hi mama bear!
you and the doctor are besties now huh? Ryan is so awesome.
I love hearing things about him. how tall is he? if he's taller than me now I
will be shocked. im proud of baby kate for making the volleyball team! she
better wrap her head in pre wrap for a headband. keep the tradition alive.
Gresham is exuberant! of course I still love it here. its the promised land!
this is the place moses and the children of Israel spent 40 years wandering
looking for! too bad they never found it. its a gem. transfers are two weeks
from now. everyone tells me that time flies by so much faster when you're
training and they would be right! I feel like sister Russell just got here! we
are having a great time though! this has been a pretty good week. its had some
ups and some downs. i'll explain a little of both.
so sister Russell was pretty
sick this week, which resulted in both of us spending a lot of time in the
apartment. president ballard said that all day every day we should be asking
ourselves "what is the best thing I can be doing with my time right
now?" well, I asked myself that and the answer I decided on was I needed
to be finding more investigators. one problem. we were stuck in the apartment.
so I looked through our cell phone and started calling everyone in there that I
didn't know. I ended up teaching a few lessons over the phone and got five or
six return appointments! I was so stoked! that's better than any day ive ever
had tracting. we will be seeing a lot of those people this week and im really
excited. especially because we had to pass of 3 progressing investigators this
week. they moved out of our area so they have different missionaries now. it
was bittersweet. i get really close to the people i teach and then poof!
they're gone. this next week we are dedicating our time to finding new people
to teach. its going to be great.
we had our ward Halloween party this week. it
was awesome because almost everyone brought their friends and neighbors! we
talked to so many people and found some cool families from that as well. we had
dinner with one of my favorite families this week. we ate some chicken and then
they said they wanted to take us for dessert but the place was a surprise. they
took us to the one and only salt and straw! if you haven't heard of it, look it
up. it will save your life. they have so many different kinds of ice cream and
theyre all really weird: pear and bleu cheese, Hawaiian (with real pork bits
inside), honey lavender, mince meat pie, apple pie and cheddar, and many more.
its weird. well they had one kind called dracula's blood pudding and i asked to
sample it. the lady got me a spoonful and said it has real pigs blood in it, is
that okay? i thought about it for a quick minute, and decided that since ive
eaten steak medium rare, this isn't much different. so i tried it. it really
wasn't bad! it was pretty good actually. so yeah, that happened. i'd love to
stay and chat but i have to go have a nerf war. to answer your question mom, i
desperately need new boots. mine are all ripped up . i love you forever!
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