St. Augustine Part 2

Found this while doing service.... GO GATORS!! lol

Hello hello everyone!!

It's Monday once again and this is an exciting one because I found out I get to stay in St. Augustine with sister Fotheringham for another transfer!!! We have at least 6 more weeks together here which we are very happy about :) we also found out that all the missionaries in our district are staying as well! So it'll be a party. 

 
President Lees favorite district ;)

This was another hectic week! We spent a TON of time doing hurricane clean up. We did service everyday scooping mud out of people's houses and moving big branches and debris out of yards. We did it all day yesterday and I am so exhausted but it's so amazing at the same time. We had thousands of people come from out of state to help with clean up and it just makes my heart so happy to see these amazing people that are willing to sacrifice their time in order to help the people in our community! We are still on kind of a weird schedule with the hurricane though. Yesterday we had a 30min sacrament meeting before they split us up into our teams for service. There was a bus of youth that had just gotten in from Tennessee to help volunteer that came to the meeting. They were of all different faiths but it was so amazing to come together and worship and pray together. I felt the spirit so strong and it's so amazing to see these people of all different backgrounds coming together and showing their love for God through helping those in need. 

There are still HUGE trees down like this all over St. Augustine. It’s crazy 

With all the service we have been super stressed and just tired all week. One night we were driving home after a lesson and we were beat and needed a pick me up. We were listening to some church hymns and I was telling sister f how the song playing was one of my favorites she looked over at me and said "let's jam" and cranked up the volume to a dignified level. We started singing along super loud and being dorks. As soon as the song ended our phone buzzes. Let me just tell y'all about our phone really fast. It’s like an old slider phone from like 2007. It’s super crappy and doesn't work half the time but it's fine. So anyways, the phone was sitting on my lap and I had not touched it for like 10min. it was just sitting there. So after the song ends our phone buzzes and I pick it up and it's a text from our AP (elders that are the assistants to my mission president) and he said "the song sounds soooo good sisters!!! Keep up the good work!" at this point we are like uhhhhh what?? Sister f figures out that our phone ghost called him and at this point we were dying laughing. So then we were like "okay they probably only listened for like 30 seconds and then they hung up." so we checked the call history to confirm and...The call was FOUR MINUTES LONG. Which is the entire length of the song. We texted them back saying how embarrassed we were and that we were glad they liked it so much they listened to the whole song ha-ha they said it made their night and that they are going to put in a good word for us to sing at the next zone conference.... YIKES!! No thanks elders hahahaha we thought it was super funny 

This is Thomasina!! She’s the sweetest lady ever and we go over and visit her every week!! She’s 92 and always tells us the best stories <33

I feel like I have to take the time every week to just say how much I love the south. It’s honestly the best. Everyone here is so nice and I just feel the love 24/7. For example this week we were doing service all morning and then we realized we were running late for our lesson that started at 2. We hurried home so we could change and we didn't have time to eat lunch. After the lesson we were starving so we ran to chick-fil-a to grab some food really quick before our next lesson. We were feeling stressed (per usual for this week I guess ha-ha) and as we were standing in line this lady came up behind us and bought our lunch for us. It was something small but there aren't a lot of members here and that's not a super common thing that happens. We were so excited and we talked to the lady and found out she's a member that lives about an hour away. She was so kind and it really made our day. Heavenly Father really works through others to help lift and strengthen us, even if it's just something small like someone buying your chicken nuggets hahaha 

Door knocking aesthetic 

Being a missionary is hard, stressful, and really discouraging at times...but it's also the best experience I’ve ever had. I love spending everyday trying to be better and to love people the way Jesus Christ does. He lives. He loves us!! I know this is true with my whole heart!

I love y'all so much!!! Have a blessed week 

xoxo

Sister morrow