"I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?"
After we left the library last Monday we walked over to a Sports store because Sister Conder wanted to check it out. On the way there it started to rain, and there was lightning and thunder. The store was only a few blocks away but by the time we got there it was pouring rain.
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| Before we were soaked, I did not get a picture of us soaked |
We stayed in that store until Sister Singleton could come and pick us up because, let me tell you, it was raining very very hard.
We ran from the store to her car, there is pretty much maybe 2ft of sidewalk in between, and we were soaked when we got into her car! We were literally soaked!
We had her take us back to our apartment and we decided to wait out the storm there. Sister Conder was packing and I was making an Old Testament reading chart. We were just minding our own business doing our normal p-day things when the sirens started going off.
Naturally, I went straight to the balcony to see. Aren't you so proud of me? Tornado warnings are going off and I immediately go outside to see if I can see anything.
I couldn't see anything. The rain was way too heavy to see anything. It was also green, the rain was green.
So we were under Tornado Watch/warning for a couple hours. I don't think anything touched down. I don't even think that there was a funnel cloud but the conditions were right and there was a lot of rotation, and hail in some places of the city.
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| We have matching hate shirts. They are the only matching shirts we have, and they are hate shirts. .....despicable |
FYI, there is a legend here in El Dorado about such things. The legend is that an American Indian blessed El Dorado so that no tornado will ever touch down here. Thus earning the name the Golden Oval. Everything kind of goes around this place. That is the legend, kind of cool but nonsense because the weather can do what it wants.
Tuesday morning was a very early morning. We got to Monroe by 8am and we just chilled there for a while because the transfer van wasn't there yet. I still didn't know who my new companion was going to be. The suspense was killing me.
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| Last picture all together, bye Elder Blair and Sister Conder! |
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| Bye Sister Conder! |
When the Transfer van came Sister Conder left and they finally announced new companions!
My new comp is Sister Olsen! She was in Winnsboro before here and this is her last stop before she goes home. She is super funny! We have been having a lot of fun and we pretty much laugh all day. We are good friends already!
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| Hello Sister Olsen!! |
We are now in a very small district....
It is just the El Dorado Elders and us. The new District Leader is Elder Rigby. I don't know a whole lot about him but he has been fun. We don't really see them as often as we did last transfer though.
We have had a very slow week! Everything has been falling through and nobody is home but that is to be expected for the first week of the transfer. The good thing is that Sister Olsen and I are having a great time!
We did, however, tract into a new investigator! Her name is Stephanie and she is here as a teacher. She said that she has been looking for a new church to go to. She was super open to everything we had to say and she accepted a Book of Mormon and also a return appointment!
Church this week was canceled because the bathrooms flooded. It was after Sacrament meeting right in middle of class. So that happened.
Instead we tried to visit some people, we were able to visit Sherry Russell and read the Book of Mormon with her, and Jason and Cristy who we have been out of contact with for a long time.
This transfer is going to be the best ever so far! I am excited!
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