Thomas, Raeleigh PT

Okay everybody!! So the emails changed to vol 3 which means I moved... Right now I'm here in Chickasha, ok and honestly it's not too bad. If you know me, I have a hard time leaving people I love and places that feel like home. So right now I'm still adjusting to chickasha and I definitely miss everyone there.. Before I left Wednesday, me and my companions had member dinners every night and when we got home the spirit that we felt was so intense and we were all sad cause I was leaving, so we all cried in the car for both of those reasons lol. We were able to do service with the elders before we left and it was so fun! Also I GOT MY STARBUCKS WHOOT WHOOT lol I've been wanting one and we got it on our way to chickasha.     My new companion is Sister Green and she is so cute!! She actually came out with me and so we are two lil newbies trying to figure everything out and just also figuring out how we want to do the companionship! Definitely more mellow with each other but t...

Okay!! Y’all ready for some updates?! THREE...TWO...ONE  [There's not a lot but it was fun to introduce it like that lol]     Okay so we didn't have to go into quarantine PRAISE THE LORD, we were tested on Tuesday and got our results Wednesday... the anticipation was EXTREME!! But all is good and it was so nice to kinda go back to normal without wondering if we got anyone sick... but honestly we are still one the safe side cause we don't want to go through it again.      So the night that we got our covid results we also woke up at 1:30 IN THE MORNING, OUR SMOKE ALARMS were going off, lol honestly it was just one alarm but our house did smell like smoke YIKES! So we called who we needed to call [we called our Presidents Wife and she said call the non emergency number, so we called and they sent the fire truck SMH, we said not to but they did], they told us that we were clear to sleep but when we got back up it was 62° in our apartment FREEZING COLD especial...

This week was one to remember!!      We went from dogs to someone might die. Everything was so sweet and chill until WEDNESDAY, and then it was a TORNADO!!  Okay so on Wednesday we had meeting and new missionary graduation, so now I'm not considered a new missionary CHEERS!! We had a great day and then that night we were texting one of our friends and he was like I can't because someone is going to kill me tonight. The people who are looking for me are going to do the job tonight!! LIKE WHAT IN THE SAM HILLLLL  So Sister Kimmel and I are freaking out and just like he might be involved in drug violence or gangs and if anyone knows me, I DON'T MESS WITH THAT!! But we had our moment, we slept with pepper spray. Idk why, but we woke up to a text that morning and said he was fine. This man had us STRESSING, and he said I'M FINE. Welp me too buddy but now our president said no to teaching you.     We have a friend, Michael, who is doing great!! He came to ch...

Oh my goodness what a week folks!!      This week we had exchanges which were AMAZING!! Honestly it was something that all of us needed, Sister Kimmel and I stayed together and Sister Weeks joined us from Lawton and we were having FUN!! It was so much fun when we didn't go to bed until midnight because we were laughing. Also the weather DROPPED again and it was freezing with those high winds, we were riding our bikes and oh my goodness I had to put on my mask to keep half of my face warm and honestly biking with 18 mile/hr winds is a SKILL, one i'm still working on lol!!      vicki never got baptized but honestly it's OKAY because she came closer to God and has been growing so much and just to see that growth is WONDERFUL! We met one of our neighbors jake and he's funny! He loves cooking us food and is trying to hang out with us lol.      We also had 3 dogs chase us and if you don't know I have PTSD from dogs because I got bit in my senior ye...

Oh my amazing family and friends!! We said goodbye to 2021 and said hello to 2022!! I love that I was able to have you all in my life this past year and I'm so excited to see where God takes you in 2022!!      I didn't celebrate this new year much, I was exhausted that when 9:30 rolled around i was OUT and everyone knows that I've never gone to bed that EARLY but with this mission life that certainly has changed. ANYWAYS we went to sleep early and set an alarm for 11:57 but that didn't even wake us up. Finally we woke up about 3 minutes after midnight and that alarm was still going off. So the way I celebrated was I rolled over, said happy new year and went back to sleep haha.      So not a lot happened this week. Someone SNITCHED on us for the possum to president, we didn't get in trouble, we just got told to make things less casual. So yeah, also the temperature went down CRAZY fast and it was feeling like 17° here and in OK it was like 7° and the wind an...