I'm Back!

Surprise!!

I am back on Temple Square! This week has been such a roller coaster, but seeing the Salt Lake Temple again felt so sweet :)

To give you all a run down of all that has happened, since last week. We went to transfer conference last Wednesday and we picked up our new companion :) Sister Olsen. She's the sweetest, we were actually her sister leaders the transfer before so we already knew her really well! Sister Lund and I were called as follow-up trainers (well I would only be doing it for a week haha) because Sister Olsen is still being trained. So that was fun. We had lots of appointments and because there were three of us we did splits a lot when we had a member out with us. So Sister Lund would go with the member to the set appointment and Sister Olsen and I would go and knock some doors. Super effective!

I actually don't have a picture of all three of us...woops, I'll get Sister Lund to email me one since I know that we took at least one. Anyways Tuesday was my last day in Georgia and it poured on us. It was a lot of fun, we met a lot of cool people that day. But Wednesday morning the APs picked me up and took Sister Mahoney and I to the Atlanta airport. President Harding called us while we were driving and thanked us for all that we did. It was really sweet of him, he really is the best and I am going to miss him a lot! But he is getting released from being a mission president this July and he's from Utah. So I told him that he has to come and visit us on Temple Square :).

But the arrival to Temple Square was quite an adventure. There actually ended up being 5 temple Square sisters on our flight back which made it fun. When we arrived in SLC and started heading for the baggage claim we were made aware that we were back in Utah very fast haha. When we came down the escalator there were probably about 50+ people waiting with posters, balloons, and cameras for their 'missionary'. Sadly, we were the first missionaries to come down and at first they started hollering and then they realized that we were not who they wanted and then there was just this awkward silence as everyone looked around for our families as we came down the escalator....someone even came up to us as we were getting our luggage and welcomed us back home and then asked us if our families were coming to pick us up....oh Utah :). So no one did pick us up, which we knew ahead of time. We loaded all of our luggage onto Trax and made our way to Temple Square.

Seeing everyone again felt really good! Sister Mahoney and I just adopted each other as our companions as we waited for our real companions for the transfer. It took a while....but the wait was worth it :)

Meet my new companion! Sister Sommerfeldt!! She's from Canada and is fresh from the MTC. It's going to be a wonderful transfer as we both learn all about Temple Square (I'll admit I can't remember any of the history....)

We will be serving in the Beehive House together so I'll get to learn all about Brigham Young and just how cool he really is.

Well I love you all, and I will continue to fill you in on all of our crazy adventures.

XOXO

-Sister Fluckiger

Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

​(here's a picture of  Georgia squirrel resting from the heat)

Oh my sweet Georgia.

The weather is hot and muggy and there are days when you just never dry off after you shower....I'll admit not fond of that one.

This past week though has just been comical. We are not sure how weeks like this happen but things always seem to come in a wave, you will either have a lot of cool, exciting experiences or it sometimes feels like things just fall apart, like our car. :) It was one of those weeks, but we also realized that we have never planned more effectively or taught in more unity than we did this week. So that made it all worth it.

When we are planning we use this paper we call a "Master Planning Sheet" which is basically just a week at a glance paper. So we can see all of our appointments for the entire week. Ours was very full and we were slightly worried that we would't have any time to go finding each day. Well Heavenly Father takes care of things like that...we ended up doing basically nothing but finding every day because all of our appointments fell through. Every Single One. Oh missionary life. :)

It was still a very good week. We are teaching a mom and her son, C&J, we were actually able to see them this week and that made the entire week worth it! They are preparing to be baptized and every time we see them it's just evident that their faith and testimony is increasing. It has been a wonderful experience to teach them while I have been here. This week we talked about faith, C (the Mom) was still a little hesitant about her baptism date because she felt like she didn't have a perfect knowledge yet. We read some verses from Alma 32 with her and basically told her if we had to wait til we had a perfect knowledge...no one would ever be baptized. And that would be very sad. She loved Alma 32 and bore a beautiful testimony to us about the Book of Mormon. It's funny to me that there are a lot of people who have a strong testimony about the truthfulness of the restored gospel but sometimes they don't even realize it. Which is why we have inspired scripture that says "faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true." Alma 32:21

We also got a call today from the APs about transfer news....Sister Lund and I will be going to transfer meeting but we are not being transferred (well I have another week) we will be going to pick up our new companion! Yay for a trio :). We will be dual training a new sister for the week that I have left and then my mighty companion Sister Lund will just continue being awesome and be the best trainer someone could ask for.

Well, this is me signing off...the next time you hear from me I'll be back in SLC at Temple Square. I love you all!!

Oh....here's a tiny stop sign....we were going for "Stop..and read the Book of Mormon today" :)

XOXOX

-Sister Fluckiger

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What even happened this week?

Happy Mother's Day!

So every single Monday morning Sister Lund and I go through our normal routine of excercise, studies, and then heading to the library to email everyone. And every single Monday morning after we get done emailing President, Sister Lund and I always look at each other and ask "What even happened this week?"

Anyways, lots happened this week but getting it all to fit in this email is probably not even possible. For one, I am surprised that we haven't melted away yet. I distinctly remember President Pouslen telling me that I was going to be in Georgia for the best weather of the year. He failed to mention that while I would be blessed with amazing weather I would also have to endure about 3 weeks of absolute heat. Yesterday while we were out knocking doors, this family answered and the dad looked at us and just asked us if we were hot. We laughed to each other and said "just a little". Gratefully he invited us in and we were able to have a prayer with his wife and kids.

But this week we had some high ups and some pretty low downs. But hey, that's life right? :) Sister Lund and I recite the Standard of Truth to each other to remind us that there is nothing that can stop God's plan from moving forward. It's always nice to remember that we are on the winning team.

I am still loving Georgia, despite the heat. I still love being a missionary. I am realizing that I will be heading back to Temple Square in just a bit and that's a bitter/sweet feeling. I know that there are so many people there that I love but now there are so many people in Georgia that I love - so basically no happy ending it seems. I do remember a sister on Temple Square sharing with me that she describes the TMSQ/Outbound/TMSQ experience like the Plan of Salvation: PreEarth/Earth/Spirit World. It probably felt like we were leaving our friends and family when we came to Earth. And it's always hard when some leaves this life, but really when you think about the grand plan you always end up with your family again. That's why I am glad that our Father in Heaven is in charge. He just takes care of everything :)

Okay...and here are some pictures for the week :D

​We found this giant, very colorful caterpillar  on our car..

Oh, speaking of our car. So we named him Abinidi because he is a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and is probably the most diligent missionary I know of in the Book of Mormon and because he is not treated as he should be, we can just leave it at that. Anyways, to keep you up to date with the exciting stories of our car, we took it into the shop and they fixed it free of charge. Yay. But this week as we were driving from appointment to appointment that black plastic thing totally just fell off completely. And of course because we were on our way to the appointment and didn't have time to spare, I just watched it as it went tumbling down the road in my rear-view mirror.
So that was sad, we were sure at that point that Elder Parker was going to take our car away from us. We decided that we weren't going to call him though because we wanted to at least see if we could find the part just in case that helped. So the next day after we had lunch we went on a search. Luckily we found our little missing piece sitting in the suicide lane just waiting for us. We quickly called Elder Parker to tell him what had happened and to our dismay he told us that they were selling our car at the end of the transfer! We were so sad, all of our exciting adventures happen because of our car haha. 

​And we realize like the only time we take photos is when something happens to our car... oh 
missionary life :)

Love you all!!!

XOXOX

-Sister Fluckiger

Accept Miracles

Okay, I have to start with probably the coolest thing that happened this week:

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​Okay now for the story behind the photos. So this week on Wednesday we had to drive down to Fayetteville for some meetings. We had the New Missionary Training (a privilege that we got to go even though neither one of us is a new missionary...) and then Mission Council. So we were down in Fayetteville from 8am to 6pm. Talk about cutting a giant section out of missionary work, but don't worry it was all worth it. Anyhow, so on our drive back we decided to take the back roads because trying to drive through Atlanta at 6 o'clock is basically the worst idea you could have. On our drive our car decided to basically fall apart. The plastic black thing under our bumper...I think it was called some wind protection (not a cars person), well it decided to fall off. The first time we pulled over we were able to just snap it back on and we got back on the road. We had some appointments set up for that evening and so we could not have any delays! Well of course as stories go the plastic part fell off again but by this point we were driving on this really skinny road and there was no part to pull off. After driving for a bit we found a tiny spot of dirt on the side of the road and we pulled over and went to look at the damage...yep it wouldn't pop back into place. We called Elder Parker who is over all of the cars and sat on the phone with him for about 30 minutes while he tried to figure out where we were. Yep we were just lost in the country. At this point Sister Lund and I are trying not to stress about our appointments, we already had to cancel one but the next one planned was for our investigator M who is getting baptized this Saturday - we couldn't miss it! Elder Parker then asks us if we have anything in our car that we could just tie it back together with-no luck. Sister Lund then decides to go back to the front of the car and look under it. Under our car to our lovely surprise was a little orange rope buried in the ground. Heavenly Father provided us with a pretty solution to our kind of dirty situation. So we tied our car together and got back on the road!

We literally pulled into the parking lot of the church right as our investigator got there, right on time! We ended up sharing with him our mighty miracle and he was just blown away. We talked about Nephi when he says that he was led by the spirit not knowing beforehand the things that he should do and how when we have the gift of the Holy Ghost that can happen to us. I mean it was very inspired that we decided to pull off right where we did, if we hadn't our car would not have been tired together with a cute little orange bow. In the closing prayer of our lesson he thanked Heavenly Father for providing us with that miracle so that he could learn about the Gift of the Holy Ghost and then he expressed that he couldn't wait until he was able to receive that great gift!

Everything happens for a reason!

Anyways so that was our car story :) The rest of the week we just had exchanges. I was able to spend a day serving in Atlanta and then also a day serving as a spanish sister. It was quite a week!

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The rest of the week was filled with finding and teaching. I love being in the South (I'm sure I say that every week) but here there are so many people who are religious and so when they hear truth their ears perk up! We met a man this week and we told him that we had a prophet on the earth and 12 apostles and he just expressed to us that he has tried a lot of religions trying to find the truth but he has never found a church that had a prophet and 12 apostles, he said "that makes sense, that's what it should be". We went over later on in the week and told him about the full restoration and he just took it all in. Being here is really helping me realize more and more how much the world needed a restoration. This guy was right, it just makes sense that God would call a Prophet. It just makes sense that He would have His church on the earth. It just makes sense that He would have to restore the Priesthood authority to the earth. Nothing else makes sense. God is a God of order and pattern, and learning from His patterns is the best way to find the truth! Most people here recognize that and it's awesome!

This week President Harding has also been making a big emphasize on miracles. He calls this transfer the "Baptism Transfer" and so he has been having us read a lot of scriptures about miracles and have been inviting us to have more faith and to fast from doubt and fear so that we can see more miracles happen in our area. Sister Lund and I have really been talking a lot about that this week together (on the days that we were actually companions) and how we truly have been blessed with many many miracles and we just have been expecting them as we do our part. And then yesterday we were driving down the road and passed this church sign and we just started laughing and realized that it literally summed up our whole week!

Accept and Expect Miracles. That's what Sister Lund and I are doing in the Twin Oaks area :)

I love you all!

XOXOXOX

-Sister Fluckiger

Mosquito Bites....Gotta Love Them!!

Happy April 27th!

So something that I am not sure if I have mentioned before in an email (if I have, please forgive me the missionary brain sometimes just feels like a pool of mush). But living outside of Atlanta is really fun, probably different than living near any other city in the world. It's fun because well, it's the South. It's a little like being in Utah where there's a church on every corner...the only difference is that none of the churches are ours. And they have these awesome signs with funny and sometimes really profound sayings. For example:

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We did a lot of driving this week because we were able to go on some more exchanges with the sisters in our stake and then we also had Zone Training and we were able to go to the Temple! The Atlanta Temple is cute and peaceful. I had forgotten how much I loved seeing a Temple every single day and so being able to go to it was very special and very needed! That all happened on Tuesday so it started our week out perfectly.

The rest of the week was filled with finding, teaching, and mosquito bites.

I believe I told you about our miracle investigator, M last week. He's the one that we found when I got us lost trying to find a member. Anyways, he is still the best! I wanted to give you a little update on how he was doing.
We taught him twice this week and he came to church with us and every time we talked with him I was more and more amazed. He's just a funny guy. We went over the Restoration with him and he just sat there and kept shaking his head in agreement. It's been cool because everything has had a familiar ring to him. Our second lesson with him we told him about what I call 'CPR'; Church, Prayer, and Reading your Scriptures. After he just looked at me and was like: "I know someone has already told me that before...but I don't know who would have.." I'm sure one of the three Nephites is one of his buddies and was just silently preparing him for the gospel.
He came to church and that's when I realized that as missionaries we do have a tendency to stress about a few things...or maybe that's just me. But now Sister Lund and I laugh about it. But Sunday morning M texted us telling us that he wouldn't be able to make it to church because he didn't get any sleep last night and was really tired. Yep, we like panicked. We texted him basically pleading with him that he needed to come so he could meet the bishop and so he could get into the habit of attending every Sunday for when he gets baptized. Over a few texts he told us that he was going to take a 15 minute power nap and then would come to church. After that we put our phone in our bag because we needed to get our other investigators situated for when they arrived at church. We ended up checking our phone like 2 minutes before church started and we saw like 4 text messages from M. We panicked a little again :) and read through them one by one. The first one said something like he woke up and looked out the window and saw his car gone..his dad must have taken it. The second text said that he would get a ride from his mom. The third text said that his mom left without him. The fourth text said he didn't have a ride. And finally the fifth one said that he found a ride and would be there in 5 minutes. Talk about a roller coaster! So Sunday was an exciting day! Missionary work is definitely not boring, it always keeps me on my toes. 

Sister Lund and I did do some walking...nearing the end of the month and we have to take a drive down to the mission office this week for Mission Council which is a good 40 miles each way. Luckily the weather wasn't that muggy this week, we had maybe one day that was classic "southern humidity". The Lord continues to bless us with nice sunshine spring weather. There are days when I feel like the pioneer children, "Pioneer children sang as they walked and walked and walked and walked..." I actually really like walking days...even though I realize that in some ways it's not effective just because our area is huge. But then it's really effective because you really do get to "talk with every single person" so that's fun and exciting. But due to the amount of walking around and the time of dusk, Sister Lund and I have been attacked by bug bites. We were examining our ankles after studies this morning...and yep I win having the most bug bites out of the two of us. Luckily we are well stocked with itching cream and Benedryl so we are ready and able to take on another week! 

 Last PDay we drove down to Atlanta again for a Sisters Pday. We all met at the Atlanta building..which is like in Atlanta :) Unlike me who is 'serving' in Atlanta but really we are just in an intercity on the outskirts. You just have to love the people of Atlanta. Which I will get to do again! We are going on some more exchanges this week and I will be serving in the Atlanta ward on Tuesday and then on Thursday we will be on exchanges with the Spanish Sisters...haven't decided yet who will be a Hermana for a day but that should be exciting!

(Key term definition: Exchange- we switch companions for a day for training purposes. That's basically all it is)

But back to Sisters Pday we all got together (there are about 15 of us total in the stake) and we made Mother's Day Crafts :) Sister Missionaries just never grow up. So hopefully that will be getting in the mail soon....I have to find a way to mail it. But ya, that's a bit of my week and I've loved it! I hope you all have fun plans for this week! Summer break is coming in a few weeks which makes us excited because it should make it a tiny bit easier to teach families all together instead of split up like we are doing...that is if no one goes on Summer Vacation haha.

Well I love you all so much!!!

XOXOXOXOX

-Sister Fluckiger

The Miracle of the Restoration

Happy Monday!

Work, work, work. That's what the week has been-yep I love it more and more each week.

We did a lot of finding this week, which if you paid attention to the weather (like I know Mom does) we were pretty wet all week. But don't worry we have great rain jackets and an umbrella :) but we just like the rain. So that was always exciting, I can't remember if I have shared with you but door knocking is a favorite of mine..I know it's not always the most effective way but it's the most exciting by far I think. And this week many miracles happened because of it!

I have such a testimony now of the scripture that is found in Doctrine & Covenants 123:12 that shares about "[those] who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it". There are many many people like that in Georgia. That's what the 'Vision of the South' is all about! Individuals are noticing that there is a lot of corruption in churches today and they don't know what to do about it so they just stop going to church. Well we found some of those individuals this week and were able to boldly testify that Christ's church has been restored to the earth. What a miracle it is that we have that knowledge. It wasn't until this week that that really hit me. We know that God still speaks to prophets. We know that the authority of Jesus Christ is on the earth. We know that the authority to baptize that John the Baptist had is on the earth. We know that with that authority that families and be sealed together forever. How incredible is that!?

A few examples of individuals we met that felt the truthfulness of this glorious message:

Saturday we were out trying to track down some members who hadn't been at church in a while just to see how they were doing. Well of course I am still the designated driver and so I got us lost trying to find the house. But the Lord turns our weaknesses into strengths! We found ourselves in a neighborhood and just decided to make a better use of our time so we parked and we hit the pavement. Well as all mission stories go, it started with no luck at all. For a Saturday morning I was pretty surprised that no one was answering the door. But it's always worth it in the end. We knocked on one door and a guy maybe in his early 30s answered the door. We offered to say a prayer with him and he was pretty grateful for that, said that he needed some guidance. Well the conversation after the prayer was pretty funny, but turned into something amazing. He started off by telling us that he was thinking about starting his own church. He didn't know how to do it because he wasn't a 'preacher' he would keep saying. We then started talking about all the different churches and how they were all different and why that was. He told us that the reason he wanted to open up his own church was because he wanted to get it as close to the original as he could. He admitted that it wouldn't be exactly the same because he was just a man but he wanted to try. Well that led into a perfect opportunity to testify about the restoration and how there was already a church on the earth that had all the truth and authority. His reply: "I knew that must be going on somewhere in the world, I just thought I had given up looking". We just were able to have a great conversation that was completely guided by the spirit! We then invited him to be baptized and he just replied "Ya, of course. What do I need to wear?"

Haha if only every individual could have that response :) He came to church with us this weekend and loved it and we are going back to see him this week.

Another cool miracle that happened that day because we were out trying to find a less active member. Turns out they had moved and so we just decided to go finding in that complex. The first door we knocked on a young mom with two little kids answered the door. We asked if we could pray with her and she too was very open and grateful for the offer. After the prayer we started talking with her about God's greatest gifts He wants each of us to have. 1. Eternal Life 2. Remission of Sins. 3. Gift of the Holy Ghost. This young mom just broke down in tears and we talked. She shared with us that she had been praying and seeking for guidance and she felt like her prayers weren't being answered. She then testified to us that she knew that we were the answer that God was giving her. It was such a tender experience. I love being a missionary for many reasons. But one is because I am able to witness just how much our Father in Heaven loves His children! It's just wonderful.

Missionary Work is just fun! I also was able to serve in a YSA for a day. That was...interesting. I'll admit I'm glad I'm not assigned to serve that full time. We did exchanges this week and a set of sisters in our stake serves in the YSA ward and we went on exchanges with them. It was fun, while I was in their area for the day we did a lot of finding on different college campuses. I didn't realize there were so many colleges around us. We went to Georgia State, Georgia Tech and then some junior colleges in the area. So that was fun. We also had a member feed us...but having a YSA feed you means them having pizza delivered to your apartment haha. The pizza was good though, so I am not complaining :).

Hhmmm what else happened this week that was different than the norm...we had a new Ward Mission Leader called. That's awesome! I am really excited for all that he has planned. I think it will really help with getting the members excited for missionary work!

Oh and one more miracle that I wanted to share. So we are teaching this mom and her 9 year old son. The missionaries have been teaching her since November, so it's been a good amount of time. They are coming to church regularly and basically know everything there is to know, or at least sometimes it feels like that. Anyways, a few weeks ago, probably actually when I first got to the area she shared with us that she now knew that she needed to be baptized, but wasn't willing to set a date of baptism. She wanted to wait a little longer on that one. Well that has been our main focus this week has just been praying so hard that she would know that she needed to set a date or a goal or else she was never going to progress towards it. Well our lesson this week was no small miracle. It was set up a little last minute and we really wanted it to be just a strong lesson and so we hit our knees to pray for guidance. After that literally everything just fell into place. We wanted a member to come with us, but specifically a convert because she has tons of fellowship in the ward but it is all with lifelong members. That happened, we were able to get one of the strongest converts in the ward to come with us :) then we wanted to focus the lesson on the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and we received the prompting to watch the mormon message with her with Elder Holland's testimony of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. If you haven't seen it yet-please go watch it :) Anyways so we started the lesson off with that video and it just invited the spirit right away. You can always count on Elder Holland. She was really touched by his testimony and I think it finally put things into perspective for her. Then we just talked with her about baptism. She admitted she knew that she needed to set a date but committing to something was always hard for her. We had so many members of our ward praying for her the last few weeks and I know that our prayers were answered. We extended the date for the 23rd of May and she pulled out her phone and put it into her calender! She then asked us to make sure he son could be baptized with her :) It was exciting. She even felt a sense of relief, almost like she has been wanted to make that commitment this whole time but was just hesitant and the second she made it she was able to feel that sense of "that was the right thing" that came from the spirit. I am super excited for her and her family. I know that the Lord is watching over them.

Well that's basically my week :) I do have to do a shout out for the birthday brothers this week :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN and COLIN! Don't have too much fun this week!

Love you all!!!

XOXOX

-Sister Fluckiger

If You Don't Like the Weather...Just Wait a Minute!

Happy April Everyone!

Well I survived another Transfers week! Well at least I'm still in one piece :)

Its been a crazy week but I have loved it as always. The one question that I keep getting was if I missed Temple Square over conference weekend, and well I miss it but I don't miss it enough to want to leave Georgia..if that answers the question. There is just too much work to be done, but I guess it's like that no matter where you are serving.

Trying to think back about what has happened this week...Well Sister Perry went home. On Wednesday we drove up to....actually I don't know where we went. It was about an hour away and it was a church building and we had our transfers conference there. So that was fun. Transfers are a lot different here than when we have it on Temple Square. I was able to see Sister Mahoney! That was a tender mercy. Nothing for her really changed so she didn't actually have to come but they had to drop off a sister and someone told them they could stay. So that was a fun little reunion. It was fun to hear about where she is serving, her area is like the polar opposite from my area. We are going to have a lot of stories to share on our plane ride back to the west in a few weeks :)

So Sister Lund is my new companion, she is also from Utah, Brigham City to be exact. And believe it or not but we entered the MTC on the same exact day! But we didn't know each other, but still it's pretty cool.

​ We've had a crazy few days together. Tornadoes, thunder storms, heat waves and lots and lots of tracting! This picture was taken after we tried to contact a potential and right as we were walking out of the apartment complex back towards our car it down-poured on us...I don't look that wet haha but that's because Sister Lund had to back me out of our parking spot. So she was in the rain a bit longer than me :) Oh and did I mention this was the day we forgot our rain coats? hehe

But ya, leading out an area when you have only  been there for 5 weeks has been....fun, I guess. We haven't been late for any appointments yet or been lost anywhere so I think that's pretty impressive. I mean we do have a GPS so I guess that helps a bit. But still, we are alive!

The people we are teaching are doing wonderful and I just know that this is the transfer for all of them! We had a mighty miracle with one of the investigators who Sister Perry had been teaching for basically forever. He knows the church is true and wants to be baptized but he wanted to wait till things in his life settled, i.e. taxes, emigration, new job, and other things like that. And because of that he would never set a date to be baptized, he would just say, "eventually, I want to be baptized and it will happen but I can't set a date" or something like that. Well, anyways, the miracle is that we visited him this week and we shared with him Doctrine Covenants 20:37, which are the qualifications for baptism and then we shared with him a few of the baptismal interview questions and basically told him that he was ready, that the Lord thinks he is ready and all he is doing in denying blessings that he could otherwise be receiving right now. Well we invited him to be baptized on a date in May and he said "Sure!" Haha I just love how the Lord works :)

So a lot of cool things like that have happened, another miracle would be when we went and contacted a referral. We met a 13 year old girl and her aunt and we just started teaching them. The aunt is okay with her church but is willing to listen to us but the girl was like really excited. We invited her to church and she said "you know I feel like if I come to church I am going to want to be baptized and stay" - a missionary's favorite response! So we are now teaching her and her aunt and we are praying specifically for her aunt that her heart will be softened. We like this to be a family thing that we do together! But the Lord always makes everything work out.

A funny story to just close out, Sister Lund and I keep bringing this back up because we still can't believe that it happened. Well we had a return appointment with a man that I had met about 2 weeks back when we went on exchanges. He was a really cool guy and he told us that he wants to be as close to God as our clothes are close to us. Anyways, we went back this week for our appointment. We had tried and prayed so hard that we would have a member present so that we could teach him. Usually it's not that hard for us to find a member present because the sisters in our ward are very willing, but for whatever reason (we now know the reason) we could not get anyone to come with us. So we were already in the area so we just decided we would show up and hope his wife would join us and if not we would just reschedule. Well turns out that he was waiting for us....with his preacher. I'm sure you can imagine what happened. It was quite an experience. We explained to him that we couldn't stay or go inside because we didn't have another lady with us, but then he just asked if we could just stay outside for a few minutes to answer some questions he had. We said sure and he went inside to grab his Bible and came back out with a Bible and a preacher. You just have to love the South! Anyways, we basically testified our hearts out and invited them to pray and then left promptly. Yep we are still laughing about it. Hopefully something like that doesn't happen again...but you just never know!

So that's basically been our week. Always fun and crazy and always filled with variety.

I love you all and hope you are having a wonderful week!
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XOXOXOX

-Sister Fluckiger

p.s. my companion cuts hair....seriously best thing as a missionary ever!!!! :)