First of all, we hit our goal that we set for ourselves the first week of our companionship of hitting standards every week of our companionship! I think before that my longest streak of hitting standards was 3 or 4 weeks in a row. Because this transfer was extra long, We were able to end our companionship having hit standards every single week! That's 13 weeks now! WE ARE SO BLESSED I DONT GET IT. The Lord loves us for sure and really loves the people here. The best part about it was that we had Stake conference this Saturday and Sunday and our President and a member of the Seventy were there. President Bonham and the Seventy were talking to us and President started bragging about how we had the longest streak of standards in the mission. Good times for sure.
Okay now that I am done bragging here's the rest of my week:
TAMARA GOT BAPTIZED!! I love this girl so much words cannot even describe how sad I am to leave her and the whole Axthelm family. It was a special day for sure because it was also her Birthday and her older brother got home from his mission in Japan that same day. CRAZY!! very happy day!
Some funny stories from this week that I wish I could tell you all in person because I don't really know how to write these stories down to give them their full effect but here we go:
Funny Story #1-We have these two investigators named Dan and Terry that live in an assisted living home that have told us a thousand times that they want to come to church. They are so sweet. They live a block away so we told them that we would show up every Sundaymorning to walk with them. We go every Sunday and they always give us a lame excuse. This Sunday we went to pick them up and we convinced Dan to come because church was later due to stake conference. So we walked with him to the church. Dan is a solid guy, like a big, tall, gentle giant and he has this problem where he literally is always bending halfway over like the hunchback of Notre Dame and can't see where he is walking. The whole time we were walking to the church we were just corralling him to the sidewalk and making sure he didn't run into the road. We get to church and sit in the front (bad idea). Dan was falling asleep through the whole thing then asked where the bathroom was so I told him and he got up and we watched for a second as he tried to go into the bishop's office but luckily a nice man at the door showed him where it was. As we sat there for a while I looked over and saw him standing there staring at us all the way across the whole chapel (mind you there were a thousand people there because it was stake conference). I quickly got up and took him over to sit by us again. As the meeting went on, he got up to put a hymn book away without looking where he was going and trampled over a woman and her two kids walking by at the same time. The meeting ended and we started to walk home with him. For some reason he was walking SO SO FAST. We didn't know what to do. We were like running next to him because he was just booking it. I signaled to Sister Nelson to get on the other side of him and box him in so that he wouldn't kill himself by running into traffic. It was seriously like a video game because there were hilarious obstacles on the sidewalk. There were trees drooping over the sidewalk and he kept hitting his face against them and we were just saying "Slow down Dan!". He would not slow down and then we got to three straight up piles of rocks just hangin out in the middle of the pathway and we shouted "DAN WATCH OUT THERE ARE ROCKS IN THE ROAD!" and then he just trampled through them and almost fell over. After another minute of running he starts slowing down and says " I think I need to take a break for a second" and as he starts to try to sit down he just straight nose dives it for the pavement and then curls up in a ball. We were so confused and it was just such a crazy situation we didn't know what to do and luckily our relief society president and her husband start pulling over to help us and they drove us the rest of the way. We got him home and as we started to leave he says "Yeah, I want to come next week too". Now we don't know what we got ourselves into but luckily I'm out of here so Sister Nelson can figure that one out. haha craziest Sunday of my life. Glad he got to come to church though!
Funny Story #2-We were walking and saw this lady walking her dog and I freaked out because her dog was a bassett hound and I was just like "OH MY GOSH I LOVE YOUR DOG!" and then she says "Don't get too close ladies, I've got the swine flu" What the hecky?? I didn't even know people could still get that?? We got in the car and just busted up forever.
Funny Story #3- We were thinking about how funny it would be if our walks to church with Dan and Terry turned into a Hot Rod situation where a bunch of people just started joining in with us turning into a huge parade of people marching to church to the tune of "We're not gonna live in silence, we're not gonna live with fear, ooooooohhhh oooooooohhhh"
Funny Story #4- Last night Sister Nelson and I celebrated 13 weeks of standards by drinking grape martinelli's, playing card games, and listening to a Negro Spirituals CD we got from Gwen. It was like we lived in an old retirement home. Maybe we will join Dan and Terry there sometime soon.
Funny Story #5- We are teaching some people that told me that they were all talking about how funny my last name is and they said that there is a weird pastry called "Krummkaka" that they are going to make for me tonight because it's my last night here. haha I love this place.
Funny Story #6- Taco Bell didn't even try to make my tostada look somewhat decent.
Funny Story #7- Sister Nelson and I volunteered to do a talent in the ward talent show this week. lol. Sister Nelson's mom sent her a rainbow ribbon twirler in the mail so we decided that I would sing somewhere over the rainbow while she danced with the rainbow twirler. It was hilarious and now the ward is obsessed with us. I hate that I am leaving right now. There was also a little girl drawing portraits for her talent so I got one done. Looks just like me.
So I am way sad to leave Mount Vernon and WAY WAY sad to leave my dear Sister Nelson. We work so well together and I love her so much. Everyone in the ward says that they love the two of us together and they don't want us split up. I DON'T EITHER!! We also said goodbye to our favorite soon to be missionaries, Emilie and David. I LOVE THEM.
Said goodbye to my favorite woman ever-Gwen. The legend. Words cannot describe my love for her. She wanted me to ask mom if she could adopt me as one of her grandchildren. I told her she should be okay with that. Hope that's alright mom.
Lastly, here is my last Mount Vernon second coming cloud. I will really miss this place and tears will be falling from my cheeks just as the rain falls from these gray clouds in Washington. lol.
PRAY FOR ME! PRAY FOR SISTER NELSON! I love you all and pray for you often. Say your prayers and remember who you are!
Love,
Sister Krummenacher
