Happy to Be Here, Proud to Serve!: August 1, 2016 "B-Day Fun"

This week could be summed up by this simple sentence: God. Bless. America.. The sun was out all week and it was so nice! Oh I miss it so much you all have no clue. People here say that there is sun here but they don't even know. Its been pretty great this past week though.

Best thing in the world, so we started volunteering at the animal shelter here on the Island and we get to scoop poop and clean cat cages all morning. IT'S THE BEST. Last week there were two big cages just full of baby kittens and we got to just hold them and hang out with them and clean up after them. I die every Tuesday morning. XD

Speaking of animals, we have someone in our ward that we visit a lot and almost every time we go try to see them they aren't home but their dog is always outside and we are BFFs now and he comes running up to me every time and we hug. Love that little pup.

So I told a woman in my ward about the Krumkake thing that my investigator in Mount Vernon told me about and she had us for dinner this week and brought this out for me to see! I thought it was awesome!

Speaking of people in the ward, I just gotta tell you all about how much I love the people here. There's a family that I love that have a bunch of kids. We have to memorize their names to get dessert every time we have dinner there and these kids are awesome. The mom told me that I am a celebrity in their house because they all quote me from the talk I gave when I first got here haha It made me laugh.

We have our investigator, Dee who I love so so so much! She is so funny I'm not kidding. We are like best friends. Whenever we go see her she talks about how much she hates the slugs that infest her garden. She has tried everything to kill them. If you have any suggestions, please email me. We showed up one day for a lesson and her whole driveway was just covered in slugs doused in salt. haha. She's awesome. She makes us rhubarb pie and we are having dinner at her house on Thursday. She told me that if I didn't keep in touch with her after my mission then she would show up to my house in Arizona and put a slug on my face. Oh man I seriously love her. She is doing awesome too! She is set for baptism and is reading the Book of Mormon. Dee does have terrible migraines all the time though. She has a migraine 5 days of the week and it is nuts. Mornings are the worst for her too so it makes it hard for her to get to church. Please pray for her!!

Thursday was SISTA PICKUP'S BIRTHDAY!! WOOO!! The night before I banished her to the bedroom and told her she was done coming out for the night. I decorated the apartment and we had a party in the morning with waffles and presents!