The scabes 9.29.14

Greetings from Gainesville. 

Now some of you might be wondering why on earth I am in Gainesville....again. You might ask, didn't you just get transferred from there? And I would say yes. But y'all, I'm back. 

Remember those scabies? Well they have brought me back here to gvegas. On Friday whilst we were power washing this lady's trailer we got a call from president Craig. He called and told us that they were moving us out of the trailer into some empty apartments in Gainesville IMMEDIATELY. All 4 of us. There had been 3 confirmed outbreaks, all of which traced back to our trailer. So they were quarantining all of us and fumigating our trailer. But before we left we had to wash every single piece of our clothing, so we used 2 different member's washers and we still got done and to Gainesville at 10.

 It was a crazy day. So much for a hasty exodus into the wilderness. 

So since then we have been stuck in Gainesville....literally doing nothing. We aren't allowed to go out since we could be contagious. None of us ACTUALLY have scabies, but we still have to be here. My lanta. We have nothing to do. But hey, we got to go to YSA yesterday! It was good to be back and see all of my friend. What a joyous time it was. President Craig was there and he spoke. Sister Conley and her companion, Sister Tsai, are quarantined too. They had a baptism yesterday and we got to go to that. It was wonderful. Oh Gainesville. 

Really other than that we didn't do much before we were sent here. WAIT. On Wednesday we went to Lake City to actually see if I have scabies. Well I don't. It's just poison ivy. The doctor told me to wash all my clothes to get the oils out and gave me some more pills. Huzzah. 

We did go to the school again and we had a great time. I made 3 copies of math text books. How invigorating. It took Sister Snelgrove 10 minutes to figure out the stapler. She thought I was straight magical when I opened it. 

 

Now for this weeks nasty animal encounter! Some nasty doodle frog jumped up inconveniently  at the time we were coming across the road, so he got stuck in our car vent and then he had the nerve to die there. Of course I wasn't going to to touch it. It made me want to vomit. So I politely asked the elders to remove it. They said that they would...and they did. But when we went to get it off our car the stupid frog was on my door handle. Um....YUCK. I about died. I had to move my side mirror so I couldn't see it, because every time I looked at it I wanted to vomit. 

So I spent the next day climbing in and out of the backseat or the passenger side in order to avoid Mr. Bean. That's what I named him. Mr. Bean. Finally Sister Davidson just moved him off the handle, but I made the elders scrub off all of the frog guts that were crusted onto my handle. YUCKERS. 

That's all from here... Wherever I am. 

Have a good week!

Love, 

Sister Perkes 

P.s.  Last night we got so bored that we made Sister Snelgrove chug kidney beans from the can. This is what my life has come to. 

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Fun at Target

I love spending all my money on prescriptions!

Sister Snelgrove taking a nap in her poncho from that nasty store
last week. We were at a members house doing laundry

What a golden day 9.23.14

This week was amazing! yesterday we met with elder golden and it
was....golden! I was so inspired and it was beautiful. His wife was
like a righteous Delores Umbridge from Harry Potter. I did not come up
with that. Props to sister Davidson, y'all.

Now for this weeks volleyball update. I hit it and did a good job,
y'all! It was beautiful. People cheered for me a whole lot.

I made fajitas this week and they were plum tasty. All I had was a
piece of steak and a some onions and green peppers. It turned out
delightful. I also made a darn tasty breakfast casserole with tater
tots, hamburger, bread, eggs, and cream of mushroom soup. It was
DEEEEELLIICIOUS. Yum. I guess maybe I can cook...

 Fajitas!

Sister Davidson with her homemade guac

We had some weird encounters this week with animals. We were wandering
around the country and saw a giant snake, then we shouted at some
goats. We also had a many a peacock encounter this week... At this
point I should really be used to weird animal stuff, shouldn't I?

Picture a Peacock

THE snake

My face when I saw THE snake

We also went to the library and helped make some decorations by
drawing stuff. I realize that I was pretty good at copying stuff.

Want to know what else I'm good at? DANCING. This week we had a dance
off for mutual and when we split up for teams no body wanted to be on
my team. Everyone wanted to be on elder deans team, since he is on the
ballroom team at BYU. Well guess what's up. WEEEEEE WONN!
YESSSSSS!! It was such a sweet victory. We even beat elder dean and
his Michael Jackson moves and his man split. Ha. STINKIN. Ha! Winning.

Well I hope that you have a good week!

Oh yeah, they think that my poison ivy is actually scabies. Bye!

Love,
Sister Perkes

p.s. We went to the only store in Lake Butler and they had some of the
ugliest shoes I've EVER seen. So of course we had to try them on. All
of them.

What a length of time 9.16.14

Hellur y'all!

What a week! I forgot to tell y'all, but the next p-day will be on a
Tuesday too. We are having a  mission tour next week. Elder Golden
from the Seventy will be coming. He has a really nifty accent since he
is from Southern Africa, so this is going to be real fun. I'm actually
pretty sure that he spoke at Stake Conference in Idaho Falls once.

But this week was chuck full of interesting things:

My arm is almost back to normal. Brother Matt gave me some medicine
and finally admitted it was poison ivy. It doesn't burn/itch/make
me want to die as much anymore.

This week I have also found that I have a strange obsession with
braid crowns. I figured out how to do a really good one and make it
look all fancy hipster like.

This week I also hit the volleyball over the net for the first time in
my life. It was shocking, impressive, and there WAS a massive round of
applause. Life conquered. I now know that I can go forth and do
anything! NAILED IT.

This week we went and helped with a funeral. It was like going home!
Which is actually kind of sad. But I have never seen such a spread of
food. There were 5 different churches involved and the Mormons provided
the food and building. It was an all day event full of southern
goodness. If there is one thing that Mormons know how to do, it's
throw a funeral luncheon. Yet another NAILED IT moment.

This week we met this ward member who is 95. He still remembers Heber
J.Grant, y'all! He was telling us about his meeting in 1924. What. On.
Earth. He is the neatest soul in the whole entire world. My goodness!

We also had the most disturbing experience of my life. We went to see
these people and their friendly dog dragged a headless furry creature
over to the door. It was either a puppy or a bunny. Both of those are
unacceptable. It was real smelly too. YUCKERS.

The mysterious fur creature

As you can guess this week is transfers. Sister Cline will be leaving
us, but Sister Donohue from Mandarin 2nd ward will be coming! She is
the new Lake City Sister Training Leader! Hooray! Sister Cline is
going to Georgia in Sister Conley's last area. Missionaries run in
small circles, y'all.

I made dinner for the trailer.  It was yummy!

masters of machetes

Me as a beauty queen

We had this dog that kept coming to visit us. Her name be Zipporah.

 

machetes - Sister missionaries tool of choice

The people at the library threw us a party and made us a cake as a
thank you for all of the service that we do for them.

Peacocks join us on our porch.

Hope you have a good week! Love you!

Love,
Sister Perkes