I am so sorry, I had made this all ready to send just a few minutes before, I only had to put in the pictures. Right then my companion had to call my mission president, so I wasn't able to send it out on time.
This will just be another long one.
Well it looks like we are plummeting back into phase one here in Washington.
We don't know all of the details of what we are going to do, but I think it's safe to say that we will be going back into staying inside and only having online lessons. (sarcastic* yaaaaay!)
One picture of me on front of the temple.
But it's not terrible, it will end two days before I go home, so I may be lucky enough to spend some time with some of my good friends who are also leaving the same time as me.
Another picture of me in front of the temple. (there will be more)
Well, so for what we have in the works here in Horizon Hills ward is pretty limited. We have lots of people on our list of potentials - more than 10 times what we had in our last area. The problem that comes up is that we wither can't get in contact with them, or they won't commit to having us visit and share a short message.
We have a few people on the list of persons to teach, but there are only a few worth mentioning.
One is a young boy who has been taught by the missionaries for almost 3 years. His family has lost interest but he is still chugging along. He really knows his stuff. He only doesn't commit to be baptized because he wants to know what other religions are out there and he wants to explore them. Luckily we managed to get to to church yesterday. Afterwards there was going to be an activity for the youth, we asked him if he would like to go, but he declined. Unknown to us though, there was a girl in the ward who later texted him and got him to go the youth standards night. Props to the girl who asked him.
I was showing the world what I was grateful for.
For some reason all the leaves in the world decided to fall in one night.
So we had several people texting us asking us to help them rake their leaves and such. Some of the sisters in our zone even needed some assistance with some huge jobs that some of the people they taught had.
One lady we teach likes for us to gather all the leaves in bags so she can give them to a friend of hers who raises rabbits. Apparently, according to her, rabbits eat the fallen leaves. I never knew that before.
Besides that nothing else is new. We try to get in contact with the people we teach but have no luck other than the few I have mentioned.
Next week.
Happy Thanksgiving ya'll!
Alright lots of raking leaves that are wet and rotting, not surprised. People wait till the last second to start raking their leaves, the problem with that is all the leaves get wet from the rain which makes them heavy and slimy. I am not a fan.
Just a fraction of the leaves that we have raked.
We have had lots of good member visits.
Unfortunately lots of people continue to cancel on us, but we at least can tell which ones cancel, because they don't want to see us or because they actually were busy.
We had a Facebook referral, finally.
It's a lady who doesn't have the time to take down her pool, so she wants out help. Interesting service and I can't say that I have ever done anything like that before.
Unfortunately we lost a companion, he had something come up at home that he had to attend to, so now I am no longer in a trio.
My good friend Elder Catmull.
Another unfortunate thing that happened, we can't have Thanksgiving dinner with the members like we had planed, so now as I type this I am cooking a turkey. It's my first turkey so I don't know how well it will turn out, but I'm sure that it will be good. Members are still bringing us food though. The turkey cooking is one of two turkeys we were given along with a bunch of other things.
We get to have dinner with our district at least...... And it was a blast.
The sisters made breakfast, looks like we were the only ones who brought Thanksgiving themed food but hey, we feasted.
When we got home after some members from our ward gave us even more food. We don't even have enough room in our once was practically empty fridge.
We have a lot to be grateful for, especially that video that President Nelson made a few days ago. If you haven't watched it yet you'd better do it quick it is a touching video that can help anyone through a rough spot in life.
My time is about up, thank you for all your Thanksgiving wishes. I will see you all soon, just about 20 days away. Be ready for me
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For those of you who didn't know already,
This is what my mission president looks like. (yes he is in 2D).
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