Sister Riana Johnson: Life as a Michiganary: Green Eyes & Grapefruit Juice

Hey! Great week, great people, great place. Everything is so great here in Midland.

Best parts of my week :)

• Sister Nuttall and I discovered that we have the EXACT same eye color. Not that significant but we were so shocked for so long about it haha.

Not very good pic of our matching eyeballs

• We caught a firefly! Our friend refused to light up inside our apartment so we kicked him out but we're not done trying.

• We rescued a dog! Cutest little pup (pics below) was running around this neighborhood going buck wild so we went door to door around there and found his home! So fun.

• While we're on the topic of dogs, I have started keeping track of how many dogs I see every day which has been the best part of my day, we hit a high of 19 dogs in one day.

Joe, our best friend

• On Thursday we didn't have much to do in the afternoon so we decided to make some cookies and bring them to people we thought could use a little boost. We delivered so many cookies with notes that said "you are LOVED" and it was just a blast. We would drop them on the doorstep, knock, and run. We got caught multiple times but some still don't know it was us haha.

• We are working with the family we're teaching toward their baptism and Heidi is working on quitting smoking. We gave her this amazing 7 day stop smoking plan that she's starting today! But we went over this plan on Saturday night and she realized that she had to buy all the things necessary and that the next day was Sunday and she's also trying not to shop on Sunday so we went with the whole family to the grocery store at 9pm and got everything she'll need. It was so much fun. One step of the Plan is to drink grapefruit juice after every meal and also when the cravings come to smoke. Grapefruit juice is disgusting, everyone knows it, so we promised that every time she drinks it, we drink it. So now we're carrying bottles of grapefruit juice with us at all times lol. Gags me every time but I'll make it.

Pre-grapefruit juice drinking...so gross

• Final event, some members in our ward, the Gudmundsens, invited us over for dinner last night and straight up fed us strawberry shortcake for dinner, that's it. It was the best.