and an "Overmountain Man" visit with us (senior missionaries are great and I wish I had a picture of their costumes). Anyway, the point of her story was that the South has been prepared for religious freedom and the chance to hear the gospel! President Alexander emphasized that we must bring others to Christ, since they might not be able to get their on their own. And the Assistants taught us how to plan better. We also learned that (gasp) we will no longer be holding zone meetings, only zone conferences and district meetings. It's a little disappointing because zone meetings were great, but this also means we won't have to get rides as much.
After zone conference, we had the chance to do exchanges- again! Sister Nunies came down to Shelby with me this time. We had dinner with the H family and had a great time. Our appointment that night cancelled, so we went to visit Granny (she insists we call her that instead of Sister M) at White Oak. Sister Nunies loved her, of course. Afterwards, we tried to visit someone with Sister H, but she wasn't home, and we ended up talking to some drunk people on the sidewalk that were headed to the corner to panhandle. It was an interesting conversation.
On Wednesday Siter Nunies and I did studies and helped a member with their garden, then drove out to Gastonia with Sister P to exchange back. We visited some people in Kings Mountain and had dinner with the B family, which is always a great time.
Thursday we were supposed to take the car in to FINALLY get the front fender replaced, but when we called to make sure it was okay, they told us the insurance wasn't quite worked out yet and we would have to wait. Bureaucracy. So our poor little crippled car will have to continue on for a little while longer. It was actually kind of a relief, because without the car we would have had to start bike week a few days early. Because we had the car we were able to go to a Relief Society gardening activity. We had invited a potential investigator, but she wasn't able to come. That was disappointing, but we did get a nice little pepper plant to take home. Its name is Petey. I don't even like peppers, but it's a cute little plant.
Because of the insurance mix-up we were a little all over the place, so on Friday we had to finish our weekly planning. We also managed to talk to E over the phone. She is going through some really rough times that make it difficult to meet with her, so she could really use some prayers! We were able to share a few scriptures and pray with her, and that seemed to help a little.
On Saturday we woke up a little early and went out with some ward members to do service by helping people set up for an arts fair in town square. It was really fun, and everyone was super grateful for the help. We pretty much have setting up canopies down to a science now.
On Sunday I finally had the chance to give a talk I had been assigned my second day in Shelby. I actually wasn't even scheduled to talk yet, but someone wasn't able to come, and luckily I had studied up on it. The topic was fasting, so that wasn't very difficult, and it went really well. We also got to visit Sister T and her two kids, D and D. We played Uno and Connect 4 and got to meet their new potbelly pig. It was so fun.
The weather is warming up here in Shelby, so I have a feeling that bike week is going to be fun :P
Love y'all!
Sister Reay
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