Letter #90

Well, we had a pretty good week this week.  It was pretty busy with zone meeting, interviews, and an exchange all back to back, but things are going pretty well in Tumwater in general.  Things are also pretty crazy for everyone over here, because the holidays are coming up so fast, but it's fun too.  We get to go caroling with the zone instead of tracting for an hour tonight, and our mission Christmas party is next week.  We also have a baptism scheduled for the day after Christmas, so that's going to be super exciting too.

We had zone meeting on Wednesday this week, which was pretty fun.  We have them about once a month, so it's pretty fun to get to see the whole zone together, because it doesn't happen super often.  Elder Farr and I had the opportunity to give a blessing to one of the sisters in our zone, because she had been really sick for the last few days.  She had already gone home for medical reasons and then came back out into the mission, so everyone was pretty concerned about her, and she ended up having to go home later last week because she was doing so poorly, but it was really cool to have the chance to give a blessing to her, and to bring an assurance that everything would be alright.

We had interviews on Friday, which were also pretty great.  I asked to train a new missionary next transfer, and was pretty much told no.  Turns out we are only getting 2 new English elders this transfer, and one of them is going to one of the APs who goes home after next transfer, so I guess I probably won't get that this time.  Oh well.  Besides that, everything went fine with interviews.  President Blatter mostly asked me about my post-mission plans, which seemed a little weird considering I'm not really all that close to going home.  But it was good.

Our exchange happened Thursday to Friday, and was pretty standard.  I stayed in my own area, so I didn't really get to meet anyone new or explore new territory, but it was fun to get to go out with a new companion.  I was with Elder Geier, who is only about 2 months out.  I haven't been out with someone that green in a while.  He did a really good job about talking with people though, so I thought he did great.  We had a really crazy wind storm that day to the point that President Blatter texted everyone to go inside if they felt not that safe where they were at.  We had a bunch of small branches on the ground, but nothing too worrisome, so luckily we didn't have to go in.

And then we had a bunch of Christmas stuff last weekend.  We volunteered to help with the tree lighting festival at city hall, which mostly involved us helping kids decorate sugar cookies and make ornaments.  And the night before that, we had our ward Christmas party, where we got to have a dinner with the ward.  We had a really good turnout of investigators and less active members, so it was a really great event.  Our ward didn't think we would have as many people as usual, since we recently had a split in our ward, but, we filled the whole gym.

I miss you guys!  Have a great week :)

Love,

Elder Prue