"Um..Are Y'all Having a Meeting?"

Hey Y'all!

I hope everyone's week has been great! This past week and a half went by a lot faster than I thought it would considering we didn't have P-Day until Wednesday because of transfers. Sister Condie and I are staying in Teay's Valley for another 6 weeks. 

Some highlights from the week:

1. We had District Meeting in Montgomery on Tuesday which is like an hour away from Teay's Valley. We roadtripped over there and it was cool to see more of West Virginia. One thing that was kinda weird was that we had our meeting in a furniture store... It was owned by a member and he said we could use it so we did. We couldn't lock the door so in the middle of the meeting this lady walked in and was like "umm...Are y'all having a meeting?" I can only imagine what she was thinking when she walked into this store and found a group of missionaries meeting on tables in the middle of the store that were for sale. After she left we blocked the door with a chair and a "Stop Smoking" poster.

District Meeting in the Furniture Store

2. Sunday we had a really interesting night tracting. First, we were walking off a lady's doorstep and my skirt got caught on a pot and brought it crashing down. Luckily it was plastic and didn't break and we were able to put most of the plant and dirt back in without the lady seeing. Then we went to another house and the people just invited us right in. They had dogs though and they were a little too happy to see us. While I was talking to them the dogs were jumping all over us and one peed all over my leg. I just had to smile and keep talking but immediately after we left the house we went to a member's house so I could get all the pee off. After that we were walking around and saw some people outside in their yard so we went over to talk to them. They had a bunch of chickens and let us hold some. While we were talking to them a bird pooped on Sister Condie! I won't forget that night for a while. 

3. President Lindhardt came and visited our ward on Sunday. It was a great week for him to come too because we had a guy that we had been teaching there and several less-actives we have been visiting. The guy I talked about last week that came after Sister Condie gave him a smackdown even bore his testimony about it and how it had been a sort of wake-up call when we knocked on his door.

Companions <3

4. Today for P-Day we went to Charleston with the other Sisters in our Ward, Sister Thorsteinson and Sister Coombs. We visited the State Museum and walked around the Capital Building for a little while checking out all the history of West Virginia. 

State Capitol

5. This week was a food miracle. After having like no money left for the month for groceries because we went a little overboard in the beginning we ended up eating better than we have the whole transfer. On Monday we went to a member's house and had these giant steaks and had a different member bring us over everything for pulled pork sandwiches (which are like my favorite thing ever). The next day someone else took us out to eat for lunch and someone had us over for dinner. We had food from members for almost every single meal and I know we are being watched over by Heavenly Father haha

Something Spiritual:

Something I've learned so far out here in West Virginia is that everyone goes through trials and has difficulties in their life. What I've also learned though is that Satan tries to get you to use them as an excuse while Heavenly Father uses them to test your faith and make you stronger. When trials come we can either mope around and give up because it is hard or put our trust in God and do everything in our power to follow what he has commanded us to do. I have met many people here and you can usually tell who chooses the first option and who chooses the latter. The one's who choose the latter tend to be happier and find more joy in life while those who choose the first tend to be in a never-ending state of gloom because life never gets easy. We must choose to not let the adversary get to us and press forward putting our trust in God. That's the only way we'll find happiness. So yeah, that's what I learned this week:)

I hope everyone has a great week and I love you all, 

~Sister de la Cruz

 Drive to Montgomery

We drove past an old cemetery that was HUGE