Adventures of a Mississippi Miss: Mississippi is a Pretty Place!

It's Monday again, already?!

First of all, you know how things were cooling down and the weather was beautiful?? Well, for some reason the weather has decided to start to get more humid again! But it's still not as terrible as it was before, so I can't complain too much I suppose.

Anyway! Last Tuesday, Sister Mellor and I had the privilege of going to the Lady's Lunch again. We were celebrating Sister Black's birthday. She's turning 26 for those who care. Almost up to mom's 29 years! But we went to the Froghead Grill (where light sabers are welcome) and it was delicious! I had red beans and rice, which I really like. And Sister Patterson made strawberry cake that was DELICIOUS! (No worries, I have recipes for both items.) We also met a guy there named Britain (his friends call him great) ;) and we ended up inviting him to church! We were just going to leave our card on the table, but he came back and said that he actually came back because he wanted to ask about coming to church with us! He also got some cake and good tips, so basically he has a ton of fellowshippers.

Froghead Grill

Lady's Lunch for Sister Black's Birthday

Spoiler though, he didn't come to church. But he did say he might be out of town yesterday, so I guess we'll have to go back to the grill and get him to come this week!

But it's okay because Brighton, her friend Darby, and Vern came to church! Brighton is doing well, and now she has a baptismal date again! She's terribly busy, and so it isn't until November 26th, but she's excited and has been reading the Book of Mormon and loves her religion! And we also got to finally take a picture with Brighton, so now y'all can see what she looks like :)

Sister Mellor, Brighton, and Me

We're teaching a lady named Bertha. She is nice. She always tells us we look nice when we show up. I think she thinks we're trying to force her to change her views and the covenants she's already made with God. She also may curse us. The last person she cursed died. But she's nice!

Vern is the guy we met a few weeks ago at Spaghetti dinner. He came to a baptism in the ward on Friday. He still has some questions and is interested in another church as well at this point. But he did say that he has been thinking about what keeps drawing him back to our church! So that was exciting. I invited him to pray about that and be mindful of it at church.

We got to go back and see Ashley this week! A few weeks ago, we saw her on her porch. She seemed down, and as we got to talking she really opened up and I ended up going from our Restoration lesson to sharing my testimony of the Plan of Salvation. She was crying, I was crying, it was tender. But then she didn't seem too interested and I honestly didn't think we'd see her again. As we walked away I really wondered why I had even opened up to her so much and shared some things that were so close to me.

BUT then we saw her this week! Twice!! She set up a return appointment and let us teach the restoration! We gave her a Book of Mormon and are going back tomorrow!! We saw her at Wal-Mart today too, and she was excited to see us, and made sure we'd be at our appointment tomorrow! She's great!

Update on Mamma Dudley: She is out of the hospital, and back home! She is doing a lot better, and hanging in there so she can vote. Haha!

Goodness, this is long!

But last night we also met a super cool guy named Ernest Tche! He's from Cameroon, and went to school there and then France, and then Oregon. He has been to the Olympics four times! Twice as an athlete and twice as a coach! He has a cool story for sure. He believes in humanity and the goodness of people. He's very giving, and talked to us for a long time. He wasn't super interested in our message, although he respected it, but he's been introduced to it before and has read part of the Book of Mormon. But he plays and coaches tennis and said we could use his stuff and we could go play sometime! So basically, I may come back home a tennis pro. ;)