Carolina on my mind! (March 21, 2016)

This week has been great!  We have been able to see the hard work we put in last week pay off. This Sunday we had Ashley, a part member family, come and she stayed with her 4 year old little girl.  We also had Holly S there! She's gonna be baptized on 4/8 and we're so excited!!  She has a lot of support in the church.  Her family is like
half the ward. 🤗

Also, this week we were able to meet with some great people and really help them progress!

Okay so I'm gonna give you the skinny on the area which I am serving now.

First off, we drive a Corolla and it's so nice!  Also, we drive 30 minutes each morning to get into our area and back home, hence the videos on the late night drive homes with the windows down! #thebest.😏 

My companion is from Idaho -he's legit.  He was a big wrestler in his prime and we laugh a lot! His name is elder Peterson!  The reservation is like all members.  It looks like Utah when you look at the area!  Back a lot of years ago when churches were starting here, preachers came to the Indians and said come join us but they didn't let them partake in the traditions of the tribe, so they didn't like those churches.   Then when some Mormon missionary's showed up they loved all the teachings and we allowed a lot of the traditions to continue! We built
a church building on the reservation and basically the whole tribe would walk to church each day and loved it! But the problem arose when the whole congregation was family basically and then someone got offended and that whole family left😳.  That's history of the Catawba tribe.

I went down to Pineville with Elder Brown on exchanges! He came out
with me and so it was fun to catch up with him! Also, I went to Monroe
and got to go on exchange with Eder Prado- he's Latino!

That's all! Thanks so much for all the love. I love you.