Trunkie Week

Whoo! This week went by slow and fast. But the entire time was thinking about home or college. It didn't helo that there wasn't too much to do during the weekdays, but we tried to visit the members that the ward council dumped on us this last meeting. Lots of them did not answer or gave us that "we'll call you" and never called us back. You do get used to it however on your mission as you are told constantly the same thing. It seems these part-members or less-active members just don't want to be found out here. They just want to keep going on there lives the way they are already are. But hey, what can you do.

We have actually been doing a lot of service this week for the Tinneyès next door neighbors, Robin, Stewart, and Alex. Robin and Stewart are a couple and Alex is the 15 year old kid. They recently cut down 3 trees and we helped them load up the branches in a trailer and dump them somewhere else. They actually really appreciated it. It was pretty awesome because the begining of the second day that we were going to load the trailer up Robin came up to us and said, So what is the process of joining your church because I am pretty interested in it. She also expressed that Alex had not been baptized in her church and thought it would be good for him to start coming to our church if that is what he wants. To be honest, Elder Hulse and I were kinda taken back and astonished by this because we never expected to hear this from them. Things were going down the drain, but because Brother Tinney was being a good neighbor and inviting us to get involved, this happened. That was an awesome day! I have never had someone come up to us and express that before.

We have been "meeting" with them from now and then. Brother Tinney still invites us to come to BBQs and they are there and enjoy us being there. I think what got them comfortable with us was 1). We kept doing service for them with no ask in return.

2.) We acted like normal people.

People say that we missionaries have to act holy all the time no matter what. Yes, I agree. However, don't let it take over your humanity. Don't become a robot like I have expressed before. You are still you and you can relate to a lot of people the way you are. If you are just a robot going through the motions, then I could just easily replace you with a normal robot. We come on missions to improve our testimonies and to understand what the world is really all about. People are different everywhere and I have seen that.

We also helped with this demolition derby this Saturday with all our zone. It was...fun at some times. We were mainly part of the parking of this event and it was BUSY! Oh my goodness! Plus people were getting super pissed at us because we "weren't doing good at our job". This event was fetching busy! We had to go to many parking spots that people did not like, but that is what happens when you arrive 30 minutes late. Our zone thought we were kidding about our area being prideful and people being mean to everyone. Well, now they know how bad it is here and they never say a word about it again. We were just basically done with people at the end of the day. The event wasn't too bad. It was fun seeing cars crash into people at some times. It was a nice get together of the zone.

As for the college thing: Thank you! It is a lot to think about right now. I had some classes I do want to narrow down. The Book of Mormon class looks sweet. I do want to go to raquetball and probably Math 101 or whatever you had on the paper would be good for me I believe. That is all I narrowed down for college so far.

Question Time:

1#: Do we teach any lessons on Sunday? 

No, we haven't since the time I have been here. We did give a talk last Sunday in Sacrament meeting, but the talks were so short that we had to base it on, that we only talked for 5 minutes.

Well, that was it for this week. There should be a couple of piano videos coming soon this week so hopefully I can get those uploaded pretty quick! Thank you so much for your support!

10 Weeks Left!!!!