Another week down in V-town!

This week was good! Another week down in V-town! We were able to go to VSU campus and do our booth.  Its a little hard cause we have to be up on this platform and we are not aloud to come off of it and we have to try and get people to come over and talk to us. Most people just look at us! But we all sang some songs and it got people to stop! It probably just sounded really bad haha! But we are working hard to get more people to stop and talk with us and to get more young people interested! Who knew they could be so hard headed! It's ridiculous! But we did have one girl named Jackie get confirmed this week! She was baptized before I got here she is really amazing.  I love meeting with her and talking about life with her she is great! We also help out with the family ward so we are working with a lady Sherine.  She  is so strong and amazing! She is a Muslim and her dad is really upset that she is thinking about joining a christian church! But she knows that she can't go back. We also had a great district pday last week and an amazing district meeting! We have a senior couple in our district and I love them so much!!! Also there is this cool thing that they do here! So this tracker came into our apartment complex with a bunch of bails and I was like why?  So then we came out and there was all this stuff around the trees and stuff and I was like why did they put all this hay around the trees? This is stupid! So we went to dinner that night at a members house and I asked them about it and apparently its called pine straw and they put it around the trees for looks! They thought I was so funny cause I thought it was old hay.. So that's the funny story for the week! Well I love being a missionary!  I hope y'all have a great Thanksgiving! I am so grateful for the Gospel and the blessing it is in my life and I am extremely thankful for the temple and the amazing opportunity we have to be together as families!

Pictures:
The Pine Straw around the trees.
District!!

  

Amazing Week

Hey y'all! This week was amazing! So on Monday night we where in charge of the empty nesters,  so we went and sang with them. It was really awesome to sing old baptist songs! Haha,  but we did sing "I am a child of god" with jesse and that was so cute! Tuesday was so funny so we have this investigator and she came out side her apartment and was like "I got to tell y'all something bad!  I got to confess and we where like oh great she had an abortion, but then she was like so I accidentally flushed my keys down the toilet.  She was so upset about it and freaking out that someone was going to find her keys and come in her house hahaha! Wednesday was awesome! I got to go over to Auburn Alabama on splits.  I went to the institute and the college and all that fun stuff.  It was really awesome! Thursday we had zone training meeting in the morning so that was fun! The best part was Tamisha! So we met her a couple weeks ago and she wasn't interested but we saw her at one of our other investigators house and she was like "I will just sit in on the lesson. So we taught about the restoration and she asked a lot of questions and she started crying when we talked about the preistood. I said how do you feel and she started dancing and saying "I finally found it! She was so excited about the message she was dancing! So we challenged her to be baptized on October 17th  with her kids and she accepted!!  She is so amazing!  We are working with her every day! Saturday was fun too we went to the ranch and worked and all the Elders came with us and helped! We had a blast!! Well love y'all.  Hope to hear from you soon! 

Valdosta

Wow what a week! So I have been transferred down south to Valdosta! We cover the ysa ward for Valdosta State and only one person came to church on Sunday so we got a lot of work to do! My new comp is amazing! She is so funny we get along so great! This area is so big so its goin to take some time to get used to! But thats all right! I talked to the missionaries in Pine Mountain, Tamisha is doing so great and she got a job! I miss all the people in that area so much! I cried more leaving there than I did leaving home! I love this mission so much and for the opportunity we have to grow and learn.  There is so much work to be done and I love it! This area has a Walmart so that's good! And we get to go on campus and teach and meet people! Well I love yall so much! Keep on choosing the right! PS congrats to rhett on his mission call.  You are going to be amazing!!!!

Pictures:
Sister Platt is Shelby's new companion
Silly goofy girls!

Sister Vicki, Transfer to Valdosta

Sister Randall with Sister Vicki Talley!  I like to call her Sister Vicki.  She has been my saving grace with Shelby only being out for 3 months.  We have had phone calls and many text and emails let last 3 months.  Shelby was transferred today to Valdosta, GA.  She was sad to leave the great people in the Hamilton area!  I know she will miss them all so much!  Thank you so much to Sister Vicki, Sister Jennifer Reeves, & Sister Tamisha for taking care of my daughter!  We will forever be sisters in Christ!

Tamisha and the Kids Got Baptized!

Hey y'all! Wow what a week! So this week was finally the week for Tamisha and the kids to be baptized! So Saturday morning we got up to go to the church to get the font ready to go and we opened it up and there was waist high with green filthy water with worms crawling around and mold and bugs! And it was two hours before the baptism was going to start so we called the elders who always help us out and  Brother Pitts the branch mission leader and they both said they where about 45 minutes away and they would be right there so don't do any thing! Well, I couldn't just stand there so I hiked up my skirt and got in the font and tried to unstop the drain! It wasn't workin to well so we called the elders asked what we should do and they said get the plunger and plunge the drain do that's what i did haha! When brother pitts got there he said "my oh my you must have pioneer ancestors your tough kid!" haha So the elders showed up and we decided that we would get buckets and fill them up with the water and dump them down the toilets to get the font cleaned out so we could at least fill it. So we got down in there and started filling and poring it down the toilets and we realized that when you poor it down the toilet it comes up the drain in the font... so all that yummy stuff in the font was coming straight from the toilets. So Brother Pitts told us we are not having the baptism.. but I said I have worked to hard and these people have come to far not to be baptized! So I told the Elders to go back up to there building 45 minutes away and fill the font. but then we had another problem the confirmations are done in church the next day but due to the septic tank we would not be having church the next day so we needed permission to confirm font side. I called the APs and they wouldn't give me an answer so I called President and asked the guy at the top and he said Its a go! So we all drove 45 minutes to get them baptized and so many people came it was amazing! It was the best moment of my life!  I love them so much! But then that night we got transfer calls and I got word that I would be transfered... so tomorrow I leave the most amazing place on earth and I am going who knows where and I'm training! So this should be interesting! I know the Lord has a plan and I know that this is his work and I am here for a reason.  I love these people so much! Hope to hear from ya'll soon!  Love ya! 

Pictures:
Sister Randall is not going to give up on getting this baptism done!  She loves Tamisha and was so excited for her! 
Sister Randall, Sister Girvin, Tamisha & girls!  Shelby loves these sweet people!

Visiting Sis. Walker

Visiting with Sister Walker!  Catching up on each other!

Sister Walker's post:
Soooo excited for this woman to make one of the best decisions of her life tomorrow!!! Tamisha has chosen to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by the priesthood authority of God!!! I am so blessed to know her and to have been able to be there for part of her spiritual journey. I know that we are all meant to be in each other's lives for a reason and these three wonderful women have blessed mine beyond anything I could ever repay!

Baptism of Tamisha

Well, yesterday was full of emotions I am sure from Sister Randall.  She was able to attend the baptism for her dear Sister Tamisha.  I have not gotten pictures of this yet. I will post later.  Sister Randall got her first transfer call last night.  Not sure where she is headed but I know she is going to be great!  This is a post from a sweet Sister Reeves!

"I'm going to miss this sister so freaking much thank u for everything that u have done for us."

Braided Hair

Here is a link to Sister Randall getting her hair braided by Tamisha!  It was so good to hear her voice of the video!  I love and miss her so much but she is having a wonderful time.

https://www.facebook.com/jennifercourtneyjessica/videos/1125010717533218/

A Hurricane!

Wow well there is a hurricane going on outside right now! LOL. I just walked to the library up to my ankles in water! And it's not letting up soon! Well, this week was good, kinda a slow one with Halloween and all that but Tamisha got a new place! She hasn't had water heat or electric for over a year and she finally got a new place so we have been helping her out a lot with painting and trying to get donations from the branch.  She has nothing but beds right now. But this is going to be so great for them to get into a place that they can call home!  I'm so happy for them. Halloween was fun we went to the ranch and Brother Monte had a party. It was cool some other missionaries got to come for a bit.  We went on hay rides and night fishing and they had a big ol' fire! 
But Sunday was the best! We had fast and testimony meeting and we had 10 investigators there!!!! 
& 4 of them got up to give their testimonies! It was great Tamisha got up and i just cried! I love her so much! Next time you hear from me there will be 3 new members of the pine mountain branch! I cant wait for it they are so ready and I am so ready to see them progress! Well I love y'all hope to hear from you soon!

Love, 
Sister Randall

Pictures:
Shelby loving the Georgia Rain!!
Tamisha holding her key to her new house!  Shelby has really grown to love this sweet lady!