Well, im still alive. I finally sent off that insurance stuff mom, and sorry about the postage due.
Interesting week i guess. We taught a guy who was drunk, another who prophesyed to us and got a few hundred doors slammed on us i suppose. the weather was cold, then we were in the 50’s for a couple days, saw some rain and yesterday we got hit with a huge ice storm. We got a call while in a dinner from the zone leaders telling us to get home. We were in a town about 20 miles away, so we took our time, stopped at a walmart then went home. there is a good 3 inches of ice on the ground, and it looks like it snowed hard, but it was all freezing rain and ice pellets. By the way, that stuff sucks to tract in. On saturday we set a record for us, and tracted 7 hours. We got 1 investigator out of it, but nothing else. Its hard to get appointments around here, because everyone is so steeped in their religious traditions. Its not even beliefs anymore, its just tradition. We share a message on a doorstep about how our families can be together, and be with god again. They agree with us, but before the door closes they say they are catholic. The catholics don’t even believe in that. All the members of this branch just have the biggest heart though. We eat at members probably 4-5 out of the 7 days, and they are so nice to us. These people travel up to 30 miles every sunday to goto church, and they are willing to do anything for anyone, i just wish more people were like that.
We’ve really been learning a ton about the atonement, we have these 2 talks that we’ve been reading from a member of the 70 named bruce hafen. He is renound for his knowledge of the atonement. For district meeting i had the assignment to take these questions that everyone had been given, and summarise what everyone in the meeting talked about. I learned so much from everyone. The best part is that tomorrow we are driving up to Toledo, and we get to listen to Hafen speak to us on the atonement, and he’ll answer the questions he gave us. I’m really looking forward to it.
Alright now im going to answer questions joe gave me.
Can we use the computers for more than email?
No, were not supposed to, and my companion is pretty strict about that. So please! send me articles. I really really want to see Bedard in a Mariners uniform.
What is my apartment like?
We’ll, i’ll get out some pictures soon.Quick description. Were in a nicer neighboorhood, its not really an apartment, but like a 4 plex thats in a long strip. We have 2 bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, big living room. The 2nd bedroom has a bench press in it and a couch. We also have a washer and dryer. No dishwasher though. I’ll send a video tour of it on a memory card sometime.
My companion?
he reminds me alot of tim and joe. Hes a pretty funny guy. He has epilepsy, but its controlled. Its hard to describe him. He loves sports, we play catch alot now and we have the most random conversations. He has a really good knowledge of the book of mormon too.
Money?
i should have made it more clear. We get $160 every month. I only got 40 because i came in on the last week of the month.
It goes fast though.
My area?
we cover roughly 15 towns. there are 2 other towns that are bigger than St marys. Wapakoneta, and Celina. Celina sucks for tracting so far, and the other is a pretty good town. Otherwise the rest of the towns are 1000 people maybe.
Do i have an accent?
Ohioans dont have an accent. They do have their own language though. They like to “dumb down” words if you will. They shorten words alot too.
Example: Diabetes. in ohio, its it only known as “sugar” so you hear people talking about how they cant drink or eat something sweet anymore, since they have the “sugar”. Its kinda dumb. any town with an I in it is pronounced like the letter I. Celina, rather than being Suh-leen-ah, is really Suh-LIE-nah. Lima sounds like the bean. Vacuums are not vacuums, but Sweepers. I could go on, but im getting tired of typing. they say “yuns” instead of “you all” or “yall”
Mumbling is really common too, its hard to understand what they are saying. Probably has to do with the fact that they all have horribly bad teeth.
We’ll, im gonna get going. We’re going to Lima to play basketball with the district. I’ll get some more pictures home. TIM, I NEED MY MEMORY CARD.
Hi gina, Mom said i should email this to you too.
Joe, mr. money maker, should i assume that i’ll have that car in the garage waiting for me when i get home?
Alright, im out.
