Little did he know, back in 2007, that he was posing for a "Super" photo for his mission blog in 2013!
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Las Preguntas:
Do you remember how you knew/heard of
the Neilsons?
I think the Walburgers also knew them
Did you wear green on Sunday?
yes, I wore my green tie. I was
somewhat shocked that I saw only a few others doing the same, one person did where
an entire green suit though. how green was arcadia ward on sunday? I believe we
know at least 1 person has a green suit there
If not, did you get pinched?
no pinching
Did you get pictures sent?? We always
love those!!
no, but I really should have time to
send it off today. It made me realize I haven't taken very many pictures since
I've been here, I'll have to take more. I don't now if you'll even really get
to see Elder Holt in this batch.
How does your companion, Zachary, spell
his name?
unlike me, he spells it the way his
birth certificate does. with an A (Zachary)
Speak about your boots.
I like them. I've worn them probably
15-20 or so times. I don't if I will again until next winter though
What are you doing for fun today?
the P-Day things we are doing today are
currently planned as follows: email family. Do 1 quick load of laundry (since
it was a short week). Write letter to family about pictures and send it. Go to
the stake center and play basketball with some missionaries in the zone (one of
our ZL's really likes basketball). Go Shopping for the things we need. That
reminds me, can you send me more socks, specifically black ones? many of mine
started shrinking, every time I wash them (a lot. I should take a picture. some
basically look like baby socks. some I just pull on anyway and as result now
have holes from being stretched too much). Probably I should pull them out of
the dryer sooner, but too late.
Do you go to a Laundromat? Oh, yes, you
do. Do you do that on your P-day?
Oh, yes, we do. we go in the morning
and do our studies there while everything washes (and dries. and shrinks).
What did you eat for breakfast?
I told you! I always eat candy for
Brexfix!
When we were sick we called the nurse
to tell us how to cure ourselves. She said eating yogurt would help so we
bought some. I don't know if that really helped us get better (we are better
now) but it was pretty scrumptious. Remember when I made that gross food
concoction? with greek yogurt and oatmeal and stuff? For the past few days I've
been eating something like that, but with regular good yogurt. It's yogurt and
granola in a bowl, like cereal, and almonds mixed in too. Also today I put in
some oatmeal (raw) and liked it with that. If I had an apple I would have
sliced that up to. It's too expensive to have that all the time though.
Before I got sick I had been eating
Oops All Berrys Cap'n Crunch, which tastes great, but I never really feel good
afterwards.
Anyone take you out to eat at a
restaurant? (Like Steven got on his mission?)
There was someone in my first area who
feed us about once a month at a restaurant. Every time he loved to tell this
joke about how we could order whatever he wanted because he was paying with a
stolen credit card. He also would just about always tell us about how funny it
was to tell that to past missionaries and see their reaction.
I think just once here someone took us
to Panera Bread, but other than that it's always been at a members house. It's
better that way too. There's probably only been 2, maybe 3 days we weren't feed
a dinner or lunch. Also there's a recently reactivated lady who makes us a
dinner to take home every Saturday, that we usually end up eating for lunch all
week. I do think it would be cool to go to Chili's and get a personal Molten
Lava cake though.
Just yesterday we had the best dinner
appointment of my mission. It was at the Reid's. The food was good (roast beef,
potatoes with gravy and rolls! plus green beans too) just like home. toward the
end of the dinner we were talking about how they now like to go to church when
on vacation and one time they went to Jimmer's ward (in NY)! they didn't even
realize it till someone mentioned seeing him there in their testimony. They
looked around saw him and made sure to talk to him/get him to sign their
program. They said he was a nice guy. But the thing that really made it the
greatest was the conversation before that. soon after we go in Sister Reid says
"guess what happened" and tells us about how her friend at work came
and told her she wants to become a mormon! That's the kind of stuff we joke
about happening! The stake is putting on a presentation put together by Elder
Perry: "the mormon's next door" this sunday and the plan is for us to
meet her there. as we were talking about it during dinner and encouraging her
to invite other people too it as well she says something like "oh yea, I
could invite my other friend who always says she thinks it would be great to be
a mormon". holy cow! We're going back there this wednesday to follow up
and see if she invited the people she was supposed to and how it went.
Anyway, there was great missionary
work, good food and Jimmer stories. Kind of ridiculous.
the
email had me laughing in many places. I bet Christopher is enjoying all his
little chonchitos. What is the ultimate plan there? when can he sell them? does
he feel somewhat weird about it?
Good
update on football, mostly sad news though. I guess I hope Jackson
does well in Atlanta , but I wish he would have
stayed (or at least gone to New England ). Also
it looks weird to see they gave away their great running back and only receiver
that frequently plays better than "very bad". literally no weapons
left if the young guys don't pan out (plus that TE I guess). Also Jake Long
could literally be the #1 player in the entire NFL the Rams would want to add
on their team. Luckily I'm too busy talking to people who's friends "want
to become mormon", and listening to members of the quorum of the 12 apostles
to really worry about it. (which segues into...)
I
forgot to mention last week that Elder Ballard was coming to our mission! he
came and spoke to us Saturday. I didn't get to see him in person, but watched
at a stake center (he was in Boston
Also
on a side note, he was very funny. made a lot of jokes on the spot. If you were
to combine Bishop Daines (who I think he looks like) and Brother Mack and make
that person an apostle I think it would be Elder Ballard.
So
basically it's been a really good week. The one we have planned coming up is
already 95% booked until Friday, so hopefully we'll just keep carrying this
momentum with us.
The
picture of Quinn would have to make mom's top 3 for best timing on action
shots. Nice work using the fancy phone. I hope griffin feels better.
Love
you all!
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