(week 17 Hudson email)

Morning y'all saturday night, we met with a guy named peyton buie, who is a bible theologist, we had a
really good dinner at Brass Lantern with him and there was no bashing or anything like that it was super great honestly. He brought his fiancee which he just proposed to at the start of the year so that was fun as well. The most interesting thing though was the fiancee. She was awesome, she was a basketball player Martin methodist, she was really passionate about reading and Harry Potter, she was super attractive, she was actually I think more interested and open to the Book of Mormon then peyton. The only weird thing here then is their relationship. I dont mean to call out my boy peyton but he kinda looks like Bubblebass, he even told us in confidentiality that he "overpunted his coverage with her" I was shocked to say the least😂😂😂 but we gave him a Book of Mormon, he said he was interested but I think his issue will be having an open heart. 

Yesterday for lunch we met with two pastors from the nazarene church. They were stellar dudes too. We originally were only going to meet with one and when we were driving over he said that he was there with his friend. I thought for sure that meant back up and I thought for sure a bash would ensue, nevertheless it was an awesome time and now I know all about the nazarene church. Maybe they thought they were walking into a bash too. But they were awesome they were talking about knocking on members doors and the hostility they've faced at the door and then he said "you guys probably dont really have to deal with that dont you" I couldnt help but laugh😂😂

A couple days ago , on facebook, I stumbled into the lady who runs a shelter here in town and we talked for a bit and I asked if we could help and she got so excited, she said missionaries had helped before but they hadn't been around since. So we said we were glad to come help and we scheduled a time. Well we pulled up at the address and it's a massive and beautiful plantation home, with the words "the shelter" I was so confused. But so we get in there and just see offices, the whole time I'm looking for the cute puppies and kitties but I'm just seeing a normal looking office house. So we get inside and a lady comes walking down the stairs super cheerful, super friendly, and she welcomes us and stuff, as shes talking she says "here's the children's room, they're doing a case management in there right now" it all clicked that this was a women's shelter, which is awesome! I'm sorry puppies and kitties, but dealing with people may be a little more important. But so we go up to the office and we talk to the other lady, get a background for the whole program, set a service schedule, and then we get a tour of the house. She was telling us when they originally got the home, it was a ghost house and they had inmates come renovate it. She was saying she had to deal with inmates hitting on her for 3 months but it was worth it. The house was beautiful the inmates did a wonderful job. But they dont recieve any federal funding, besides the acquisition of that original house, everything is volunteer and it's all supported by a boutique store called crossroads. The store is basically a high end women's goodwill, it's what they use to fund the victims as well. So we drove out there to help a little bit, they werent really expecting us so there wasnt much to do. Next week though we are going to help at the actual shelter, we have to sign some confidentiality forms to know where it is, exciting exciting.

 (It actually snowed, a lot.)