Second Week in Ashland!

THE TIME HAS COME!!! 

We will start with all the random facts I wrote down over the week then I will get to the crazy awesome spiritual stuff.

Here in Ashland there are only two fast food restaurants; Wendy’s and Taco Bell. Why you ask? Because the city passed a bill to prevent garbage food from ruining their community and they would have better food options in town. That resulted in a KFC, A&W, and Carls Jr. closing down. Yes, this is hippy land. Good thing they keep the mushroom and papa smokes stores here!

So! My trainer is apparently the mother trainer of this whole zone. She goes on exchanges and trains sister missionaries how to be better at doing missionary stuff. . . yeah. WELL! She called president Young this last week and he told her he would like her to start doing that. What heppens is she goes with one sister from another area and Iead the other one here in my area. He said  he felt completely confident that Sister Orr can handle herself, even thought this isn’t something you do with new sister missionaries. AAAAAWWW YEEEEEAAAHH!! . . . but I’m still a little nervous. . . But that is going to start up pretty soon. Tomorrow we are going to Eugene again for another training and I will be with Sister Frampton my MTC companion! Pretty funny! I’m excited to spend a day with her.

We have been crazy busy working with less-active members, most of them being very old. We were giving a lesson to one lady this past week and we asked her what experiences she has had with prayer. Her eyes got really big and she said, “My son owns 2 mountains in LA and she is going to sell one of them. Yup. Yup. She’s gonna sell one. mmmmm hmmmmm.” It took all we had to not bust up at that point. I love old people. This last week we got 7 people who haven’t come for a while to come to church! YEHAW!! That is HUGE!! 

We also had a big miracle. The standard for our mission is to have 1 baptism every transfer per companionship. We have a couple who committed to be married and then baptised the same day! YEAH YEAH YEAH! They are in there 40′s and they have lived together for the past 13 years! Crazy! But they are set for the 22nd. Can you live together and still obey the law of chastity? Still figuring that one out. They have kids too. Interesting situation. BUT! Even though the standard is 1 per transfer, Sister Clove and I decided (Spirit or enthusiasm? Not really sure) to shoot for 3. We have been working pretty hard towards it. Yesterday, after we taught Young women’s, the primary lady came up to us and introduced us to this little girl who is 10 and really wants to be baptised! HALLELUJAH!!! We are freaking out, I guess her parents are supportive even though they aren’t members. Such a miracle! That is 2 for our transfer so far, and this week we are going ask one of our progressing investigators. We shall see what happens. This week will consist of lots of Ukelele playing for lessons. Is there anything better? I think not.

Love you all!

Sister Orr II