upstate groovin

YOU GUYS. 

This is weird I feel like I am back home!! Hahaha but like my Connecticut home. This is where I was born as a missionary!! I keep asking myself if this is real life. AM I REALLY BACK HERE!?! It's beautiful. It's amazing. It's home!!! I LOVE IT. Feel like my city life was a dream. It's so weird. 

Also today we are going to get pedicures. YESSSSS. My feet deserve it after those long city walking months. I'm so excited. 

This next thing I'm going to say, I say out of all the charity in my heart but .... I first got to the apartment and I was dying over how unclean it was... OH MY. You guys some missionaries don't know how to clean. I was dying. I cleaned out the fridge, the closet, the bathroom, rearranged the furniture, cleaned out the shelf with all our pamphlets and Book of Mormons. I was NOT going to unpack until it was clean and felt like my new home. So Sister Taylor and the other two sisters got to see the clean side of me come out :) GOOD heavens people. Keep your homes clean. We have a VERY nice apartment. It has got to be taken care of!! So that the spirit can be with us!!! CLEAN Abigail gets real... Haha. 

ANYWAYS. IM BACK UPSTATE. Wooooooo PARTY. Let's talk about my week!!!

It was real good. Getting back into the upstate groove. It's such an adjustment!! The first thing that I was dying over was how quiet it was. I kept trying to pop my ears to see if I could like clear them out or something but I've realized it's just really so quiet!!! Wow!! I like it. 

The second thing I was dying over was the fact that I am now driving a car again!!!! I was actually horrified when I first put my foot on the gas. But then my driving skills quickly came back to me. And I feel as though I never left the driver seat to begin with. Cars are a blessing. We have a nice car. 

My new companion is Sister Taylor! She's from St. George UT. Yes! She's very sweet! We are different but getting along great! Working hard together!! 

There's definitely less work to do here than there was in my last area... So I kinda feel like we are starting over... BUT I've been so pumped to find people. I think Sister Taylor thinks I'm weird because of how excited I get when we go out to FIND. I'm like searching everywhere for a golden investigator. I love to share the gospel with people. 

Yesterday we went out to go tracting and I'm PRETTY sure that all 30 doors we knocked on we're Jewish. And guess what holiday it was.. Yom Kippur. Were they happy? NO. Hahahahahaha. It. Was. So. Funny. There was one door we knocked on and she screamed when she saw us and ran away. I was like okay.... It's not Halloween yet... And I didn't think I looked that bad?? Haha oh dear. GOOD OL TRACTING. Also it takes like 5 times as long to knock doors because the houses are SO far apart! But #exercise

Speaking of exercise, we have a gym at our apartment! Holla. LOVE IT. I've been listening to conference talks as I run. SO MOTIVATING. Hah. Kinda :)

Oh, another door we knocked on opened and literally said "hail satan." Then slammed the door shut. And then we looked at each other and shamelessly walked away. .. And then we also knocked on the minister of the Methodist church's door. He wasn't smiling at all when he opened the door. SO trying to find that golden investigator is going OH SO WELL. But I have so much faith that someone is ready here. Just need to keep searching for them.

Another funny thing. I was dying. One of the less actives we meet with told me that I need to go be an actress. WHAT. Again? Another person. That's like the tenth time I been told that. This is beginning to freak me out! Hahaha I honestly don't understand why. I mean I'm just me? Just abbey. I don't know man. I don't know.

We went to a YSA members wedding. So that would make her not so YSA anymore. But it was fabulous. It was in DARIEN. My old home. Hot dog!!! you guys... I forgot how big the homes are here. And also Greenwich CT is the richest zip code in the USA. HAHA. Jimmy Fallon has a home here. Also I heard Justin Bieber's mom has a home in Greenwich. I'm going to knock every door in the stinkin town. (Well all the ones that don't have a huge gate blockin their home) HA. Which would make our job easy. Narrowing down the homes to NONE. No teasin but really this is a wealthy wealthy wealthy place.... 

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. I've really been pondering how amazing missions are. And the growth that comes from them. I'm so excited to continue to push myself as hard as I can these last few months. I love my mission. I wish I had a really good spiritual thought to end this email but I don't really have the time right now! But here's a reminder: "Remember the words of your God; pray unto him continually by day, and give thanks unto his holy name by night. Let your hearts rejoice." 

I love prayer. I really like talking to Heavenly Father. It's always a relieving few moments when I pray :)

LOVE YOU!!!

Love Abigail.