Posts for Elkhorn_Springs

Temperature spike...

2009 October 26

Yep, it got a bit warmer than we'd like this past week. It's always interesting to be here, as the weather seems to have a mind of its own. It will probably drop again pretty soon, though, since apparently it gets quite a bit colder after Halloween. Work wise, not a whole lot that was interesting, although we do finally have somebody with a baptismal date (after 11 weeks in the area... coming from dead zero is a long process), and we had 3 people at church this week. Not a whole lot on the teaching side, though, due to ...

Zone Conference, other stuff...

2009 October 19

So this week has been pretty quiet, although things continue to get busier. I'm not really sure if I can describe it really well--I'm short on words right now. We had Zone Conference this week, and it told me a couple of things that I ought to do to make me a little bit more effective in my work. I guess that's the main idea with most of them, but this one didn't have much in the way of distractions. They also decided to shorten them a bit, which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea--it removed a ...

Cool October breezes...

2009 October 12

This week has been pretty busy -- between service projects and a couple of lessosn, it's been normal-ish. The work is going pretty well -- we're busier than we were, and we're hopefully going to stay that way. We're looking at probably another couple of new investigators this week. Yay! We had some fun this week with our ward talent show. Elder Sorenson went and wrote some alternate lyrics to "I can go the distance" from Hercules, and sung that -- I added some random commentary (and helped a little with the lyrics). It was pretty fun. I've come to ...

19 months, Conference #4, relocating...

2009 October 05

So this has been a busier week than we've had in a while. 3 lessosns, and we're picking up a bunch more things to do. It's a lot easier when things are rolling a little bit -- there's more of a reason to push. We picked up a new investigator (the sisters had been teaching her, but she actually lives in our ward), and will probably get another 2 tomorrow (we're pretty excited about that). In terms of landmarks, today is 19 months since I went into the MTC. Crazy. Also, this was my last General Conference out here. That ...

Pushing things...

2009 September 28

So, the temperature decided to spike a bunch this weekend, but it looks like we'll be falling into the 70s this week. That's pretty abrupt... Before the weekend, the weather was ok, though. We get to move again this week... we haven't heard much as to where we're going yet, but hopefully they'll figure that out soon. I figure they've got at least one possible (although slightly unpleasant) backup in case everything else fails, but it sounds like there are a couple of other possiblities, too, so we should be ok. The work has been going a little better. We ...

Chapter 14: Rebooting again

2009 September 21

NOTE: The other update that just showed up is last weeks... it perished in a log file explosion. I just resent it without putting a note on it or anything. So, once again, transfers is upon us. And this time, I'm staying. Elder Crump is done, so he's going back to Kentucky. Pretty crazy... My new companion has been out for a transfer... so he got to Vegas 6 weeks ago. I'll be his 2nd trainer. Not entirely expected, but should be fine. I've been working on getting some work going so that it isn't too depressing for the first ...

Splat.

2009 September 21

There's not a whole lot that I feel I can write right now. Not the best of weeks by far, although at least we had a lesson... that's about all of the positive news. The weather sounds like it's going to keep getting better, which should make things a little easier. We hear it might stay in the double digits all week! Yay! We continue to be reminded of the importance of proper record-keeping. It makes things a whole lot easier, especially when you're trying to figure out who to ask for information. Oh, we also discovered a "short cut", ...

Cooling off?

2009 September 08

I have to say that this comes on a Tuesday mainly because it couldn't come on a Monday. Labor Day is always a little wierd for us. There really hasn't been much excitement this week. We had splits with our DL this week (Elder Ortiz -- he's from Maryland), and Zone Conference (on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively). Splits was fun... I got a really funny picture of what the north part of our area looks like. It's actually just northwest of Durango and Moccasin (in case you'd like to know where all that is... Beyond that, we didn't teach much ...

Aaagh... Burning...

2009 August 31

This has been what can only described as a very hot week. It's been exceedingly hot. I'm actually pretty happy that it finally decided to cool off a little this week, and that at the end of the week, we can look forward to highs in the double digits, instead of the triple digits. It's actually kind of exciting. Work wise, things are starting to pick up. I can't recall the last time that I was really happy to get 4 lessons in a week, but this time around it's true. We're in contact with a lot more people now, ...

You know it's been hot when...

2009 August 24

... it drops to the 90s with a big jump in humidity and you're thankful for it. Yes, it has been very hot. It doesn't feel like there's been much going on since my last email, probably because it's only been 5 days. It's not really exciting right now. We've made a lot of visits, but aren't getting a whole lot of traction right now, mainly due to the fact that we don't really have anything set up, and that school starts today here in Vegas. It's been an excercise in frustration trying to get anything going so that we're ...

Wow, I forgot how hot it was

2009 August 19

Ok, so this is a couple of days late because it's that once-every-12-weeks-temple-trip day. Which was nice, as usual. Another transfer begun. So Tuesday evening was the beginning of a week-long adventure. We went up to Reno to pick up Elder Lyle's greenie (Elder Spencer), and to drop me off to head down south. As the bus was ridiculously late, we waited a bit (we went to Deseret Book while we were there because I hadn't been since before the Elder Bednar meeting back in May). To my surprise, Elder Crump (my new companion) showed up there. It was a ...

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 ...