Happy 4th of July

TERESA - HI!

I can't believe that you didn’t take ANY pictures (of the Steven & Erika’s Open House)! haha Well hopefully somebody did take some and then you can send them my way :) Oh and I also want pictures from the wedding too please!

So it was the 4th of July! yay! Happy Independence Day! Sis Nelson and I celebrated with singing nothing but patriotic songs and eating burgers and derito chips (closest we could get to a BBQ haha). We also had our own little "firework" show. It happened to rain buckets at one point as we decided to take a shortcut through a graveyard to a dinner appt. As we were trying to figure out where we were going, we were pretty much wandering aimlessly in the worst storm I've seen since I've been here thunder and lightning filled the sky! It was great! And the weird thing too is that they rarely ever have thunder and lightning. It was just so funny because after church that day it had stopped raining and it was warm so we took off our coats and only kept an umbrella and our suit blazers on. As we were on the bus to the graveyard it was raining so much and hard that we couldn't even see out the windows! The bus had to stop for a bit cause he couldn't see the road! We felt to so foolish that we had taken off our coats and had nothing but a brolly! My umbrella blew inside out haha, and now it's not as sturdy as it once was. It was hilarious. What a good 4th of July!! We were blessed and it was a really good day :)

This past week we were asked to help with the church's youth activity. The theme was a kind of an "American summer fair". It was funny to see what they did to make it "American". They had a hot dog stand and all sorts of contests. I won the bubblegum contest! We were given a piece of gum and whoever could blow a bubble first won haha. Another was who could spit a sunflower seed the furthest, who could eat 2 mini apple pies the fastest, who could whistle first after eating crackers, and drink a glass of water the quickest and so forth. I thought they did a pretty good job at making it American for sure! It was fun to be apart of it and really funny :)

We taught a great lesson to an investigator named Aileen. She is wonderful! She is best friends with Sis Veal in the RS Presidency, who is also amazing! Aileen has been learning about the gospel for over half a year now and would totally get baptized except that she wants to wait till her husband gets involved too (which is happening slowly but surely!). She has a daughter, Bethany, who's 5 and a baby on the way. She is already living the gospel standards and participates fully in church! She wanted to learn about temples, so Sis Nelson and I definitely sought for the spirit in preparation and teaching the lesson. We, of course, didn't divulge any sacred information but rather taught the purpose of temples and why they are necessary for our eternal salvation. (Like what we are taught in Sunday school.) She completely understood the sacredness of the subject and has made it a definite goal to go there with her family someday! It was a wonderful experience to teach about temples and refreshing too :)

Ireland is now apart of our mission!! There are now 180 missionaries in the mission! But we are not sure as to how many came and left. One of my zone leaders left and one elder from our district left too for Ireland. We are getting another Zone leader from Ireland now. So exciting!

Well I love you all and hope you all enjoy your vacations!! LOVE YOU!

-Sis Teresa Kullick