Rhode Island - Im Sorry

The good state of Rhode Island. I got to serve part of mission there in Woonsocket. It was the ever interesting Scituate ward. There were lots of people there that worked with Fidelity. I got to see the Fidelity Smithfield, RI office. It is pretty big!
Robert and Jenni I feel sorry for you sometimes. Rhode Island is like living outside the US. For me it was so different. But it was a good place to live so no offense if you live there! The talk there in Woonsocket was crazy. They would say things like "throw the stairs down my keys" (backwards). We were called "Alderz" not Elders. They would ask if we were from Utahr there. The would say pizzer, soder. But that isnt even the kicker.
I once new a couple who named their daughter Mona. You might not believe it but if you apply their habit of putting R's on the end of anything that ends with a vowel sound they called their daughter "Moner".
Woonsocket was often referred to as "the armpit of the mission". It stuck because there was a nasty sewer plan in the middle of the city and most of it was run down houses. Woonsocket was actually settled by French settlers that came down from the Boston area after being pursecuted so badly.
Rhode Island actually had the state name of "Rhode Island and the Plantations..." something or other. It used to be a lot of plantations that combined to be called a state in the pre-US Constitution days. Hence why they were not present for the majority of the Continental Congresses.

I have tons of absolutely bizzar stories about the church and wards in the area. If you ever want to hear them just let me know and I will share them. For example the red Scarament Table cloth, or the beach ball Bishop".