Nature Week

Where I'm at: Wow this week went by so fast! I'm so excited for the future because I am going to be serving with Sister Esplin and Hermana Quigley is going to whitewash Batesville Spanish with another Hermana. She is going to do such a good job! Arkadelphia is going to miss her, but she is going to be so great! Sister Esplin and I are going to the Memphis temple next Monday so we might not have much email time but I am fine to sacrifice email time for the opportunity to go to the temple. Another cool thing that is going on in the Little Rock mission is that we are going to get area smartphones and Facebook very soon. I think that we are going to take our mission to higher and higher heights with this technology and I'm super excited to share the gospel in a bunch of ways. 

Spiritual: We had met a lady named Maria over the weekend and came by her house to teach her this week. We ended up being able to teach her and her kids. Her kids are junior high and high school age and so the lesson started pretty crazy, but we were able to bring the spirit and testify of the Book of Mormon. I'm pretty sure we ended up on Snapchat at some point, but they all committed to read and we have another chance to meet with them this week. I am so excited. 

Funny: We ended up in Bismarck on Saturday and saw a lot of animals. We saw horses and wolves and chickens and it was very fun. I got to pet the wolves. They belong to a super cute couple that live near their family and they just want to provide a sanctuary for these rescued wolves. They just told us to never bring food near the wolves. It was an iconic experience. 

I'm super excited for transfer #3! 

We also asked Emma about any Harvey residual that she experienced. This was her response: So here in Arkadelphia there are a lot of old people that watch the news so we heard about Hurricane Harvey from one old lady and then we heard the rest of the news from people that bore their testimonies in Fast Sunday. Also, people here are really obsessed with Facebook so they will talk about one picture that "went viral" and everybody but us all know what they are talking about. We had to bike through some of the Harvey leftovers and that wasn't fun, but wind was more of a problem than rain here. Everybody kept telling us it was supposed to rain. It sprinkled sometimes.