November 29, 2010

So, not a lot of time, time for speed typing

So, tuesday, woke up, in my new house, we live with our Bishop's mom, she is awesome.
Went to the trainer’s meeting, we ended up getting there super early and just chilled.
hung out with a lot of other people i knew who were also training this transfer, good times.
Met my new companion, his name is Elder Rodriguez from Provo, UT. he was born in Argentina but moved to the US when he was 10. He's super cool and yea. So we went to lunch, went shopping. Went home and got down to business. We headed out and contacted for a while on our way to try and see people in the ward leadership positions. We found a potential in a former investigator's mom who we're going back to see this week! We then got a dinner out to Gunbarrel (the really far away place) and had dinner with a Sister, her daughter, and her daughter's boy friend. It went really well and her daughter and boyfriend are going to probably start meeting with us. They were supposed to be at church...but it didn't happen :(. So after that we went home, he unpacked and we passed out.

Wednesday was action packed lol. We found him a loaner bike and ended up walking our bikes around for a while b/c we couldn't find him a helmet. We did make it to our 4 appointments for the day which were all really good. One of my favorite people in the world decided to get his ear pierced contrary to his mom's guidance and it was funny b/c our lesson was on the sons of Helaman and how they followed what their mothers told them. it was a good time :D>

Thursday was thanksgiving. Up until Thursday morning we thought that we were going to have to go to district meeting, however, we got a call saying that it was cancelled. So, we rolled over to the Fangers about 1ish and were there until like 8:30. we were supposed to go stop by a couple others but due to timing and stuff it didn't happen which was fine. We had a great time, the Fangers are awesome. They had a lot of little cousins over so we played tag, that was good.
I gained 5 lbs that day.
It's already gone.

FRIDAY! TEMPLE DAY! probably the best thing about training is the fact that my companion had a temple trip. So we went. It was awesome.

Saturday we had district meeting where I pretty much slaughtered two Christmas Classics on the piano...i don't really practice those hymns a lot. But yea, after that we had to rush to an appointment, so i biked reasonably fast and kept looking back to see if Elder Rodriguez was keeping up, which he was. We got there, got inside, and he was like...i think i need some fresh air, we stood on the porch and he like fell over...yea. I was like..what the heck, he was so pale and it was weird. What happened was he isn't used to the altitude and just pushed himself really hard...so i learned that I'm gonna have to bike slower for a while. So after sitting down for 5 minutes and 3 glasses of water, we were able to go back inside and I kinda had to teach the whole lesson as he was recovering, but it was a good time. We had dinner and ended up doing weekly planning that night b/c we had to get it done!

Sunday we did ward council and church was super good. None of our 3 investigators showed up though, :(, so we were bummed, but that's life, we're going to go by and see what happened today. After we finished up studies and talked about how to hand out Book of Mormons. SO we went out and tried. We did our best and Elder Rodriguez did a good job, but no success. We had dinner, stopped by to pick up a referral and then finished weekly planning.

All in all it was a really short week.
It seems like time just keeps going faster.
Looking back now in hindsight, the past year was SUPER LONG and the Shortest thing i've ever experienced. there's just no explaining it.

But I can now give you a year in recap.
God loves us, and if you want to be happy figure out what HE wants you to do and do it....that's where happiness is at.
Family + God
that's whats up
i love you all
J