I'll get right into it.
Monday- After emailing we went to run errands and then play sports. I messed up my knee a couple weeks ago and it's been a bit of a bummer not being able to walk a lot, but I've been working through it! That being said, I wasn't allowed to play sports on Monday :( It took all of my willpower to not just run out and play anyway. But I persevered and wrote letters instead. That night we had sushi at the Blackburns! My companions don't like fish much so that was kind of fun to watch them eat it. It was decent sushi. I'm not big on fish either, but the dipping sauce made it way good. They are an awesome family. Brother Blackburn designs apps and video games (it's soooooooooo cool).
Tuesday- We went to the doctor about my knee! I thought it'd get better but my companions were like, "NO!" and they called my mission president's wife. Sooooooooooooooo we went to the doctor. Dr. Zukas, to be exact! Who is one of the most awesome members of our ward. I just sprained my knee so I should be a-okay. :) His son was with him and asked if he could come into our appointment because he wanted to see what it was like to see his dad as a doctor, so I told him sure. :) He got bored within a couple minutes and left. It was funny.
After the doctor, we visited with Sister Smart. She's HILARIOUS. She's not technically in our ward but she's one of those floater-people who just needs some love and we're allowed to visit with her. She's so funny. That night we had a lesson with the Feasels and then we came home and planned. It was a good day. :)
Wednesday- MY MOM'S BIRTHDAY. (Shoutout. Aw yeah.) We had lunch with the Thackers! They're awesome. Brother Thacker is the "grumpy old hick" that I mentioned in a previous email. We read the B.o.M. with him and asked him a LOT of questions about his church, the church of Christ. Learned a lot. Apparently they have a LOT of similarities to our church. Kinda cool. Kinda weird. Afterwards we went to check on a less active, but apparently he'd moved! BUT!! The people there were receptive and let us in! THEY'RE SO SOLID. One of them was recruited to play football for BYU (but he isn't a member) and the other lived in Arizona and had a bunch of LDS friends. Alsoooooooooooooo they have two kids! YEAH. They're a great family and they're SO prepared for the gospel. :D After meeting them (miracle) we had dinner with the Walser's, then we checked on Sister Weedn. Turns out she's Sister Blackburn's mom. Who knew? She's really nice and she told me all kinds of things about what to do to care for my knee, and she gave me some things to take care if it. Bless her heart, she's really the sweetest. And my knee is doing great now!
Thursday- MISSION TOUR. Elder Cardon of the 70 was in the area for Stake conference, so we got to hear him speak to us as a mission! It was so cool. He gave us great counsel on how to help pump people up to further the work! He's a great guy. After that we had a lesson with the golden family that we met. Yep. They're just as golden as we thought they were. Their questions are.. incredible. I'm dying. They are awesome. After meeting with them we had dinner with the Tuckers! They feed us so much and I LOVE them. Their daughter is so funny and she always says the funniest things. After that we went home. I did language study! ANNNNNNNNNNND I GOT A LETTER FROM MATT. So happy. :)
Friday- Freezing rain! We were told to not leave except for specified appointments, so we didn't leave until about 4. We had a meeting with a less active. Her little daughter thought I was a human jungle gym so I sat there and distracted her while my companions got to know Crystle better. After that we had dinner with the Jensen family. They're hilarious! Sister Jensen is from Sweden and Brother Jensen's dad was a mission president in Germany. Crazy. After dinner we had a lesson with the golden family, but they cancelled because of the weather.. but we had a member with us (Sister Reynolds. She's the bomb.) so we decided to try a less active that lived in the same complex. ONCE AGAIN, the less active had moved, and the people that opened the door were receptive! SO we taught them the first lesson and set baptismal dates and they are SOLID. AH. I'm so happy! They're really nice and they just want to know the truth. I love missionary work!
Saturday- Still only allowed to leave for appointments! We had correlation by phone because of the weather.. which was way more productive anyway, we should always conference-call our correlation. Anyway. We picked up some firewood and brought it to the Jingozians, met with them, and then we had a lesson planned with the new people we found but it fell through because of the weather (dagnabit) BUT we had Sister Reynolds with us so we went and helped her do her visiting teaching. It was fun! After that we went to the adult session of Stake Conference.. which was basically a repeat of our mission tour. But it was good. I loved it. :) Elder Cardon really is an inspired man of God. There's a reason he's a Seventy.
Sunday- Our cars were straightup on lockdown. So we weren't allowed to drive at all. We got a ride (a very slow ride.. a 15 mph ride) to church with some members (so nice of them), and conference was great! We had a reorganizing of our stake presidency so it was mainly testimonies, but there are some real powerhouses here. After conference our dinner appointment turned into a lunch appointment due to the weather, so we had dinner with the Tuckers! (Not the normal Tuckers, their parents) and it was basically just a big block party! It was so fun. After dinner we came back home and weren't allowed to leave for the rest of the day. :( It was sad. BUT. We did a lot of studying (studies for dayzzzzzzzzz) and we organized EVERYTHING. Again. So yeah. Moral of the story- I really don't like being locked up as a missionary. It's hard.
Email dated November 25, 2013
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