10.10.2016

The week we almost died in the woods

Fall is here which means I've reluctantly pulled out a few long sleeve

shirts. Summer was hard knowing that the beach was an unrealistic

place for me to go to, but it had some wonderful perks as a

missionary. Like it being light outside all day, and not having to

worry about the cold weather that everyone reminds me about. So, the

weather transition has been a little bitter sweet. Part of the sweet

has been the leaves changing color. Our area is pretty big and I hate

spending a couple hours a day in a car, but I seem to enjoy it more as

I've driven through post card scenes. Pictures and descriptions pale

in comparison to the beauty, so basically be jealous of me during

these few weeks :)

This week we got to be the victims of a real life horror movie. To set

the stage I need to give you some background information on what's

been going on all over Pennsylvania. Groups of people have decided to

dress up like clowns and go jump random people. Ok, so now that you

know that little info let me go into our near death experience. We

were being good missionaries and all, just trying to find a less

active. Our GPS took us to the middle of the woods where a small

camper trailer sat on a cleared piece of land. There was a car in

front of it, so we figured he was home. We knocked on the door, and no

one answered. In fact, it was super quite except for what sounded like

a water generator near a little pond about 100 feet away. So we

decided to go back to our car and leave. As I was walking back I

peeked my head in the car window and saw a clown mask chillin on the

passenger seat. I told Sister Terry to look, and right as she saw it

some psycho looking mountain man with an ax came charging from the

trees towards us. I don't think I've ever ran as fast as I did to the

car. We got in, drove away, and were basically freaked out for the

rest of the day. Just kidding about the whole psycho man part, but the

clown mask was real and that did freak us out a bit!

Our Ward had a surprise birthday party for a lady turning 90 this

month. We got to see a bunch of talents that our Ward members have

like yodeling, line dancing, being an Elvis impersonator, and

accordion playing. It was a fun party and it was nice to see people

outside of their Sunday persona.

We had another rural PA style lesson with P and Am this week.

Thankfully the fleas were under control, well partially, so they let

us inside their home. I kid you not, there were six dogs in the family

room alone! I was a bit on edge the whole time because everywhere I

turned a dog was, but it was still a good lesson. And at the end of it

P accepted the invitation to be baptized in December! That was

super exciting! So now our main goal for her is to get her to come to

church. Hopefully we can make that happen this week.

Our other super awesome news is about D. After sacrament meeting

she pulled me aside and said how she has been praying and praying to

know if it is true but hasn't felt anything until someone bore their

testimony and kept saying it is true. So it hit her like a brick wall

and she couldn't stop smiling and was so excited to tell us that she

knows it's true! She said she just felt relieved and on cloud nine

when she got her answer. We had given her a chapter to read about

baptism and she said that it confused her because she was already

baptized, but during church it totally clicked with her! So when we

meet with her this week she too will be getting a baptism date!

Besides that it was just another week full of finding and mundane

missionary stuff that you would get bored reading about. But, I'm glad

we had some cool miracles to outweigh that stuff!

  

Sister Morrison

Slow days call for peanut butter filled chocolate

donuts from Sheetz 🍩

 

Last Pday with the Ridgeway sisters. Can you tell

we love Pittsburgh?

Classy Walmart selfie

I feel like this describes a missionary's

experience here pretty well.

Just chillin with our main squeeze Phil.