November 15, 2021: "Wanna see my children?"

 "Wanna see my children?", Brother Saunders asked us as he lead us to his basement, through their food storage shelves, and slid back a secret door. We were skeptical, so we followed and found a vault full of fancy guns and crossbows. Only in Alaska. 

So yes, the rumors are true. Sister BB and I split up. It was a sad breakup. Sister BB has been my personal angel these last 4 months. She is a literal ray of sunshine and has helped me feel pure joy.  I miss her so much already:,)

My new companion, Sister Baxter is from St. Louis, Missouri. She's been out almost as long as I have and she's AWESOME. It snowed a foot the first night we were together... so this winter is gonna be a fun one! 

Shannon Schrader invited us over to her hotel apartment and we discussed many questions with her. She thought "Mormons"; properly referred to as, "Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", weren't allowed to wear pants, cut our hair, we were forced to be vegetarian, and that we practiced polygamy. She confessed that she wore a dress during our visit because she wanted to make us feel comfortable... she thought we were coming to recruit her to be the third wife of our husband... and the BEST one was that she had a bacon cheeseburger before we came over, so she aired her apartment out and scented the room so we didn't think that she was a sinner for eating meat. I'm so glad we could inform her that we don't do any of those things haha!! 

Susan and Jerimiah recently lost their Aunt and they have both had a hard time coping with it. We taught them the Plan of Salvation and Susan was focused on our message the whole visit. It was like she was experiencing Amos 8:10 in a real and deep level. After discussing where we came from, why we are here on earth, and where we go after this life. She told us, "It makes me feel good knowing my auntie is in a happy place. I had never thought of it like that before". Before the lesson, 5-year-old Jerimiah was having trouble at school dealing with his emotions when he missed his Auntie. At the end of the lesson he said, "I will see my auntie again because I know she is in my heart". The start to a beautiful and pure testimony of Jesus Christ. 

Choose JOY,

Sister Rex

(P.s. I'm writing this in -15 degree sunny weather:,)

Pics:

-My Sister, Evyn goes home to Goshen

-Shannon&Kaden

-my running track 

-David, Pat&Steve at the Ice Cream Social 

-Sister Aldridge>>