Markee's Mississippi Mission: Our investigator is the Pirate King

Well this week was quite the adventure. Lets just say that this week has been good training for when I join the Fellowship and walk all the way to Mordor.

Last Monday, after we conversed Sister Olsen and I met up with the Elders and we engaged in a fun game of no-rules-whatsoever tennis. Marin would probably cringe at how bad we all did.

We had dinner with the Redford's and we played with some of the puppies that they were taking care of. I MISS MY MEEKO!

Tuesday, we went down to Ruston for interviews with President. That took up a lot of our day but when we got home we went to visit Katherine. She really opened up to us and we were able to give her a Book of Mormon with a couple of scriptures that we know will help her.

The girl Stephanie that we tracted into told us that we wasn't interested which was quite depressing. But she did talk about us to her friend, Matthew! He wants to meet with us and ask some questions!

We ran into a group of girls while we were walking around and they stopped us and told us the we looked like Anna and Elsa. Mostly because Sister Olsen has a blonde streak in her hair and my hair is all blonde and was in a braid. Sister Olsen said that she gets that a lot.

Wednesday, we handed the car over to the Elders and started our LOTR [Lord of the Ring] training. WE WALKED FOREVER! We walked and then we tracted.

We did meet a lady who is also named Catherine. She was really nice! She invited us in and started asking questions. Mostly about Joseph Smith.

For some reason a lot of people think that John Smith had a magic hat that helped him to write the Book of Mormon. There are so many things wrong with that!

We then have to explain that it is JOSEPH Smith.

That there was no magic hat or whatever.

And that he did not WRITE the Book of Mormon.

Catherine was really open though and we were able to clear up a lot of things for her. Also she invited us to lunch with her the next day. Yeah that doesn't happen very often.

Thursday, we did some more LOTR training. We walked all the way to Catherine's house to have lunch with her. We chatted with her for a little while and answered more of her questions.

After her we saw JP and chatted with him a bit. He didn't have a lot of time though.

Then we had dinner with the Nash's! We also got some ice cream with them.

Friday, we have now walked the distance between the Shire and Mordor. Twice.

We didn't have ANYTHING happen during the day!

We did see a lot of roadkill though. gross.

We had dinner with Jason and Cristy though. They had a rough week. :( Their cat miscarried all 5 of her kittens because she had a broken hip.

Someone hand Marin, Megyn, and Tamsyn a tissue.

Saturday, we did some more walking. Seriously sometimes I wish I was in a video game so I could walk forever and not get tired. Sadly I am not. So we took naps.

Then we did some more.

We had correlation. Okay so I braided my hair so that it wrapped around my head. You know I do that sometimes. Anyway, after we do our correlating and whatnot. Bro Redford turned to my and gave my his "I'm about to say something funny that will make everyone laugh and it will be at your expense" look and this is what he said.

"Your hair makes you look like you are about to be sacrificed to a Titan."

What??

He then explained to me that in the old Clash of the Titans movie the sacrificial woman's hair was done the same way.

Thank you Bro Redford! That was what I was going for....

After Correlation we had dinner with the Bishop and his family at La Piazza.

Okay so remember when I told you up there ^ that Stephanie gave us a referral well we got in contact with him. He told us that he was busy at the moment because he was in a play that was going on. He invited us to it! We weren't sure if we could go but he said that he would put us on the list anyways.

Fast forward to that afternoon, the Elders call us and tell us the Brother Singleton got us tickets for the play that he was in, it was the same play as Matthew!

They called the assistants to the president and got permission to for all of us to go!

So we went to a play.

It was the Pirates of Penzance.

Matthew turned out to be the Pirate King.

It was really good. I enjoyed it.

We met Matthew afterwards and got to talk to him a little bit. He is a really nice guy. We are excited to talk with him. Sadly I forgot to get a picture with anyone but oh well. :(

Oh and one of the policemen looked EXACTLY like the elf in Rudolph. The one that is the boss of Herbie. I laughed.

Sunday, we had a missionary fireside. We have been doing those to help the members become even more involved with the work.

Sister Olsen shows her love for me by threatening me with a fork, and also attacking me at random moments. She is fun.

Well anyway that was my week....