Week 1
Dear Loved Ones,
Idaho is entirely populated by potatoes. They gave us potato shaped candy at orientation. Root is pronounced to rhyme with foot and the locals act like they're all exotic because they don't live in Utah, even though the mountains and landscape look exactly the same.
A little miracle happened this morning. A member was driving us over to Meridian to do emailing and shopping and her tire went flat. She was all, "We can patch this up with chewing gum like I did to my radiator in '85," and I was like, "No, we're gonna call roadside assistance." Triple A said they would take an hour, and while we were waiting, this mechanic rolled up in his full mechanic truck and patched it for us. Little miracles!
Our big successes this week were getting a twelve year old girl to come to church and talking about baptism with this twenty year old.
We're in a biking area and biking sucks. If you want to send up some prayers, pray that I can handle the physical regimen of a mission.
I spoke at a youth fireside aimed at getting youth jazzed for missions and the temple. All the other speakers talked about their missions, as they were mostly missionaries like me, so I wanted to include the temple in mine. I talked about how the temple helped me keep the faith when circumstances outside my control kept me from serving a mission in the time frame I wanted.
I have been reading the book Saints and am about 50 pages in. I'm grateful that it's a 600 page book so I'll keep myself entertained for a while. I love church history and I hope I get an opportunity to share what I know.
Idaho is entirely populated by potatoes. They gave us potato shaped candy at orientation. Root is pronounced to rhyme with foot and the locals act like they're all exotic because they don't live in Utah, even though the mountains and landscape look exactly the same.
A little miracle happened this morning. A member was driving us over to Meridian to do emailing and shopping and her tire went flat. She was all, "We can patch this up with chewing gum like I did to my radiator in '85," and I was like, "No, we're gonna call roadside assistance." Triple A said they would take an hour, and while we were waiting, this mechanic rolled up in his full mechanic truck and patched it for us. Little miracles!
Our big successes this week were getting a twelve year old girl to come to church and talking about baptism with this twenty year old.
We're in a biking area and biking sucks. If you want to send up some prayers, pray that I can handle the physical regimen of a mission.
I spoke at a youth fireside aimed at getting youth jazzed for missions and the temple. All the other speakers talked about their missions, as they were mostly missionaries like me, so I wanted to include the temple in mine. I talked about how the temple helped me keep the faith when circumstances outside my control kept me from serving a mission in the time frame I wanted.
I have been reading the book Saints and am about 50 pages in. I'm grateful that it's a 600 page book so I'll keep myself entertained for a while. I love church history and I hope I get an opportunity to share what I know.
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