Sweet Peach Cake and Georgia Rainstorms!

Hello Family and Friends of the world of the world (something a cute member here always says),

My companion's name is Sister Cattin (pronounced Cattan. It's french). I'm not sure if I remembered tell y'all that last email. oops. She is from Seattle, Washington but lived a year in Switzerland as a nanny. She originally served in France but had to come home for medical reasons, and then went back out to Georgia. The whole time she has been here she has been in Cochran. It's a great help for her to introduce me to everyone. I can't even imagine what whitewashing an area must be like. We both have the type of personality where we want to work as hard as we can and go, go, go. That has been really great, but we both realized we need to remember to find the fun in the work/mission. We've been focusing on that this week. It's wonderful. I've noticed when we take a few moments to breathe, or just talk about something not gospel related, we still get just as much done, and we get to know each other better...therefore allowing us to work better together.

Something fun this week was that we had two incredible thunder/lightning storms. They were absolutely gorgeous. One night we sat in the car to do our daily planning so we could watch the thunderstorm at the same time. Also, the rain here in Georgia is not like the rain in Utah. When it rains, the raindrops are huge. You're soaking if you run more than three steps without an umbrella. I would even dare say it was worse than a rainstorm in new york. 

Bright blue day, blue buildings, blue shirt!
 Love that turquoise!

As far as the weather..I think President Cottle put it pretty well when he told us in his weekly letter: "We are all aware that it has been way HOT HOT HOT!! I think it is record heat for Georgia. It won't last forever, but in the mean time, don't forget to DRINK, DRINK, DRINK!!!. Staying hydrated will be the very best medicine to keep you healthy during these crazy temps. Please don't forget. All of you but especially those of you out walking and riding bikes. Father will bless you but you must be smart. Please." It's funny because if you leave your water bottle in the car during an appointment, you WILL burn your mouth on the water after it has sat for even 30 minutes in a car without AC. So we try to carry our water with us inside as often as we can. Whenever we tract..we just drink plenty as soon after as possible.

I had some real Georgia peaches this week! They were mixed with Sugar and served over cake...so even better ;) Brother Davis is the sweetest man alive (although he pretends to be tough). We said we were going to come visit him and his sweet wife. They can't do much because of her health so we try to see them once a week. And he surprised us by baking a cake! So sweet. Oh, and every time we come over he pretends to slam the door in our face because he wants to be the first door-slam we've gotten that day.

Since I'm on the topic of cake, it was Elder Holt's Birthday this week (he's in our district and they're also the zone leaders). So we baked him a cake during our lunch hour. When we went to deliver it, a boy across the street came running over to us yelling "the mormons are coming, the mormons are coming!" I felt a little like he was reenacting Paul Revere or something. It made us laugh. Turns our the Elders were walking down the street back to their apartment and that's what he was warning us about. :D 

As for a few highlights of the work: 1-We contacted a referral named David Jackson. He was so ready for the gospel! It was how every lesson should be. He led the discussion. Not us. Sadly, we haven't been able to catch him again, but I'll let you know when we do. 

2-One day we decided we needed to find this lady named Erin Mcintry who was in our area book. She lived in an area we don't usually go to, but we drove out there and followed our gps to an area absolutely full of construction. We couldn't see an easy way around it so we prayed to know if we really were supposed to find her or if there was someone else we needed to see or tract into around the area. Nope. We needed to find Erin. So we used our navigating skills to work our way around the construction and back to the right street. After much confusion, we realized the sisters before us hadn't written down the last two numbers to the address. We thought her house number was 55 when really it needed to be 55_ _. Ha. What did we decided to do then? Well, we started at the beginning of the street and figured that after enough tracting, we were bound to run into her. Long story short, we found her at the FIRST house we knocked on. Her name was actually Tanya  (daughter's name was Erin). She doesn't want us to try and convince her to join our church, but she said she would love to talk bible with us. Luckily, we aren't trying to convince anyone. Our job is to invite and to help others come closer to Christ. We're going back, and we'll see how it goes. :)

Flushed three cockroaches this week, played tennis with the elders twice so far for our morning exercise, taught a baptist minister's wife (slightly intimidating but they are such amazing people). I think that's about it.

Holy Cow, I feel like this email is so long. I hope it's not boring! Love love love you!

Your missionary,

Sister Lindsay 'shell Brown ;)