Blog:
Monday was awesome!! We played
capture the flag as a Zone. The best part is no one got hurt too
seriously. A poked eye, some head trauma, and a bloody nose were all the
injuries to show for it. And I only caused them... well some of them.
Okay I ran into one of my teammates who was running towards me to get
back into the game and ran into them giving them a bloody nose. But it was their fault. They stuck some tissue in their nose and played the rest of
the game. The game after that my whole team but me was tagged and they
had their whole team in because you can't protect the flag and keep them
from getting people out of jail when you are the only one in. So one of
them ran for the flag and I got him right before he crossed the line so my
flag was now just a jump from crossing. So they thought they could go
for it and I went for the eye... no he bent down as I was going to tag
him and his face got in my way. I think people just like getting hit in
the head or something. The best part is these two stories happened to
the ones who were going home last Saturday; so I had to leave them
something to remember their missions with. :)
Tuesday
was exchanges with my district leader, who went home. But not either of
the stories from Monday. I missed him... but it all worked out because
he and both of the sisters in our zone all collided and he got a swollen
nose. So all's well that ends well. But back to exchanges. I had a car
for the day. It was so nice. But there is also a draw back. We sat in
the car because we ran through all the people we had planned to visit
that day in about an hour or so. I forgot how awful that is when you are
able go through everyone because you can get to their house in a few
minutes instead of walking all the way. By dinner though people were
home... how interesting it's like they worked that day or something...
anyways we had dinner with this awesome family. Fried Chicken! aweyeeah!
We then exchanged back only 24 hours.
Wednesday
was slow. Just about no one was home that day either. After lunch we
went and...you guessed it... raked more tumble weed! FUN! But really we only
did that for an hour then had a better offer to help a recent convert's
grandfather move. We were so excited to do something else. We got there
with 10 other guys from the ward and guess what?...the only thing they
needed moved was a bed.... an air mattress at that. So the member we got
a ride with took us out to dinner - CHIPOTLE! No, he offered, I didn't ask
for him to take us there. After that we were asked to help teach the Teachers (young men ages 14-15) about planning and teaching a lesson. So we came up with this
awesome idea and we totally rocked it.
Thursday
was Zone Meeting, Weekly Planning, and Ward Correlation. For lunch our
zone leaders took us to a members house and we had a huge grill-out it
was pretty awesome. Then onto weekly planning which is not as awesome;
and to top it off our dinner cancelled on us. We then went to our ward
mission leaders house for a ward mission meeting aka Ward Correlation.
That was fun though.
Friday I don't quite
remember what we did that day. We tried to contact people but of course
no one was home so we went and did something.
Saturday
though was my day to tan.... err, I mean, my day to help others. It is
also the day we said goodbye to three of the missionaries in our zone.
RIP Elder Merrill, Elder Ysla, and Sister Heaton; enjoy your time in the
land of Eternal P-Days. TRANSFER CALLS!! We started the day by helping Old (Young) McDonald on his farm. Waiting for the call as it had not yet
come. We then started to bike to do some more service when the call
came. And who would have guessed it, we couldn't get the whole message to
play. So we had to ask someone else what happened so they sent us the
call. We both are staying for another 6 weeks. We then went to rake more
tumble weed, this time we finished it. NO MORE!!! I'm so happy! We then
went out to dinner to celebrate the occasion with CHIPOTLE! This time I
did ask! Also chick-fil-a. This has been a pretty good week.
Sunday
we had our ward council meeting where we finally "passed" our ward
mission plan! We are so ready for this! I am pumped. Church as usual...except a less-active and his non-member wife/girlfriend ( not sure
which) showed up to church and stayed for all three hours!
I am excited to see where the rest of this week will take us. I am excited for this next transfer and know something big is coming. I don't know what it is but it is coming. Life has been good. Prayers are coming true and miracles are happening. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers of encouragement. They truly do bless the lives of all those you pray for. I am a living witness that there is power in a pure prayer.
I love all of you,
Elder McCallson
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