Half Way There! #roundingerror

So it's not really half way there. This Thursday will be 9 months from my first day in the MTC, but that's not necessarily 274 days, nor is it necessarily my half way mark. But since I don't know my exact release date, I'm saying this week is my half way mark! Yay rounding error!

Found a new investigator this week! Her English name is Elsa, but I don't know if she got it before or after Frozen. When we stopped her on the street she was hooked once we asked if she knew why there are so many christian churches. "No! I've always wondered why. And which church is the real one? How am I supposed to know? ...Do you know?!?!" ".....have we got a message for you!!"

So we rescheduled her for a couple days later (she had to go to work right then). 2 minutes into out first real lesson she blurted out "I read about you on the internet!" we thought "okay, hit us with it, what did you read? Let's get this out of the way." And we really did get it out of the way. She wasn't trying to bash us, she was just seriously concerned with some things she had read. But 5 minutes later she had asked all her questions, was satisfied that we aren't a cult, and so we taught the restoration. She loved it!! We're meeting with her next week, maybe at the church. SHE LIVES BY THE CHURCH!!! NO ONE LIVES BY THE CHURCH!! IT IS IN THE MOST ANNOYING LOCATION POSSIBLE!! It's a sign. She's getting baptized.

After helping Siu Pohpo on her farm, we took a selfie. She decided that we're terrible at planting (we kill everything) and worse at weeding (we go 10 times slower than her and sometimes pick the wrong things) so she let us spread manure!! She says it's super expensive, and it definitely smells very fresh. We felt so bad riding back home on the crowded bus. 

She has a water tank that she collects rain in, and then pumps out to her sprinkler system (she made all of it by herself by the way) and I looked in it the other day and there are fish! She has a ghetto little aquaponic system going on! She is a genius.

Answering calls outside the church#SisMissLife

Quote from Sister Homer's email :

when we were finding at a park last saturday we met a guy who literally could not have seemed less interested. so we just gave him a flyer and left. then sunday during church we had 3 missed calls from the same number. so when I finally call back I found out it was the sameguy! turns out he basically just wanted to rant on for a half hour about anti church stuff, but took me about 20 minutes to get to that point. I'll tell you the full contents of the phone call on a later day when I have more time... but here's a few of my favorite lines... 

-"Where are you from?" 

-"America" 

-"Where in America?"

-"Utah"

-"Utah! Mormons! Book of Mormon! Cult! Donny Osmond!!

Did a hike this morning for exercise. SO PRETTY!!  Not the best pic, but it's my favorite one of today.
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It feels crazy that I'm halfway out. I was hoping that at this point I would be halfway perfect. *cackles* NOPE! Not even close! But I realized that the awesome thing is that as long as I'm progressing, I have eternity to reach perfection! Not just 18 months! Wow. I'm so grateful for my Savior's atonement which gives me infinite chances to start over. I might end up using all of them.

LOVE YOU ALL!!

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Sister Hugo

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