Markee's Mississippi Mission: Happy Easter to you all!!

This week was a busy one!

Happy Easter!

Last Monday we emailed and then we napped. All day.

In the evening, Sister Smith came and picked us up to go out to dinner.

I love Sister Smith! (Mom if you still have that picture that she sent you, you should post it because I haven't taken I picture with her yet.

We went to Antigua's. It seems like we end up going there almost every week. I am okay with it though because I love chips and salsa!

After dinner we went and picked up the Elders, and thus started a whole bunch of driving.

We went all the way down to Ruston!

Sister Conder and I had a sleepover at the Ruston Sister's apartment.

We woke up really early in the morning and hopped back in the car for some more driving.

We had Zone Conference in Shreveport! It was so much fun! I got to meet my mission "sister" Sister Marble and I got to see Elders Hingano, Harvey, and Hansen, and Sister Greenhalgh!

It was super fun!

Sister Marble, Sister Conder, and ME!

These fools! Elder Hansen, Elder Harvey, Elder Hingano, ME, and Sister Greenhalgh. (I don't know where Elder Hunter was but he was there.)

They installed the dreaded TiWis into our cars. DUH DUH DUH!

No more speeding for anyone in the mission.

After Zone Conf. us and the Elders went to the Louisiana Broadwalk! It was super fun!

On the way home we stopped at Cheddar's and we had Monte Cristos. Oh my goodness those things are sooo good.

We stayed there for a little bit and we played the odds game. Elder Blair was determined to get me to eat something gross, but I won every time! :)

We had exchanges this week and I was with Sister Dobbins again.

I made German pancakes in the morning, some of you may know them as Hootenannies.

Sister Dobbins found a flat in her bike tire so we had to walk. and walk. and walk.

We walked pretty much all across town. It was kind of the worst.

We had lunch with Sister Lou at Old Fashion and then she drove us to Olivia's house. SWEET MERCY!

We taught Olivia all about the Spirit world and the lesson went really well.

I was extra excited because Olivia quit her job!

She hated that job and it sucked because we could never visit her because of it, but NOW!

Things are definitely going somewhere with her!

Then we walked some more to Sherry's.

Things went well with her too!

She really opened up with us and told us what was really bothering her.

After that lesson, Sister Conder and Sister Harrison came and picked us up from Sherry's house so we didn't have to walk some more.

I came home to a package from my family.

It was a Easter package!! There was lots of candy and a bunny that smelled like chocolate. I have been smelling that bunny ever since...

For dinner I made Beef Stroganoff. It was very good for my first time away from home.

After dinner the other sister's left, but they came right back because they felt like they should stay one more night and just leave in the morning.

On Saturday, we woke up bright and early, and the Novacheks came and picked us up and drove us down to Monroe to do some service.

Mormon Helping Hands has been doing a lot down there because of all the flooding and we have wanted to go for so long.

It was so much fun!! and gross.

Sister Conder and I only had time to do one house but that is okay we will get down there again soon!

So what we did. We got to this lady's house that flooded during and storms and we helped her get everything out. Then we got to work!

We cut sheet rock from 4ft and down and pulled it all out, and two of the rooms had paneling so we had to rip those entire walls out.

I helped Elder Hill, he is a Zone Leader in Monroe, take all the installation out of the walls. It was super gross but Elder Hill and I had fun with that! Wet installation is the grossest thing ever, and it gets EVERYWHERE! Dad probably already knows that.

After the walls were all taken out and the work for that house was done we ate our sack lunches.

Sadly Sister Conder and I had to leave after that. :(

But it was okay because we had to go to Women's Conference!

And I am glad we did because it was a good one!

I got another package from the little Randalls! Thanks! Sister Conder and I about died from how stinkin' cute the sippy cup is!

Me and all my Easter things!

For Easter we had fast Sunday because of General Conference. We trained because I am still a newbie. After that we went to Olivia's house.

Man, that girl bombarded us with questions! They were all super good questions too!

She has started keeping her commitments and she started reading the Book of Mormon!

We had dinner over at the Singleton's house, and there were 2 other families from our ward there. The Loggins and the Redfords. Plus the Elders were there too.

Silly members always bending the rules. ;) It was fun though.

We played Catchphrase after eating. We ate lots of food and then we went outside and hid eggs for the little kids to find.

While the children were looking for the eggs I threw a football back and forth with one of the Elders. Then I ditched that, I get bored of things too quickly, and climbed up a little thing they have in their backyard that is like the Pyramid, I don't know what those things are called. Right before we left I sat on their little swing set and talked to the youngest boy, Gray. He told me ALL about monster trucks.

Then one of the families, the Redfords took us out to meet with a less-active family.

That was my Easter!

Now for pictures!!