Letter #47

We just finished week 6 of the transfer, but it's a 7 week transfer this time, so we will find out where we are going for transfers at the end of this week.  So that's pretty exciting.

This week I got to go on an exchange to the Raymond ward.  And that place is exactly like what I expected all of the Elma zone to be like.  Lots of trees and not a lot of houses.  It's a huge area, and it's full of people who are weird and lonely.  So we talked to some of them.  It's a pretty fun place to be for a day, but I think I would hate to be there for too long.  Like, more than a week.  Haha.  They have a super cool investigator there who fed us, and is about to get baptized.  She was brought to the church by a friend who was just baptized in the ward, so that's pretty much ideal.  We watched Finding Faith in Christ with her, so that was pretty fun.

Nothing too exciting happening in Aberdeen.  We should be baptizing a couple of UBCs sometime in the next few weeks, so that's exciting.  They're super cool, and we've been teaching them for a while.  One of them is super involved in the church already, and one is a little bit less so, because he's pretty shy.  But they're both awesome.  So yeah.

And then for a little bit of a scare, last night the mother of the kids we baptized the other week had us come to the hospital because her baby had a fever of 105.7 degrees.  So we were able to go to the emergency room and give the baby a blessing.

Okay, and my time is about up, so this is going to be the end of my letter.  Love you all <3

Letter #46

 

Okay, so this week was really great.  We were able to have a couple of baptisms in the ward this week, which was super awesome.  Their mom is a returned missionary, and recently decided that she wanted to start coming back to church, and the dad doesn't really want to yet, but he showed up to the baptism, so that was really awesome.  Elder Toomey baptized them both, and I did the confirmations.  One of the kids was 8 and the other was 9, but the bishop said we could do both of the confirmations fontside so we weren't awkwardly doing one of them during the baptism and the other in front of the ward the next day.  So it was nice that the dad got to see them both done too.  It was really good.

And then on Sunday, our dinner was with the RS president, who google stalked me to find my home phone number so she could ask mom what to make me for a birthday dinner.  She was like the only member who found out that it was my birthday last week (because she picks up our mail), and so she decided to take it upon herself to make it a good birthday.  So like, I guess the dinner of choice was enchiladas, which I don't think I would've come up with on my own, but I can't really think of anything better either, so that was a good choice.  My video journal covers it in more detail, but it's the first one on my card that I just barely got back, so you guys probs won't see it for a while.

And then yesterday for P day, we went to the beach!  That was like the best thing I've done since being in Aberdeen.  It was pretty cold and windy and stuff, and not much exciting happened there, but it was awesome to hang out there.  We found 4 whole sand dollars, and a couple of decent shells.  And that's like super rare.

Anyway, those were the highlights of this week, and my internet time is about to run out.  I love you guys!  Talk to you later.

Letter #45

Okay, so this week was pretty great.  Landmark moment of the week:  I drove in the snow for the first time.  Also, I slid on snow for the first time.  It was just barely, but it was a definite slide, so that's going in my journal or whatever.  Also, I was going like 10 under the speed limit and there weren't any cars around me, so don't worry mom.

Well, there wasn't really too much exciting stuff that happened this week.  We had New Year's this last week, which was pretty wild.  We were supposed to be inside for most of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and so we spent a bunch of time with members on NYE.  And then on NYD, we got a text from President Weaver to "make this a work day," but we were already booked with members again, so we kinda partied again that day.  And shared scriptures with them or whatever.

Sunday was exciting, because someone brought the track coach from one of the high schools here to church.  And he got pretty bombarded while he was there, but I don't think he got scared off for some reason.  I'm not really sure why not, but whatever.  Also, the Dennises came.  We've been trying to get them to church for forever.  And the mom put the kids on date for the 18th, so that's way cool.  We're going to have 2 of them baptized on that day, and the mom says that they're going to be at church ever week from now on.  So that's super exciting.

Well, we have interviews with President Weaver this week, so that's pretty exciting.  And our church actually didn't move times, since we are the only ones who meet in this building.  Ha, the other missionaries in this area ran into a less active who said that they wouldn't go to our ward because we meet at 9:30 instead of on an hour.  They said that that was "man-made" and if the time was really inspired, it would be at either 9:00 or 10:00.  What a weirdie.  Anyway, keeping the time.  And yeah, I'm almost out of emailing time, so I love you all!  Hope everything is going awesome.