Did you transfer??? Do you have a new
address?? New companion?
Nope, nope and definitely not. I would
have been very surprised to anything different happened. Elder Stevens is still pretty green and learning the area, and I
don't think he'd be shipped off after just 6 weeks. I never really expect
someone to get transferred though.
Now, have you heard about this
Worldwide Training on Sunday June 23rd? It is titled “The Work of
Salvation”.'
still have not, still hoping to see it
though. We go to ward council every 3rd sunday, which is the 16th, so maybe
I'll hear about it then, if not before.
found this on lds.org
"Ward
and stake council members, their spouses, full-time missionaries, and other
interested Church members are invited to participate in a special session of
the Seminar for New Mission Presidents entitled “The Work of Salvation,” which
will be broadcast from the Marriott Center in Provo ,
Utah
Where necessary, local leaders should
adjust scheduled worship services so that members are able to participate in
the live broadcast of this historic event.
sounds exciting. I don't see it listed
on the broadcast schedule though. You think you'll watch? I expect mostly to
hear more of the same. There's lots of missionaries coming out; you got to use
them. Give specific assignments. tell them who needs to be tracked down. Have
them work with the youth, etc.
What happened to the Packard daughter?
(in hospital)
Angela has been having health problems
for as long as I've known of her. She was diagnosed just a few weeks before
they came out here, I don't know what she was like before that. She looks much
younger than she is. I don't remember what it's called that she has, it's very
rare. It gives her stroke like systems. It's usually kind of hard for her to
talk. I guess that day they went to the hospital she started having trouble
breathing. There is no cure, but the latest treatment they started trying
helped a lot. It has to do something with taking some blood out
"cleaning" it and putting it back it. They don't know if there going
to end up doing that monthly, or bi-weekly, or what for a long time or what.
She is super nice. Good at missionary work (The Packard kids often give talks
at our big missionary meetings. Such mission president kids. I think the latest
story from Angela was how she invited a teacher to church). Often when I see
her she'll talk about how she remembers coming to the airport to pick me up at
past midnight.
Has it been so hot that you have sweat
tremendously while out?
one or two days I did some sweating.
The tie and collar don't help, but it's going to be getting a lot hotter in the
coming weeks and months. This weekend is supposed to be nice though.
Can you explain why your p-day has to
change during the week of transfers?
Because transfers are on Thursday, and
that way you can pack on p-day if you're getting moved.
good stories! Quinn should have told Arianna
that he'd buy get a tux for prom if she read to book. did it appear in her
backpack by the work of Taylor Jensen or something?
I've told the story of the feral parrots in Arcadia
Sounds like the youth now are doing
better at making cakes than back in my day. I was proud of the Y cake I made
one time, even though it didn't taste good.
We were going to try and organize
playing dodgeball with the zone today, but it crumbled last minute. We might go
to a museum or something with our district mates though (our district is only 4
people).
I have a few little stories for the
week (you asking about sweating reminded me of this). on Monday it was a hot
day. We had a lesson set up with an investigator family, we got a member of the
RS presidency to come with us and everything. For the past 3 weeks or so, every
time we've called to confirm the appointment they've asked us to push it back a
week, I do think they do want to meet though. This time we decided not to call
and confirm and maybe that would have better luck. It didn't. They weren't
home. Walking back to the car we saw some people moving into an apartment, we
asked if they needed help. They said yes!! Even though I got hot and sweaty it
was pretty good. We got to talk some gospel while doing good service. one
person seemed really seemed interested; was talking about how they had an lds
friend growing up and was asking us a lot of questions. Asked about what we
believe instead of just what are we not allowed to do (people always find that
fascinating) but in the end didn't want to learn more. I'm slightly afraid she
felt our explanation of being a restored church translated too much that her
church was wrong or fake. It was a good conversation though and we'll probably
never get to see the end of the story. Also she was from another town (outside
the area) and was just helping her (less interested) friend move in.
funny weird story: this was while
helping someone else move; a less active member. We got picked up by someone in
the ward who partially organized it. Very hard worker, comes with us on splits
a lot. could be defined as "bold to overbearing" at times though. We
showed up at the person's apartment, but no one was there and didn't answer the
phone. we were about 85% sure it was her place. he twists the door knob; it's
unlocked. he opens up and marches on in. We found this odd, but I followed him
in (no one else in our little party did). There were a few things in boxes and
he said we should grab them and start loading up his car. Elder stevens said
"what if this isn't her house?" right about them a man in his
underwear (trying to hastily put on jeans) yelling (this is the clearplay
version) "what are you doing!!" brother Scharrer (bold guy) says
something like "good morning!" I did not find that a sufficient
response for the situation and quickly said we were hear to help Candy move,
this is her place right? Mr. Underwear stopped swearing and told us this was
her place, but where she needs help is her new house not here, and the stuff we
were going to grab was his, not hers. we quickly said thanks and scampered out.
Lesson learned: Don't walk into
strangers houses!
the last fun thing was a different
investigator had to reschedule a lesson from yesterday to today because their
daughter had a lacrosse game and asked if we would come watch the game. We said
we could swing by for a few minutes and we did. It was great to talk to them
while there and very fun for me to see the lacrosse. I learned how to then
passed back and forth with another of the kids for a few minutes too. I think I
would have loved growing up playing.
That’s mostly everything. This Saturday
an 8 year old (from a very active family) is getting baptized a lot of non
members will be there (and us). We may have a few investigators there as well
which would be very awesome.
I love you very much! Thanks for
thinking of me! I'll be emailing again this Monday!
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