Halloween

I just realized I forgot to send this last week.  So here's last weeks letter.

Sounds like y'all had a fun week.  This Saturday was Sister Erickson's birthday and the ward Halloween party.  We got to judge the desserts and then go home and eat cake.  We ate to much but it was fun. I think the best costumes I saw was a family dressed as characters from Wreck it Ralph.  

The cockroach population is down! Not completely gone yet but we're getting there. Our next temple trip is on the 9th so if you get those names to me I can do them then.  We saw a woodpecker yesterday.  Sister Thompson got a video of it but we cant figure out how to get it on to the computer.  I got the package you sent me. And a pare of shoes that I left in my last area.  It's fun opening something everyday.  So far the favorites are Calvin's box and the rubber duck. 

 

 First off sorry again I didn't send that email last week.  I can't believe I didn't hit send.  I didn't get a jacket yet.  There's been a bug going around the mission so we cut shopping short and let everyone sleep.  

Every 5th Sunday the missionaries get to teach gospel principals.  So this week we got to teach about eternal marriage and why it's important.  Why they had that as the lesson that missionaries, who are neither married nor thinking about getting married, is beyond me.  In spite of that I think it went fairly well. 

At one of our dinner appointments this week I walked in the door and saw a Harry Potter trivia game on the table, The entire Lord of the Rings series on the shelf, and one of the girls had on a Robin t-shirt.  So I found some of my people.  

One of our investigators, who's planning on being baptized soon :) , said in one of the episodes of Supper Girl one of the characters figures out that the guy from and alternate universe is a supper hero. When asked how he figured it out he said "With morals like that you're either Mormon or a supper hero."  

Looking forward to Halloween pictures

Love 

Sister Britney Clark

Pictures

Thanks for the Halloween package.  What were transfers like on your mission?  

The pictures are Atlanta skyline, 
me and my companion, 
us at the Halloween party, a woodpecker​.  

Newnan Lakes

I got moved to the Summer Grove ward with Sister Thompson (my MTC companion). My new address is  Newnan GA.  We're in a four man with the Newnan Sisters.  A family of cockroaches decided to move into the fridge before I got here.  All the food is in the living room and all the dishes are piled on the table so they can spray the kitchen.  It's almost impossible to find anything but there's a lot less bugs. Other than that it's a pretty average apartment.

I mentioned that I like to make fudge and Sister Thompson immediately texted the elders and told them that I make fudge.  A short while later I had a peanut butter fudge recipe with the agreement that I will be making it in exchange for french toast.  

 

How much we spend specifically on food depends on how much members feed us.  Our monthly budget is $165 for sisters and $160 for elders.  This covers food, cleaning supplies, notebooks, pencils/pens, stamps, ect.  Hopefully that helps.

Well the computers about to kick me off,

 

Love ya,

Sister Britney Clark

Peachy

     Georgia was the first state to box and distribute peaches on a large scale, which is why it's called the peach state.  Most of the peaches aren't actually grown here, just processed.  We do get some at the farmers market, but its not any more than you would get anywhere else.  We do get a lot of blueberries though.
      We get 1 ensign per companionship so we have to share.  I just got a new notebook, my last one got filled up at conference.  All the hotels are full from people evacuating the hurricane area.  The temperature dropped about 20 degrees, which has been very nice, and it started raining when we were biking and stopped shortly after we got home.  We probably should've gotten me a rain jacket, but I'm transferring out of this area so I can probably just use my umbrella.  If you want to send me one of my less formal jackets for exercise in the mornings that would be great.
     At general conference we were talking to Sister Foote and Sister Francom mentioned that they (the PTC sisters) were trying to cut back on biking because Sister Hines only has 1 3/4 lungs.  Somewhere in that it got brought up that I'm asthmatic and also in a car/bike share.  Now we're both getting transferred.  We're planning on dropping off some of our stuff off at the church today so we don't end up with the same fiasco as last transfer.

    I got your letter. Not the package yet but yesterday was Columbus day and the mail hasn't come yet so I might get it while I'm here.  If not they'll forward it to me and I will get it eventually.

   In other news one of our members is knitting scarves and hats to sent to kids in other countries that don't have any.  She frequently invites the missionaries over to help and the last two times I brought my crochet hooks and finished a scarf yesterday.  It was fun.  They have a dog who is also named Chewy.  He decided we were paying to much attention to the yarn and stole Sister Simmons yarn.  

 

    We also got four new senior missionaries, Elder and Sister Collins and Elder and Sister Imlay.  As far as I know they're not related to our Imlays.  The Collins are in to jamming and brought a 2 year supply of homemade jam with them.  One batch didn't thicken up right so they also have raspberry syrup. Something we can relate to.

 

Thank you for everything, your support means the world to me

Love Britney 

Conference

Conference was awesome.  We went to the stake center to watch it.  The first secession on Sunday had some other members but the rest of the time it was mostly just missionaries.  One thing I really liked from general conference is that joy has little to do with the circumstances of our life, and everything to do with the focus of our life.  I've found that to be true in my life.  When I'm focusing on everything that's going wrong or that I'm not good at I am not a happy camper.  But when I'm focusing on Christ and the countless blessings in my life I'm a lot happier.
I can't remember if I told you this but when we went to the temple with Sister Simmons recent convert I got a mini scripture set for when I'm biking.  They're compact and don't weigh as much as my other set.  The only downside was they didn't sell scripture cases that size so I decided to crochet one.  We only had pink yarn and crochet cotton so I decided to Irish crochet a hummingbird for decoration.  At the store I ended up picking a sparkling dark blue yarn for the case.  It looks really good but it doesn't match the hummingbird. I finished the case a few days ago. Since I had already started the hummingbird I decide to work on that during general conference.  One of the Elders saw the hummingbird and asked if I could make a penguin.  I told him I could probably figure it out, so I might start that today.
The weather decided to drop 10-15 degrees all the sudden witch is really nice when we're on the bikes.  I could use some more deep blue, I used a lot of it on my arm.  Transfers are on the 12th so plan around that.  Also we have a recent convert with 3 year old twins that would like some ideas for keeping them entertained during sacrament meeting.   One of them likes eating crayons and the other one likes coloring on anything but paper so not coloring. 

Thanks for the pictures.  My camera needs new batteries so I will send some next week.  

Thanks for everything

Love Brit