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Sister Melanie Renee Girvin

219 High Ave E Apt 1

Oskaloosa, IA 52577

Emails can be sent to: melanie.girvin@myldsmail.net

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

We had a PARTY!

August 13, 2018 


So, this was my last full week with Sister Dalton! I'm devastated, really! Even though we just met 3 months ago, we have become like best friends and it feels like I have known her forever! It'll be hard to say goodbye... Transfers are on Thursday, and we find out where we are going tomorrow! So exciting! I think I will be leaving Story Street and either going to North Liberty to be with Sister Butcher, or going to Kewanee, Illinois to be with Sister Syverson! Y'all have no idea who are the, but they are awesome. My hints this time were...
-Former U of U Rugby coach (Anyone a U of U rugby fan?)
-topsider (Anyone know what this is LOL!)

But I am certain that I will be going to the Iowa City side of the mission because I am halfway through, and haven't left the Des Moines area! Wow!

Anyway, this week! On Monday, our fears were confirmed... WE HAVE BED BUGS! Again! Yay! So we spent most of our p-day washing all of our laundry and spraying down our apartment and all that fun stuff, and we have been camping out in the living room! How fun!
On Tuesday we went to DES MOINES!! We love Des Moines. We stopped at the mission office to grab some supplies, and then went to the dentist for stuff, and then we hit a small town called Gilbert on our way home. We went to stop by a potential from years ago, but turns out he had moved... So we met Jeff! He's cool, and we will be seeing him again today!
Wednesday was an uber full day LOL! We went and did service for an awesome Part member family. We helped them clean their basement and shovel their garbage pile, which was gross, but we had loads of fun! We ended up being there for about 3 hours, so they went and bought us lunch too! Then we went home and showered, because hygiene, and then we went tracting, where we met the adorable Joanna and William! They are super cute! And we will be teaching them some more as well! Then, the fun part... Let me fan girl a bit LOL!! B IS ADORABLE!!! We love her so much! We went and talked to her and now we are basically best friends and she offered to feed us dinner on Friday. And then we invited her to p-day on Wednesday, and we really hope she comes because she is the BOMB.COM!!!
 Anyway, then we went to our lesson with Mike! He has been sick for the last few weeks, but is finally feeling better! So we talked about prophets, because we love prophets, and he told us that he is too old to convert to any religion, so he doesn't want to be baptized... But, we are still going to go see him because that is no excuse cuz he isn't even that old! And he is finally going to be able to go on his trip to Utah, where he is going to TEMPLE SQUARE!! And then he will feel the Spirit like a ton and then come back and beg us to be baptized! That is the hope anyway LOL!
On Thursday we had our last district council, which is sad. It's always hard to say goodbye to friends! We don't know who is leaving yet tho, so yeah LOL!
On Friday we were also pretty busy! We did service at a couple of places, and then went to out dinner with B! We had tacos, and shotgunned sprite! (Video on Facebook LOL!)  And had a party! We absolutely love her!
On Saturday, we noticed that Sister Dalton's bed bug bites were getting really swollen, which doesn't usually happen, so we went...
Back to the Urgent Care!
And we got that taken care of! Then we went and helped our branch president move, which was super sad! Lots of people are moving out, and no one is moving in.


Us with B!