Letter #66

Well, this week was the first one since transfers, and so it's been pretty wild.  There were some big changes in the district, so it's been weird getting used to so many new people again.  And my new companion looks like a 30-year-old version of Elder Rasband, but he's actually only 25.

It got rainy again this week, which I was kinda hoping we'd be done with for another month or two, but no such luck.  It started raining a bunch on Thursday, and then it's been fairly rainy since then.  We talked to someone on a porch the other day, and after talking to him for a while, he asked for a pamphlet, and my companion didn't have any with him, but I like to keep one of each in my bag for just such an occasion.  So I went to pull out a Gospel of Jesus Christ pamphlet (he talked about getting a Restoration pamphlet about a year prior), and I noticed that I only had The Law of Chastity and The Word of Wisdom left.  And neither of them seemed all that fitting for a first encounter, but he was smoking a fat cigar, and I didn't think he would be having too many chastity issues, so I just handed him the WoW one.  And I thought it was a pretty awkward/funny moment.

This is President Weaver's last full week in the mission.  So yeah, that's pretty weird.  We're having "mini zone conferences" aka goodbye parties this next week before they leave so they can say goodbye to all of us.  The Blatters will come in a week from Thursday, and they will officially be the new royal couple as soon as they get off the plane.  So that will be interesting to see how things change with that.

Someone asked me if I would dedicate their home tonight, and I have no idea how I'm supposed to do that, because the white handbook is pretty vague about it, so I guess I'll have to ask around on that one.

Um, yep.  I don't think I have that many great stories from this week.  We did a lot of tracting and got really wet and walked a lot and talked to a few people, and prayed with a wicken and climbed a bunch of stupid hills.  And that's about it.