Arlington National Cemetery

Hello hello all!

This week has been amazing!!  We got to serve at Habitat and move sheetrock.  We saw the hermanas lifting the sheetrock over their heads and carrying it.  We decided to give it a try but we have pretty major height differences between us all (Sis. Lungren 6ft, I'm 5'8, Sis. Livingston 5'3) and the hermanas are all the same height.  So it was pretty funny to see us trying to figure out how to move it with Sister Livingston in the middle!

We had a lesson with a man named JP and he is so fun! He does like to try and stump us so that's not as fun but we were able to have a very powerful lesson with him the other day and it was great!

Wednesday we got to go to Arlington Cemetery!! Holy cow that was a process! We carpooled with some other sisters that were assigned to serve there too and it took a while to get everything figured out. We had to get passes and they scan you for weapons, check your ID and have you type in your social security number so they know it's really you.  So here is something kinda funny-our little group of 5 got asked by the security guard if we were over 18 and we all said yes but then out of everyone, I got pulled aside and checked again!  I'm the oldest out of that group and almost 23!! I don't look under 18 even with a mask on. After we got through all the security checkpoints, we met with Rangers Trudy and Suzanne.  They are so nice! We get to work in the South Flower Garden beds by Arlington house.  We spent most of our time going through safety forms and having Rangers Trudy and Suzanne explain what it is we will be doing.  We are so excited to go back every week!!

Sister Lungren and Sister Livingston learned how to rope and it was really fun! We also had the AP's join our district council and that wasn't near as fun. I also taught Sister Lungren how to make a bird call and now we do it pretty frequently... Sister Livingston throws stuff at us when she wants us to stop, its pretty funny!

We have been teaching our friend Garrett and he is so much fun to teach!  He has a lot of questions about faith and the gospel as we believe it to be and we are really excited to continue teaching him. We got to have a really powerful lesson with him the other day and ask some really inspired questions.

This is my amusing story for the week. Sister Lungren and I both have rain boots. I got mine from my trainer and they are waayy too big for me but there is a lot of rain here so I just deal with it. Anyways, we were standing next to each other and she made a comment about how her boots hurt her feet because they are too small.  I said "Really?  I trip all the time because mine are too big."  We sat there for a moment, realized that we could probably fix this quickly, looked at each other and said "Switch!"  Perfect fit! Long story short, I now have rain boots that fit me and so does she! I can finally stop tripping up the stairs. 

Sister Lungren preformed a minor surgery on her ear this week.  She discovered a cyst that was really painful for her. She made it about 3 days before she decided to take a wall tack and stab the cyst to pop it.  It was pretty gross watching her push it in but it worked! And now her ear is all better. 

We have had a lot of lessons with members and one thing I absolutely love is making connections with them but also helping them connect with the Book of Mormon.  Recently, I have noticed that when we meet with members, a lot of times they say that the Book of Mormon doesn't do anything for them which hurts!! It's like a stab in the heart!! I love the Book of Mormon!!  So we have been offering to read the Book of Mormon with them a couple times a week while they read on their own every day.  It is so incredible to see their love grow for the Book of Mormon as they read it and make a connection with it! 

I think that is it for this week, I love you all!

Pictures: 

Looking out at D.C. from the Cemetery

Us at Arlington House