We went to the fort and had a grand time! They were celebrating African American history, so they were having these little performances in the middle of it. There was this lady dancing to God Bless America and she had this flag headband and a flag on her dress. It was pretty great. At the end she made her son and husband get up and wave flags while she waved her skirt. It was HIGHLY entertaining.
We continued our wandering and Austin informed us of all of the information we needed to know about the fort. He also kept calling everything the nations oldest whatever it was. The nations oldest fort, the nations oldest doorknob, the nations oldest ladder. There was this fire truck that rang and this little boy shouted "a fire truck! A fire truck!" And Austin said something like, "oh, no little boy. The nations OLDEST fire truck."
There seemed to be a funny pattern of incidents with little boys at st Augustine. We were walking down st George street and this little boy was dilly dallying in front of elder England (who is a hairs width short of a giant) and the boys dad told him to watch out for where he ass going and to pay attention to what's behind you. The little boy turned and looked up at elder England and his jaw DROPPED. He was just shocked.
Then we were walking through the fort and went near the little hole part that you can go to where they kept all the powder. Haha... Powder room. Sister Blatter and I had already been so we didn't go in. There was a big crowd by the door and people were all over the place when the other sisters came out. The sisters found us and sister Blatter asked if that was where they kept the dead bodies. This little boy whipped around with this look of shock and terror on his face. It was too, too good.
We got yummy ice cream and continued our traipsing around. We finally decided it was time to go home, so home we went. We went to family home evening and played spoons. Spoons with 30 people is... Difficult.
This week I gave a training in district meeting. We rolled up to district meeting, and lo and behold who should be there but the assistants, the zone leaders, and the sister training leaders. Huzzah.... I also gave a talk in church and it was very well received. The Spirit is so very kind.
This week we had a mission conference about facebook with Elder Zwick from the seventy and Bother Hemingway, who is in charge of technology for all missionaries. We make it and sat down and waited for the good times to roll. Elder Zwick came in... Like a little lamb!! He was so calm and sweet! Last time he came he was like a lion roaring through the forest! Brother Hemingway is also absolutely hilarious!! My goodness.
It was a wonderful conference where they talked all about our iPads. We were the first people EVER to hear this. By four days! They are rolling out new standards, protocols, and methods for our technology. The church has some massively beautiful vision for this technology that will start even before we get our call. They are launching a "re-birth" of facebook, so we will be getting rid of it for a while. By the time we get back on as a mission I will probably be home. I'm excited for this purge. It's good to be pure again. Haha, so I won't have facebook my first and my last transfer of my mission. Funny.
Elder Zwick kept talking about writing things on the fleshy tables of our hearts and making the gospel ours and making our hearts the greatest filter on the Internet. It was a very inspiring conference full of loving comments. At the beginning Elder Zwick said that if he wanted to go 6 hours then we would, so he went 5.
He also showed us the new Easter initiative that will be airing on March 27. It's beautiful and is called because he lives. I'm so thankful to be in this mission that is so trusted with these marvelous tools to further the work. I love being a missionary! Even if I didn't have all this fancy stuff. I just love this work, and I know it's God's.
I hope that yall have a great week!
Love,
Sister Perkes
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