BIGGEST NEWS OF ALL: For the first time in history (not sure if
this is entirely true but we have never heard of it before) President
publicly announced what was going to happen next transfer a week ahead.
People from the ward told us that they had been approaching president
all throughout Stake Conference telling him that he can't take us away.
Bishop Myers, when we told him maybe he should slip in a $20, told us he
would slip in a $100. When we joked with president about it, he leaned
forward and told us that we were already staying for at least another
transfer but if we kept it secret he would split the money with us!
haha. Then Sister Wood was like "Wait, are you serious. Are we staying
another transfer?" And he was! We are staying! He even told the Zone
leaders and half the ward!
Funny story: We made a new friend this
week in Burger King. Love Wells. We originally met him at June's funeral
and we ran into him in BK and we started talking, His eyes were shifty
and he kept looking around. We have some new favorite quotes.
Him: Do you know Dumpster Doug?
Me: Yeah, we briefly met him in the Post Office, he seemed really nice!
Him:
Well, I don't trust him. He keeps on wantin' me to go to Twin with him
to buy groceries but there's just something fishy bout him.
Then he looked us right in the eye. "Did you know
there's a Chinese Spoon Mine underneath the Shell Crest Motel?" Sister
Wood looks at him back and says "No way!" and he continues after looking
around. "Mmhmm. And have you heard about all the FBI in town?" Sister
Wood, "No, I haven't." He leans closer and points to himself. "They're
takin' notes on me". Sister Wood, "And why's that?" He sits up, looks
around, leans in not quites as intense and says "I've been snitchin' on
people. I'm gonna take my dog and just walk down 93. I'm gonna walk my
dog"
Well, it's been a few days and he's still here in
town. He waves and us and smiles every time we see him though! Guess the
FBI haven't got him quite yet :)
In
other news this week I can truthfully claim that I rode a caterpillar
(not a farming equipment, but a stuffed animal) and I fought imaginary
monsters with another little kid.
I was actually sick one day and we had to go to Elko
three times this week! But regardless, we still had 14 lessons (17
being the mission average)! So we were pretty happy.
I
think my most profound moment was when I was sick and we were listening
to a talk titled "From Catholic Priest to Mormon" and he told his
conversion story and when he talked about saying goodbye, he called them
"My Missionaries". And Suddenly I got all teary eyed. I recalled all
the people that have called us their missionaries and one day down the
line someone will talk about their missionaries and that missionary will
be me. I needed that. It helped me to remember just why I'm here,
because someone needs me to be their missionary.
The pictures from this week are from
the service project we did/doing. We are getting new people to manage
the Shell Crest and we are helping them move in and renovate. We've done
a lot of painting. The first day we were over brother Lee exclaims that
he doesn't want their missionaries to be running around with paint in
their hair, so he bought us hats! (Sidenote: Don't judge our mess. It's a
small motel room and there is nowhere else to put it)
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