Week 29- Happy November!

November 5, 2009

Hi There!
I'm not really sure what to share with you this week! It's been kind of a blur for me, but it's been a good week too.
Halloween was a blast! For some strange reason, Lancaster County decided to do all their trick or treating on Friday night instead of Saturday night. Of course we couldn't go trick or treating or anything, but we had dinner at a young couples house on Friday and they were dressing up to take some kids trick or treating! haha. Bro. Doyle was cookie monster and Sis. Doyle was a ladybug. So cute! I'll send pictures of it next week too. We went to our wards trunk-or-treat that night too which was pretty fun. Not a lot of people showed up since it was on Friday night but there was a decent turn out and some non-members came that we got to talk to. Kids are so fun when they get candy! haha. And being the missionary that we are......we handed out candy and pass-along cards. :) Genious right? haha. On Saturday night, we were required to be in our apartment at 6:00 pm. Sister Ferguson and I decided to have a little fun and make some carmeled apples, carmeled popcorn, and dress up! Since Ryan sent me a bat headband in his package, I dressed all in black and was a bat for halloween :) Sister Ferguson got the great idea to put hangers behind her back to make fairy wings, and she was a fairy princess. We took a lot of pictures of that too, so I'll send them next week.
Greg is still doing well. Hasn't smoked for over a week! :) Thank you for all your prayers for him! It's really helping and he is still stoked to keep coming to church. One sad thing though.....he wants to push back his baptism. He still really wants to be baptized but he doesn't feel quite ready yet (he wants a haircut and church clothes before he is baptized). So he is now set for Dec. 19th. That will be in the next transfer, so I'm hoping and praying, again, that I'll get to stay in Lititz next transfer. So pray for me for that too......PLEASE!!! :) Bro. Doyle is set to be baptized the same day. He's in the same situation, he needs to stop smoking...but he's getting closer. The bishop even offered to buy him a prescription that cuts back the cravings. Hopefully that works!
I'm almost out of time but I have one crazy thing that happened yesterday to tell you. We were visiting a less-active woman and she was complaining of having seizures all morning long. When we walked in her home, she was even hunched over on the couch. It wasn't the on the floor, shaking and trembling seizures, but she would just kind of start looking very tired and dizzy and she said her arms and legs would go numb. So while we were there she had to call an ambulance to come get her and take her to the hospital! That was quite an experience. She called us later that night when she got home and said the doctor told her she was having seizures due to some of the medication she was taking. So....be careful with medications that you take! haha, don't overdue them!
Anyway, I hope everyone is having a fantastic week, and has a fantastic coming up week! I love you all and miss you all tons! Can't wait to hear from you again. Love you so much! :)
Love, Holly