Meaghan with President and Sister Pitt
Things I've learned while living in the South:
1. You never call to get just one detail sorted out. There WILL be chit-chat.
2. When you have exchanged hugs/handshakes, you are approximately 75% of your way out of the door.
3. You eat all the food on your plate. However, you
always begin with saying, "Oh, how in the world am I going to eat all of
this??"
4. ALWAYS ask how a person is doing/how their day is going. (Be sure to actually listen as well.)
5. You can say whatever you'd like about a person,
and as long as you end with, "Bless her heart", everything is just fine
and dandy.
The culture of the South is pretty
different, haha. People are friendly, and all the conversations are
long. However, I love love love it here! Life as a missionary is pretty
wonderful :) People are coooonstantly trying to feed us or give us money
for food. Me and Sister Herring are about 95% sure that they're all
secretly playing a game of 'Who Can Make the Missionaries the Fattest?'
Many miracles! We got a referral a couple of weeks
ago for a Mexican couple that have just moved into the area, and while
our first try didn't work, we now know why: we needed to spend more time
with this one sister in our ward from Chile! She offered to go to
lessons with them, and maybe even have them over for dinner to speak
Spanish and create that bond. I imagine that coming to a place like this
would be hard if you were used to being surrounded by Spanish all the
time. Luckily, we've found a way to help them with that :) Also, we were
able to help one of our less-actives in a big way this week. They had a
friend recently die, and while we weren't planning on visiting them, we
ended up doing just that. They needed to hear in that moment what we
had to say about out Heavenly Father's plan for us after we die. It's
amazing to me how much the Lord cares for His children and knows their
lives and their struggles. What's even more amazing is that I get to be a
part of that.
Love and miss you all!
Meggie
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