Hey everyone this has been a good week! Mom and dad the remodel looks awesome and coop that confederate flag is sweet haha. We should have put that up a long time ago.
Tuesday: A lot happened on Tuesday. We had planned to go and start working on the trailer but Brother Stevens called early and cancelled because the roads were too icy to get out of his holler. So we went to help take down the lights in the park instead and no one was there, so we went to see Gordon Workman and he was gone too, so we went to find Jeremey's house, and the way people give directions here makes it nearly impossible. These are the directions we got to get to his house: go up the big ugly and after about two miles head up creek and then turn at the big boulder with moss on it and head up that holler and you will head down the holler until it turns down creek and it's a little further on the left. So we were driving around looking for it and almost got stuck in the mud roads a couple times, but as we were about to give up we found him he was out walking his dogs and so we were like hey man and talked for a bit. Then we were like where do you live? and he said I'll show you and hopped in. We aren't really supposed to give rides but it wasn't too far down creek. Then we went and met with some less actives. It was Elder Morgan's birthday so we wrote him notes and put it in a envelope and said it was from tahiti and put a bunch of used stamps on it, so when he got it he was pretty confused. It was funny.
Wednesday: We had Brother Bennet's funeral today. He was in Trinity which is a nursing home, and we got pretty close to him and he passed away, so that was nice to be able to attend. Then we went over to Eric and Kim's house and taught them the restoration. It went really well and they were serious about wanting to come to church. Then we went to the Senators and Mickey took us up a hill to this vine and we swung over the creek on it and stuff. It was fun. Then we went in and taught them and Chris about the priesthood and why it is important. Chris seems to be kinda faltering. I hope we can fix whatever the problem is.
Thursday: We had zone meeting on Thursday. We got back at like 5 and then we went and had dinner at Momma Janes. As always it was good! but everyone here makes meat loaffffff. Then we went to correlation meeting. Meeting days are hard for us to get much done. The next furthest area has a 30 min drive in our whole zone, and we are 2 hours! its all good though.
Friday: On Friday we went to work on the trailer. It was so fun. We started by tearing out the bathroom and no one could budge the toilet . So me being bonesawraw went up, got down and bear hugged it and ripped it out of the floor haha. I was feeling really big until i felt something wet and realized I was getting covered in who knows how old poop water, so i took it to the front door really quick and tossed it outside haha. It was sooooooo nasty. Then we had to get this water heater out and no one could budge it while i was throwing out the toilet, so they called me in and I got down low and pulled and got it out and as i was about to toss it off the porch it slipped and the rusted bottom busted and soaked my feet with water and it was already freezing, so by the end i had frozen water on my feet and frozen poop water in a lot of other places! We tore the floor out so you can just see the ground underneath the trailer. But afterwards we were out in the yard and noticed some tires and so i grabbed one of the bike tires and tried to toss it into this dead tree. Elder clawson and Monnie came over and we just all started trying to toss tires and get them to stay on the limbs of this dead tree. They were throwing bike tires and I started throwing car tires. We got like 5 tires total in there. It was fun but my back was sore! Later that day we were at Sister Vannater's house for dinner and we got on the funniest topic. She started telling us about how she met her husband and then at the end she was like I'm so glad i met my cousin that day and me and Elder Clawson looked at eac hother like whatttttt?? and then the two grandsons were like that's weird grandma and their mom was like its not that weird! I'm dating my second cousin right now! and he is in the branch toohaha. and she is white and her two sons are black and they said well im pretty sure our pa wasn't your second cousin... we're black! It was all just soo funny.
Saturday: We went to Jeremey's house and taught him the restoration. As I told him about Joseph Smith and said
"I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head above the brightness of the sun which descended gradually until it fell upon me. When the light rested upon me I saw two personages whose brightness and glory defy all description standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me calling me by name and said This is My beloved Son hear Him. I began to tear up. The spirit in the room was so strong and he said i can feel something right here and pointed to his chest. We told him that was the Holy Spirit testifying to him that what we have said is true. He told us he wanted to be baptized and we asked if he could be ready by March 14 and he said yes, so we will work with him a lot this next couple of weeks. He wanted to come to church so we went to peoples' houses to ask if they could take him since he doesn't have a car, but no one was willing to. We called like 20 people but no one would get him! It was so disheartening that he couldn't come to church. We went to Grandpa Peyton's house after and talked to him and then said "well boys lets go into the kitchen" and he grabbed two sweet potatoes and said "boys I'm gonna ask you to eat these." One was huge and the other was like bite size. Well Elder Clawson grabbed the bite size one and I got the one that looked like a grapefruit haha. So after choking that down he gave us each a piece of cake and we ate it and he said "now Clawson I'm gonna ask you to get white there another piece. He is a growing boy you know". So Elder Clawson cut me like a 10 inch by 5 inch hunk of cake and I had to eat it all cause i didn't wanna be rude haha. And then as we were about to leave the wife was like "I made some grilled cheese" and so we had to eat that and Elder Clawson put two on my plate. Then she said "I also made a pie for you " and she gave Elder Clawson a normal sized piece and she gave me the biggest piece of pie i have ever seen! I swear they are trying to kill me!
Sunday: Sunday was awesome. Eric and Kim were picked up by the Morgans since they dont have a car... like everyone we meet! But they were at church and loved it and said they are comming back next week and they are comming to bible study tonight and they are going to the valentines day party, so we are really excited for them and to see them progress. We did a nml (new member lesson) with Salinah and she invited us to her birthday party haha. She is 11 so we may stick out a little but we talked to her mama which means grandma. Ma means mom. But we are gonna be the mummies for the mummy wrap and just help them have fun, so its right up my alley!
i love you all!
Elder White
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