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Chapter 13: Another long road

2009 August 10

Elder Larsen to Elkhorn Springs with Elder Crump on a bike. Covering: Silverstone. Yep, here we go again. I'm going back to Tule Springs Zone (that's where my last area was, too) on bike. This time it's a little different, as I'm with somebody who's been out a long time (he goes home in 6 weeks... so I'll be going on to companion #11 pretty soon afterwards). It's still North Vegas, and it's August, so it'll be warm (forecast for the early part of this week is 103-105 for the high, with lows in the 80s. Yay. The other odd ...

Zone Conference, Moving,

2009 August 03

So this has been another busy week... First off, we finally got moved. We're not quite finished closing out the other apartment, but we're out of there now, so that puts us in pretty good shape. Anyways, new address is: 4827 Killdeer Carson City, NV 89701 Yep, that's the really exciting stuff. It's amazing how much stuff there ends up being in a missionary apartment. It's unreal. It took a while to get all cleaned out, and that ate a lot of our time. Before the whole moving thing, we had Zone Conference, which was good, as usual, although a ...

No, it really is regression.

2009 July 27

All right, so now that I've had myldsmail eat my email once, I'll retype it. So we're kind-of moved right now. By kind-of, I mean that we would have moved, except that our new place isn't ready yet. We're starting to cut that a little close than I'd like. For now, just send stuff to the mission office (4455 Allen Ln, Ste 140, North Las Vegas, NV 89031). We haven't had much going on this week workwise, partially due to the whole moving thing (we've been working on getting everything ready at our new place, and I think we're almost ...

Why do I need to make a title?

2009 July 20

So this has been a very quiet week... well ok, maybe not that quiet... So, we're moving. We're actually in that process right now. My current address will still work until the end of the month, so I'll send my new address next week. The mission office is having us move in with some of the members of our ward--they've been doing this a lot lately, especially in this mission. We've spent a good amount of time over the past week getting all that taken care of. Fun times. I don't think I've mentioned how much I don't like moving, ...

Retrogression... or maybe not?

2009 July 13

So this week was pretty quiet. We had a lot of appointments fall through. That makes things pretty difficult. I think we stretched our miles pretty bad, so we'll probably be stuck tracting a bunch this week (just to keep low on mileage), which I'm not really looking forward to much. On the upside we did get a few people to church this week, which could be progress, although we'll really have to see until next week to know if this is a habit, or just that they showed up finally. The weather's been getting warmer, but is still decent. ...

2/3??? Wow, that doesn't seem like it's been that long.

2009 July 06

So this has been a pretty normal week. Well, except for having a holiday this week. That does tend to put a damper on things... people all busy with taking a little bit of vacation and such. We're thinking that this week will be pretty good, since we still managed to have 10 lessons with all of the interruptions. We're still having trouble getting people to church, but we had one show up this week, so things are starting to roll there. 4th of July was a bit better this year than it was last year. Partially because we didn't ...

Chapter 12: Changes, but not the normal kind.

2009 June 29

So this has been kind-of a crazy week. We haven't moved yet. The good news is that the mission office was just confusing everyone really bad, and we're not being kicked out, it's just that the words "evacuation notice" when put through a couple of telephones and talking about an apartment, especially with phrases like "in 10-12 days" can get garbled into something that sounds like "the missionaries have gotten an eviction notice, and they have 10-12 days left". Oy vey. It wasn't until later on last Monday that we finally got this all pieced together (that the office would ...

Summer in Carson City

2009 June 22

So this has been a slightly better week than the last one was. We've had a little more work going on, and we had zone conference, and interviews, and all that fun stuff. It's also been a little wierd, since we found out Wednesday night that we are going to be moving this week... at least, that's what we think is going to be happening. This has all been very confusing. It's also a week before transfers, and, given my love of moving (read: *not*), I'm just all warm and fuzzy inside about this. But the week was good, so ...

The calm after the storm

2009 June 15

So this week was a whole lot quieter than last week. Almost depressingly quieter. The nice thing was that the weekend was busier. So, things we did this week: - Dug a hole. - Moved somebody in someone else's area. - Ended up in Minden for an hour. - Ate lunch. Every day. - Oh, yeah... we had a couple of lessons (like 3--amazingly quiet right now). - Taught FHE (see above). Anyways, that's the really exciting stuff. A whole lot of people were busy or not home or other stuff like being in the hospital. It had better end ...

Quiet Times in Carson City

2009 June 01

Ok, so now that myldsmail has eaten the first copy of this... I've really come to not like myldsmail lately. It just decides to log you out for no reason every little while (the time seems to be pretty random), and if you try to send the message you've been typing, it just eats it instead of giving you a chance to copy it or something. *Very* annoying. So this week was rather short (since my last email was on Wednesday). We had a lesson on Wednesday night, which was good, and then a mostly uneventful Thursday (other that the ...

Chapter 11: Leadership?

2009 May 18

So this was a rather busy weekend. The week preceding it was rather quiet. We did a lot of tracting because most of our appointments fell through. That doesn't make for a whole lot of excitement. The weather was pretty warm, too. Saturday, however was a long and busy day. We started off with a pretty normal morning, and then headed up to Reno around 1pm. We got there and had lunch, visited with some people, and then we went to the Golconda building for our meeting... except that somebody had put the wrong building on the agendas, and we ...

Quiet

2009 May 11

So this felt like a pretty long week, but there wasn't too much that happened beyond Zone Conference. That was pretty awesome, though. We also had some lessons. We're trying to get people moving along, but it's just way complicated sometimes. It never ends. Right now we just want people to show up for church... The weather's been pretty nice, although it's getting a little warmer than it was. I keep telling myself that it will just stay spring the whole time and that I won't have to deal with Summer, but somehow that just doesn't seem too likely. Oh, ...

More rain?

2009 May 04

So this week wasn't too exciting. We have people moving along, but they aren't really ready yet, so that's a little depressing. Not too depressing though. We spent a bunch of time this week trying to figure out what to do... There's this point at which you start to wonder what you can do, and we're starting to hit that (although maybe this week was more difficult than usual). Enclosed is a picture we took this morning, at the corner of Adams and Fall streets (if we had gone shopping first, I would have gotten an apple, but I digress...). ...

Weather psychosis

2009 April 27

Another pretty decent week. We taught 9 lessons this week, which is the highest I've done in a while. The area's starting to get rolling finally, which is nice, although we still end up struggling to find things to do. Such is life sometimes. I'm still pretty tired, although the upside here is that it's just mental, and not physical exhaustion. So many things happening. We almost had a baptism this week, but we didn't quite make it---sometimes word of wisdom issues can take a while. I think we're almost there, though. We have a couple more investigators that we're ...

Sunny days, cool nights

2009 April 20

So this week was pretty good. The weather has been a little odd, but it's been good otherwise. I'm still getting used to sharing a ward with other missionaries. It is pretty fun having Elder Pruitt around again, even if for some reason he isn't in our district (why do we have Dayton, but not the Span-ams in our ward? hmm). Although there are some white handbook rules that I'm beginning to understand much better now that there are other missionaries around during church. The work is going ok. We've added another investigator to our pool, and we also are ...

Back in the North

2009 April 13

So... I've got another new address. Whee! Elder Michael Larsen / 305 W 8th St / Carson City, NV 89703 The van ride up here was pretty crowded. It's a looong drive from Vegas to Sparks (stops in Beatty, Tonopah and Fallon, as usual). Had Ausmus and Pruitt and Brown and some other people and some greenies in the van. 11 in all, not counting Elder Monroe, who was driving. It was pretty squished. I also think I ate too many chocolate-covered gummy bears on the way up (got them at the candy shop in Beatty). Yep. It's pretty exciting. ...

Back in the North

2009 April 13

Chapter 10: Expect the unexpected

2009 April 06

So you might think after having been in my previous area for 4 transfers, and having only been here for 6 weeks, that I wouldn't get moved for a little while longer. Maybe a new companion or something, right?... *Wrong* Transfer calls is: Elder Larsen to Carson City as Jr. Comp. with Elder Jex in a car. Covering: Hot Springs, Carson River. Yep. Expect the unexpected. Anyways, this week wasn't too bad otherwise. Conference was pretty awesome, especially Saturday Morning, since we watched that with our investigators (I feel so happy to have done that, and also that we have ...

Onion Ring Blizzard

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