hello hello! that seems to be my new phrase with everyone i meet and im not quite sure where it came from but i like and am gonna stick with it!
today we had a zone activity in birmingham, which was super fun! we had a fun talent show and played gatorball so you could say it was a good day! my district and i did a fun skit to the sound of music but replaced it with all things bama and missionary wise! it was a good one! shout out to sister winter for helping coming up with the idea!!
cockroaches are still alive and well in our apartment. sister durbin and i haven't slept very well/ or at all this past week but its alright i guess. we sleep with the lights on in our kitchen, "hallway" and bathroom because we've convinced ourselves that cockroaches are scared if the dark lol it brings a little peace to our souls. one morning after studies, i had barely gotten any sleep the night before and was just praying to Heavenly Father that if He didn't take them away from our house to at least help me to be okay with them crawling everywhere, or to kill them all, you know whatever works best for Him. and i kid you not when i said amen and got up off my knees, there right behind me a huge dead cockroach. i still don't know what to think about it but im leaning towards it being a miracle. isn't God good??
a grasshopper jumped up my dress this week tracting. literally one of my fears while being out here and it happened. man i jumped around like crazy trying to get it out. never really saw it leave but i guess that's what faith is for right?
my mind is fried from the lack of sleep and while shopping called tortilla chips, salsa chips and thought it was completely normal and i just would like to have a record of that so i never forget how weird missions make you.
had a couple member meals this week and they were SO much fun!! we had one with the Anderson family. They're from Idaho and the cutest family ever!! they invited some people over whose daughter wants to become a member of the church. she just got back from going to girls camp and LOVED it! but i mean who wouldn't?? it's girls camp! her name's olivia and just the cutest girl ever! sweetest heart and earnest desire to know more about this gospel and if it's true!
we went to another member's home who are actually a foster family and have some adopted children and i felt right at home! they had a cute little girl staying with them and the funniest thing she said was, "i have 12 talents and one of them is sometimes i can make these people believe that im a cat." in all seriousness. sister durbin and i were dying!!
went to find a referral of someone who ordered a free bible and it literally led us to a tent with someone just living in the forest. when we heard movement sister durbin and i BOOKED it out of there. that person will now be receiving a bible from the elders.
got to go to gadsen for a fun "first friday" downtown street fair to do some contacting. we met a lot of nice people and even ran into the andersons when we were down there! they had super sweet old cars lined all the way down main street and it was just awesome!
was sitting in Sacrament meeting and saw a cockroach run along the pew into some dudes hair down his shoulder down his leg and off to the next victim. AND THIS DUDE HAD NO IDEA. i dont think the phrase "sister durbin and i. were. dying." even begins to cover it. and it all started when sister durbin leaned over to me and said"we're not safe anywhere" as she points out the cockroach running on the pew. ew. but i love this place and love this people and it makes all the roaches in the world worth it.
met a baptist preacher and after telling us how there are no such things as "latter-day saints' (like what does that even mean? like yes there are im right here) he gave us a coke and some candy. man i love the south!
made fried green tomatoes with Sister Stewart! best things of my life!!
i invite all of yall to watch this video about the Book of Mormon and a living Apostle's testimony about it. it's truly amazing!
hope yall have a blessed week!
love always
sister kennedy
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