A little thing called Life!

Hello-
Thank you for the package mom!!! It was fun to see pictures of all my families... my real family, and my ward family! :) It made me happy!!!

We had a really slow week, so this might be a really random and boring e-mail. We only taught 2 lessons all week, and one of them was to a less active lady, and it was going Visiting teaching with a sister from the ward.
So last Monday night we went to contact a referral we had gotten from our ward mission leader, Bro. "L". Her name is Elizabeth Earl. Her mother is dying of cancer, and she is a single mom. She had been friends with Bro. L for 29 years. When she answered her door, she was so excited to see us. she had just gotten a message on her phone from Bro. L inviting her to our Wednesday night gospel teaching class at the church. She was so glad we showed up, she told us on Wednesday that if we hadn't shown up, she might not have come to our class. Truly a blessing!Tuesday and Wednesday we tracted all day. Tuesday we were kind of getting bummed that NO ONE would even let us say anything more than who we were before they closed the door. During dinner we got a message from our district leader and his comp. (E. Fairbanks and Lowe)... they sang us "As Sisters in Zion." it was so funny. It really busted our moods for the rest of the night. We spent the night singing songs we have made up between doors. It was fun.
Wednesday was rainy ALL DAY LONG!!! Before we went out were were worried. We were going to be tracting from 10am-7pm. With lunch and dinner, and contacting a referral to be the only thing to break it up... and it was poring rain. Well we had so much fun! We got soaked, but we were singing, and enjoying ourselves. The rain was coming so hard, that we were getting rained on by our umbrellas. They were so saturated that they were dripping on us. My hair was soaked. haha. But that night we had a really spiritual gospel teaching class. We had 3 recent coverts, Bro. Crispin, Elizabeth, and then 3 ward members. We talked about the second half of the Plan of Salvation. (The atonement through 3 kingdoms). One of the recent converts said it was one of the most spiritual lessons he had been in. It was really good, because Bro. Crispin's comments really helped Elizabeth feel comfortable, and not like the only one who didn't know what was going on. (We have high hopes for Elizabeth.)
Thursday we had Zone Conference!!!!!!! I GOT TO SEE SISTER HATCH!!! Oh my goodness, i miss her so much. It was so fun to see each other and get to catch up! Conference was good too. We did it A LOT different than normal. President spoke for about an hour and a half, and then we did workshops and watched the new missionary movie "The District 2". It was a lot of fun....

Mom, there were so many things back home that I wanted to buy for clothes, but we didn't think they would be missionary appropriate.... well with the new clothes rules, they totally would have worked.... BUMMER!!!
Friday we made up some more awesome songs. Now we also sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" to the tune of "I'll make a man out of you." (it is so fun to sing!!!) and then I need the every hour to "A whole new world". Sister Brovont is really good at making them work. now we sing them all they time! Along with our spirit of God song to I can go the distance. It makes tracting go by A LOT faster. Friday night we also saw Taylor Swift..... okay, we didn't, but she was right across the bridge that ends our area. So we could have seen her if our area went like another 200 yards or so. But she filmed a music video in Kennebunk Port, so she was there doing the release of it and performing. (Someone told us during our door contact). So we barely missed seeing her... but We told the Elders that she was here, and they were so jealous. it was funny!
Saturday we took Sis. Loral Patten to the Somersworth Elders baptism. After she was the baptism, she said she feels at peace. She said she wants to be baptized because that's what she feels she needs to do, and that it is what God wants her to do..... before it was "Because that's what you do in your church." So we are so excited for that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today we are having a district P-day! We are so excited. Our district is like a family. Sister Brovont is the mom. I'm the annoying little sister, E. Tidwell is the annoying big brother, E. Beard is like the cool uncle, and then E. Fairbanks and E. Lowe are the little brothers that are funny. We have a lot of fun together. We are going to play basketball or something, we don't really know, at our church. When the Elders heard that our gym has a wood floor that made the decision of where we were going to have it (theirs is carpet). We found out last night at 10:15 that we were having it, so we still don't really know what we are going to do. it will just be fun! :)Well that is about all for this week!
Good luck everyone with school starting and stuff!
love, Sister Rankin