First week in Kentucky

Howdy hey everyone!!!

I have officially arrived in Kentucky and I love
it here. Interestingly there is a difference between Kentucky and
Tennessee, I couldn't tell you what it is, but I like it :)

This week has been slightly crazy because we are whitewashing an area,
and the Hermanas that were here before us had two baptismal dates and
one of them is for this upcoming Saturday. The man who is getting
baptized is named Sergio and he is so ready to be baptized, he is a
very humble man and he is going to be a great contributing force to
the Spanish work in Hopkinsville.

The other man who wants to get baptized is a nice guy
but he is not quite ready to be baptized yet, he needs a lot of help
with his testimony and understanding the doctrine of the church. With
a little work and time he will be ready to be baptized :)

Funny story of the week:
So the first night Hermana Hendrickson and I get to Hopkinsville we
set our stuff in our apartment then we leave to go see an inactive
member.  We arrive at this house and it looks pretty trashed and not
taken care of, but we go up to the door and knock anyways. A few
seconds later a tall skinny man with long black hair answers the door
wearing a scary clown costume and invites us in. At this point I'm not
sure to laugh or be worried about what is going to happen next.
Hermana h walks in the door and I follow, we say hello to a lady
sitting on the couch and ask her if this certain member is there, but she just gives us a
dirty look and leaves the room. Hna h and I turn around to talk to
clown guy but he has now disappeared too. We then proceed to sit on
their couch andwait for someone to tell us if this person lives at the address we were at.
After 5 minuets or so clown guy comes creeping into the room while
kissing a huge snake that he has draped on his shoulders.  Trying to
fight back the urge to bust out in laughter,  I ask the man if he
knows this lady.  Before he can answer, someone knocks on the door and to our
surprise it is the Hopkinsville elders.  The elders walk in and see us
sitting on the couch and they look just as surprised as we do. The
clown man then tells us that this person is at school and so hna h and I leave
and tell the elders they they can go ahead and teach the clown man,
then we walk quickly down the block back to our car.

We got in the car and we could not stop laughing for the rest of the night.
The rest of the week has been pretty good, we have been doing a lot of
contacting so that we can get a good teaching pool. I am back to
speaking Spanish, but it is frustrating to see the amount of Spanish I
lost in the last six months of not using my Spanish.  I know that
it will be back in a few weeks and then I can continue to progress my
Spanish from the point I was at 6 months ago :)

I hope that y'all have a great week and that you will look for
opportunities to share the message of the restored gospel.

Love Hermana K Ayre