Hey everyone!
So this was a very interesting week!
Monday after we emailed we went to the mall so Elder Bassett and Elder
Cook could get some things they needed. While we were there, we met
Santa! He is a member in a ward down south and was in one of Elder
Cook's old wards. We went into JC Penny and they had their clearance
tie section so I was looking through that and I found a $30 tie that
was marked down to four bucks! I was doubtful, however, and asked the
lady at the check-out if she could check the price on the tie. As it
turns out, the tie was actually $2.49! SWEET! After the mall we went
to the stake center to play sports with the other elders in the zone.
We started off playing basketball and then we played some dodgeball!
Man, I have not thrown that much in a long time! We came back to
Junction City for dinner with the Fr*** and we ended up teaching a
short lesson out of Preach My Gospel! They were super pumped up to do
missionary work after the stake conference we had this weekend and
wanted to learn more about how to introduce the gospel to those they
meet!
Tuesday was Veterans Day. I want to take a quick second to thank all
those who have served our country! I am so proud to have the
grandparents that I have who were both in the military and I thank
them especially for their service. It was super cold all day and
sunny, which made for an absolutely beautiful day! Unfortunately we
did not have much go for us early in the day but we had the
opportunity to help a less active member named Cami start her move to
St. George, Utah. Her father came up from St. George to help her with
the move and we connected pretty well. I ended up bragging to him
about my awesome siblings as I helped him organize the truck! I also
ended up taking a bed apart by myself! One hand holding the headboard
and the other hand unscrewing screws out of the bed posts! It was a
great workout to say the least haha! After dinner with the Hi*** we
went and saw Dotti to see how she was doing. Knowing that she has had
a rough couple of weeks, we shared with her a quote by Elder Jeffrey
R. Holland about enduring to the end and she really enjoyed it!
Wednesday we got into service clothes to go over to Cami's at 10 to
help her continue her move. We got there at 10 and they were basically
already done so we went to the church and did Facebook for a little
bit before lunch. We had a lesson with Charlotte scheduled for early
in the afternoon but something came up and she couldn't meet with us.
We decided to go share a Mormon message with Bob and Margret before we
got ready to go to Camp Alpine for the rest of the day. Elder Tucker
came and picked us up around 2:30 and took us up there. Upon arrival
at Camp Alpine, Elder Cook and I decided we were going to go around
with Elder Tolman and get some wood that they had cut up around the
property. The first load was pretty easy; pretty level ground and the
wood was relatively light. The second load, however, was tough! The
load was next to the lake down a small hillside. With me being the
biggest and having the shoes with better grip, I decided to go down
and haul/throw the wood up. It was probably the toughest workout I
have had on my mission haha! I was battling the mud and the incline as
I was throwing up stumps of wood to Elder Cook and then he had to deal
with hauling the wood through the mud. During this, I was trying to
throw up another stump when I lost my balance. I fell forward but the
incline threw me down the hill and onto the other stumps. Luckily, I
was only battered and I didn't hit anything important on the wood! We
wrapped up the second load and got it unloaded before doing a third
load near the other elders. We split wood using the splitter and I got
to split some wood with an axe before dinner, which consisted of
Hawaiian haystacks! We got back into Junction City at the end of the
evening and we tried to go see Dotti again but she was passed out!
After all that work at Camp Alpine, I was sore and extremely tired and
promptly fell asleep after planning!
Thursday was my first taste of the cold rainy weather of Oregon! We
had weekly planning in the morning. As we were doing our weekly
planning, the potential investigator that we had a lesson planned with
for today canceled because her and her family were sick. We decided
after lunch to go see Brother Thorenson and share a lesson with him.
While we were there, we had ANOTHER lesson cancel on us. Bummer! So
after Brother Thor***'s, us and the other Elders went up to
Harrisburg to search out the less actives and also try to see some of
the people that other missionaries had visited with in the past. The
couple of people we tried to go see before helping out with Gle*** either had a bad address listed or just weren't home. We did our
service at Gle*** before dinner.
Friday we had district meeting in the morning. We talked about how to
get the members more involved in missionary work. After district
meeting, we had a pizza party because our whole zone got the mileage
reports turned in on time!
After we stuffed ourselves with pizza, we
got dressed in service clothes to go clean a house. This house wasn't
just any old house however. It was a hoarder house!! There were
newspapers and other things EVERYWHERE at least 4 inches deep. It took
a crew of about 13 elders 15 minutes before we could even see carpet.
There were a lot of things that we saw that I am not going to include
in the email because....it is disturbing. You really don't want to
know!
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