Hello!!
Our P-day was switched to Tuesday last week because we went to Akshadam! It's not open on Monday's like a lot of other places which is unfortunate. Our P-day was delayed too so we still had to work in the morning from 11am-2pm and then the fun begins because this place has a really cool water and light show which is like the best part of the whole place!
In the morning we had our district Council and then Sister Thyagarajan, me, Elder Millett, Elder Wolcott, Elder Brady and Elder Cheng were off! There had to be a lot of exchanges to make this happen because you can only go to this place once on your mission. We had to be with more Elders too because President wanted us to have protection haha.
Akshadam is a Hindu temple and it's on 100 acres. There's heavy security to get in and you aren't allowed any bags or phones so all you have is your wallet and that's about it haha of course Sisters don't have pockets most of the time so it was handy to have the Elders and their pockets!
We all understood pretty quickly why President said it would be more worthwhile to spend our money on some momos and a cold drink rather then learning all about this God's life. We did not enjoy it. The way they presented it was cool though with wax robot things acting out stuff and we had to keep moving to different rooms to follow along with the story and we had to walk through this stormy forest across this bridge where the planks kept moving and it was dark with loud noises 😬. There was also a boat ride where you went along and saw all this stuff on either side of you. There was a movie too which was in Hindi so we had to have headphones to understand it and before the movie had started there was just this loud buzzing if you tuned the headphones on and you couldn't hear anything else so Elder Wolcott, Elder Brady and me decided to play that game where one person wears headphones and can't hear anything and then the others have to say something and you have to guess what they're saying haha it's a really fun game! The Elders were terrible at it but I was able to get full sentences right off the bat and they were like how are girls so good at reading lips 😂
I like to shoot my companion for fun, not with a real gun but one of those trick shot guns that makes the loud noise and so a couple of times when my companions not expecting it I come out and shoot her and her reactions are the best haha she gets so scared!
We had companionship study with President and Sister Hansen on Wednesday through video call. That's the last we'll have someone joining us for our companionship study 😁
We had so many food appointments right after each other on Wednesday and I was so stuffed! I wasn't even hungry the next day! We started off at the Massey family and the mum kept trying to put more food on my plate and I'm like no I really can't eat any more! She learnt after she was about to put stuff on my plate and I quickly moved the plate away and made a Puri drop in my lap instead 😂
Then it was on to Honey Rai and her appointments are always the best! She has all these snacks and she was like do you want an iced chocolate or a hot chocolate but we couldn't decide so she was like okay you can start with an iced chocolate and then before you leave have a hot chocolate 😂 she also has great stories to tell especially about all the times she's dressed up like Santa claus and it's gone completely wrong 😂 she also has super cool and old family heirlooms which are more than 100 years old! She has this super old camera and it's awesome!
Then it was off to the Chauhans, we hadn't visited them for awhile so they kinda refused to let us leave unless we ate something. I ate a Chili pakota! It's like a deep fried chili! It was spicy....very very spicy.....
We talked to a family who were Sikh and they were helping us catch a rickshaw and I was like they're asking too much and they were like you know how much this is in Australian dollars? The Indian economy needs your money 😂 They also planned out my wedding with their 18 year old son and were like see in Australia this would never happen in a five minute conversation. We got a sandwich they bought too which was nice.
We gave the hedgehog slice to the Singh family and the first bite Siddarth loudly exclaims "This is so good ahh!!" The whole family loved it especially since they all have a sweet tooth and they put it in the fridge and then at different moments they'd be like I need more and go get another piece 😂
We were sharing a message with their family and we were finishing it up and Sister Thyagarajan was bearing her testimony and then suddenly we hear this loud noise and me and Sruti just start bursting out in laughter. Siddarth had just let one rip if you know what I mean and it was hilarious! 😂😂
This was my last Sunday meeting in a wedding hall with our Janak Puri homegroup! How crazy is that!
I'm going to miss seeing people not knowing how to use escalators and get all scared and end up nearly doing the splits 😂
Came across another really nice bus conductor who let us ride on his bus for free! He refused to take any money from Sisters.
The reason our P-day was switched to Tuesday again this week was because we had a special mission meeting on Monday to discuss the new missionary handbook which is really good! I love how it focuses more on helping us become better disciples of Jesus Christ and how these standards will help us for the rest of our life! It was kind of like a special Thanksgiving activity too and so for lunch we had pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, banana pie, chocolate cake, apple crumble and cream! It was so good! We also watched the movie pollyanna! Watching any movie with a group of missionaries is just the funniest thing ever 😂 when the couple kissed everyone cheered so loudly and then Sister Hansen was just like "you can handle it." 😂😂 Pollyanna taught us a good lesson. We need to play the glad game and always think positively and be glad for everything!
Love Sister Watts
We wanted to have a batch picture but we were missing Elder Kneeland since he's in Mumbai so we improvised.
