Letter #61

So this week was an adventure.  Poulsbo is way different than my last area in pretty much every way.  It's a pretty rich area, and people are not that eager to talk to you, so it's been pretty slow around here, but the ward is super nice, and the weather has been really good for us this last week, so there really isn't too much to complain about over here.  Poulsbo was settled as a little Scandinavian town, and so all the streets have weird names, and there are viking things all over the place, and stuff like that.  Poulsbo is a little port town just like Gig Harbor, and so they kinda have the same feel about them.  Also, I already got signed up for a talk next Sunday, so that's going to be fun too.  It'll actually be my first talk on the mission.

Well, my new companion is pretty cool.  He's been out for 6 months, and he's from Nampa, Idaho, so we're both from Idaho.  We're both relatively socially awkward, so that's alright I guess.  It's super nice being close to other areas again, so I get to see other missionaries once in a while.  And we even have sister missionaries in our district.  So yeah, that's nice too.

We are sharing a car with the other Poulsbo Elders, and this last week was our week with the car.  So we did most of our work on the outskirts of our area which are in the woods outside of Poulsbo.  And everyone out there is Catholic and rich.  But very friendly people.

Oh, here's something good.  I finally solved a rubik's cube all by myself this last week.  Thanks to everyone who said I would never be able to figure it out on my own.  Haha.  I am now open to learning alternate solutions.

My trainer is one of my zone leaders right now.  So that's cool, I guess.  I haven't been in the same zone as him since I was being trained.

One of the cooler things that we have done this week was that we got to help the food bank in the area move locations.  We knocked into the director of the food bank, and when we asked if she needed any help, she said that if we were serious, we could help them move the food bank over the next day, but that they would have plenty of help, so if we couldn't, then we didn't need to worry about it.  We went over the next day, and there were like 15 women in their 60's or 70's trying to move around boxes of cans.  There was this one guy over there, but he had a cane.  So I was really glad we showed up, because they had a lot of food that they were moving around.

We also got to teach an 8-year-old about baptism.  Her whole family is active members, but they wanted to have a lesson from the missionaries about baptism before she got baptized herself.  So that was pretty fun.

Oh, and then there was almost a fist fight that went down in Elder's Quorum.  That was pretty exciting.  And it was basically over the question of whether The Kingdom of God was literally the same thing as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or not.

Anyway, that's pretty much all that happened this week.  I really like this area so far, so I'm pretty excited to be here.  Talk to you guys later!