The Butterfly Whisperer

 Hello everyone!!! I hope you're all having the best day ever! Good news, my companion and I are really good friends now! She's the best! So, awkward thing... our toilet screams at us in the middle of the night (no one can fix it) it stops screaming when we flush it, but the problem is that I sleep through it because I'm so exhausted, so my companion has to take care of it every time and I never hear it. Oops! 😂

Now, for an explanation of the title and a quick side story: we were out on our bikes and we were talking to a lady on the sidewalk. A Jamaican dude walked past and he had the coolest neon shoes on, so I complimented them. Mistake!!! He smiled and walked a few steps then turned around and waved, so I waved back. Then he walked a few more steps and turned around and waved, and kept doing it over and over!!! It was SO awkward!!! I just kept waving and my companion was laughing so hard. After that we started talking to the butterfly whisperer... she was super old and had a bunch of mail stuffed down her shirt. We asked her how Jesus blessed her life and she said He has blessed me to be a butterfly whisperer. 🦋 She said that everywhere she goes she finds butterflies and she catches them and talks to them. She said her whole family passed away (so sad) and that He gave her butterflies instead. She then went into all this crazy stuff about talking with the butterflies and how she lost all her toes... it was wild. 😂

I saw a bunch of HUGE iguanas this week with giant spikes and black and white tails! They are seriously 4 feet long! It's insane!

Sadly, we had to kill Gary!!! He's no longer with us... RIP. 

So, funny story: we were teaching a lesson and the lady turns to us and goes, "you know who you remind me of? The sister wives! Have you seen that show?" I'm so offended!!!! Are the dress pants that bad?! 🤔😂

Anyways, this week we have heard a lot of weird depictions of Jesus. We have been giving people free pictures of Him and we had multiple people say, "this isn't what He looks like" awkward! One lady took Isaiah a little too seriously and told us that He looks like a dry root and that people turned their faces from Him because He was ugly... I think she needs to reread that chapter. 

I hit my one month this week!!! I celebrated by putting on my bucket hat and cat nightgown and had a dance party. It was awesome 👌. Also crazy thing, there was a fire at our apartment building this week!!! We were trying to get to a service project and couldn't get out because of all of the fire trucks!!! After that we went to a lesson and we had to do it outside. It started POURING rain in the first minute that we were there, so we said, "please come to church" and ran to the car. If only the rain had come during the fire lol. The great part about it is that the "please come to church" worked!! They were there on Sunday!! 

Last funny story and one of my personal favorites: We met this lady in the park and later found out that she was homeless and a little crazy, but super nice. We asked to pray with her and she sat down and said I need 5 minutes. We stood there watching her awkwardly, and then said "we gotta go, but we'll pray for you tonight" she shushed us while she was closing her eyes, so we walked away and she yelled after us, "WAIT, I want to pray!" So we did. As my companion said the prayer it was great, but after she ended, our friend went right into praying out loud. I closed my eyes again and realized that there was some Post Malone and Juicewrld playing at the neighbors house. I was so happy 😂 I've been deprived. As I was focused on that, she all of a sudden grabbed my arm and said, "thank you for the missionaries!" It scared me soooo bad! I jumped! It was hilarious.

I met my district and they are awesome! One of the elders and I have the same bag, so thanks mom 😂 so funny. We are going fishing and playing guitar with our whole district today and I am stoked! Also turns out I'm singing with my companion and another sister at zone conference TOMORROW 😅 yay... 

God loves us so much and is aware of all of us! Our friend broke the lock of her house with a weight just to get to church, so if that doesn't show you how important the gospel can be, then I don't know what will. She cried the whole time because she was so grateful to be there with us. 

I love you all!!!