I can't believe that I whole week has already gone by! The time here is flying! So I have developed a love-hate relationship with Virginia. I love it because the people here are so cool! If you want to only go to one place and travel the whole world then come to Virginia. It's such a melting pot and I have learned so much about different cultures here. I have eaten a French breakfast, a Mexican dinner and tonight I have an African dinner. I'm excited and scared for the meal tonight. I don't know what an African dinner consist of, but hopefully its good! So the people are all super cool. I also love the fireflies each night! My companion laughs at me every night because I get so excited when the first fireflies come out. They look so cool, but I tried to catch one and up close they are the ugliest bugs ever. Virginia is pretty awesome though. I have to say its not bad here. The weather is the only thing that's hard. We go tracting every day and the other day it was 99 degrees with 89% humidity. Nothing is more fun than walking in that. Haha but its all good. We make it fun and play games as we walk.
So last Monday we got to go to the mall here. I guess its like the biggest (or longest or something like that) mall in the U.S which is pretty cool. (Abby has been to this mall when she was a little girl. It's an outlet mall that is literally a mile long.) We also met this new lady to teach last week. That was a cool story. We were leaving the neighborhood and Sister Kellogg stops the car (she is the designated driver) and says "let's knock on that door real fast." So we get out and knock on her door and this lady starts yelling at her son to go get the door so I turn to Sister Kellogg and go, "It's your house, you talk" haha, so the son answers the door and we say we are sharing a message about Christ and this lady starts yelling at her son asking who is at the door. We tell her we are missionaries and she's like "well come in then" and I did not want to go in. This lady was a yeller, but we came in and she had all these questions and was Super cool!! We are meeting with her again tonight. I'm excited to see her again. Tonight is going to be an interesting night to say the least.
So this week we also tracted the longest street in our area. It's about 3 miles and that doesn't sound that long, but when you knock on every door it takes forever. But it was a cool accomplishment and we met lots of people doing it. Tracting is actually kind of fun. You get to just walk outside and you meet so many people. So many people are so open with strangers on their doorstep that its actually hilarious. They tell us all kinds of things and I'm just like, "I don't even know you" haha but its fun.
We had an investigator show up to church yesterday! We have been meeting with her a lot and teaching her, but she finally came to church! We are meeting with her again tonight and hope that we can set her with a baptism date. Yesterday in church I also had to give a talk. It was scary because its the church's first impression of me, but everyone said that I did great! Well that was my week! I hope to find some more people to teach, but I am loving it out here! Even when I feel like I'm melting I'm still finding ways to stay positive and have fun! I'm getting better at teaching everyday and I am no longer scared to talk to people. Being shy is a thing of the past. Haha, well I love you all!!
Love,
Sister Lawson
P.s. Thanks so much to Aunt Sarah and Uncle John for the card and to mom for the package!!!
Waiting in the car for the rain to stop.
Tracting!
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