Livin- Learnin- Lovin- in Louisiana

  Took a nice trip to all star lanes and all I have to say is all my practice at Jack and Jill's midnight bowling... down the drain.  A full bag of chicken for a week's worth of lunches??? Yes please. SPA DAY. Let's play a fun game okay?? I'm gonna describe a vegetable and yall are gonna have to guess what it is... okay?? GOOPY BALLS. Any guesses? Well if you guessed zucchini then you are correct according to Sister Spangler.  People down here in the south can't read but they don't want to admit it so they just make up random words instead of asking for help. Makes the story of Nephi very interesting!!  Thanks mom for the rain boots!! They really helped me out when I had to walk thru 2 feet of water to chase down Ms. Jay because she was RUNNING away from us. It was awesome.  Guys. The fact that I can't hold babies KILLS me. There was a little girl who absolutely LOVED the pictures in the book of Mormon and just wanted to sit on my lap and look at them and I ...

  I'm sick of coming up with a "what's up yall" typa line so we are now just getting straight into it.  First off...  I HAVE BEEN SHLUMPED THIS WEEK I miss primary singing time. Momma Larsen took the dub for primary chorester for basically half her life frfr. We sit outside of their door before church and they just have such good songs they get to sing! Let's sing them in Relief Society please?!  If yall didn't know there was always a dent or something in my car! Whether it was the front of my car smashed or the back of it read ended it was always wrecked. And rumor has it that my sister inlaw also got rear ended in it too while they were in Utah! My car would fit in just fine here. The amount of cars that don't even have bumpers is insane!! It literally looks like the go carts at boondocks with that metal bumper thing sticking out frfr! But apparently people don't have to take driver's ed here so that probably explains it hahah!  Yall remember gid...

 HEYYY YALL!  This week was full of member work!!! We visited a lot of inactives and we got one to come back to church! So we can call that a success!!  Sister Weekly-Hurst is a sweet old lady who's husband died about a year ago. She is literally my best friend and I want to be her when I grow up! She is an antique collector and she literally has china and stuff like that from queen Elizabeth! SO COOL!  Highlight of the week was when we were at a lesson and the little girl lifted up her pregnant moms shirt, grabbed Sister Starlings hand and put it smack in the middle of her moms stomach. Need I say less?  We were doing free Jesus books and this man SPEEDS into the cart return standing on the back, gets off does a ONE HANDED cartwheel, SPANKS his car and speeds off faster than the speed of light. Day made.  We were at a member meal appointment and guess what the topic of conversation was? JUSTIN BIEBER. The best conversation I've had on my whole mission. Jus...

  WHATS UPPP I MADE IT THROUGH MY FIRST TRANSFER!  I'm staying in Denham Springs with Sister Starling for another transfer and I AM SO EXCITED!!!  I don't have much to update on and I literally took like 3 pictures so oops!  We have had sooo much rain this week!! It has been such nice weather to be outside until we get stuck in and absolute down pour! Driving in the rain here is something else. You got your wipers going full speed and you STILL can't see the road! Quite an adventure!  We were doing free Jesus books and these two middle aged ladies named Amy and Danielle and when I tell you they were the most excited people when I said "we're from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints" they were literally so energetic I was so confused. But to nobody's surprise they aren't responding to us sooo we love that!  We are teaching this lady named Gidget! She is so adorable! We met her a couple weeks ago and she was upset at herself for starting to d...

 WHATS UPPP  In explanation of my subject line... we were doing Free Jesus books and this guy drove up to us and said "You wanna know something crazy?... I was addicted to heroin 4 days ago... I woke up and the addiction was gone." And as he drove away all we could say was "God is good!" It was awesome hahah! GOD IS GOOD!  Another awesome thing that happened this week is that SCOTT GOT BAPTIZED!!! He also got his BAPTIST mom to come and she said "I have been baptized many times and that was the most amazing baptism I have ever seen" AYO!!! We had such a great Saturday!!! The DS2 sisters also had a baptism so it was such a special day!!  Okay so the guy the DS2 sisters baptized was LEONARD! And he is literally the best person ever! He had us over on Sunday and made us a MEAL! We had ribs, potatoes, mac n cheese, corn and alll the good stuff! He told us before he started "man yall are gonna taste these and go "LEONARD CAN COOK" and yall gonna ...