Letter #9

 

So this week was not a very good week as far as teaching and finding goes, but we had a lot of service, and it was still full of miracles. On Friday, we were having a slow sort of day, so we decided to go and visit an older member of our ward named Sister Dickjose. She is 83, and has outlived 3 husbands and a dog. She was living with a cat, and she said that that was the last thing that she considered family or friend in this world. We were talking to her on Friday and she was telling us her life story, because Elder Burt had never met her. After we talked for quite a while, we were going to leave, and we helped her with a little yard work, namely helping her weed around a bush where the ashes of her mother and her sister were burried. We left soon after that to go tracting. The next morning, we got a call right before 7:00 that her cat had just died, and that she wanted to have it burried. And so we made our way out to her place, we put that cat in the ground, right in-between her mother and her sister by that bush we weeded the day before. And so that was one of the saddest things I've seen since I've been out here. But I'm glad we were around, because she was in no condition to be digging graves for animals.

Well, we only have one person right now with a baptismal date right now, which is kinda sad, because we've had a bunch of people that we've been trying to work with all week that have been dropping appointments and ignoring us a bunch, and things have just not been working out. But it is still exciting for that one person that is getting baptized. Her name is Leah, and she is going to be baptized on May 11, and she is getting married this weekend. And she brought us a lasagna yesterday, so she is really awesome. Hopefully this week will be better though for everyone else.

We get to go to the temple tomorrow, which is super exciting. That means we get to head out to Seattle, which is outside of the mission. I'm hoping we get to a bunch of cool pictures while we're out, because we only get to go to Seattle twice for the temple, and then when we fly into the mission, and when we fly out, so this is actually really exciting. We don't have any temples within our mission boundaries, so this (and once next year) is pretty much the only time I'll be able to go there.

Well, I'm doing pretty well out here, and I don't really have any other news right now. I miss you all and love you! Talk to you guys later!