Sister Shelby Evans: November 2, 2015

HEY Y'ALL!

Hello! Your Halloween costumes were on point!! I loved them! We have such a fun family :) We didn't do anything quite as exciting as y'all did for Halloween- we played dodgeball, hand-ball, pigskin, and basketball at the church with some of the other missionaries.

I was able to go on my last exchanges this week with my trainee, Sister Udall! We had way too much fun together- it was just like times of old :) We had dinner with the sweet Shorter family and Sister Shorter's mom from Utah- it was so great! We did a service project this week for Meals on Wheels and landed ourselves in a picture and an article right on the front page of the newspaper! Then, later in the week, I got in a stupid little car wreck.. it was dumb! But all is well- no one got hurt!

We visited a sweet, returning-less active family- they fed us (Pilot-House status) enchiladas! I'm not even kidding dad! All I could think about was you as I was eating them!

We had one of the most spirit-filled, powerful lessons with another returning less active family also! They are working hard to be where they'd like to be spiritually and it's such a wonderful opportunity to be an instrument in the Lord's hands to help them reach their goals. I feel so blessed to help these families put Christ in the center of their individual lives and back in their homes.

We had a mission tour this week with Elder Foster (of the 70). It was so neat! Something that I loved was how he helped us recognize that we are so special to our Father in Heaven. There are so many of us, but yet, every little thing that is important to us is important to Him! He had us liken the scriptures to ourselves and replace our names with others' and it was so powerful!

I had a funny experience last night... haha- so I attempted to talk to an older spanish lady.. I think she was so amused that a white girl was trying so hard to speak her language. As we were leaving her house, I noticed a key ring holder next to her front door that said "CUBA"... so I took every chance that I possibly could to teach this woman the gospel! I claimed Harrison's roots and told her that I have family from Cuba... haha- I didn't convince her though because I pronounced it the American way- Cuba. She immediately corrected me and said "No! It's COOOOBA!" Oopsie! I guess I didn't fool her ;) It was a good week! I love y'all! Have a blessed day.

Love,

Sister Evans

I got to see one of my best friends, Sister Affleck, this week!