Serving in the Mississippi Jackson Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Friday, January 1, 2016

...the Sweetest Thing I've Ever Seen!

November 16, 2015

Hi MOM!!!!!!!

Just to let you know one of our investigators gave me some rain boots so I actually don't need you to buy me any.  Thank you for being willing though :D Also I know, the Stricklands are the best! I CAN'T wait for ya'll to meet them after the mish!!!:D Andi can't wait to meet you and dad as well.  I told them ya'll are amazing and the best parents ever! lol We had dinner at their house last night that's why we were over there. Andi made us hamburgers last night and they were soooo good! Me and Sister Mozingo call her mom a lot because she's pretty much our mom and Jonathan is our dad lol 

Jonathan or Dad's baptism went great Saturday, and it really was a huge blessing to be there for all of their baptisms! The Sticklands are so cute! Lili and Hailey gave the opening and closing prayers for Jonathan's baptism, and they both did a job great! They sound like mini adults, it's so cute and sweet! I'm so proud of them! Sister Cros who is the Primary President told us that they're great in primary and that they soak everything up like a sponge. After the closing prayer Lili, Hailey, and Destiney gave Jonathan a hug at the same time while he was sitting down on the front row. It was so cute and probably the sweetest thing I've ever seen! I'm soooo GLAD i got to stay here 6 months and teach Andi's whole family and see them all get baptized. (I LOVE THEIR FAMILY) Meeting and seeing them come into the gospel, even if their family was the only ones that got baptized the whole 18 months was out here serving Heavenly Father would have been worth coming on a mission. I'm so excited for them to go to the temple to be sealed! They're pumped too! Jonathan should be receiving the priesthood very soon. I really hope I'll be here for that:(  The ward LOVES their family, Andi and Jonathan are both going to get callings soon, and they're both really excited. Apparently the Stricklands have a surprise for us when we go to their house for Thanksgiving.  We have no idea what it is, and they refuse to give us any hints. So we'll guess we have to wait and see lol 

Guess what mom?!...... I got to ride in a .....police car!!:D So a few days ago we were tracting and we walked up to this house and no one answered. Sister Mozingo noticed a rake by their door and started raking their lawn because there were leaves all over, and because we love doing service and whenever we ask people what we can do they say they don't need anything. Sister Mozingo was probably only raking for 5 minutes then some big guy drove up on his four wheeler. The first thing this guy said in a very intense and firm voice was "put the rake down". "Give me your IDs" This guy called the sheriff on us and told him that there were these two white girls on his property raking leaves. Jason the guy who was the owner was completely serious and told us that we had to wait for the sheriff to clear us before we could go anywhere. He was so mad! We had to wait 30 minutes and it was so awkward! We tried to ask him questions like are you from Picayune and he told us not to ask any questions. Awkwardest 30 minutes of my life! We told him we were sorry and we didn't mean to scare anyone or do anything wrong. The Sheriff finally came and of course we cleared. We were lucky Jason didn't press charges because he could have. The cop also offered us a ride home, which is how we got to ride in a police car. He asked us where we wanted to be dropped off and we told him our address. Me and Sister Mozingo are done tracting that area lol The cop's name was Cory, and he was a really chill cop, he wasn't scary at all and we talked to him all the way back home. While Cory was driving us home Sister Mozingo waved to a car next to us at a stop light and totally freaked him out lol He wouldn't look at us after that:D It wasn't very scary at the time it was happening. I just thought it was hilarious. Got to go, love ya'll and hope you have a great week!!!:D

Love Sister Keables