Oct. 16, 2013

It has been a hard week numbers wise, and I needed a little encouragement. I LOVE the picture of Katie in my lab coat! I miss that little cutie so much! I love all of the pictures that you send me of home! I especially love the leaves, everything is green here (which is great) but you don't get any other colors, just light and dark green. 

So things have been going good here! Yesterday was transfer calls and so we didn't have p-day until today. Sister Davidson and I are staying here in Fleming Island.

This week we got to go do service at a horse farm in St. Johns. There were some BEAUTIFUL horses there and there were some really sad looking horses as well. The owner rescues horses and she is an investigator for the St. Johns Elders. She was very nice and she had some cool stories. One of her horses is from Secretariat's line and she was absolutely GORGEOUS!  A lot of the horses that are there are former race horses who were injured. We put up a fence lining and we got to use machetes and other fun stuff! 

We have been seeing a less active woman in our ward. She lives in a nursing home in Green Cove and she is so funny! She tells us stories about how she is the nurses least favorite because she doesn't take any slack from them. She also tells us about a particular nurse she wants to fight with out back. She lived a hard life when she was young and so she feels like she has to defend herself from everyone. She also is very forgetful and she forgot that she was a member of the church and she asked what church we were from several times, but she remembers faces really well. 

Last night we were eating at a members home and the Hibernia Baptist missionaries knocked on the door, it was pretty funny. It's like they knew we were there ;) We also go a couch from Germany yesterday! A family in our ward donated it to us and they bought it when they were stationed in Germany and they shipped it overseas when they retired, and now it is in our living room.