So this week has been a great one and I have loved it! I'm getting more and more worried with how soon I have to leave though! But I know it's what I gotta do. I'm probably gonna set a record for the longest missionary transfer haha.
Monday: Today was just a normal pday but I was texting Eric and Kim throughout the day and this is a pretty cool message they sent us. " thankyou for all your generosity and thoughtfulness. you are like a family that I have never had, a family that everyone should have. we are very grateful to have God give us the opportunity for our lives to cross paths" That is the English way to say that. This is what they actually typed though haha " ty yal 4 ur generosity and thautfullnes u r like a family that I aint never had a family that everyone should have we r very gratefull 2 have God give us tha opurtunity 4 r lives 2 cross paths" Haha we gotta translate some of the messages we get!
Tuesday: Today we started with an hour of morg (Mormon. org/ family history stuff) but I didn't get to do anything because this guy next to us started talking to me and we talked for the whole hour, and we are going over there tomorrow now haha. Today was brother Peytons birthday he is an older man, like he is 80 now, so he is coming along but he isn't a member and all that yet. But we went over and I had gotten him a book with scriptures from the Bible and I had written a letter with my testimony in it and he appreciated it. Then we went and did some service for the relief society at the church just setting up for stuff haha. There may not be many of them but they decorate like the prophet is coming haha. And since they are all old we are their slaves haha. I love doing it though! Then Sis Nisbet came up to us and she has 3 grandchildren that are not members that are younger like 8,8,and 10, and she asked if we would play with them and be friends with them so they will want to come to church. So we spent a hour or so playing with them at the church and I did some of my magic tricks and we just played games and it was super fun! It made me feel like I was back home. Later that night President Salisbury called and asked if he could share my email using my name and all that with the mission. He said he knew it's not what he usually does but that it was inspiring, so I said ya no problem president, and we talkled for a while then he had to go. And after he hung up I really wanted to go and see what I had said because I couldn't remember haha.
Wednesday: Wednesday was crazy! It rained and rained and rained and when that happens here the city floods and all the roads flood and bridges get knocked over and it's just crazy! They build everything right next to rivers so it's their fault, but all the rain comes right down the hills and feeds into the creek! So we had some fun working our way through floods and all that. We were going through this one flood and I had the window down to watch the water while we went through it, and this one person came flying around the corner and slammed into the water and sent a tidal wave through my window haha. It was so funny I got drenched though! We saw Eric and Kim. We brought them some mcnuggets and talked to them for a minute or so and Eric started puking so we weren't able to teach a lesson. Then we went and saw Ron and Brit and talked to her more about word of wisdom and commited them to read as a family. Then we went out to the Senators and as we were going down the holler we came up to a lake and we were contemplating driving through it, so I got out and was instantly drenched from the rain, but I thew a pretty big rock into the middle and it went thwuump so it was pretty dang deep. And then this big lifted truck came and saw it, backed up and tried to gun it through, and it ended up being like 6 feet deep and it swept his truck off the road and so we went and I ran out there and helped him get out of the truck and he was just laughing. It was this like 60 year old guy, so like my dads age haha, and he was just like "ohh dernt werry bout er she gots the perrrer but ill get er morrow" so we just let him be and we took this dirt road like a quarter mile back that the city made for when that place floods to get around it, I don't know why he didn't use it but it was a pretty funny situation. I got a lot of clothes to wash though haha. So we got to the Senators and I was talking to Mickey and trying to figure out why he wants to serve a mission and all the sudden he said it's because of us, so that was pretty neat. He is coming out with us for the day on Saturday. We called president since he is only 13 and got it approved.
Thursday: So Wednesday night we got 7 inches of snow on top of all the flooding, so everything was icy and covered in snow, but it was district meeting so we got in the Morgans car at 7 and braved it. No one clears the roads out here so we were taking it really slow. We got through some flooded areas and then like an hour away we got to a puddle where we couldn't see the end of it, it was like over a hundred yards and then wrapped around a corner and there was a warning do not enter sign so we took it as a hint and just went back! We weekly planned, then went and saw Ranae and at the end of our lesson we still felt like something was off, so we asked questions and eventually found out that she felt the church was sexist and so we were able to address that concern and it went well. Later that night we had coordination meetings with the Morgans cause everyone else was stuck in their hollers.
Friday: We shoveled snow for a while in the morning and while we were shoveling Robin's she came out and we had a nice discussion with her for about an hour, and then we tracted from 12pm to 9pm but we weren't able to teach anyone.
Saturday: Saturday was awesome. We went and picked up Mickey at like 8:30 and took him to breakfast at Momma Janes he loved it haha. It's so delicious. Then we went and we taught Jeremey toney about the laws and ordinances of the gospel. Mickey was super interested and participated a little even. Then something hilarious happened. Jeremey has this old airsoft pistol that is completlry broken but it looks like a real gun, and all the sudden after our lesson he grabbed it and pointed it at Elder Kamauu, and Elder Kamauu thought it was a real gun and he just froze and the color drained from his face and I am doing all I can to not start laughing, and then Jeremey cocked it and pulled the trigger. It was like pop! and Elder Kamauu yelped and flinched so hard then he realized it was just an airsoft gun and stated laughing haha. We went to the Workmans and then we went to the Haneys and taught a great plan of salvation lesson. They have such great questions. The mom was super interested in the spirit prison and paradise and the 3 kingdoms of heaven and all that. It was a cool lesson and after I raced Joe, the 15 year old boy, and Mickey up this crazy steep hill and smoked them without even getting muddy. Then they wanted to race down and that was another story. We started to race down and Joe slipped and took out my legs and we hit Mickey so we all tumbled down this hill for like a hundred feet to the bottom and that time I didn't escape the mud, but luckily it was a little on my hiney and we washed off with a wet towel by the creek. It was fun though. Then we went out and taught Mickey's aunt for the first time. We are excited to start teaching her. She is actually his great aunt so she is old too of course, but she is awesome. Then we went and made scones for the Senators and me and Mickey taught the plan of salvation together to them because he said he needed to practice that one for his mission.
Sunday: We only had 3 investigators at church this week but it was still awesome. The little kids showed up too and after sacrament meeting they came up to me and told me how their week went and stuff and I showed them another magic trick I had gotten from the dollar store. It was a pretty sweet one haha. But next sunday is Jeremey's baptism and I am super excited for that. He wants me to baptize him. He says I'm his older brother now and that I gotta look out for him even though he is older than me haha. Oh and we lost an hour of sleep last night to cause it was spring forward, so Saturday night we had to set our clocks an hour ahead so at 10 before we went to bed we set it forward. We tracted after church though with little success for about an hour, then we went over to the Rowleys and then had dinner with the Morgans. Afterwards we went with them to Ron and Brit's place and we taught them a little and I shared the story from Mathew about Peter walking on the water and related it to her having the faith to try to quite smoking, and that when she gets afraid or has a week moment like Peter did, that as she is beginning to sink if she will call out to Jesus Christ and ask and pray for help that he will help her immediately like he did Peter. The sprit was strong there and we also committed them to pray as a family each night. We got back at 9:28 so just in time! Oh and a funny story there. Her niece was over, she is 3 and ways 90 pounds, but anyways she is so cute and funny and she was convinced I was Jesus haha. She kept on singing to me and when they finally told her I wasn't Jesus she said, well he sure looks like him! and walked away. It was pretty funny. And when elder Morgan was giving the closing prayer she was singing all the words he said really quietly next to me. It was so hard not to just burst out laughing!
But yep this was my week and I forgot to bring my camera so there will be lots of pics next week! sorry!
love you all
Elder White
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