Letter #29

 

 

This week was pretty good.  The whether has been better than everyone tells us it should be (rainy most of the time, instead of all of the time) at this point in the year, so that's pretty nice.  Also, General Conference is coming up super soon, which is exciting.

So this week, we did a lot of exciting things.  Most of them involve not finding investigators, but some weeks are like that.  But we picked blackberries.  And turned them into some pretty memorable smoothies.  It was not the good kind of memorable though, so we won't be doing that next year.  Also, Elder Wilson ran over a traffic cone that was sitting in the middle of the road, so we had to pull over and pull it out from underneath the car.  That was a much more exciting event than it sounds like in writing.

Anyway, we are 2 weeks away from transfers, and our Mission President made a goal for every companionship to baptize in the month of September (since our new transfer starts on the first of October), but that isn't looking like a super likely prospect for us right now.  We're working with a ton of awesome people, but most of them are people that are already baptized that we are trying to get to come back to church, or they aren't really in a position to get baptized this month.  So that's been a little bit hard to work with, because we've been working hard and everything, but none of our plans or efforts are yielding what our mission president says we can all receive.  So that's been a little bit discouraging lately.  But the less active work in this ward is actually really great.  Better than most wards, anyway.  The second councilor in our bishopric was inactive 3 years ago, so that itself is a testimony to the work being done there.

Oh yeah, and we had an awesome service project on Saturday that we did in our ward.  We helped clear out a graveyard that was super overgrown so that people could see the gravestones again.  It was pretty fun, because we got to tear out a ton of bushes, and we had most of the ward come out to it.

Well, that was about it for this last week.  This next week, we are doing something called Zion's Camp, which I don't know much about, but the older missionaries say it's going to be pretty fun.  So I should have plenty to say about that next week, and there will be plenty of pictures on the blog if I know Sister Weaver.  Anyway, I miss you all, and I'll talk to you later!