This week has been one of my favorites and probably has a lot to do with Sister Chatman. We are continuing to find out the most random things we have in common. This morning during companion study she said "I need to find you in male form, sister Viehweg!" Haha She's great! Amid all the laughs and jokes we are still getting our work done, which is good. Sister Chatman goes home in December so she's a Veteran and is really really good at door knocking/finding/teaching. I have learned a lot from her. She calls me her trainer because I'm trying to whip her back into shape for her upcoming basketball practices at BYU. After emailing we are going to go to the church and shoot around. I haven't played basketball in forever so I feel like I will mostly be rebounding for her, but it beats sitting around in our tiny apartment!
This weekend Bay City had their annual River of Time celebration. It's this HUGE event that people from all around put on. Basically it's a reenactment of all the battles that have happened in the US to shape our country, starting with the Indians (who were literally wearing a girdle about their loins) and ending with WWII. It. Was. So. COOL!! I have never seen anything like this. The actors came and set up all their campsites and acted as the people in that time period for 3 days while the community just kind walked around and shopped. The best part was that Sister Chatman and I got to be a part of the reenactment! We represented the Mormon Battalion and got to dress up as Pioneers and basically play pioneer for 2 days. It was a great opportunity and really gets the church's name out because they set up a family history booth and all this stuff. Sister Chatman and I just ran some pioneer games and made rag dolls with all the kids.
Earlier that week we got called up by the Elders to participate in a service project the community was doing for a 100 yr old lady. Her garage had been vandalized. (This was on sister Chatman's 1st day in Bay City). We arrived at the project around 10:30, but had an appointment at 11, so we got right to work. About 5 minutes later this news camera man and interviewer tapped on our shoulders and started interviewing us about the whole project. This took about 20 min! After the interview we had to leave to our appointment so we really didn't do much, but get this, that night we were on the news!!! They chose our interviews to show and you better believe we were wearing our name tags and BYU gear! The Elders were SOOOOO MAD hahaha, they were at the project for about 4 hours and didn't get squat. Perks of being a sister missionary I guess :)
Our work is going well, we still have Paul on Date for the 17th, I know Satan works fast though so Im getting nervous something's going to happen. Keep him in your prayers! I am getting more and more attached to all the members here in Bay City and with sister Chatman we have become the favorites. Poor Elders... we really do feel bad, but we can't help when people are so obsessed with us, haha. Just kidding, but multiple people have asked both of us to send them our BYU jersey's signed when we get home. So ridiculous, but I'll take it. Yesterday a member gave some of the best advice to an investigator who wanted tattoos I have ever heard, "Don't use ink to profess your love, use diamonds!" Hahaha, it was during a "Your body is a temple" lesson. Too funny. The people here are CRAZY!
Love you all, thanks for the early birthday wishes. I'm sure it's going to be a great day of lots of door knocking. Also Happy Early Birthday Danielle! Like I always say Birthdays only come once a year, take advantage of them, and make people do stuff for you ;)
Love,
Sister Viehweg
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