Whats up from Memphis!

I arrived safely in Arkansas last Tuesday and we had a wonderful dinner and testimony meeting in the Mission Home. Then Wednesday we went to transfers and then drove 2 1/2 hours to Memphis Tennessee and had transfer meeting again here. I have 2 companions. One got into the field in June and is just waiting for her visa to go to Argentina. The other sister got here in July. We live with the sweetest lady. For her work she is an interpreter and that's super helpful because she helps us with our Spanish. We are opening up this area in Memphis so mainly this week we have just been trying to find people to teach. We found a few people to teach and then had return appointments with them for last Saturday. However, we were over miles on our car so we had to start our bike week early and bike Saturday. Unfortunately these appointments were apparently in a "not so safe" area on bike and so we were not allowed to go. We had to give all our appointments to the Elders. We learned today that actually half of the people we were going to teach are in what is called the "triangle" where we are highly advised to stay away from.. even in cars... i guess it's to keep us safe. Therefore, we are learning our ways around this new area fairly quick and are trying to stay as safe as possible. Yes, Its bike week. I love it. However, I have never gotten so sweaty so fast in my life. With the humidity and it being about 100 degrees it only takes about 3 minutes for us to look just terrible. I think it's helping us get into doors though because they look at us and then welcome us to come in and go and get us cold water bottles! wahoo! The average weight gain in this mission is 40 pounds. However my clothes only allow for about 10 so I'm hoping i can bring down that average a little bit.

Life is great! That's it for the week.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

 

Hermana Ashleigh Warner

2562 Country Trail

Memphis, TN. 38133