Monday was great! It was a zone
p-day we played rugby almost the whole time. It was 98 degrees and the
sun was out in full strength. So, being the type of person I am, I got a
headache that night because I didn't drink enough water. But, we had an
awesome dinner. Crapes! They were so good.
Tuesday went
fast. We had district meeting that morning. It was really weird because
it was so silent. Mostly because we kicked the sisters out of the
district. We then tried some contacting but really no one was out as it
was just about as hot as it was Monday. We had dinner drop off of pasta
casserole. It was good but no meat. I was a little disappointed. But we
looked out our window and saw a member across the street who needed some
help moving dirt. So we rushed out to help him as all our other plans
had cancelled on us that night. We worked with him for about 2 hours.
Also, the young men's president and a few priests left to go harvest a
pig for a party the 4th ward youth were going to have Wednesday night.
So they came back, this happened while we were working on moving the
dirt. We saw them come back and wanted to see it. We ended up helping
them dig a hole, start a fire, put the pig on it, and cover it for the
party. Needless to say that took us to the end of the night. I felt very
accomplished.
Wednesday was slow to start. By the time
lunch rolled around not much had happened. We visited Curtis. He has had
a very hard life. Most people we have talked to about Curtis say that
he is completely changed from the way he was before he became a member
of the church. He laughs and talks now where as before, they say, he was
a very quite and almost bitter man. And with all the things he has told
us I can see why. We then left to visit some more people in the 3rd
ward. We met this brother and boy was he one weird dude. We got in there
and started to talk with him and he started to talk about menopause....
I think that is how you spell it... anyways he said that he was this
tough farmer now he sometimes catches himself tearing up a commercials.
Anyways... it was great to get to know him and his wife. We then road
from there to dinner. Sweet and sour chicken and rice. It was really
good. We then went from there to help with the pig. We unburied it, and
moved it to the grass where it just started to fall apart as we
unwrapped it. It was great! The only problem was that we didn't dig the
pit big enough or deep enough and only half of the pig cooked. So we got
to take some home and try and cook it.
Thursday we had
this thing called Just Serve that started. It is where we as
missionaries serve without proselyting. It was really weird as we
cleaned some class rooms at a school. It was gross to think how dirty
the desks and chairs and room was after a year of school. I am glad that
I don't have to go to school anymore.... well until I get back that is.
I think that almost all of our investigators are tired of seeing us as
no one would open their doors. I guess this is the curse of Summer.
Dinner finally rolled around and we got to have some fun on stilts
before as we waited for the husband to get home. We then road to church
for our 4th ward correlation meeting and were able to make some good
visits.
Friday was a special day as we got a car. A Jeep
Compass. My only real problem with it is my sister bought one and the
sister missionaries in Star had it so it has been forever in my mind
that it is a girl car. My companion keeps trying to reassure me that
it's not but I probably won't change my mind. As missionaries we have an
allotted amount of miles that we get to dive each month. Well the
sisters that had the car before us when they dropped their car off 10
days into the month drove 400 miles. To put that into perspective in my
last area for the first 3 months of my mission I had a car and we got
about 450 miles for the month. Now this area is a bit bigger so we would
get more than that but I am not sure how much more. So we are have to
watch how much we drive until we are told how many we get. We gave it a
wash and vacuumed it out... it was a mess.... filled up the tires that
were low and then had to pick up some Elders for service. We almost have
all the bamboo gone from the sisters yard. It has only taken us 2-3
months. We then visited another sister from the 3rd ward that really
likes it when we stop by. Had dinner, then met with our eternal
investigator of the 4th ward. By that we mean that he is slowly making
progress but keeps refusing to be baptized. He wanted to watch a movie
about Joseph Smith that he found and we were kind of worried that it was
an anti-mormon movie but to our surprise it was Joseph Smith Prophet of
the Restoration on Netflix. He also prayed when we asked him to. So we
are not really sure what else to do with him...
Saturday we
helped do some service for a brother in the 4th ward that lives in the
5th ward with his girlfriend who is sort of taking the lessons. So as
missionaries we teach only those in our area. But, there are sometimes
boundary exceptions like this brother lives in another ward but his
records are in our ward because he is building a house in our ward.
Anyways we did quite a bit of clean up as he is wanting to start
landscaping. Went home weekly planned had some studies. Went to dinner.
Tied to contact some more but no luck. But, we again looked out our
window and this same brother was now spreading mulch. So we ran over and
helped with that. We then had smores and I was so happy. I have wanted
those for so long.
Sunday was crazy. Now that we have two
wards we also have double the meetings to go to. We had ward council for
both wards at 9 then 3rd ward correlation at 10 and sacrament for 3rd
ward at 11 we then are a little lunch at
12:30
then went to sacrament for the 4th ward. We drove home in time for us
to leave for dinner. Again our plans cancelled on us so we really didn't
have much to do the rest of the night. Made a few stops at members we
hadn't seen in a while. One of them is moving as they closed a deal on
their house on Saturday the full price they asked for. The couple that
bought it is from California and thought it was a great deal. This is
one of the big homes on one of the wealthiest streets in all of eagle.
So this was not cheep. But hey, I guess moving from where houses are
insane to where only the big houses are crazy is good.
This
week was a little slow in all. But, I know that this next week will be
awesome! I am really excited to be able to get around faster now that we
have a car. I really hope I have more fun stories to tell you about
next week. I love you all.
Elder McCallson
Buried Pig
Walking on Stilts
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