7th Transfer: Week 6 ~ TRANSFER CALLS!

So... I know you want to know about transfers first so....here it is!!  
    DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!!!!
Sister Bailey is going to Boulevard in Kingston to be a STL. Sister Dill is going to Maypen, Jamaica which is by Mandeville where she was last. Sister Lewis is staying here and.... I am also staying here as well! Yayyyyyy!! Now, I was sooo very sad that Sister Dill and Bailey are leaving! They are like my other half! UGHHHHHHHH. They are happy to be going back but Sister Dill cried because she will miss the people here. Sister Dill and Sister Bailey are my 2 greatest friends. They will forever be a part of my life. I don't know what I would do if I had chosen to not serve a mission and would have not met them. I can't even imagine that! I will see them again but not with my badge on. That will be different. oh man. I love these people. You all have to meet them!!

Sister Bailey and I have an inside joke. In Ochi we had this older woman we called "Aunt" (Marj's mom) and we always tried to sneak up on her in her yard. She has this dog that we can tame when we enter. One time we were trying to sneak up and I let Sister Bailey go first. So she went in and we hear Aunt sayin "Who is there?" because she is going a little blind. She doesn't have great vision. Aunt was freaking out and she was like "You betta tell me who up n me uh yad" and I was rolling. Then I pop out and start comin in the yard and she said "oh its the missionaries" HAHA. She said she knew it was us because I GLOW! "There is no white girl comin in no yad here in the Caribbean but the missionaries". HAHA! I love missionary experiences.

Here are my Relief Society sisters! Everyone
 looks so nice. I love this picture! 

But anyway, everything will be okay without them here. By the time transfers are over I will have officially been here in Nassau for 7 1/2 months.... almost 8 months. Almost half my mission so we will see if they are planning on keeping me here for the rest of my mission. HAHA goodness. But I know that it's the Lord's decision. I honestly feel like my work is not done here so I am glad that I don't have to leave. I absolutely LOVE the people here and will cry when I have to leave this place. By the way, TODAY is my 10 month mark! I am 2 digits! and I now have 8 months before I come home. Oh my goodness .. that is so short!! AHH

My new companion is an American. Her name is Sister Mouritsen. She is actually in Ocho Rios right now, so I will be making conversation with her and seeing how my peoples are doing there in good ole Ochi. I don't know when she is flying in but I do know that Sister Dill and Bailey are leaving Thursday. The other sister who is going to be Sister Lewis' companion is Jamaican and her name is Sister Wint. Me and Sister Wint came out together and we are good friends as well. When we were together at the sister training meeting in Kingston, she and I stayed up all night talking. I love her! So thats good.

Here is all that happened this week!

--->The Etienne family said something that was hilarious!! We were over there one day and like always, we were jokin around and they said "every time I see you, I don't picture you as a white person, you are a black person!" So mom, you gave birth to a black child. I will tell dad that he is still the father though no worries. I got you.

This is the Burger King taxi driver holdin up
 the line! I still don't know why he didn't
go inside.

--->We were going through the Burger King line so I could get myself an "angry whopper" which is very, very good. All of a sudden we see this taxi driver in front of us. His steering wheel is on the right side and the drive thru speaker was on the left side. Most things here in the Caribbean are on the left side but they do have cars here with the steering wheel on the right side. Luckily, ours is on the left. So anyway, we saw him get out of his car and stand right in front of the speaker to order his food. This continued until he got his food. It was hilarious. I even got pictures! 

---> I don't know if I have ever told you this but I will tell you anyway. It was hilarious. We were in the Haitian village seeing Clodette and Bannie. They are the only family that we see there. There are a lot of Mormon haters there in this village. We experience it every time we go. People literally run from us hahaha! Anyway, we were there and after we taught Bannie we were headed back to the car (which is a good little walk out of the village). As we were heading back we went through a chill spot (where the whole village chills out), and we said bye. The men said "oh, bye! yeah, I would take you out honey!" They kept saying these kinds of things and we were laughing. Well here comes Clodette out of her house yelling "THOSE ARE MY MISSIONARIES!! LEAVE THEM ALONE THEY GO OUT AND SPREAD THE GOSPEL!!" HAHA it was soo funny!! I was like "yeah tell em Clodette". I just love her. Her son is out on a mission in my mission. Me and Elder Sinea came out at the same time. Love that family!

--->We dropped Eddie for a while, but no worries I am planning on picking him back up again next week. He still came to church yesterday even after we dropped him! 

Jerome was baptized!!!  He's amazing!

 --->HERE is Jerome!! It took months for him to get baptized BUT we DID IT!! He will now be the next Branch President. Just kidding, but maybe....who knows? 

--->I gave a talk yesterday as well. I got to choose what to talk about and I was prompted to speak on the Love of Christ. The weird thing is that he told Evans (one of the young men, recent convert) to give a talk as well and he gave him a topic. Now I had no idea what he wanted him to speak on and he told me to choose what to speak on. Evans (as the youth speaker) gave his talk first and his was on the "pure love of christ!" CRAZY! The Lord works in mysterious ways I tell you. It was crazy because when I was giving my talk I was not even nervous. I even joked around a little bit to get them laughing. It was crazy, but I know its because the Lord comforted me and I do this all day every day. I know every single person who was in the congregation anyway. I have never been so close to the members of the church as I have been on my mission. I am just soo happy because of the members of the church and our investigators! I just love being a missionary. I will be so sad to take off this badge in 8 months.

Catchin all the sisters tryin to wash
this morning! (Sister Bailey)

-->Also... everything in our house is like totally broken. Let me give you the run down real quick...

--> No water heater

-->Washing machine and dryer is broken and have been broken for a while now

-->Toilet seat is sliding around all over the place

-->Our kitchen light doesn't come on unless I keep playing with the light switch over and over again. If I get lucky it comes on. 

-->The power goes off all of the time here in the Bahamas. Like 5 times a day. No joke. 

-->Infestation of spiders and roaches which is a blast (no worries I bought bug spray and have been spraying haha)

Hilarious!!! (Sister Dill)

This morning Sister Bailey and Sister Dill were hand washing. It was hilarious. They had to wash their clothes for their transfer on Thursday. Anyway, this has been such a great experience thus far. Memories that I will never forget! Don't worry though, we are getting a repair guy tomorrow :)

--->Oh my goodness! This is something that happened to me last night! So I always keep the phone under my pillow because the alarm goes off and I don't like to get up. With it under my pillow I can just put my hand under there and turn it off. After I do that, me and Sister Dill get up as we groan. But last night President Ferdinand called the phone at 2:00 in the morning!!! and he woke me up!! I was like why is he calling?! So I ignored it. Then it buzzed again because he left a voicemail!! Then it buzzed again because he sent a text!! I was like what is going on?! As I read the text he was freaking out because he wanted to know if we were okay. I guess my head called President Ferdinand in the middle of the night so he thought we were in trouble. HAHA my bad!!!

My haircut:)

--->I got my haircut and the lady styled it. I don't think you can see the layers. But I got short layers in my hair so I won't have to cut it til I come back home to you guys!

I am so glad that it finally kicked in about eternity! Since I have been on my mission that is all I think about. That is my goal! Honestly, every single day of my life that is my top goal. I will do anything He wants me to do as long as I can just live with him again. I want to be with my family and with my Heavenly Father. If this place is so beautiful I can't even imagine how it looks where our Father lives! THAT IS MY GOAL. TODAY and FOREVER.

Something that came to mind is.... you know how we travel to San Antonio? and how we traveled to Atlanta sometimes? We always planned trips to go somewhere and do something fun. But the temple was not on our to do list. Then I was thinking maybe, even when we get home if we are going to Sea World or something that we can stop by the temple and do work there. I love TEMPLE WORK! It is an amazing work. I just can imagine the smiles on the peoples faces when we do part of their work here on this earth. It makes me so happy! So every time we plan a trip to do something, we should always put the temple in our plans as well.

Well mom thats all I can think of at this point in time but I had a great week! I can't wait to see all about your week! LOVE YOU!! Tell the family that I said I love them!! Please be safe and take careeeeee!

-Sister Judd