Visiting Teaching

I never knew visiting teaching could be so.... difficult. Of the 6 people my partner and I teach, only 2 of them are active. Out of those 2, we were able to make an appointment with one and have had a very interesting time trying to talk to the other. She has done her best evading us. She said she does not want to make an appointment with us, but that we should just call her when we want to come. Of course when we call, then she is busy that day. It is possible that it is just a different culture and people don't make appointments. At Dr. offices they don't make appointments because if they did people just wouldn't show up. So maybe that is what it is all about, or maybe she just doesn't want us to visit with her. Whatever it is, I am glad I have a diligent partner because I probably would have given up already.

Today we were able to visit teach the one person we were able to make an appointment with. It was a good experience and good to get out and see a little bit more of Greenville that I hadn't yet seen. At the end of our lesson we told her that we were going to just drop cookies off to the inactive members and say hi. Sounds like a reasonable enough idea, right? Wrong. This woman strongly warned us NOT to go to these peoples houses. In the last 22 years that she has lived in Greenville, she has never even heard of any of the women that we are supposed to teach. We were able to look up their addresses. Apparently their houses are in a part of town that you just don't go to, especially without a male escort. And here we were, two young girls with two babies, ready to drop off cookies to their homes. I am so used to Utah culture and not having to worry about going anywhere that I forget that it is not quite like that here. I am grateful that I was warned and not led somewhere dangerous without knowing. I guess notes are going to be the way to contact our sisters. If nothing else, I am learning a lot about culture and life outside of Utah.

Well, we are doing great and having a good time learning and living. Here are some recent pictures of Brinley. She is growing up so fast!

Brinley now has 6 teeth! 4 on top and 2 on bottom. Here she is showing them off.


She loves my cell phone. The only problem is she loves putting it in her mouth.



Brinley has learned how to drink out of my water bottle. If I leave it any where she does anything she can to get to it.