September 27, 2021: sNOw?! Not again!!!

 I was caught up in the beauty of the Alaska Fall weather when we woke up Tuesday morning to find the town covered in snow!! 

You aren't a true "sourdough" Alaskan unless you have 5 broken trucks in your front lawn. If you don't believe me, come see for yourself!!

We went to teach this 90year old couple who were BIG talkers. After a LONG time of listening to them babble nonsense, I yelled, "CAN WE SAY A PRAYER?!". The woman apparently didn't hear me and went on pretending she had a shot gun and made explosive noises of her shooting it. Me and 'BB' died laughing. I tried offered the prayer 3 more times but ended up just standing up and walking out. 

A famous line from Inez this week during our study... *someone knocks on door* "I don't care I'm talking to my sisters right now. Not my actual sisters but my sisters in Christ". 

Church was cancelled due to the rising cases of COVID in the valley. So we decided to carol to our friends houses with a hymn that we performed at youth conference. We practiced our song during youth night. The beehives walked in, sat on the front row, watched in awe, and smiled SUPER big at us. Singing and talking with them that night was one of the most spirit filled moments ever! I love my youth:)

Speaking of youth... we passed out senior gifts at the football game! It was weird because why would missionaries be passing out gifts to rando people in front of a bleacher ton of people... but hey! We flashed the tags;) after, we crashed the youth dance and talked to the non-members who attended. One youth, Kennedi Torres, asked me to DJ a song because the music was lame. I responded by running to the DJ and played the Book of Mormon Stories remix. I held up the book and jumped off the stage to start a mosh pit. It was legendary. 

Choose JOY,

Sister Elly Rex 

Pics:

-Marla &me

-Pyrahs FALL Festival ticket gals

-Youth dance

-activity days 

-90y/o woman

-Inez & Issac's CCX meet

-Melissa &senior night