Ashlyn's Mission Memories

What's up everyone! This week was crazy. Let's get into it! On Monday we had dinner with The Esqueda's. They are the best and they wanted to fees us all one last time because they went to Utah and transfers are this week. We had tacos and it was SO good!! On Tuesday it was crazyyyy. It snowed all day. We got almost 8 inches which us the record since it snowed 3 inches in the 1890's. When I went here to Theodore I thought I would never get snow. But we were snowed in for 2 and a half days. We did lots of sim work and played some games to stay sane. It was so fun tho to be in snow and I didn't realize how much I missed snow. It felt like home.  Wednesday we were stuck inside too. Luckily I built a snowman and the sunset was pretty. You would think with everyone being stuck inside they would have time to answer calls but that wasn't the case too often lol. Wednesday we could finally go out after it got warm and before it was dark and cold so we had a fe...

Well, my bad I didn't write last week. I really didn't have much to report and had no pictures. I also was sick on Monday so I was not feeling it hahah.  This is all I have to report from last week. Had an awesome lunch with a member Sister Champagne. It was so fun and delicious. We also filmed for our social media page and then got Chic-fil-a! Then we also got Zaxby's Chicken Bacon Ranch Loaded Fries. That was spectacular! I had been talking about it my whole mish and so finally having it was wonderful. So thankful for Lucie introducing that one to me. Wow pretty much looks like all we do here is eat. Lastly, we played some fun games on p-day. But that night I started to really feel like I was getting real sick.  So this was me Tuesday at the end of the day. I was perishing. Probably my hardest day so far. We had district council and then we got Panda and Boba. We were rushing all day to get where we needed to and to all our lessons. We visited some members and then Sister...

I bet that title got all y'all excited to read this week. Don't worry we are fine people are so wild. Pretty much every month we have something that happens that is wild but it keeps life fun. This week we had to drop our friend Janet which was so sad but it's okay she will be baptized one day!! We haven't been in contact with some of our friends but Allison and Jerry came to church this week which was awesome! Jerry is so excited to be baptized and he was on vacation and found a church to go to! We are teaching a guy named Camryn and he's so cool. We also met this lady named Shawn and she's sooo awesome! She's on a faith journey and just trying to learn more about churches. She's so sweet. We have a really amazing area and we are constantly finding people who are interested which is not normal for many places especially in the south so I feel blessed to be here. Liam is also doing so good. He is so funny and we love teaching him because he just brings u...

Hey y'all! So pretty much I wrote 4 sentences of this on my pday on Christmas and then it was never finished so we're gonna do a little catch up today. It might be a long one so bear with me. I'm also gonna be talking about our friends as well because they are amazing! First off, Christmas was amazing and the members here took such good care of us. We also had tornadoes and flash floods around the town so that was cool. Especially when our radio alarm woke us up about 10 times one night 😃 But no worries we are safe! Just had some crazy thunderstorms and some streets were turned into rivers. I LOVE Theodore and could be here my entire mission. Our district has 20 people on date which is CRAZY. This place is so blessed. I'm going to give a quick rundown of our friends this week and a half! We put 3 people on date for baptism this week! One is a 15 year old named Allison and her and her 7 year old brother (almost 8) are being baptized on February 8th! I was on exchanges w...

What's upppp, another week and another month down! It's crazy that I'm 2 months into this. It's going by so fast. This week was crazy. We had transfers and Sister Hunt and I are staying together!!!! We are so hyped about that! Monday we went out to lunch as a district and had a really yummy burger. We also went to a merch store and did our weekly planning. Tuesday was transfers. Would not recommend that. They read every area and announced it and it felt like we were being drafted. I was shaking but all was well! 🙏  Gilly took us to place called Dick Russels for lunch. It serves southern food and it was pretty good but I get full so fast and then I still have to eat. Gonna work on slowly eating at member meals so I don't perish. Gilly is so awesome tho. He is our BFF and we love him. He goes to lessons with us and it's awesome. The next day he also took us to get Sushi. It was sooo good. I missed Sushi. It was so fun. We taught two of the kids we are teaching an...