Shayla Tilton's Mission Blog: 18 MONTH MARK!

Hey Y'all!

Texas is awesome! I love it! :)

First, Happy Birthday Daddy this week!

Second, IVE BEEN OUT 18 MONTHS!!! What is this world coming to?! Why does time fly by so fast?! Well! I give all my credit to the Billmire family for making my 18 months a blast! So this week I blew up a full on outfit! Yep! BLEW IT UP! Well, Bryce Billmire did! (he was actually in the Denton YSA last year when I was serving so were totally bffs now! :p ) So I have a video...but cant see it cuz I cant send it! But its pretty legit! We gave my outfit some Tanerite and gasoline and a little shot (Bryce shot it, not me) and it exploded! Best thing ever! My clothes = disintegrated! >:D

Next, Happy Halloween! Hope yall liked my card I sent! You wana know something crazy?!

Fact: Only in Texas, Decatur particularly, would they switch Halloween to Oct 30th because Oct 31st is on Friday and we cant ruin Friday night Football. Yes, they SWITCHED Halloween because of Football. Are you fa realz?! Great! So we had to stay with members on the 30th all night (luckly we had an appt so we didn't have to worry about that) and stay inside for the 31st.

Well Nov 1st we had our ward Fall Festival with turkey shoot, food, and trunk or treat! It was so much fun!!! and FREEZING!!! There were so many less actives that came, part member families, investigators, and peoples friends. So much fellowship! It was great! :) We didn't even have to get people fellowship, everyone just talked with everyone. Ward functions should really happen more often :p No we didn't get to shoot but one of the less actives, MaryAnn that we're teaching, came and had never shot clay pigeons, won the womens turkey shoot! It was awesome!!! She had fun, although she got some bruises.

Sister Bangs and I, on Halloween, were each other, but at the Fall Festival we were twins, both me! :p haha it was hilarious! People would call her Sister Tilton then think...wait, that's not it! Trunk or Treat was so fun! The kids just loved us! And that's probably cuz we were the only truck that actually decorated...no one else did! But it was so much fun! :) I really just love this ward! They are so close knit and its a whole county! How crazy! Such a huge range but so close together! :)

Alright, so this is the greatest thing that happened to me all week. Did you know Jesus Christ is on the earth right now?! YEAH! He's reincarnated, living in Bowie, TX (our area), is a cowboy, and 25 years old right now. But its fine, he doesn't know that he's Christ yet, but apparently his dad does. Awesome right?!! So we met the CRAZIEST person in the whole entire universe. No joke. He has read the Book of Mormon a million times, D&C, and the Bible all to get secret codes for when the Second Coming is. He has met Christ... i don't think reincarnation was ever talked about in the Bible... :p and he knows the date when Christ will start burning the wicked but he said he wouldn't tell us. Its all going to start in 2017 though. Let's get ready yall! ;p So he was telling us to prepare and was even telling us that we need to start getting food storage....well he obviously doesn't know that that's something we as members already have been doing. Like seriously, he was a crazy man!! He's said his 100 prayers and doesn't think he needs to talk to God anymore....I feel sorry for this man. I think it was the most oddest thing I have EveR encountered. #welcometodecatur

Moving on, :p So Marilyn has been keeping herself busy and is cutting down for sure on her smoking which is great! She is seeing the Atonement work in her life. It's great! She went to the Fall Festival, her and her daughter Ashton, and they both enjoyed it although they froze to death :p

Miguel we were finally able to meet this week, twice! And he is still at the same place he was last time, really busy, but still wanting to be baptized even though he knows he has to get married or move out, he's just trying to figure out how and what to do. Family is so important to him but is struggling to see how to make it work with this. We taught him the WOW after church on Sunday and he kind of freaked - he likes his coffee - but isn't 'addicted' to it, just likes it with his doughnuts :p great excuse right?! Good one Miguel! :p He is so funny!

Charlie is still pressing forward, he keeps slipping but only with one beer or so. Then he's back on track...till his darn friends come over the next night. He just has to move!!

We met with Peter this week and oh my goodness, he is on the wrong track on why he's reading the BOM or studying...he's looking for historical points and critiques peoples writings. We gave him the talk "Blueprints of Christ's Church" and he read it and TOTALLY was pointing out things that he didn't explain correctly (He's an architecture). He said he would like to email "Mr. Callister." Really Peter?! Hahaha! Whhaaaaat?? He is too much of a perfectionist in this. We're trying to help him understand that its not about how great of an education our prophets and apostles have, but how it can help him spiritually come closer to our Heavenly Father. We challenged him to study in that way, so lets hope he does it! He's a keeper... :p Also, he told Sister Bangs that she should become a preacher and make her own church...that was hilarious!

Well that's it for the most part! Have a great week! :)

Sister Tilton

pics:

18month blowup! Casie, Bryce, and Brady! Clothes in the barrel