Hi Everyone!!
The first week was so much fun!! It's still
Elder M, Elder K and I in our companionship! It's way fun! Elder
K and I cover 2 wards and Elder M covers one, so right now we
cover three together! There was some way crazy storms!! First it hailed
on Wednesday and we thought it was bad! Then Thursday night it was
hailing and the hail was the size of golf balls!!! I took some pictures
and a video I will attach! It was so crazy!! It dented up our car way
bad and it cracked our windshield!! Luckily, we were inside one of our
ward mission leaders' homes when the storm hit! It was so crazy!! Then
the next day we did a couple service things for a couple older ladies in
our wards. Yesterday we helped this old guy in Elder M's ward clean
out his garage! It took us like 3 hours of moving stuff and throwing
stuff away!! The guy's name was Don, he's not a member and he won't come
to church but we talked to him about the church while we were helping
him! He was a way funny guy! He gave us a old type-writer which is
pretty cool! I was playing around with it at our desk the past couple
days!
The wards here are awesome! We go to our 2 wards and we don't go to
Elder M's ward because it starts at 8:30 and ours start at 9 and at
1. We also had a few investigators coming to our ward so we don't go to
his ward. We focus mostly on our Area because Elder M's area is far
away so we only go there like one or two days a week. It's so fun though
I love the wards and the people here!
Teaching is going great! I don't get to use my Spanish very often but
when I have a chance to I use it as much as possible! We went out to
eat with a couple Elders in our District on Friday after district
meeting and we went to a place that is just like Beto's but just a
different name, and I ordered in Spanish and talked to the worker for a
minute. I haven't heard anything about my visa other than what I sent
you last week. I am just waiting still but it's okay! Every day we have
studies from 8 to ten and sometimes I do language study until 11 or
10:30. after that we go out Tracting or teaching if we have appointments
or we do service until lunch. Which is usually around 1. then we go out
teaching again until dinner, we have dinner every night at a members
house which is awesome! Then we go teach some more until like 9:15. Then
we go home plan for the next day, set some goals, play Settlers of
Catan and go to bed! A member gave Elder M settlers of catan and now
we're addicted! We live with a member. We live in the basement and She
is an older lady but we have our own fridge and we just use her washer
and dryer or our laundry. On P-Day we do our grocery shopping, Elder
K got a haircut this morning, We're going to the mall after we
leave this library, we play sports with some other Elders in our Zone,
just have fun. It's way more fun in the field than the MTC!! I love it!
Um.. We have a car so when we go tracting we drive to a certain street
that we plan on tracting then we get out and walk a lot! We meet so many
cool people!! Some people are pretty mean, but when we walk away we
always laugh about the things that they say!! I don't really miss a
package other than the letters and the stuff is free for me haha. Elder
K is helping me budget though! He's really helpful!! Did I tell you
he's going home after this transfer!? This is his last transfer and my
first!! It's crazy!
Oh I was eating with a family the other day, and I met an older guy
named Brother H, and he plays Call of Duty on xbox live so i
gave him Dad's xbox live name and told him to send Dad a message and
tell Dad I said Hi!! Funny huh??
Well, the cabin sounds awesome!! I wish I could go!! But, when I get
the chance to go everything will be finished!! How are all of my friends
doing? I haven't heard from any of them for awhile! How is all the
family??
So our investigators are some awesome people, there is this family
where the wife is Jewish, and the husband is catholic, and they want to
find a church where they can raise their son well. We have been helping
them out and they fit into the ward so well! They love coming but it's
hard for the wife to accept Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world. But
they are definitely progressing. I love them they're awesome!! The
other day we were tracting and we met a family who moved here 2 years
ago and never went to church because they didn't know what time church
was! But we invited them and they didn't seem very interested, but they
came to church yesterday!! They are less active and they have a little
girl named Jasmine who is 10 who isn't baptized so I asked her if she
would want to be baptized but she doesn't know! We're hoping we can
teach them and get her baptized soon!! Elder K and I are trying so
hard to get a baptism before we leave here! We Love it here and
there is a lot of potential we just need the investigators to keep
pushing forward!
There is a less active lady that we are helping also and the Jehovah's
Witness missionaries go to her house every Saturday and give her these
magazines from their church and Elder K and I take them from her
haha they have weird and funny pictures in their magazines. They believe
some weird things..
We keep teasing Elder M about Tonga and we always ask him if
they have random stuff in Tonga! We tease him the most but we just tease
everyone! I love all the other elders here in our Zone that I have met
and it's just so fun here!
Anyway, I love it here! I am excited to leave too but I love it here already! It will be hard to leave but so
exciting also! It's so great to be a missionary!! It's so fun! I just
love it!
Thanks family for all you do for me! It's so great to know that
you pray for me and that everyone is always willing to help us! I love
being here, I love serving the Lord. I'll write again next week!!
Love you all!!! Have a great week!!
