So, first things first... Transfer
calls came, and I will be staying in Stadium! I'm pretty excited about that.
This will be my fourth transfer here, so that's just a little bit crazy. I love
it here though, so I'm not complaining or anything. Elder Burt got made a Zone
Leader in the Tacoma West Zone, so he won't be too far away, but I will be
getting a new companion tomorrow. His name is Elder Willeyums. I haven't
talked to anyone that knows anything about him yet, but he did text me Saturday
night, so I know that he is coming from Yelm, and that's about it.
Last Monday, we went crabbing with Brother Peterson. And we did everything
from catching them to eating them, so that was a really cool experience. We
took his boat out to the middle of the sound, and dropped these crab pots into
the water (they look like little cages), and they're attached to a rope and a
buoy at the top. We dropped them in there first thing in the morning, and let
them sit all day. The crab pots have these doors that open up one way, but not
the other, and there's bait in the middle, so when they get in there, they can't
get back out. Well, we went back out there that night in his boat, and we
pulled up the cages full of crab. You're only allowed to keep the males, and
they have to be at least a certain size, so he showed us how to pick them out,
and how to grab them without losing any fingers. We got 5 good ones that we
could keep between the 2 pots. We stuck them in a cooler full of water, and
then brought them back to the dock. When we got there, we cooked the crabs
(just throw them in boiling water for about 5 minutes), and then he showed us
how to open the crabs out and what to clean out and what to keep, and then he
sent us home with the crab, and we ate it for dinner. Elder Burt had to show me
how to eat crab legs, because that was the first time I had had it, but that was
really cool, because we did everything short of building the pots ourselves to get
that meal.
The fourth of July was pretty fun. We were told to tract for 2 hours that
day, but it's mostly a family day for people, so we were told to mostly hang out
with members that day, and that we had to be back home on time, like usual. So
we spent a bunch of time at the Peterson's new apartment up on Ruston Way, which
I'm pretty positive has the best view in the entire city. You can see Rainier
and you have an awesome view of the Puget Sound, and their patio is 700 sq. ft.,
so we had a little party there with a bunch of their family and some ward
members. After that, all the missionaries in Tacoma got invited to the mission
home for a barbeque, so we got to hang out with President Weaver and his wife,
and a bunch of other missionaries from the two tacoma zones.
Sunday was a pretty cool day too. We
were invited up to primary for the third hour, and that was a blast. I think we
were in the CTR 6 class? They were having a lesson about how they could be
missionaries now, and they colored pictures of missionaries, and we let them
wear our name tags around for the class time, and they asked us cute little
questions, and at one point, one little girl asked me, "What do you do when you
are taking a break from working in the fields?" Haha, so that was pretty
awesome. And after that class, there was about 15 minutes left, and so we just
stuck around for closing exercises, and so Elder Burt and I got visitor
stickers, and Elder Burt has an August birthday, so they had him come up for
birthdays, and gave him this cardboard cupcake picture thing to wear around his
face (haha, I don't know how else to describe it...) during a birthday song, and
then they had mail time, which was super exciting. They had me come up and get
the mail, which was pretty cool. You just open up the mailbox, and it had
pieces of paper with the assignments for next week's opening exercises, so I got
to hand out the mail to them. And then after church, the Young Men's President
came up to us and was like, "Hey, did you guys teach the teachers last week?"
and I was like, "yeah," because we did. Well his stepson is a teacher, and he's
just your typical too cool for school teenager. Whatever. Well, last week, we
asked them all if they were planning on serving a mission, and we got 3 no's and
a yes, and so we just kinda took questions and told them about what a missionary
does. And so this one kid (Bailey) comes home, and says, "We should have the
missionaries over for dinner sometime." And that just blew their minds, because
that is totally not him. So the young men's president said, "Whatever you guys
did in there, it really made an impression on my boy at least, so thank you."
So that was a super cool experience. And we're going over there for dinner
next Monday. Also on Sunday, we talked with Derek's friend Selinda about taking
the missionary lessons. She has been around for a while, and has "had bad
experiences with organized religion." Derek tells us that she came from a not
very good home, and that's really where most of that comes from, but he finally
got her to come out to church, and she has been reading through all of the
church's manuals, and finally actually started reading the Book of Mormon, and
she said that when she is ready to be baptized, she will come to us. And then
Sunday is full of disappointment too, because of the people who don't make it to
church. We were really hoping that Eddie and Tiffany would make it out, but
they slept in. And then Brother Torrella came and woke them up, and then they
got ready and then almost came to the last 2 hours of church, but then they
decided that they didn't want to crash late. But they fed us Saturday night,
and Sunday night, and we already had dinners those days, so basically, I'm just
getting fat. In other news, the mom of the one guy who came to the baptism last
week sorta dropped us... so that was pretty disappointing.
Anyway, that's about all the news from this week. I miss you all! Love
you.
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