Grant Mission

Okay, everyone. This has been the longest week of my Mission so far. And the most stressful. We had transfer news come out on Wednesday at 11. It said I was going to whitewash an area with an Elder I already know over in Pocatello. That's easy enough right? No, it wasn't. We go to the transfer site and the first thing I hear is that things might've been shifted around and that I might not be going with that Elder. We Head over to Burley and swap stuff around and head over to Pocatello soon after that. When we get there however, the Mission President pulled me aside and said that my companion was going to get here the next day. He also told me who it was. I am going with one of the definitely not good missionaries out here. Elder Casablanca. He doesn't work, doesn't teach, and much less studies. And I'm whitewashing with him. The reason he wasn't there was because the transfer news said he was going over to Twin Falls and so that's where he went.  I got t...

Okay, this has been a really busy week, if you couldn't tell from the title. We have had a lot of things planned fall through and a lot of unplanned things happen. It all started Wednesday.... we had District Council and my companion had this amazing idea to make breakfast burritos there. Now, the first thing that went wrong was the idea I had to pour the hot bacon grease into a plastic cup. Now, if I had put any more thought into it, I would've realized that it was a BAD idea to do that. My companion kept saying it would melt but I said "Noooooo.... it won't melt." But, lo and behold, it melted. Thankfully I took the smallest bit of advice and did it over the trash. So! Everyone! Learn from my mistake and get 2 plastic cups inside each other not just one!  We had a lesson with some people that we are teaching and they said they would pray about our message and baptism as well! They also said they would come to the Ward Party on Saturday but some things happened t...

So! This has been a hectic week! It's been a lot of ups but being up for so long wears the body and mind out! I am TIRED and still look forward to this next week! The first miracle is that we had another baptism! He has been learning for a while and called up the Bishop last Tuesday and said he wanted to get baptized that weekend! The Bishop called us really quickly in the middle of a Nerf war and gave us the miraculous news! We rushed to get the interview done and then got him baptized at 9 on Saturday. No picture because of how fast it was. I also got to baptize him! It was amazing! The second miracle happened on exchanges yesterday. We had just knocked the first person of the day and were walking back to the car when I said we should knock the street we were on. And the very first house let us share a message and accepted a Book of Mormon and the trio who are in the area are going back Wednesday to teach him more!  The bug was super cool! Elder Beelek, the exchange companion fou...

That's the question a lot of our friends have asked this week. Am I ready for baptism? They struggle to understand when they can and are able to get baptized.  We as missionaries only have so much to teach. Some think they have to know everything in order to get baptized. This can be stressful for us because we know they are ready and that they know it all but can't force them into baptism. It is all we can do sometimes to help them see that and promise blessings.  There was a girl we were talking with yesterday on exchanges who had that same problem. My exchange companion, and trainer, Elder Klomp talked to her and by the end of us getting to know her a bit and teaching and talking she set her own date! It was really special. Now I just hope I'm here long enough to see it happen!  Sometimes that's how we all are with a lot of things. We think we won't be ready or that we don't know enough but God does. He puts us in places and circumstances that we might think ...

First! Lawn care. In Filer, we live in a shoebox that has been enlarged to livable proportions. And its green. And possibly the only house in the miss with a lawn. So. We aren't allowed to mow our lawn as missionaries so we just let it grow. Way too tall apparently because the city has been getting complaints about it. So the police chief stopped by twice and warned us that it has to get mowed or someone is going to get fined. So after unsuccessfully trying to 1. Find our housing coordinator, and then 2. Calling the mission office to find out who it actually is, then 3. Actually calling them, to finally 4. Get the answer that they don't do that and have never even thought to do it.  So. With that being said, we called the mission housing people and got a plan laid out. But then came home to the police chief mowing our lawn! That's nice of him but that messed up the plan (All this is happening last Wednesday). SO! We then got word that the housing coordinator would come down...