Benson Hill..... Extreme make over Apartment edition

Wow I survived this past week.

We spent every free second we had prepping our apartment for painting. We probably filled around 600 holes!!!! On Saturday we had to get up finish prepping, go to a Relief Society Activity, then we left early and went to meet up with our housing coordinators. We finished Prepping and then started painting. two of the young mens presidency was there and 1 young man. There was 7 of us. Which was a good number. we started paining around 11:30 and finished at about 2. Then we skipped lunch and took a nap instead. While we were painting we turned the heater off. it was freezing! We decided to have Wendy's for Dinner and study in our warm car. then we went to the Tiffany Park Sisters apartment and showered and got ready and went out for the last 3 hours. Wow we were tired. We drove around trying to find more lost people. Then saw Sister Swadner. I was falling asleep the whole time. then we went home and went to sleep. Our apartment looks bran new now. I don't want to put anything up on the walls after all that hard work. We went to bed at 9:30 last night and I took a nap. (the blessings of fast Sunday!) We also decided we are going to rearrange our apartment. We are waiting until we find out when we are cleaning the carpets tho because we don't want to move all the furniture just to move it again. We are going to try and see if we can organize it so we can get a kitchen table because that would be great!   Last night we moved our beds a different way and now there is so much more room! We don't know why they weren't like that in the first place. Elders.... is all I have to say. Our Furniture is all in big piles in the middle of the rooms. it is hard to try and function and is making me anxious because things are not wear they belong. This morning instead of working out, because we don't have anywhere to work out, I put my closet back together. It is a slow process. I will have to send pictures when it is all done. I am sad I don't take before pictures.

We have started teaching a woman named Keya. We ran into her tracting. She just wants to be a good mom and do what is right for her kids. We were in the middle of our second lesson when we found out she thought we were Jehovah Witnesses. We corrected her real quick on that.

I had my first Church tour this week. with Andy. He brought a friends along as well. I think it went really well. They are both going to read the Book Of Mormon. Andy can read English but he is more comfortable with French and Lingala. We are trying to get him a Book of Mormon in French right now.

I am learning so much and love being a missionary. This is such an amazing opportunity! I love it!

Til next week....

Sister Dekarver