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Hey all! Happy Monday! I hear most people are back in school now, so I hope everyone is enjoying that!! This has been a good week!! Kinda crazy, but we'll get into that!!

Monday!

We had an awesome Sister pday with the Wisconsin Rapids Sisters! We got ice cream from Webbers, and walked around the zoo! It was really casual, but it was a lot of fun!! I have a rather lot of pictures haha! They're of course included!

We also went to the Brunson's for dinner which was awesome!! There's never anything bad to say about the Brunsons! They're amazing! Haha, but I will say, I need to be more clear on telling everyone my allergies, because we ate grilled pork and corn on the cob. 😆 Did I eat it? Of course! ...Did I pay for it later? Oh you bet.

Tuesday!

Tuesday was filled with SPFs! The most notable were Sister Richardson with Sister Ratsch, and the McKees.

With Sister Richardson, she had made us these snickerdoodle muffins. They were quite large, and on top of that, they were the most DENSE cupcake I've had ever. It was insane! I couldn't even finish mine, and we were there nearly an hour. They were like a meal I swear. They were good! So good! Just very filling haha!

The McKees had us over at 7:00 that evening, and when we got there she said she forgot to tell us that they wanted to have us over for dinner. So we shared the message and they gave us to go containers full of it. I was very sad to have eaten already because Sister McKee makes everything from scratch, and it's always amazing. It sure looked amazing.

The other lesson I want to note was our lesson with Dean. His baptismal date passed, and we invited him to pray about another date to work towards. He said he would! We haven't had a lesson with him since, but we've done a lot of morning prayers.

Wednesday!

Yet another day full of lessons and SPFs! My favorite one though, was that we had a member meal with the Catmulls. They're so cute!! He's the Elders Quorum President. They've been out of town nearly all summer, so this was our first time going over, and it was awesome!! They fed us this REALLY good poppyseed chicken dish. We asked her for the recipe, but I can't remember if she ever sent it to us. It was amazing.

They also have a cat that recently had kittens, so we all three got to hold a kitten!! Mine just curled up on my shoulder and started purring. I about died!! It was so sweet!! I'll tell you, that precise moment, made my entire week.

Thursday!

Thursday started off at 8:30 because we were doing a service project in Spencer. We were helping some less actives move out and deep clean their house. It went pretty well! We got it done in just under 2 hours. To clarify, they already moved most the big stuff out the night before, and we were just doing the few things left, as well as the cleaning. We were happy to do some service!

The rest of the day was pretty chill! Did some weekly planning, and finding, etc. :)

Friday!

Friday was CDC! It was really good! There was a lot that I needed to hear, (funny how the spirit works that way haha!) and we had a lot of good discussions. :)

Afterwards, all the Sisters went to lunch!! We were planning to go to Olive Garden, but the wait was too long, so we ended up at Panera. It's kinda the sister store to Zupas, but like... not as good. Also!! Why do all their drinks gotta have caffeine, huh? Literally my only non caffeinated option was water. So water it was.

It was pretty good! My tomato soup was amazing as always, but my salad... was eh. I really miss Zupas. I did get a really cute pumpkin cookie though!!

After that, we drove home and had our meeting with Brother Beil, which was shorter than usual (Thank goodness, we weren't even sure what we were going to talk about, haha) and!!! They also gave us really yummy ice cream which was so appreciated!! It was awesome haha!

This whole day was go go go, it was insane! After that meeting, we went home and had like an hour before heading to dinner out at the Englebretson's. That was really good too! It was pineapple salsa chicken, and I very much enjoyed it!!

Saturday!

Saturday was good! We went and visited a bunch of less actives as well as some grey dots! We also heart attacked two families!

We heart-attacked the Ellsworths, and the Boyacks. It was hilarious. The Boyacks we tried to be as sneaky as possible, and succeeded!! The Ellsworths? Not so much lol.

We walked up to the door and their dog barked. (Dogs and their lack of appreciation for sneakiness.) Their son opened the door immediately and wandered off. We were just standing there with hearts behind our backs like "uhhhh...". Brother Ellsworth showed up and invited us in, and we were super awkward. He mentioned something about them just doing Saturday chores. It was then we decided we had to tell them we were literally just there to put something on their door, and not to infringe on their Saturday.

He laughed and we went out and stuck up the hearts and fLED. It was so awkward. It was also kinda hilarious looking back, but mostly awkward.

We had a few other SPFs that afternoon as a part of our usual Saturday schedule.

We also had!!! THE FREEMANS!! For the first time in like a month!! We were so excited!! They had bacon wrapped chicken, but they luckily know me, and made some chicken sans bacon, which their son had too, because apparently I'm not the only person alive who's not fond of bacon. 😆 It was really good!! Very messy, but fantastic.

They also had an AMAZING dessert that was a mix between apple crisp, cinnamon rolls, and raspberry crumble. Basically it was cinnamon rolls with apple pie filling (I think) on top, and crumble stuff on the top, and it was PHENOMENAL. Sister Freeman is an excellent cook.

The lesson we had with them was a tad awkward because we had invited them to make a list of friends, and in short they told us because they're homeschooled... they don't have any friends. We really didn't know what to say to that. It worked out though.

We also took a picture with them!! (Included)

We found someone that evening!! Her name is Amanda, and she's really sweet!! She gave us her number and told us that if we ever wanted to hang out she'd be down. It was really darling! 😆😁

Sunday!

Sunday was a DAY let me tell ya! Here's the cliff notes version cause there was a lot.

- church was good

- there was a girl who randomly showed up with her brother(?) (Likely 20s)

- she didn't talk to anyone, but she gave the people who talked to her each a bead from a cup she was holding.

- we followed her out to her car, her name is Kirsten, she's very sweet but very quiet.

- they came in and out of sacrament meeting a few times, and ended up leaving before it was over. (We think she was anxious)

- we have her number though!!

- it was fast Sunday, so 2nd hour crawled. Attention was unfortunately not paid.

- we took a picture with Sister Curtis and Sister McKee for Sister Curtis' weekly "Sunday Best" Facebook story.

- we had the shortest coordination meeting that wasn't particularly effective, but it was our first, so it works.

- came home and attempted personal study lol

We had dinner at the Taylors, and they're awesome! (Not doing cliff notes for this one) we had a Costa Vida inspired meal, which was really good!! We also had an AMAZING dessert which was some sort of lime cake thing. We do have the recipe for this one. I'll include it in photos or something. They also gave us this gift card thing, as well as like $30 to go get ourselves some Taco John's today. It's apparently really good. 😆

My favorite part though? We asked if we could help them with anything, and Brother Taylor said yes!! He said we could help bring the horses in for the night. !!! 🤩 it was SO COOL! I also got to wear a cowboy hat, so that was great! Pictures included!! Also, be looking out for a Facebook story from me within the next couple days.

Also! Talisa texted us last night that she wanted to move her baptismal date up to two days after the next transfers!! 🤯 More on that later.

Mission Prayer was great as well! We sang our mission song which is always fun! I'll include a pic of the sheet music too.

Today!

Today will be yet another chill pday. Just cleaning, writing emails, shopping, laundry, etc. We'll also likely be going out to Taco John's, so look forward to pictures from that in next week's email. :)

Back to Talisa for a sec, we received a text today that she talked with her Pastor and is no longer interested in being baptized or attending church. 😥 She did say we could feel free to check on her and still talk though! 😅😊🥲

That's all folks!! I sure appreciate all y'all who read these, and I especially appreciate hearing from you!! I hope yous have an incredible week, and that you always remember that God loves you!! And so do I!! Have a great one!!

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