Sister Hayli Gittins: Week 4 Kalamazoo

Hello Everyone,

Michigan is pretty neat.The flight from Lansing to Detroit was beautiful we were on a super small plane. But I had a window seat so I got to see a lot. And believe me when they say there are a ton of lakes in Michigan they mean it!!! There are many Catholics here, we went door knocking yesterday and 95% of everyone we talked to were Catholic. Also Lots of people here already have some religion and are stuck in their ways so they aren't very interested in learning about ours. But that is okay we will find people! :) We already have 1 investigator with a baptismal date she is so sweet. I am so excited to teach her more. Its hard to find time to teach her because she works 80 hours a week and is a single mom to 4 kids. I have been having a ton of fun so far! We are emailing from a public library right now in Kalamazoo. Hope you are all doing well? Our apartment is pretty nice. I love my new companion she is a sweetheart her name is Sister Merriman. She is such a great trainer I am just hoping I can catch on to everything fast. So pray for me :) Door knocking is kinda stressing me out but I am getting better every day! :)

Funny story-so we usually have dinner with our district cause there are only four of us me and Sister M and Elder Johnson and Graves, they are awesome. Anyways my first night here we went to dinner at a members house it was really good. But they thought it would be funny to convince me that they were polygamists. So they totally acted like they were the whole time! And even asked me if there were very many polygamists in Logan. haha it was so akward! I almost died! haha :) I was like where have they sent me!!! We had a ward party on Saturday and had a ton of fun! There was food, games, hay rides, a bonfire, and even a maze. It was so cool. I love the members in our ward they are so sweet and feed us a lot. Yesterday we had dinner at these older members home who had that morning been asked and set apart as a bishopric member. They were super sweet! We go to the Nursing home once or twice a week and read the Book of Mormon with a 100 year old lady. Which is such an awesome experience, we went in her room and were looking at some of her pictures and there was a picture of Stone Hunt and his family. So I asked her about it and she was like thats my great grandson. Then I found out that his grandparents are also in our ward. When I told them at the ward party that I knew there grandson they were so excited. haha It's such a small world!

We volunteer twice a week at loaves and fishes and I love doing that it is so fun! We mostly sort and box up food. The mission home is old but super nice. I don't think I have ever slept as good as I did when I was there. I love our Mission Presidents they are so sweet and super awesome! :) I am not sure where most of the other girls are I know that Sister Bayles is in Battle Creek and Sister MacArthur is in Grand Rapids. I have been sleeping pretty great by the end of the night I am exhausted so its nice to sleep. And my bed is super comfy so that's good! :) Love you all!

Love Sister Gittins