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Reboot
2010 July 23, 9:20 p.m. EDT
So, almost five months of neglecting to post anything, I thought I'd start writing again. As far as I can tell, this won't hit the mailing list, but that really remains to be seen. One might wonder what has been going on with me. I don't really know why anybody would care, but I'm going to tell you anyway. So if you're easily bored, now is the time to go check twitter or something...
Chapter 18: The wild blue yonder
2010 March 08, 1:31 p.m. EST
So all of you that have been counting can guess really easy what I've been up to this morning. It's been a little weird. I'm not sure if everything fits in one bag yet, but it turns out I can do 2 bags if I need to, so not a huge deal. I found it really ironic this morning when Elder Mismash told me that I'm too trunky as I'm packing my bags... really? Anyways, we had an ok week, although mainly because we were busy Sunday. Pretty much everybody was sick or had other issues the whole week. Not ...
Last week
2010 March 01, 1:47 p.m. EST
Ok, not a really exciting week. We didn't have a whole lot going on, and we had a bit of a cold going around the apartment. That always seems to put a damper on things. We did, however, manage to find a couple of new investigators this week, although mainly by accident, in that they started talking to the spanish missionaries when they were walking to their car. I guess on that front it was pretty exciting. This week looks to be pretty good. We've got a temple trip for all the going home people, and then I've got my ...
Zone Conference! 2 weeks?
2010 February 22, 1:48 p.m. EST
Ok, so this has been an exciting week in some ways, and not very interesting in other ways. The interesting part was that we had zone conference. It was at the Twain building, which is kind of funny, since my first, third and fourth ones were there, too. We had all 5 zones here in Vegas there, since we actually had that general authority tour that they'd been telling us we were going to have since November. We had Elder Spencer V. Jones of the Seventy (2nd quorum) visiting. It was a pretty fun meeting, and it was nice to ...
Good week. 3 left.
2010 February 15, 2:31 p.m. EST
Ok, so they went and changed my email address for the next 3 weeks. The new one is michaell@myldsmail.net (Kind of silly, I know). We're now using gmail internally, which is a whole lot more responsive than the old system (written by Novell). Anyways, this week was pretty awesome in that we had a baptism... It's really fun to see when people are excited and growing in the gospel. I think that's probably one of the most rewarding things about being here, just being able to see that firsthand. It really made my week. Besides that, we also had another ...
Good week. 3 left.
2010 February 15, 11:02 a.m. EST
Ok, so they went and changed my email address for the next 3 weeks. The new one is michaell@myldsmail.net (Kind of silly, I know). We're now using gmail internally, which is a whole lot more responsive than the old system (written by Novell).
Time flies...
2010 February 08, 2:02 p.m. EST
This week was actually really good. We had a whole 9 lessons (Yay!! this area is coming back to life!), and we're getting pretty excited about the baptism we have this week. So, I thought we might be updgrading to the new myldsmail, and we are, but first it has to decide to actually migrate me. Oy vey. Anyways, stay tuned for a possibly new email address. Anyways, this weekend was pretty awesome because one of our less-active families had their son baptized, and we got one of our investigators there, and she's getting baptized this week, and she went ...
Temple Trip, other fun stuff
2010 February 03, 3:19 p.m. EST
So it's been a pretty good week. We've gotten pretty much all settled now, which is nice. The work is going pretty well, and we're looking forward to a baptism at the end of next week. Things are looking pretty good from that front. We had a missionary farewell this week--there's a guy from our ward going to the Washington Spokane mission. That made our sacrament meeting extra packed... all the way into the second overflow. We've had pretty high attendance for the past couple of weeks, although I'm not really sure why that is... This morning we had our ...
Chapter 17: One more go around
2010 January 25, 3:13 p.m. EST
So, transfers is up again, and I'm staying here for the last little bit, but Elder Ostler is leaving me. He's going to Lakes Ward (the west half of my second area). My new companion is Elder Paul. He's been out about 9 months, and is coming from my old Highland Hills area (Aliante & Waterfall wards). Beyond that, we had two pretty interesting events this week. The first was zone conference, which was supposed to be a general authority tour, but ended up just being a really big zone conference because the tour got canceled. It was still pretty ...
Running out of titles...
2010 January 18, 2:06 p.m. EST
So, It's been another interesting week. Actually, things are looking pretty good right now. We've got a bunch of people that we either just started teaching, or a just about to start teaching, which makes things pretty exciting. We've also got zone conference (with a visiting Seventy) this week, and transfer calls at the end of the week. Other than the work, not much else has been going on. After all the holiday stuff, things are really quiet. Well, maybe just more routine. The weather's been ok. It's "cold" and rainy today. We're usually in sweaters these days, although mainly ...
Quiet half-week.
2010 January 11, 2:32 p.m. EST
So, since Wednesday there really hasn't been that much going on. I think we're pretty much back to normal, but not much has happened. We've got a bit of a shortage of investigators right now. We didn't have any at church this week either, which is a little depressing. Hopefully we can get that to change for this next week. Other than that, things have been going ok. We have some new people that we're set to start teaching today, and a bunch of people to follow-up on, so we should be able to keep busy. I don't know, there's ...
New Year
2010 January 06, 2:06 p.m. EST
So this week was pretty quiet at first. We got a little bit of work done to start, but we were a bit under the weather Thursday. Friday was quiet. Probably about the quietest New Years Day I've had. We pretty much stayed put because neither Elder Ostler nor Elder Ethington were feeling too good. Actually Friday night turned a little interesting, mainly because we ended up having to take Elder Ostler in to the hospital at about 2 in the morning. That killed the rest of the week, and is also why this update is a little late. In ...
Title 31415962: Quiet time
2009 December 28, 2:22 p.m. EST
Well, this week was all nice and exciting on some things (phone call! yay!), and really boring on other things (nothing to do... boo!). We had a little bit of luck tracting this week... we had some good conversations. We've also got a couple of people to check back on in a little while, and hopefully that will lead to something. We also got asked to speak in church, which went pretty well (especially considering that I got a bit under the weather and was pretty sure I was going to fall asleep right beforehand). We've had a bit of ...
Christmas time in Las Vegas
2009 December 21, 2:21 p.m. EST
So this has been a pretty fun week. It warmed up a bit, and we've had some pretty fun days... between a little bit more mobility, and getting a hold of some people that we hadn't seen in a while or that I hadn't really met yet, we've been doing good. We've also had a few christmas related activities, like the ward christmas party and the christmas musical sacrament meeting and caroling... it's just a lot of fun. It's kind of wierd in some ways, but I feel like, at least to a degree, I'm at home with where I ...
Chapter 16:
2009 December 14, 2:58 p.m. EST
Ok, so this has been a wierd week, especially with zone conference and seeing all the people going home... it's just odd. Last night and this morning, Elder Pruitt was packing, and that felt really wierd. It just feels wierd all around. Transfers decided to skip me this time, so me and Elder Ostler are staying for another 6 weeks. I'm pretty happy about that--we're getting along pretty well and I really like this ward, and I just don't need any extra changes this transfer. A whole bunch of other people in the zone are moving... it's pretty extensive. We ...
Title 92: the cold 21 month time
2009 December 07, 3:25 p.m. EST
So, 2 days ago marked 21 months. That's a pretty strange thought. In a week, the transfer will be over, and a whole bunch of people go home. It almost feels like the world is about to change a lot, but in some ways it doesn't feel like it. The mission is a funny place, and I've only got 3 months before I have to go back to the real world. That's a pretty scary thought. Ok, no more thinking about that... In other news, it's still "cold" here. We've even had a couple of nights where it's been below ...
21 months, cold times in Vegas, running out of titles...
2009 December 07, 3:19 p.m. EST
So, 2 days ago marked 21 months. That's a pretty strange thought. In a week, the transfer will be over, and a whole bunch of people go home. It almost feels like the world is about to change a lot, but in some ways it doesn't feel like it. The mission is a funny place, and I've only got 3 months before I have to go back to the real world. That's a pretty scary thought. Ok, no more thinking about that... In other news, it's still "cold" here. We've even had a couple of nights where it's been below ...
Thanksgiving #2...
2009 November 30, 1:31 p.m. EST
Well, it's been a pretty quiet week. As thanksgiving usually is, although there are a couple of fun things... Turkey Bowl #2! We got 2nd place (Tule Springs pretty much walked away with 1st, and we tied for 2nd). Pretty fun--down here you get to see pretty much everybody. It makes for a pretty huge group of missionaries. That was pretty much all the excitement for the week, though. We had a couple of lessons, and we're hoping we'll be able to manage a few this week. It's still not horribly cold (actually it's gotten slightly warmer), and this week ...
Crazy world.
2009 November 23, 2:24 p.m. EST
Well, this has been an interesting week in many ways. To start off, Tuesday, we had a small shuffle of missionaries, and now we have Elder Mismash in our apartment instead of Elder Modawell. I'm not really sure what happened there, but here we are. That has led to a bit of adjustment (add that we're still trying to get the apartment fixed up), although I think we're doing ok. Not a whole lot of work right now, although there are a few things that should start happening really soon. This is the boring phase of things, usually before things ...
Stake Conference, biking up hills, etc...
2009 November 16, 2:49 p.m. EST
As it often is after a wednesday emailing session, not a whole lot has happened in the past 5 days (compared with the preceding 9). Especially since my companion was under the weather for a couple of days, so we weren't able to get a whole lot done. We did have stake conference, though. We had a few people there, mainly recent converts. It's a pretty big stake right now. There were a couple of really good talks, including one that answered a couple of things I'd been pondering a lot lately. So it was pretty sweet. That hill is ...