July 1, 2013

Dear folks,

Yeah, you guys should probably keep the .22 upstairs and ready to go. It's (a coyote that's been hanging around our property) not going to hang around and wait for you to shoot at it and it's probably thinking of some tasty chickens. That's great that Mittens (our cat) came back, I was worried about her. Are you guys going to let her out more often or try to keep her in?

 

Yeah, don't ever feed the missionaries tacos or spaghetti or lasagna or anything pasta related for that matter. I can't tell you how often we eat those for dinner, it gets really old really fast and I bet it's the same for them. That's nice that they get the 4th off this month, we don't and none of us are looking forward to it. It's supposed to be like 105 degrees out and everyone will probably be drunk and won't want to talk to us. We are just going to go around in our service clothes and do random service all day.

It's been pretty rough this week especially with the heat. Both my companion and I lost about 10 lbs this week. We didn't have anybody signed up for dinners so we didn't get overfeed and we didn't want to go back up the hill to our apartment so we ended up not eating until about 9:30 most days this week. We also walked and biked probably over 130 miles this week as well because nearly all of our appointments fell through and we barely broke 10 lessons this week, which is, sadly enough, more than the average amount for the whole mission but terrible for us. The other elders in our area only taught 4. We also found out that we will not be getting a car next transfer as well so we will be on foot and bike for awhile.

On Sunday we were walking down the street when this family drove passed and called out to us. The ended up turning around and pulled up next to us. They said they were an inactive family that had moved here more than a year ago and had not been to church in over 2 years. They asked us to come to their house and teach them again and they want to get more active in the church. We are hopeful for them, they are a pretty solid family with four kids and they really want to come back.

We also have started teaching C, another referral we got from another set of missionaries. She had been to church a few times with her grandma when she was younger and she wants to know more. We taught the Restoration and the spirit was very strong, she said she had never felt like that before. We are excited for her.

S's mom has been taking her for extended periods of time without warning so we haven't been able to see her for a long time. According to her step mom that we see quite often, she has been reading the Book of Mormon a lot since we challenged her to and has been bringing it with her to her moms house. She's still got a ways to come, but we have high hopes that she can make it.

On a funnier note, we got the worlds sketchiest DVD player for the mission office the other day. There is absolutely no brand on it so we don't know who made it and the instruction manual looks like someone ran it through Google translate. One of the funniest things it said was,
" If the device to hoot, witch of the power so as to avoid the conflagration."

It also kept mentioning that if things went wrong we needed to call the technical service people "to obtain legislative declaration", what ever that is. The only problem with that is that there is absolutely no phone number to call in the booklet or on the box it came in. Our ZL's are going to take the manual to President and read it to him and ask where they got these DVD players. We spent a night reading the whole thing and by then end we were laughing so hard, it was so ridiculous.

That was pretty much my week. I love you guys and miss you.