Letter #10

So my favorite new "doctrine" that we got over the pulpit yesterday is: "The Holy Spirit is a person who gave us our bodies so we could come to Earth." Fast and Testimony meetings are the best. We got to sit next to Sister Dickjose for that meeting, and she was talking to us the whole time. Mostly Elder Burt, since he was the one next to her. She took down our names, hometowns, and favorite colors, and she is going to ask the Father if she has permission to knit us hats. But she is actually so blind that she can't knit without the help of the Father, so she needs permission first. But I'm thinking we're probably going to get hats.

So we had a very service oriented week. On Saturday, we got a call to help some people move at 10:30 a.m., and then we were between that move and another one all the way out until 9:30 p.m. except for a 1 hour break for pizza. That was a pretty rough day. And then we had another day where we moved a huge pile of dirt into flower boxes. And that took several hours. We haven't had any rain all week, so it has been really nice weather. I even got sunburned a little bit one day. That was actually pretty cool.

On Tuesday, we had the opportunity to go out to the temple. That was a pretty awesome experience. It's out in Seattle, which is outside of the mission, so we only get to go up there once a year. We took a bus up, and then we did a session, and listened to the temple president, and then the mission president, and we had lunch in a stake center up there, and it was a pretty great experience. The Seattle Temple was really pretty, but not as great as the Provo or Rexburg temples, tbh. Haha, except for the escalators (sp?). I've never seen those in a temple before.

So I bought a new stick of deoderant on Monday. That was a much bigger ordeal than I think it probably should've been, but I eventually decided on Hawkridge by Old Spice. For one, it had a really great commercial that I saw right before I came out. For two, it said, "For guys with Swift minds," and that reminded me of Taylor Swift, so I decided I could deal with that.

Well, there isn't really anything else interesting going on right now. We have a baptism this coming weekend for Leah, but we don't have too many other investigators progressing right now. There's a lot of good potential in some of the people we're working with, and we have a couple of less-actives that we're trying to reactivate, but it's a lot of slower work right now. Thanks for all of your love and support! I love and miss you all!