The One with Chalking

Week 38 (May 9th-15th)


The teaching pool here in Lake Crescent is dwindling rapidly. Sister McCullough and I have next to no one to teach so we spend most of our days desperately knocking doors. We've had to get creative. So this week we got a hold of some chalk and went to the park and found a nice shady spot and got to work. We drew the Plan of Salvation on the sidewalk and left a pamphlet on the nearby bench with our information. Gotta find more ways to spread the word! On an unrelated note, if anyone has any stories or ideas for finding those to teach, I'm very open to suggestions.

Later in the week the miniature drought here in Florida found some relief with a healthy downpour. It was also a day that Sister McCullough and I were on foot. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves as we trekked through the monsoon. A small lake began to form in my shoes as we walked. I had previously washed my shoes a few weeks before with some dish soap that I thought I had rinsed out completely. What I didn't know was that the soap had seeped deeper into the sole than I originally thought. So every step I took   suds overflowed out of my shoes. At least my feet and shoes were clean when we got home.

The week was pretty rough, faced with an unusual amount of rejection and unexpected turns. Speaking of, the woman we were teaching that moved her baptism date up two weeks, Le Thanh, will no longer be baptized on that date or perhaps at all. I don't have more details available on that at this time, but please keep her in your prayers. Add us in there too, please.

A definite highlight of the week was calling and talking to my beautiful family on Mothers Day! I even got to talk to both of my missionary sisters, Kate and Jane! That was definitely a treat that I was not expecting and am grateful for. I love my family and am so thankful for their love and support. I am especially grateful for my sweet Mother and her example to me. Without her, I wouldn't have known that I could grow up to be a Sister Missionary, just like her. She has the most powerful and unwavering testimony that remains rock solid through any and all trials and tribulations that have come her way, which have not been few. She has truly built her foundation on Christ, as Helaman admonished his sons to do in Helaman 5:12;

"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."

Honor your mothers,

-Sister Olivia Petty 🌂

Part of our Plan of Salvation chalk art 5.12.17

Us with some of our youth 5.10.17

Even when it gets hard 5.11.17

Look up and drink! 5.13.17

A fat toad 5.11.17