2013 Aug 27

Thanks SO much DAD that's an awesome idea, thanks for the blooog! Well let me think hmmm, well i have to say thanks to grandma and grandpa for that pentel multicolor pencil, it's coming in handy a LOOOT! Thanks for all your support! My Companion: Elder Colburn is from Falleen Nevada, he is great and he doesn't care for tracting at all. We did it yesterday, met more people then usual and he was just so tickled red to have to do all that. I think he's been a member all his life, pretty sure of it, his dad's a FAA Worker so he checks on flight bases and such. he was in a base overlooking Area 51 and they took away all his cds, flashdrives, and anything that could record data. Hi everybodddy! It's your favorite silly guy out in Idaho! Well, this week has been fun, out here in this mission we do something called church tours and that's where we talk about and bring people through the church talking about sacrament, baptism, and the pictures of Christ we have all around us. In this mission there are two numbers that we report on this one is called CTI(Church tour invites) and CTA(Church Tour Actuals) and we've had three church tours so far this month but we have invited over 35 people to them! yeaah, that's amazing to look back and see that. Well one of my new favorite things as well is to go on exchanges. for those of you who don't know i will explain simply. Exchanges are when your companion is traded for another person and you then teach without your companion for a little, since my companion is district leader he has to do this most weekly. he doesn't like it much but it's his calling. So i get to hang out with elders from Orofino, Grangeville(also known as strangeville to missionaries), and lewiston(known as lewistank.) Lewiston has a paper factory next to it and to treat the paper they use sulfur...yeah its smelly. I went out to Grangeville last week and...well to be honest it felt like i was beginning to step into a Stephen king novel. there are people looking out the windows that hide when they see us, there are so many oddities there(like a church that looks like a KKK hood is on it) and it's just weird out there.It's the southernmost part of the mission too so I was pretty close to the edge. AH! i just remembered something exciting! Jordan Hrabak(Jim hrabak's granson AKA the newest convert in our area that was baptized last week) has been taking the missionary lessons and he is going through leaps and bounds when he's reading his book of Mormon. Yep, he is truly a golden investigator! I hope to get letters from family too y'know, letters are fun to receive in the middle of the week. Also remember next week is labor day so i might not be able to email you next Monday, but i am always able to mail! ^-^ I'm running low on postage stamps too but when my next monthly allotment comes in i'll buy myself a little roll of maybe twenty stamps or so (= approximately ten bucks i think) How is everyone doing out there!? I am so happy that you all are out there and i pray for my family nightly. Well i have to end this email now it's getting a bit too lengthy and i don't want to bore any of you, LATER! Service Journal: Service is one of the best ways to meet with less actives and just get them friends and interested in the church again. There are many blessings to working with members and one of the most interesting ones was last week. I worked with an elderly gentleman just across the street from me named Tom SEaver. He is a collector of Records, Knives, Guns, and transitional technology(I.E. Stuff that can take reels into tape cassette format and tape cassette to mp3) We were moving stuff for him and we finished moving a heavy old metal generator that uses gas to make electricity and we were about to close it up for him when he opened a box and said "i got to thank you boys so take anything you want, don't be bashful i got dozens of them" The wall had boxes and boxes of knives And i was just in heaven looking at knives and looking at fixed blades, switchblades, fancy knives, russ farrells, and apache cutlery. I know that doing service blesses us in ways we could never imagine and this was one of those moments.