so i was reading the post from last night, and i realized that i spelled allisons wrong. i guess my mind was worn out. so here goes for tonight. yeah, i posted last night at 3:45 a.m. that was great fun.
the mini mission was pretty cool. i showed up on friday and i went to story city. it's an hour away from where i live. the sister missionaries were pretty cool. i met with them and elizabeth about half way through friday. it was kind of boring because it was there planning day, but that was okay because i was really tired. so elizabeth and i talked. it was the first time that we've seen each other since we left byu. we caught up on all the business of non college iowa life and so forth. things look like they are going well for her.
so that first night there the coolest experience of the day was being able to hold a baby racoon. this family rescued a baby racoon from the floods and are raising it. she's pretty awesome and her name is velvet. i got to hold her for a while and then she started to climb all over. so she ended up sitting on my back and sucking on my thumbs and fingers for some of the night. it was cool. that's where those pictures on facebook come from.
saturday was a pretty busy day. i really enjoyed it though. there was a parade in story city and we handed out flyers before the parade. the church was having an open house for 72 hour kits and family history. i managed to hand out a few flyers and that made me pretty happy. after the parade it was the open house. i played piano for that. it was the first time that i've played piano since i came home from utah. i thought it was pretty fun. it was around this time that my bandaid fell off and my chunky knuckle was exposed, so jackson got me a new one. i then started annoying her by showing her my knuckle and shouting out chunky knuckle. it was pretty swank.
we went tracting that night for around 20 minutes. during that time one sister and i placed a book of mormon. it was pretty cool. she seemed really interested. then the sister gave me the option of knocking on a door, and i decided to give it a try. it went very well. i talked with this lady about joseph smith, and gave her a finding faith in christ card. she was really interested, but because of the parade, she had family in town and was hanging with them. she and her family have been out to utah a lot and enjoy the salt lake area. so she took down our information and gave us hers and then we decided we should leave because there were tornadoes out and about.
two other really exciting parts of the day were when the sister took us to the antique carousel. i rode on the carousel, even with my skirt on. it was swankin'. the sister's also took us to this awesome place we call slide mountain. there were three huge slides there and we played on them for a while and then we moved to the playground right next to it.
all in all, it was a pretty good mini mission. on sunday when we went to church, the leaders came into the classrooms during the third hour to announce that the main roads into town were closed, and that we would have to find a different way home. when we got out of church they had closed off most of the downtown area and were starting to close residential areas. they had taken the motor out of the carousel, and the football field and everything was pretty much under water. i used to come to story city to practice for marching band competitions, and to see the football field under water was odd. it wasn't an inch of water, it was probably aroun four to ten feet of water. it was high. but no worries, i'll write about the flooding probably tomorrow, and i think that i'll have to write about creepy stalker guy another time. my mom is sick and i have to teach her class on sunday. i gotta look at the lesson.
see yah later.
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