Kaytlynn in Spokane: Christmas Season!

Hello! My week this past week has not been to bad! It was actually really fun and interesting.

for Pday last week we got to go to down town! We also went to this really cute Christmas store that had a bunch of glass ornaments but they were all so expensive. We also went to go see mark. He was very nice but he was also sick so we didn't talk much. But, he did say that we are helping him a little bit. This week the members who bought our tree put it up in our house. We decorated it and it was so cute! We went down to Ritzville and saw Joan. She was sick so she didn't want to get us sick so we only talked to her for a brief moment. We also wandered around for 2 hours knocking on doors and everybody knew who we were and they weren't interested! We went to go Gary. Gary is an interesting guy in Ritzville. We talked to him on his doorstep for about 15 min about church and when we left we smelled like weed! It was so bad! We couldn't get the smell off! haha!

Wednesday night we were walking around at 5 pm in the dark like good missionaries. We talked to this guy and apparently he is a member who just moved in the area. He was walking to his car and we talked to him then this police car pulls up and yells at the guy for his name. We didnt know what to do so we just started to walk away. It was so awkward we didn't know what to do. So we just walked away. Ritzville has nice houses and most of them are decorated. They are really neat. Its nice to see all of them. They all are so pretty. Friday night we went to Davenport white elephant gift exchange party for adults. So while we were playing these 2 sisters had the same number to pick their gift. One of them is this sweet older lady. As the other lady starts rock paper scissors the older one looked confused and strait up flipped her off. As soon as she did that everyone started laughing so hard they were crying. The older lady simply smiled and picked the next gift. The one who was the victim couldn't keep it together and she was laughing so hard. Many tears were shed. It was the funniest thing ever! We couldn't stop laughing! Haha! Branch Christmas parties get a little crazy. It's safe to say that no one will be playing Rock paper scissors again. Haha! Then on Saturday we got to go volunteer at Silver Lakes Christmas festival. It's this big thing where everyone dresses up from Whoville and there is a parade. The first hour and a half we sat there while the lady tried to find something for us to do. Then she told us to follow her, and she gave us a sign and we got to be in the parade! We were holding the sign for Santa royalty. It was way fun! Then we got to stand by a fire and watch it. We smell like campfire now and can't seem to get rid of it. It's kinda nasty.