"...the most redneck place ever..." Week 3

hey everyone! so much has happened. So as we were leaving this guy was calling out my name so i went up to him and he handed me this big envelope and when i opened it it had like a list of 30 peoples names on it and it said you are the travel leader over this group you are responsible for checking their luggage to thier final destination and making sure that they get on the right plane. so that was insane cause there was like 3 different airlines that they were flying so i barely got on my plane i time. that is when i met eldwer faamoe he is samoan and is awesome we traveled together and are both waiting on visas for australia. I already love it in west virginia! if there is one thing it has taught me its that state side missions arent bad at all, they are way cool and i want to stay here almost haha. my companion is awesome his name is elder clawson. he is a funny guy who likes to work hard so we get along well. this place is crazy like its is the most redneck place ever everyone live in these things called hollers its super hilly in west virginia and everyone just lives in little trailors up in the mountains. and the little trailor communities are called hollers. there are lots of abondoned buildings and houses to that have been burned down or are just caving in and falling apart like everwhere and no one tears them down and cleans it up. so its pretty ghetto. everyone smokes and chews tabbaco. our aresa is huge its like massive that just me and elder clawson cover. and in that whole are we only have a branch of about thirty members and like 25 oh them are about to die haha like literally. we have no investigators really everyone already has their church and dont want to hear about ours. the other churches post articles in the news paper about how evil the mormons are and how joseph smith did all this awful things so everyone thinks we are horrible people.i have had some amazing miracles so far though. the first day i was here we were driving to our apartment and i just prayed asking for someone to teach i said i would do anything and right as i ended my prayer the phone rang and this guy that we had never met said hey your the missionarys right and we said yes we are and he said i have a friend who needs a blessing will you come down to the hospital? so we drove down there and found there room and this guy was sitting outside and he said hey im terri im the one who called you he said he used to be a member but had made some mistakes and hadnt been to church in a while. he said that this friend was a girl he was in love with and it turns out that she wasnt his wife so that was a little weird but he said he hadnt done anything with her and he asked if even though she wasnt a member if she could get a blessing we said yes and he took us in the room. she began talking to us and it was very hard to get what she was saying because of her hill billy accent but she told us about al lthe health problems she had had and how she believed in Jesus Christ and how she had heard that we were good people and wanted a blessing so my companion anointed the oil and i sealed it and gave her a blessing it was such an amazing experience as i listened for the promptings of the spirit in what to say by the end i was crying and she was crying. she said that that had felt really good and she was very hankful for it. i asked her if we could come by in a couple days and visit with her and share a message she and terri said they would love for us to come. she ended up being transfered to a hospital that not in our area but when she gets back we have her number and we will be able to meet with her. another miracle was we were out walking looking for someone to teach and as we were walking we passed this falling apart house and i felt like we should go knock on the door but then was like no one probably even lives there and we just kept walking after like a minute i had the same feeling to go back and knock but it was behind us now and i didnt think anyone lived there and then it vwas almost like a voice and i heard you need to go back to that house. so i decided to trust the spirit finnaly and i turned to my companion and said we need to go back to that house and i pointed at it and he said its far back and no one probably lives there anyways and i laughed and said thats what i told the holy ghost haha and said lets just go check so we went back and knocked on the door and heard this ladys voice say please help me i fell 2 days ago and cant get up we tried the front door but it was locked and there were no other doors so we called an ambulance and they came and opened the door and helped her up and we went in real quick before they took her to the hospital and said hi and set up an time when we could come back.  i love the mission and cant vwait to continue serving my apartment is awesome and i love you all.

ya we hit and killed a deer. we skinned it and ate it for dinner. and by that i mean one of the members went hunting and brought it home and as we were walking out we saw it just laying there haha.