Can't Stop Smilinnng

Uhh.

Survived my first car accident this morning

(More on that later though)

just so ya know

..the family of possums survived..

(:

K so we spent 2 HOURS in Micky D's waiting for our car to be inspected for it's yearly insurance stuff. I saw this girl who looked really familar who we saw at Clusters (feeding the homeless) she was sitting in mcdonalds! I really wanted to go and talk to her, but I didn't get the chance to..

super bummed.

Rebecca and Stan officially

QUIT SMOKING!

In order to support them me and sister cox gave up

cannnndy.

We've been 6 days strong! haha

It's rough..

we gave away allllll our candy to rebecca and stan so they could eat it

instead of smoking lol.

Told everyone we'd be

JONSEN!!

(which means going through withdrawls hahah)

So we were planning to eat dinner at 6

but didn't till 8pm that night!

The place we wanted to eat at was closed...

So we were walking back to our car when we see this old lady

waiting for the bus

We go and talk to her(:

She was crazy..

After that we again started walking back to our car

When we see this guy and girl so we go and

talk to them

Super cool.

Both live in center city Philly

aka

"The Hood"

(his exact words)

They both said Pottstown is alot

CALMER

than philly

which made me laugh because Pottstown scares me!

haha

It's growing on me though

After that it started to

POUUUUR rain so we ran back to our car

and then i saw a girl walking into a house

Guess who it was??

THE SAME GIRL THAT WAS AT MCDONALDS!

So i shout to sister cox to turn around

as we are frantically running in the rain

that we need to talk to her.

Hahaha so we go and knock on the door and

we got the opportunity to share the gospel and give them a

book of mormon! Super cool

I'm still obsessed with

#FamHist

The more i do it the more people i find!

It's amazing the spirit you feel when you do family history!

Anyone who reads this better log into familysearch.org

right now

and start doing it!

it's so easy and fun(: haha

We had a fun time singing hymns at a retirement center

It's cute because the old people sing with us

love it.

So i have a goal to finish the Book of Mormon by

June 4th!

Which is my 9 month mark

so crazy to even say that...

**fun fact**

did you know that if you read 5 pages of the Book of Mormon erryday

you would be able to finish it 3 times by the end of the

year?

Ever heard of the saying..

"Flirt to Convert"

?

Wellllllllllllll

Me and Sister Cox were made aware that it was

National Free Pretzel Day

(April 26)

So we excitedly went to philly pretzel factory to get ourselves

our FREE pretzels

We get in and there's a lot of people

We start talking and sharing how we're missionaries and stuff we do.

It was pretty crowded so we got our pretzels and spliiiit.

Hopped over next door and ate our pretzels

About 30 mins later...

One of the workers comes in and walks over to us

and says while handing me a note

"I'm sorry..i'm really bad at this..."

and just walks away

Me and Sister cox just stare at each other

not knowing what to say

I quickly read the note...

Here's what it said

(i took a pic of it too and it's now taped into my journal)

#memories

"Extremely Beautiful Girl,

I'm sorry if this may be too forward

but i hope maybe we could get to

know one another.

Text me at....My name is Gary"

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA

I wish this would happen to me when i wasn't a missionary..

jeez.

I didn't want to be mean so we texted him.

but

DON'T WORRY parents..

I quickly and straight forward told him that

we don't date as missionaries

and I would be more than happy to help him get to know

JESUS CHRIST

instead of me

hahahah.

Turns out he had met with the missionaries once before!

(years ago)

We're giving him a Book of Mormon this week.

Rebecca our investigator who quit smoking said this to us

"Ever since I stopped smoking..

I CAN'T STOP SMILING"

#meltedmyheart

I've met with and taught a lot of different people on my mission so far

and rebecca and stan are so special to me!

So happy for them and excited for their baptism

next sunday!!

May 4th

I've seen like 3 street cleaners in the past week

which makes me really happy because it makes me think

and remember Brenna!

Because she loved them haha

We ate dinner at rebecca and stan's house last night

Ate it on the couch while we watched general conference together!

I felt right at home

haha forgot how much i missed chilling on the couch eating and watching a movie at home...good times

#ilovemesomecouuuuch

Have a good week(:

Love you all!

sistermanson

about the car accident...

a school bus was on the other side and so the car in front of me braked really fast so i had to too and i swerved and hit the back of his car

>don't worry though<

he was super nice and his car wasn't even damaged

our car just has a few scrapes

There was no possum family..

I just like to blame it on them hahaha

but if there was a possum family i would

have saved them.

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creepy note this guy gave me.......hahaha

nice note someone left us......

we're always leaving our keys in the lock 

outside our door..i forget hahaha

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rebecca and her kids! (: 

sister hall! a cute old lady we read scriptures with (:

sang hymns at a retirement center!