Well, i'm going to start off with the not so good news. Well this last friday marked good old 10 months of missionary work. I was excited to see a package come from home in the mail. Well, almost excited....until i noticed a sticker on the package that said, "Received unsealed. Received empty." Fortunately, they delivered me the package you sent....without the contents. So hopefully there wasn't anything in there extremely valuable....hopefully it can be sent again :). I looked at my companion and said, "i can't believe someone stole my package." And he replied with a very true statement of, "I can't beleive someone stole my bike." So, count your many blessings.
Now on to the good news......President Darrington has obliterated some of President Farnsworth's Law of Moses-esque rules. We can now listen to a wide variety of uplifting music. No longer can we only listen to pretty much the Tabernacle Choir, but we're back to the white handbook rule. Also, i can play guitar now. Isn't that glorious news? I remember seeing a small guitar at Goodwill awhile back, so later we are going to see if it is still there. The dinner rule is still the same, although i guess it is "under revision" at the time.
I think the most memorable event this week was while we were riding around on bikes. We came across a lady who was having a yard sale. I figured we'd act interested and knock her out with the Gospel. Well, i REALLY had to act interested. The items were all.....decorating type ornaments and clay..figurine objects? See, i really didn't know what they were. Then, i saw what i needed.....a 25 cent plastic bat. So i bought it from her and talked to her. She wasn't interested, and now i had this plastic bat that i had to figure out how to transport home on a bike. Well, i had my backpack.....so i stuck half of it in and the other half hung out from the top. So it looked like i was prepared to break somebody's kneecaps. We talked to a few people, and i think they weren't interested because they thought i was going to harm them. I sure felt safe though. Now, the bat sits in our apartment as a reminder of the worthless purchase that it was.
We had President interviews this week, the first one with President Darrington. He informed me i'll probably be staying in this area for 2 or 3 more transfers. If that is true, then i'm looking to be in Sanford till towards the end of the year....We'll see if that actually happens or not.
Yesterday in church my companion and i spoke in sacrament meeting. He prepared a pretty good joke. I was jealous. He got up and said, "Well, i really hope i don't get nervous.....when i get nervous, my eyes sweat....and i can't read my mom's handwriting." We talked on how the ward can (needs) to do better missionary work. I think i told you our Bishop really liked what he have been presenting, so i think he had a stake counselor come and listen. I'll need to send you the outline of the talk one of these days.
Well, at the end of the week, we have 4 people commited to baptism in August. One on the 11'th and 3 on the 18'th. That reminded me of back in November when we had 5 commited for one day and none happened. :) So we'll be working hard to make sure we can get as many of these as we can.
This Wednesday we are going to the temple. There is a family in the ward that is going to betting sealed in the temple, and we are over there once or twice a week it seems like for dinner, and they invited us, so i got permission to go. This will be my first time on my mission.
Sounds like everything is going well back home. Mom is planning to make the food storage much better in the home, and dad is racing people down ygnacio valley in the escalade. What more could a son ask for? :)
Not much else has happened this week. The work continues on. It was tougher this week to find new people to teach. People just weren't all that interested this week, but we still worked hard. The main focus now is on those 4 people with dates for baptism. One of them is the man whose wife doesn't want to do it. He commited himself this time, so we'll see how that goes. Hopefulyl the 3'rd time is the charm.
we're thinking of buying lawn chairs to keep in the trunk so we can sit down with people outside and teach them. Which reminds me of the days spent with James, lounging in his front yard at the roundabout on Walnut ave., eating Panda Express.
Well we didn't make watermelon bike helmets this week or anything like that. Sorry i don't have any pictures to send. I'll get you some for next week. Love ya'll (there is my southern touch). Adios. I talked to some Spanish people a little bit in Spanish this week....im workin' on it.
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