Family,
How are you? How was Father's Day Weekend? Did you do anything for it?
So I'll tell you a little about the Carthage area--It has only had Sister Missionaries in it for quite a while and for sure for the past 10-12 years. We are assigned the Nauvoo 3rd Ward which is approximately a 40 mile radius area, so pretty far apart. The ward members are good to us and we have a dinner appointment every night, but we are really focusing on using the members to help with referrals, fellowshipping and teaching in their home because the area is saturated with churches, for example, Carthage, IL -- population 1,100 has 16 different churches and not one of them is our church. So to increase our chances of real investigators we need the members to help us.
We have spent a lot of time in training meetings or traveling with Sister Thompson so she can train at other meetings. We spend a lot of our time tracting and so I've been very thankful that it is pageant time because those that have no interest whatsoever in our church we still hand them a pageant card and invite them to the pageant, since a lot of people enjoy the pageant. Little do they know that when President Hinckley re-wrote the pageant for what is now performed it teaches the Restoration! Once pageant does start the Nauvoo Zone (Iowa Des Moines Missionaries) will be working the pageant, so I will be up at pageant a lot!! Which is great because all missionaries in our mission are allowed to watch pageant once in their mission regardless of the area they are serving, except the Nauvoo Zone who will see pageant lots of times!
Another thing I am excited about is that there is a mission rule that if someone you taught is doing baptisms or being sealed in the temple, President Jergensen will most likely approve so the missionary can be there. So one of the families Sister Thompson worked with up in the quad cities area is being sealed June 22nd, so President said we could attend!!
I love both of my companions and I really enjoy being in a threesome. We sort of have a competition/game where whenever something is needed one of us will say "Sister Cox would Love to call Sarah..." or "Sister Call would love to play the piano..." haha so our phrase is always "Sister ________ would LOVE to __________!" So the threesome makes it more fun because we all do it to each other.
Oh about Carthage, haha, we live in an upstairs attic apartment here in Carthage and we turn off our AC during the day so when we get back the apartment is at least 90 degrees. The apartment is not fancy by any means and our stove has one burner that works. The water is not drinkable so we have to buy our water or fill jugs up in Nauvoo. But regardless of our apartment I still love it and it is home here in Carthage. Oh I almost forgot to mention that the floor is so uneven that you almost get motion sickness while walking on it...Okay maybe not quite that extreme, but you get my point.
I think I did forget to mention that the 1st night in the mission home we found out that Sister Mader and Sister Rogers also had received a package to Elder ___________ like I had.
Well I hope everything is going well! I love hearing from you! I have a few requests: Can you send me my GPS, as well as just some basic common recipes so like pancakes, bread, simple/fast recipes that we eat commonly. Thanks for everything you do for me and the examples you are to me!
I love you all!
Sister Call
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