This week has been a zoo. Literally. We've been privileged to interact with many animals of many different walks of life.
We went to the Aquarium on Monday with the Sister Training Leaders, and the Hermanas. It was great! We befriended an otter, saw a white aligator (he wasn't albino), a sea turtle rehabilitation center (which smelled fishy, but sea turtles are HUGE! Wow!), then I petted a stingless stingray, and get ready.... A LIVE STARFISH THAT WAS BRIGHT ORANGE! (checked that off my bucket list.
So excited.... I almost cried. Probably. Not quite... But it was a joyous experience of my life.)
Also.... There were divers cleaning the shark tank, and that was pretty neat too.
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| Arriving at Manteo Aquarium |
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| Neat! an orange starfish! |
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| Divers Cleaning the Shark Tank. Wow. |
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| (Symbolic thoughts here....) |
Then, I held several
cats with fleas. I thought fleas were a big deal, but no one tells me
before I pet their cats that they have fleas. You just see the little
buggies crawl up the cat's ear and go back down. Gross, but at least
they don't live on people, and they are much easier to get rid of than
bed bugs.
On Friday we went to our District Meeting and the member that drove us had to pick up some hay for her horse on the way home. We pulled up to a little farm and there was a huge, chubby pig. So we asked the farmer if we could take a picture with it, and we took turns taking 'selfies' with Bella the black pig. Also, she smelled my leg, and her nose was wet. That was interesting.
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| Sister Garvin and Sister Carlson with Sweet little Bella the Pig :) |
Today we had the least threatening
bug on our door that we've ever had. It was "a beautiful butterfly!"
(please say that in the voice of the caterpiller from 'A Bug's Life')
And a little deer family ate some of our overgrown backyard bushes.
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| Finally....a 'beautiful bug' on our window.... |
We are driving to Virginia on Wednesday
to a combined Zone Conference for the zones in Virginia, and I'm so
excited that I dance/wiggle every time that I think about it.
Time
is so weird. I think I've said that before, but if you just spend some
time thinking about it, it becomes even more of an incomprehensible
idea.
I recognize that my grammar, and punctuation, and organization of this letter is not so good. But it's how my thoughts are coming out, so right now I'm not really feeling that I should care that much about that....
Whatever. Whatever. Whatever.
I'm going to send some pictures home now.
I only have 20 more days on Wednesday. AHHHHHHHHHHH......
Okay. Calm yourselves.
I just keep reminding myself that release dates are inspired, just as mission calls are.
That's a wonderful thing.
Sometimes when you are a missionary it feels like you will always be a missionary. So it's pretty difficult for me to figure out if I should be feeling or thinking differently than I do. I've never done this before.
Shout out to Sister Jasperson who is helping me by leading by example.
Thanks Seester. ;)
Kay, I love you, Bye!
Love,
Sister Garvin
