Posts for cold

Reboot

2008 December 08

So, after a few not-so-great weeks (sending a companion home isn't easy, and the past few haven't been the best either), I've finally gotten the chance to get back in gear. Anyways, so of you might be wondering what the pictures are. The first is of my new companion... 6 months ago. The second is a shunk version of the original photo. From left to right, Sister Mose, Myself, Elder Dahl, Elder Francis, Elder Wonnacott, Elder Riddle, Elder Bitton, Elder D. Smith (the one I don't live with), and Elder Guerra. That picture is at transfers back when Elder Dahl ...

1/3. Also, 20. Also, Elder Kikuchi

2008 November 11

Well, it's been a fairly eventful week here, both workwise, and also in terms of various milestones. The first really major event this week was last Wednesday... which is 8 months to the day I went into the MTC. So I'm officially 1/3 of the way through. I'm not exactly how this got here so fast, but I'm just trying to convince myself now that it will all be ok, because it'll be another 4 months until I get to halfway... so I have lots of time. Workwise, things have been going well... we've had ...

Adventures in Halloween and rainy weather

2008 November 03

So we've opened some new territory here. It's getting COLDER. And it rained Saturday night. We were tracting Saturday afternoon, and we had some minor run-ins with dust clouds. We've had to start wearing coats a little bit. Not a lot of interesting missionary work this week. We're pretty much out of investigators (they're in the branch, or they're baptized), which makes for very boring weeks. Of course, now that I'm in charge, this is pretty much my fault. Well, not entirely, but I figure that if I keep thinking about it that way, I'll figure a ...