Week 80!!!! See you all in two days!!

(or longer because I get home at night)

Man so England decided to dump it down this week to make up for all the nice sunny days we had earlier. Like half the week was hardcore rain. So bad that I was wearing two coats and still getting soaked. One nice thing about the rain though is that people take pity on you and will sometimes let you in. We had a lot of good tracting experiences this week because of the wierd weather.

So I don't really know what to say. My mission has been amazing and I wouldn't change any of it. Even the hard parts I consider worth it. Without them I wouldn't be the person I am now. Anyways I'll expand more on this in my homecoming talk. See you all soon (or message if you're in England)! 

The funny stuff:

So since my monthly bus pass expired, I just got weeklys for my last bit. Well I had my weekly pass renewed for the day after it expired by accident, so I had to get a day rider pass for one day. I thought I was done making silly mistakes like this.

When we were walking down Oldham road (busy street), we heard someone yell "MORMOOONNNNSSS" and so we looked back, and it was the zone leaders. They must have been coming back from exchanges

So the pass along cards we have are pretty tough under most conditions, but one thing they can't survive is the washer machine. I had like 5 of them in my dress pockets. Card body parts were everywhere.

So we were on the bus and we got off like normal, and then sister Ott and I realized that sister Songer was missing. We looked back and the bus was gone too. We were running around the bus station and sister Ott had just started to call President when we saw sister Songer running towards us. So what happened was that her bag had gotten hooked to the seat, and while she was unhooking herself, the bus started driving away. She managed to get off around the corner though so no biggie. The text to President was pretty funny though. 

So as we were waking to a bus stop, we stopped this man and commented on his pin (it was an American flag) and then he tried to give it to us. And he basically tried to pin it onto sister Ott. Sister Songer kept the pin. 

So I gave a talk on come follow me on Sunday, and it went pretty well. When I went to walk off the stand though, I slipped and almost fell down the stairs. Scared me real bad. 

One of the primary boys (Benjamin) (he's sooooo cute) was getting baptized this Sunday, and during the baptismal service, all the primary kids got up to sing. There were two kids who were clearly brother and sister, and the boy looked about 8ish or 9, and the girl was like 3 and so she was just standing there, and her older brother was moving her mouth while they sang with everyone to make it look like she was singing too. It's was so funny, and all the missionaries were giggling. Classic siblings. 

*lots of pictures...Her district..tracting in the rain.. her flat..farewell Temple trip..and my favorite, her worn out shoes. Those aren't even the shoes she took with her at the beginning of her mission. I think those are the 3rd pair of shoes she wore out and those ones are probably only a few months old. Haley got to do lots and lots of walking on her mission. 

Week 79!! THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

So this is my last full week of the mission! I honestly can't believe I've been in England this long.

Anyways this week was pretty packed. We had our interviews with president, and mine was like 2 minutes long, haha. I didn't have any issues and I still have my departing interview coming up anyways. Of course my companions took like 30 minutes each during theirs (every missionary does), so I had a lot of free time this week. The highlight of the week though was seeing Howie come to church! Howie is a returning member and we had been visiting him the whole transfer. He finally came to church again and absolutely loved it! It's amazing how much happier the gospel can make someone! On Sunday evening we also had a musical called our story goes on. It's a story about a few different families and they use different songs from musicals like les miserables and greatest showman. We got to go and it was absolutely amazing!! I almost (key word:almost) cried.

The funny stuff:

So I had to pick out 14 pictures from my mission for a little sideshow for the leaving missionaries, and it was really hard. The reason it was really hard was because in like 80% of the pictures I've taken, I'm making some face that is way too ugly to be considered funny. I've ruined every picture of Lunch at zone conference. I'm taking a bite of my food in every single picture. And half of my selfies are just me double chinning or making faces. The only formal pictures I have are the big group ones in zone conference. I hope president is OK with a picture of my district dabbing.

So I got an eyebrow kit, and I used the middle shade, but there was a black shade too and I was about to shower so I decided to put on the black eyebrow powder. It made my eyebrows look like Bert's from sesame street. Of course I had to share the misery, so I convinced my companions to do it with me and take pictures (wasn't too hard).

So when we were walking to the bus stop, a bee landed on my face, and it wasn't a normal bee. It was one of those massive, black and fuzzy, harbingers of death. It was like the size of a strawberry. Anyways I grabbed it, realized it was a bee, not a leaf, and slapped it off my face and ran away squeaking (I was too shocked to scream properly). To the bees credit, it didn't try to sting or chase me, it just kinda bumbled away. I bet it was laughing as it left too.

Sister Ott is so scared of bees. She doesn't go near them, and we were tracting and two of the houses had these bushes that were like 70% bee. She wouldn't go near it and she waited a house away while sister Songer and I tracted.

When we were tracting, we knocked a door and this little hand popped out of the mail slot. It was so funny. Then the mom asked us to come in, but she didn't really know English so it was really awkward, and at this point I'm just freaking out. Then the husband came home, and he was really nice. It turns out he had been taught by the elders before.

So we walked 8 miles..... Within like 2 hours. Our bus passes were expired and we decided to just renew them later and walk to one of the farther parts of our area. Then we got lunch, walked back, and died. We had our lunch and then the last 20 minutes of companionship study we listened to a talk. Nobody had any energy.

So we noticed that our trio is like the Powerpuff girls. Sister Songer is blossom because she has a pink raincoat and red hair, sister Ott is bubbles because she has a blue raincoat and blonde hair, and I'm like buttercup because I have a green raincoat and I'm always salty (my hair doesn't match buttercup unfortunately) (but my personality kinda does). Anyways we took some Powerpuff pictures in our raincoats.