Letter #85

Well, I tried to write myself a few notes this week so I would have a better letter, so hopefully that worked for me.

This week was super busy, and I don't even know what we did, but I'm exhausted today.  On Friday we had our Halloween quarantine in Bremerton.  We had someone from the Nativity Festival committee come and tell us some stuff that's going on with that so that we can advertise it in our wards and as we go out door to door talking to people.  The fliers they gave us to hand out look super professional.  They legitimately look like something you would pay $10-$15 to get into, and people get super intense about it.  The one I went to last year in Gig Harbor was seriously the best church activity I have ever been to, so we're trying to work people up again this year to invite all of their friends to it.  After that, we had a zone meeting that was pretty much just a review of general conference.  We played a Jeopardy style game that brought out my state champion scholastic skills.  My team won, of course.  And after that, we got to see a movie.  The zone leaders tried to trick us into thinking that the Blatters wanted us to watch The Testaments, but it was actually The Best Two Years.

And then on Saturday, we got to help with a move.  It was supposed to be like 2 hours long and not a big deal, but there was a lot of expensive oak furniture that needed to go up the spiral stairs, and all the other people that showed up were in their 50s or later.  So we ended up spending most of our day taking care of that move.  It was super tiring, and I think I actually hurt my arms pretty badly during it somehow (they're better now), but we were both in bad shape by the time we had that move finished. Anyway, we finished out that day the best we could, and then had a very brief planning at 9:00, and I went to bed.  With the time change, I managed to get 10 1/2 hours of sleep, which was actually super nice.  Probably the best night of sleep I've had in almost 2 years.  But that day, was the first Sunday, so we were both fasting, and the night before, I prayed for a non-member to come to church that we weren't planning on being there, because I felt like we had been working really hard all week, and just didn't have anything come of it.  And then at church the next day after ward council, we walked into the chapel and saw 2 people that we didn't recognize.  After we talked to them, we found out that one of them was a less active who was trying to come back out to church, and her husband was not a member.  They were super friendly and they fit in super well, and we are going to be teaching them coming up, so we were way excited about that.

For Sunday school this last week, we went to the family history class that our ward does during the second hour.  That was pretty interesting.  They had extra computers there, so the teacher had me log into my family tree and try to get something done.  So I pulled mine up, and I had no idea what to do with it.  But then the teacher looked at some stuff on my tree and helped me learn how to tell if records were duplicated, and how to fix those and stuff like that, so that was pretty interesting too.  I'm not really that good with that kind of stuff normally, so it was kinda fun.

An that was pretty much my week.  Hopefully this is a better email than normal :)  Hope you guys are all doing well!  Bye