I am in Petal, Mississippi and I am loving it! Its already kind of hot so summer should be interesting ;) I love the people out here they are so nice and layed back its great! Although almost all of them are baptist and have already been "saved" its hard to teach people who think they are already done. Here if you say outloud I accept Jesus as my saviour" Then alright you good to go to heaven!! Everyone already goes to chruch every sunday and they are all very religious people. The sad thing is that about half of the members in the ward dno't want to drive 20 min. to the church in Hattiesburg when they can just walk around the cornere to the next baptist church. So we are doing a lot of reactivation here and its difficult. Even the people who are investigating the church you can't help but think once they are baptized they will just fall back into going to some baptist church down the road rather then driving. On the bright side the members that do go to church are awesome! they are all looking for missionary opprotunities and trying to fellowship the people who are less active! I have never seen and probably will never see again a ward that helps the missionaries out this much!
We have 3 great people investigating right now and 1 that is okay haha that one guy is his own bird thats for sure. The other three are pretty much headed in the right direction and one of them is a garunteed baptism. The southern food is great but i haven't had to much of it but the stuff I have had is amazing! I just hope i don't gain 50 pounds in the enxt 3 months because its all fried!! They certainly don't let you go home hungry down here if your not sick because you ate too much then you have to eat more!! Seriously if you don't get seconds they complain about you being a light weight! haha so i just make sure i get small plates now and just eat 2 or 3 of those then its all good. Then we always get sent home with the rest of the dessert which is ridiculous! I can see how gaining weight down here would be a problem if yuo didn't work out. Luckilu my companion is a polynesian version of me so we work out together everynight to try and work off all the grease we eat at dinner!
I don't really have any really good stories yet but I will be sure to update them on here as soon as I get a good one! Well i will update yall later!
Quote from Miss Ruby "He was as crazy as a road lizard!"
Quote from The South "You can say anything you want about somebody as long as you say bless his/her heart at the end." Example: "He really isn't the most thoughtfull person i have ever met but bless his heart he tries though"
Southern Talk example "I maybe coulda written some more for yall but my companion is being annoying right now. Bless his heart."
Haha I love the way people are down here its just a great place to serve your mission even if it does baptize a small amount of people you meet some great ones anyways!
Yall have a good day now!
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