Monday we went bowling with Wyatt and Jessica. I got a lot of gutterballs. It was great. We got a distraught phone call after dinner and went and saw an investigator who was being overwhelmed by a bunch of crazy stuff going on in her life. We sat and talked for a while and then…

I feel like a million bucks – all old and green and wrinkled. (Thanks to our recent convert Sam for that one) This week was great but also really tiring. Monday, we had dinner with Brother Ross, who made his hamburgers again. The guy has problems with his diet because he’s just ridiculously good at…

Monday, we had dinner with the Vallettas, visits with our recent converts Ashley and Cathy. When we saw Ashley, we were reviewing the Plan of Salvation with the little circular cut-outs we use as a visual aid, and she stopped us and said, “You should have me put it together and see if I remember where…

Monday we had Zone P-day, where we played ‘Quidditch’, which was basically ultimate-frisbee-with-a-foot-ball-and-you-can-knock-people-out-with-dodge-balls. It was really hectic and fun. We had our training meeting that night, President Walkenhorst came and trained on ‘Mission Culture’, which he taught comes down to our personal culture. You define your mission culture by saying, “In this mission, we…” and…

Monday we went to Institute and had a lesson on the Restoration and how important understanding the Apostasy is – if you don’t understand that there was a falling away first, you’ll never understand why there needed to be a Restoration. That evening, we had a lesson with Sam and Cathy, both recent converts, and…

I left my notes for the week at the apartment, so this may be light on detail. Monday, I played Magic with Holland, one of the kids in the ward, because they had the day off of school. It was a pretty even match, but he’s just got better cards than I do, because I…

Monday we had dinner with the Wardlows, Brother Wardlow told us about a friend of his who he thinks would be interested in learning more about the church, so we got his address and agreed to contact him later. We drove out to Cushing to exchange with Elder Jeffs and Elder Larson, and there was…

Monday was pretty simple. We had dinner with one of the Murray families and had a lesson with Cathy. Sam came and helped us with that. He’s fun to teach with because he’s got a strong testimony of the Gospel but he describes it in very simple way. We got on a tangent about scheduling…

I looked at the calendar and realized I only have 2 months left! DUN DUN DUN! The end is nigh. But it’ll be a pretty sweet ride up until that point! Monday, I came down with ANOTHER COLD UGGGH and so, after our Preparation day stuff was done, we went home and I slept. YEAH…

Merry Christmas, everyone! It was wonderful to see you all Friday. I wish we had been able to talk longer, but hey, in two months it won’t matter. HO HO HO HO! Monday, we had Zone P-day and a specialized training meeting. Everyone was late, and the weather was totally not what we had planned for (we’d…