August 15, 2011

My brain is already coming up blank on what we did this week. It was not near as eventful as last week but it was still good. Guess what? we got transfer calls on saturday and....I am leaving the promised land. :( Surprise surprise. I will tell you all about saturday. Saturday we had the chance to go to the temple. Willard was going to go and do baptisms and he wanted us to go with him. We were able to go to an earlier session to go do endowments. We got there and it was very exciting. I was a little nervous because I had not been for a while but it was one of the best experiences. Once again I felt a lot of peace and comfort especially in knowing that I am doing what I am supposed to be doing. We then went into the baptismal section of the temple and we were able to sit with willard and talk a little bit about how he felt. He said that he wished he could have brought some of his family names so that they could get baptized. :) That is pretty special that he wanted to do that. He absolutly loved the temple and I can't wait til july to see him go through it all. It will be a wonderful thing. When we got out of the temple, we had a few voicemails. We figured it was the district leader telling us if we were staying or going. We started to listen and it was not the district leader. It was president woodbury. If President Woodbury calls, then you or your companion are training. YIKES! I was not all that nervous because President asked for Sister Nelson to call him, not me. Phew I got out of that one but man, I am leaving the promised land. Sure enough Sister nelson is training and I get to try to fit all my stuff in my bags. That is not going to be so fun. I have started to pack and I am going to cross my fingers and I hope yuns do too. :)

Sunday was a good day but not as well. We are teaching this lady named Sherry Taylor. I have gotten so close to her and she has gotten so close to me as well. It is almost like being with Irene. We went over and spent sunday night with Sherry. She was on and off crying. She taught us how to cook some really good corn and a really good peach cobler and she had ribs for us to eat. The ribs were not all that good. They were very tender and falling off the bone but it was all fatty. It was not very good and it was cold. People here like to serve cold/warm food. It is pretty gross. I am used to hot out of the oven food. I am going to be making the corn that I ate because it is the best corn I have ever eaten. I guess it is because it is full of butter and oil. :) Just like kentuckians like it. Oh! the word on the subject line is a weird word. We heard it from Sherry and it is supposed to mean corn on the cob. I will have to tell you what it is when i get home because I don't really know how to spell it.

Sister nelson and i did a musical number on sunday. It was really good. The spirit was very very strong and sister nelson said that a ton of people were crying and someone was just sobbing. :)

Bishop Barton is not very happy that I am leaving. He wanted me to stay forever in that ward. He jokes that all he wants me here for is to play the organ. haha. but really, he wants me here more than that. I was really expecting to stay here the rest of my mission and was excited to do so. I have gained so my close relationships with people and it is going to be sad to leave. This will probably be the hardest area to leave I believe. It kind of feesl that I am supposed to be going home now because I have set it in my mind that I would be spending the rest of my mission in corbin but Heavenly Father pulled a fast one on me. :) haha. I hope my next area is just as good as this one. I think I may be going to Salem, Illinois. Let's see if I guess right.

That was pretty much it. We have a busy schedule ahead of us. We want to make a tape for Willard and sherry and Judy so we are going to go to the church and record the song we sang yesterday for them. It will be fun to do that. One day, a couple weeks ago, I was able to sit at the piano and just play and it was so fun. I miss being able to do that. As time keeps going that I am not able to do that, I get sad. But time keeps coming to when I will be able to do that and i get excited for that. I was able to sit down, a couple weeks ago, and I made up a new song. i really like it and I can't wait for you all to hear it. : )
I love you all. Love amanda.