"...so i am 99% sure I ate cat haha".......Week 19

So I'm down to my last week here. I'm getting pretty anxious because there is still so much to do here. But I trust elder Kamauu to take care of it!

Monday: On monday right after emailing we went bowling with sis thomas and sister bigley. Sis thomas is like at least 200 years old and she killed me in bowling! she scored a 157 and i scored a 47 haha its because she wouldnt let me use bumpers she said it is "cheating" so my normal technique of palming the ball spinning around and chucking it didnt do to good for me this time. At bible study that night sis jackson made me all me favorite food! rolls and fried chicken and dirt cake (its the best cake ever) (except for costco lemon cake).

Tuesday: we went up to the ugly and knocked on a former investigators door she answered and invited us in. we taught her the restoration and about the book of mormon and commited her to read it. the lesson went great and then she started telling us about all her hardships and stuff and we were able to help her and turn her back to Jesus Christ and the scriptures. We had a interesting experience today haha we went over to sister vannaters and she answered and said oh im so glad you came your not gonna believe what i have cooked for you! ( keep in mind she is like 90 and eats anything she finds dead on the side of the road) so we were pretty nervous haha. she had us try to guess what she had cooked so we said deer? squirel? racoon? bird? beef? (we were really hopeing for that one) but every time we guessed she would just laugh and say oh no no no, not that! so we braced ourselves and said dog??? and she said ohhhh close! so with dread we said cat? and she started laughing super hard and didnt say anything so we asked again we were like is it a cat?! and she wouldnt answer she just kept laughing! so i am 99% sure i ate cat haha. later that afternoon we played with and taught the nisbet kids it was fun. and then we went and we taught eric and kim. we tried to bring up the w.o.w. but they said we know we know and dont push it! so we will keep working on that.

On wednesday we had a lot of our appointments fall through so we did a lot of tracting and stuff but later that night we went to help brother stevens move some stuff at the church and it ended up being first theses giant cabinents so he and elder kamauu took one end and i took the other and man they were heavy! it felt like that book shelf we moved in at home! and my hands were sweaty (like always) and it felt like my arms were gonna tear off but we got it! then we had to move these giant slabs of 4 inch thick wood that were like 10ft by 6 ft and so elder kamauu and brother stevens grabbed one and struggled to get it out and while they were gone i picked one up to see how heavy it was and started carying one out there was like 20 slabs and i am crazy sore now haha.

Thursday: i honestly cant remember anything about thursday... we weekly planned and correlated and i know we taught 3 lessons but im completley blanking! so  ya

Friday: we taught brittney and ron and eric and kim and ranae and dillon. we felt really good about how the lessons went eric and kim are almost there they just gotta quite smoking! ron and brittney is a hard situation cause brittney would love to come to church and be baptized but ron wont allow it.he likes us and likes having us over but he doesnt want his girlfriend brittney to do this stuff cause it changes a lot for him. and ranae is doing good she just got a job so its hard to catch her home but she is slowly comming to a knowledge of what we have taught. that night we went over to the jacksons for dinner and game night it was fun and like braelyn always says i never lose at card games so everyone by the end of the night was sure i had been cheating haha and to be honest i did one game but i had to keep the winning streak! i told them all after though haha.

Saturday: on saturday we moved the senators into their apartment since they were kicked out of the tralior by an angry sister. it took us a while but it  was a good thing to do and there isn't anyone in the elders quorum under the age of 57 haha so they needed us. and only one guy from the elders quorum could make it so it was us brother stevens and the morgans. then we went and set up the church for the womans broadcast ( we are the technicians for the branch) and then we went and saw clell peyton and he took us out to eat and i decided to be healthy and get a small salad since we had just eaten lunch at 3 and it was only 4. but he said now white you better get more honey i dont want you grumbling tonight around 9 saying i didnt feed you enough and i was like i am fine! and so he ordered me 3 chilli dogs and some chicken liver and fries haha i was soooooo full! then we went over to the rowleys and there was this 6 year old kid sitting in the yard that i had never seen there so i asked if ryan or johnathan were home and he said i am home so i asked again and he said i am home! and then when i was closer i realized it was ryan he had cut his hair and looked like a baby! he is 12 but he looked 6 haha. but he was out in the yard and had his forge going( his was way cooler then mine haha) but he had this forge with a hair dryer blowing air into the bottom and it was crazy he was putting chunks of alluminum in and melting them down and he was pouring them into molds he made in sand and making slingshots and swords and stuff this kid is a genious! anyways we were there for a little and got a call from the church building and it was sister vannater and she said hello elder white umm so you left a note on the computer saying just refresh the page and the video will start playing... what does refresh mean? so i tried to explain it to her but she wasnt getting it so we went down and there was like 15 ladys from the relief society there including sister morgan and none of them new how to refesh a page and none of them have cell phones even! they are all over 60 though so i will give them a break haha. but we were getting it to play and sister morgan came up and said you guys have to stay we need to have priesthood here to do this so we had to stay and watch it and it was really awesome!

Sunday: on sunday we had to have church in the relief society room since the chapel was under construction we had fast and testimony meeting since conference and i was able to bear my testimony for the last time here. brother toney came up to me later on and said i was gonna get you this shirt yesterday that said "i would flex but i like this shirt" but they only had it in small he thought it was super funny haha. i was talking to the young men and they were saying how they didnt want me to go because i was the first missionary that they could connect with and that when i taught them they actually understood. i guess i owe that to my dad since i just taught them like he taught me haha. so i may have thrown some stories of super powers and what not in but ya.... after church everyone wanted to go outside and get a picture with me before i left so we did a picture with the whole branch. sis thomas said i had to come by her house cause she made me some apple butter biscuits which are the best thing ever! and when we got there she showed me a picture of her granddaughter and said that if i came back and married her she would cook apple butter biscuits for me every day haha. and i would set a record in west Virginia of first marriage where the people aren't cousins! or brother and sisters... haha

anyway it was a good week and next time i email you ill be in australia! my flight plan got changed though now i fly to chicago and stay there for 3 hours then i fly to L.A and stay there for 7 hours then i fly to aukland new zeland and stay there for 3 hours then i fly to sydney and stay there for 19 months then i fly to arizona! but i might get a extension so maybe not. they changed it cause there is a sister flying there to and she needed help and someone with her so i am gonna help her with all that stuff.

love you all!

elder white