This. Week. 1.13.14

I'm just going to start this off with probably some good news for everyone. This email is going to be rather short. I am very hungry. I didn't bring any snacks. Emailing takes about 2 hours, which is significantly longer than the time I should go without food. BUT I love you all very much so I shall now proceed to wax eloquent and tell you of my doings this week. 

I'm not even sure what we did this week. My key indicators indicate that we did a lot of things, but I don't seem to be able to remember any of them. 

Last night we had dinner at a family's house and it was like being home. There were people all over the place and we had a good southern meal. I should have known it was going to be fantastic when the pater famailia opened the door and he had on a FSU Seminoles bandanna wrapped around his head like the karate kid. It perfectly accentuated his long hair and fantastic goatee. This family just has great facial hair. His son-in-law has the beard of all beards. It is of epic proportions. People aspire to have Brother Leckie's beard. 

This week I experienced my first torrential downpour in Jacksonville. Boy, oh boy, was it raining. Right as we got out of the library. It wasn't very fun. Especially since we had contacting and tracting planned for the rest of the night. We squished through 2 neighborhoods. 

We also went to visit a man this week. He is a less active in our ward and we have been trying to meet with him since before Christmas. Last week he just told us to give up on him, so that meant one thing. Surprise attack. We went over there one day and had an interesting gospel discussion that ended with me rather confused. Right before we were going to leave he was like, "wait! When you first called me I got you some stocking and some candy and nuts! Let me go get it." So we stand there for a bit (we are outside) and then he reappears with these stocking. They aren't just your regular Joe stockings. They are singing Peanuts stockings. SINGING. Expensive SINGING stockings. Then he starts to laden us with candy and entire bags of nuts. He gives us about 2 grocery bags full of candy and it weighs purt near 10000 pounds (he also gave us fruitcake. I hear that stuff is pretty dense, so that probably added to the weight). ALL of this candy was from World Market, so it was all foreign. There is a whole BOX of British chocolates. I about died. Here is the kicker, my friends. Sister Jeromchek and I are sacrificing sugar for the month of January. Yes. This was the worst idea ever. I wish I could go back, but it's just too late. Plus it's a very, very serious sacrifice. So now we have a plethora of delicious, foreign, sugary confections waiting for us to eat them come February. Hurry. Please.

Well. That is all that I can extract from the depths of my brains. I hope everyone has a dandy week!  

love you and miss you,

Sister Perkes