Sister de la Cruz's Mission Adventures: Imposter Missionaries

Hi Y'all!

So something really interesting/weird happened this week. We knocked on this guys door and he said that missionaries had stopped by a couple days ago and he was actually just about to call them. I was like "oh, that might have been a different church" and he said nope, they were from our church. I said "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?" And he said yep! He also said they were riding bikes and were Elders. We were really confused but he wanted to make a return appointment to we were happy.

But then it gets weirder. We were talking to our District Leader yesterday and he said that they knocked on a door and the guy said missionaries had just stopped by his door too! And they had given him a Book of Mormon and Restoration pamphlet! Now, if you don't know, us missionaries have very specific areas we are assigned to and there are only one companionship per area. And there are no bike areas even close to us. The District leader and his companion are even an hour and a half away from us. We have no idea who is going around pretending to be missionaries but this is just getting weird.

We found this car and we had to

Another awesome thing that we found out yesterday is that Elder Quintin L. Cook of the Twelve Apostles is coming September 8-10th! It's kinda funny because earlier this week I was telling Sister Condie about when I met him at Stake Conference in Seattle he told me he was coming this year and I was wondering when that would be. And then we find out that he's coming in a few weeks! He's going to be having a special meeting with all of the missionaries in our mission on the 9th and I'm really excited to hear him speak again!

Me and Sister Condie :)

Some other interesting things to note from this week:

1. Sprickets are real - they're half spider half cricket and like to hide in laundry rooms and attack us.

2. We are teaching a blind investigator which is a really interesting experience. He is hilarious though and love to make jokes about being blind. "You ladies look great today!"

3. We had lunch with our elderly neighbors and Bill asked if we would marry someone who wasn't Mormon. When we said probably not because we wouldn't be able to be married in the temple his wife Lois, got quite, look around, leaned in a whispered, "Would you marry someone who's Black?" We almost died because she was dead serious.

4. Gumbo is sooo good <3 A member made it for us for dinner and her fiancé is from Louisiana. It had sausage, shrimp, crab, and a whole lot of other stuff.

5. My new favorite song is "When the Son of Man" by David Archuleta, check it out, you won't regret it :)

Have a great week everyone! I love you all!

Sister de la Cruz