Week 8- Fall is Coming and so Is Conference.

 My T-shirt finally came

My jimmied belt.

Transfers are coming up in a week and a half! How crazy is that!! We met with the  Bishop Saturday night because he invited us to come over to discuss our progress reports which Elder Merkley says never happens. We go over there and basically the Bishop tells us the work we are doing is fantastic. We got three people on baptism date this week! The one guy named Zach we saw one day working on his car...tattoos, dirty,  whatever you want to use to describe  someone who doesn't look interested at all,  actually started talking to us. We got him to go from believing in nothing which he referred to God and JC as a bunch of BS hahaha! To believing in them and realizing there is more to life than just fixing cars and getting into trouble. It's crazy how the spirit can work with people and ways that you couldn't imagine by just looking at people. This guys life has now totally changed and he is on the road to a better outcome. Hopefully he continues to read the BOM and pray to know if it is true. Anyway the Bishop told us he prayed in ward council that Elder M and I could stay in the ward because they are afraid the work is going to go down like it has been for the last two years again. It humbles me to know that people recognize the good things you do and it makes me strive to be better. Yes I know I am not a perfect missionary and I never will be, but that doesn't stop me from striving to be one. I know if I can have the success I have had from working hard in my first area I wonder what the Lord has in store for the areas to come.

But with all the positives there comes negatives. We got a Car this last week which was a total surprise since its the last two weeks. Yes we can get to places and appointments a lot faster and yes it saves us from the long bike rides but we don't have the opportunity to contact people on the way so our finding hours decrease. So after using the cars and realizing how lazy it made us we decided to take our bikes out and only use our car for dinner appointments and far away appointments. We take our bikes out and we park them to tract in this neighborhood. We come back after an hour of tracting and my new slime tire is totally flat laying down on the road. It had a 3 cm hole in the bike and it looked like somebody jammed a stick into it so the green slime totally leaked everywhere because the hole was so big. Its the third time in the transfer my tire popped and I was so angry I felt like loosing my temper and throwing my bike and yelling at the Lord.  Then I thought of the blessings he gives me and how can I blame him for this.  We were miles from home and I couldn't walk my bike back to the house because we had an appointment. We called the zone leaders and they picked us up and took us home. The next day we woke up and our car wouldn't start and I was like you got to be kidding me. The battery was totally dead and jump starting it did nothing! I  just laughed and looked at my companion saying you got to be kidding me. So we walked everywhere we went that day and took it into firestone and got it fixed. Anyway, I guess the Lord really wanted us to walk or something because he took away every single source of transportation. So now we use the car but we get out of it and walk a lot so it is teaching us to be disciplined.

Anyway those are the highlights of my week.   My comp plays baseball we talk a lot about that.  He is super funny and athletic and he is 1/4 Mexican so he makes a lot of Mexican jokes and can sound like a Mexican.

I got all the packages from Amy and Grandma, Tracy the Lapps and you.  Tell them all thank you!

I'm watching conference at the Ellis's the lady who feeds us dinner all the time that had three sons serve missions. I will get you here contact info because you would get along really well.  She is kind of like Aunt Karen. 

fall is coming it got cold Sunday 49 degrees.

I have all warm gear but I need winter boots that's all and gloves.

I have trouble getting up in the morning so my companion turns all the lights on and talks like a Mexican dude and jumps on me in my bed to get me up!  I'm so tired in the morning.

 

 I did get taller and I have been lifting every morning. I'm starting to get bigger muscle wise, but I broke my belt the other day while I sat down in the car.  It snapped right after dinner because my companion said I eat to much and I'm going to get fat.  And then when it snapped we started dying and he kept saying see you are getting fat. 

 

Love you Mom!