Week 14- Pageant accomplished!

BEFORE Pageant--ready to go!

Wow this week was CRAZY. 12+ hours a day, a lot of it in 95 degree weather with 100% humidity, talking to thousands of people. I feel like I've been hit by the front runner. I can't even formulate sentences at this point so sorry if this doesn't make sense! The hardest place to serve is at the Smith Farm because it's more physically demanding and yet somehow we were scheduled there 4 TIMES THIS WEEK. Usually it's 2. So sufficeth to say, I have some sweet tan lines, I was pretty close to a mental breakdown for the last couple days (still am 😂😂😂), and I was able to talk to thousands of amazing people. From the day before pageant to the day after I have estimated that I have talked to nearly 40,000 people--in only 2 weeks!  When else will I be able to have that experience? I was able to complete meeting people from all 50 states too, and probably 12 countries! It's been hard but good.

AFTER Pageant!  Still smiling (mostly).

Some funny/cool experiences: I had a lady come up to me and ask me if I was from outside the states because I had an accent she's never heard before, she was wondering if I was swedish? It was really funny I was like, uhhhh, no I'm from Utah--haha. I also met John Bytheway and started talking to his daughter and told her I kind of wanted to get a picture with her dad but then I chickened out and he walked away. Well an hour later I'm eating dinner and he comes downstairs looking for me because she told him I wanted a picture--I was SO embarrassed but thankful. 

John Bytheway :)

We also had quite a few crazy rainstorms and one day we were hunkering down in the barn with another 100 people singing restoration hymns which was awesome. There was also a lady who just came up to us and started telling us all the amazing circumstances surrounding her conversion which was awesome.

Another day it was about 8 pm and it had slowed down so I was doing some scriptures study on a bench on the Smith farm and this dad and daughter walked by and were like, wow what better place to to your scripture study and I had to take a moment and think, wow, really though!!

Scripture study at the Smith Farm.

Have a great week everyone, and remember that you are loved and that the Savior loves us more than we can imagine. 

Love, Sister Potts

P.S. I reached my 3-month mark on the 17th during Pageant.

Book of Mormon Publication Site!

FUN FACTS: 

1. In printing rooms they keep the type in cases and the upper-case held the Capital letters and the lower case held the small letters which is where they got the names uppercase and lowercase!!

2. The ink they used to print the book of Mormon is really thick like peanut butter.

3. The Smith family once won an award for making the most maple sugar in a season.

4. Back then they used to make their beehives from hollowed out logs covered in a board and secured by a rock.

5. The Smith family had about 10,000 trees on the 100 acres they bought, they cleared about 2/3 of it.