"I've never been good at the line dance."

Well I'm sending all the hellos from my sunny state of Florida. 🌴☀️ I just want everyone to know that Sister Hart and I have tan lines on our feet. They are very impressive.

Let me tell you about all the things

Monday

So on Monday we had P-Day. Our wonderful Zone Leaders decided to do service for everyone and clean everyone's cars in the whole zone (seriously... They are the coolest.) but somehow they accidentally threw away my Tiwi card that I have to use to log in to drive the car. So for the first half of the week I had to drive without logging in and Tiwi saying "no driver" every 15 seconds or so. Hahaha life. 😂 Sister Glover and I decided to introduce our trainees to Yellow Dog Eats and Hillary came with us. I ordered the White Trash sandwich because I'm classy.💃🏻 Then we went to FHE. We tied balloons around our ankles and played a game where you try to pop other people's balloon without letting anyone pop yours. Stephanie popped my ballon. She's a Hufflepuff.🎈

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did the temple service like always. Me, Sister Hart, Hermana Shelley, and Hermana Stokey sprayed lots of things with round up. We killed all the weeds growing in the cracks and it was a swell time. We also had our traditional homemade "chipotle" with BBQ sauce burritos. The rest of the day consisted of finding.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we had a day! We got up and after studies we hurried over to district meeting. Our tiny district of us, the Hermanas, and the Windy Ridge elders met on the stage. I gave a spiritual thought. Then after district meeting we were running to leave because we had to eat lunch and while we were running Sister Hart tripped and fell gracefully in front of a couple elders. It was a hard fall but she survived. Then we went quickly to the Hermana's apartment and ate taquitos... Then we drove to JustServe at Second Harvest Food bank and we assembled disaster relief boxes. We were told they are going to Ecuador. Then we went to dinner with a girl in the ward named Bekka... Then we went to night games and played a sweet game of sand volleyball. 🏐 We had some random Italians join us. It was a good time. Then to top off our day we got McFlurries. 🍦

Thursday

On Thursday we had a pretty great lesson with T, our gator from Venezuela. She is my favorite. We also had a lesson with L, dinner with Kaitlyn and Taylor, a lesson with E, and INSTITUTE! It was about marriage and family so that was a good time. Haha and my favorite part of the night was when we were all standing around talking and as soon as it was 9:00 Adam and Lauri came back in the room and said "it's 9:00 we have to pray for the missionaries!" And then the whole group kneeled and Sarah said the most beautiful prayer for us and for the ward to have missionary opportunities and I was crying by the end of it. This ward is so good to me. 💛

Friday

On Friday we weekly planned. Then we went to the temple grounds and talked to some people that were waiting for a wedding. We met Sarah because she had random presents for us. She gave me chocolate, and nail polish, and lip gloss, and sticky notes, and cute window clings that say "shine all day." Again... This ward is so good to me. 💛Then we went to dinner with Lisa Reid... We found out we are 10th cousins once removed... On our moms side...Go figure. Then we made little bags with treats and stuff in them and dropped one off to a girl named Megan and the others we hid in the bushes by Sister Glover and Sister Hill's apartment and then we texted them and told them we hid stuff in the bushes. They said they enjoyed that scavenger hunt. Then we came home and found out the STLs had left us brownies on our door... I had one for breakfast yesterday. 😋 Service is great.

Saturday {MY 7 MONTH BIRTHDAY} 🎂🎂🎂

On Saturday we took a girl named Karina in the ward to this trail and we drew a big plan of salvation with chalk. That was a blast and a half. Then we took her to knock some doors with us. We found a long lost less active that made an appointment with us to come back and teach her! And we also got a new investigator named M. He was pretty cool. Then we went with Sarah to contact a referral that ended up not being home. In the process we met this super nice Methodist couple that gave us water and passed out some cards to some guys power washing driveways... That is a difficult task my friends... Power washing is loud. Then we did some service for Lacey, ran home for dinner and then decided to be in the Windy Ridge Ward (the Spanish Ward) for the night and go to the Hermana's baptism of a girl named M. We got there and the Hermana's told us they had filled up the fount, but that when they left to go get dinner it started to leak so the four of us filled up pitchers of water in the kitchen and ran back and forth dumping water into the fount. It was pretty funny. The program was half Spanish and half English. The baptism was beautiful and we were just so excited for M. We took a picture with her and they also wanted us to join the big group picture with the Ward. I love the Spanish Ward because even though nobody knows you and you can't speak their language they all still hug and kiss you as if you are their family. 

Sunday

Then on Sunday we had morning church. We had a girl named T come to church. She was investigating in Baltimore and moved down here for Disney. She told us she wanted to meet with us. Like WHEN DO MIRACLES LIKE THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!?  ✨She is very cool! Then we went to lunch with Kristen, Brittany, and Megan. That was quite fun, then we went to Lacey's and talked with her. Then she had to leave but she let us use her house to study (since we live so far away from our area we have to study at someone's house on Sundays because we don't have the miles to drive back to our apartment.) while we were there we wrote things on sticky notes and put them all over her room. Then we went to dinner at Brooklynn's with Lacey. Then we had night sacrament and it was parfait! 👌🏻 Then when we got home we realized our phone was GONE. So we couldn't text "in and safe" so the zone leaders had to come to our apartment and make sure we were home. Haha when they came they knocked on the door and hid. When Sister Hart opened the door they scared her SO BAD. It was pretty dang funny. We found out that our phone is at the church. This is why we can't have nice things.

So today is Monday... in case you were wondering. I'm going to eat some ice cream today. 🍦 

On a serious note, I need everyone to pray for Sister Hart's mom Janna. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and Sister Hart found out this week. Sister Hart is doing really well but could definitely use some prayers as well.

Sister Whitney Reid 

Florida, Orlando Mission

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Yellow Dog Eats, my favorite place to eat

White Trash Sandwich

looking for gators

In Florida there are signs like this at every pond because of the alligators

Orlando Temple Wins

Plan of salvation chalk art at the park

"M's" baptism day in the Windy Ridge Ward

Windy Ridge Ward