The rains are coming back to Washington finally. People here are saying that this is one of the longest summers that this area has ever seen, which means that it's been pretty dry lately, but we've started getting some rainy days, so now we aren't going to really see the sun until next summer.
It has been pretty slow in the Crescent Valley ward, because there aren't very many people, and the houses are so far away, so it's hard to find people to teach, and we don't have too many people here that are progressing toward baptism, but the sisters in our district just had a baptism this last weekend, and there were several baptisms in Tacoma, one of which was the mom of someone that I baptized while in the Stadium ward. So that was pretty exciting to see on the blog.
Our mission just started reading the Book of Mormon all together on September 1. We're going to finish it on December 10, so that's a rate of about 5 pages a day, which seems fairly fast. But this last week, the Young Women in our ward did a 2-day readathon where they made it through from beginning to end in that time. They had guest readers, group reading time, personal reading time, and during meals, they listened to audio recordings of it being read. It sorta reminded me of watching the LOTR trilogy back to back, but I guess it's a little different.
This week we have zone conference. That's always pretty exciting, because we get to see a bunch of other missionaries and have awesome trainings. Speaking of which, we had a spontaneous training this last week on working more with the members. There were some pretty cool ideas in there that supposedly make it so you spend less time knocking on doors and more time teaching, but I guess we'll see how well they work in the next couple of weeks.
Well, nothing too exciting happened this last week for us. We've had a lot of construction going on before the rain comes in too hard, and the guy that we were so excited about finding last week sorta dropped us this last weekend, so that was a little disappointing. But we've just been moving right along. In my last ward, there weren't that many priest-aged young men, but here, there are several who are leaving on missions, and getting ready to leave on missions in the next couple of years, so that's really exciting to see in this area. Haha, they're all going to "exciting" places though, so it's funny being from one state over.
Anyway, I love and miss you all! I hope you are doing well, and I love hearing from you when I can. Talk to you later!
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