Week 23

A shocking story! :O

Its been a crazy week!

Last week was tough with so many people dropping us but we figured we could use some clening out in our teaching pool so we decided to drop all the people that were just not progressing and we starting tracting! I mean really knocking doors for hours. We found some pretty cool people mostly for the English Sisters and Elders but is well we have faith that with our hard work we will be able to build our teaching pool back up!

As always the funniest times have been with the members! We have some amazing members in Paducah and I don't know how I will ever make myself leave them. I know that I have made true friends here. Friends that I will have for the rest of my life.

I had something kind of scary happen this week! We were on exchanged with the Sisters here in Paducah on Wednesday and Sister Allphin and I were contacting some potentials in what we call the Projects it is kind of a sketchy area but those things never bother me. Well, we got out of the car and as we did along side the street were three black boys walking. They called out to us asking us for our number but we ignored them and thought we would move on. We knocked on the first door and talked to a sweet lady and as we were moving to the second door one of the boys came closer and asked us if we wanted to go out. Sister Allphin shouted back that we were missionaries and we moved on. As we finished talking to another lady and we started walking again another one of the boys came right up to us. I was walking behind Sister Allphin and so he came up to me first. He had his mouth covered and said the most horrendous, perverted things. I was so shocked I turned momentarily to look and see if Sister Allphin had heard what he had said and as I did this young boy smacked me right on my behind and ran! I was completely frozen in shock and Sister Allphin was red with anger you could tell that she was about to run after him and smack him but we didn't because there were some people watching. She just grabbed me and we walked away. Not to worry I was totally fine. Just the shock of it all was traumatizing but Ill survive!

On a cooler note! Church yesterday was amazing! I don't know what it is about it but church on the mission is supper uplifting. It might just be because I pay more attention now or because I have the spirit with me constantly but I cant even express how much I love being at church. Yesterday we heard some amazing talks by some members about making the choice now to live the gospel and to keep the commandments. I love this gospel so much! I can see now how much it has blessed my life and the life of my family and I want nothing else than to share that with others and for others to have this same happiness that I feel.

con mucho amor,

     Hermana Orellana

PS I hope y'all enjoy my pictures I tried real hard to make them exiting:D