Week 53: Don't Rain on Our Parade!

Good news: It didn't! And we were in a parade, and it was awesome.

Also, I tried to take more photos this week, so:

​So during Honeybee Festival, we may have eaten not the best... the first was a funnel cake, and the second is fried cookie dough. DELICIOUS, by the way.

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Us making bees out of balloons for the float, and waiting for Carol to finish her interview! It went great, she's set for baptism on the fifth! YAY!

​A picture of our float! It was so cute, the little kids all dressed up like honeybees... Our baskets have cards that had the church address, our phone number, and the six "Be's" on them, plus a little "Bit-O-Honey" candy. The elders are from Effingham, they had to come up to interview Carol, so then they came and helped pass out cards during the parade. Enjoy our color coordination :)

I'll leave off there. It was so much fun! We gave away ~1250 cards, and the image of the church, hopefully, was very positive! How many missionaries get to say that they walked in a parade on their mission? I'm pretty sure not that many! 

Between the parade and preparing Carol for her baptismal interview, it's been a pretty crazy week! And it's not looking to slow down any-- next week is General Conference, then her baptism (yay!) and then after that--transfers! And then in Paris, there'll be a big hayride, but it's the 11th... so I probably won't be here for that :( Which stinks, but what can you do?

The General Women's Meeting was awesome! I loved the emphasis on temples. It's tough not getting to go to the temple, but it's definitely helping me to appreciate them more! Also, cool experience with the broadcast: I like having questions before a session begins, so that I can look for answers. Well, Saturday was a busy day, so I kind of forgot... So I jotted down two questions right as the session began. Well, the first two talks answered my first question, the third talk answered my second question, and President Uchtdorf's talk answered the questions I didn't even know that I had! It was a great session, I enjoyed all the talks. And the little girls from Korea singing were super cute. Oh my goodness.

Hope you all have a great General Conference week! Lots of love!

Sister Barret