Well this week has been a little bit of a sad one for me to say the least. Not exactly in the terms of missionary work, we had a pretty good one, but I had many reminders of home!
We started early last week with a less than good lesson with a recent convert in our ward, Tracie McAninch pretty much told us that she was done with the LDS Religion. Not exactly in those terms, but she got baptized for all the wrong reasons, and now because of something that was said by our lovely Ward Mission Leaders wife, she said that she can't bring herself to go back to church! The comment was during Sister Schaefer's class, which is laden with false, and opinionated doctrine. It is always a treat! The lesson was on the Law of Chastity, but all we seemed to talk about was gay's. Someone commented that they would not allow a gay into their home, and Tracie had a brother that was gay, so her feelings were hurt! So that was a bit of a bummer!
Then I will skip all of the way until Friday, because of District Leader Training we had one of the Palo Cedro Elder's spend the day with us. That morning while Elder McAllister was upstairs Elder Stein (name has been changed) got a phone call from President Pendleton, after the call he went into the bathroom for a minute, came out and informed me that he was getting sent home for a while, he had a interview with President, and he finally got the monkey off of his back. I am glad, that he now get's to use the power of the Atonement, but it is sad to see him go. He left this morning, and that was a little depressing for me, I bet Elder Call is even more disappointed than I am!
Another reminder of home was this General Conference, now I enjoyed it very much, and had the privilege of watching all ten hours at the Anderson Stake Building, but it was a big reminder of home. Especially the Priesthood Conference, I thought about last October attending with Dad, Isaac, and Ian! It was a bitter sweet moment.
So you asked about promising investigators, umm. The Griffeth's are awesome, but they aren't really progressing at the moment, the Lucero twins have been sick, and we haven't met with them in two weeks, and Jeanne Smith is getting prepared for Baptism, she has to things to take care of first.
I have a really funny story about yesterday for you guys, so Elder Stein and Call were leaving our apartment after P-day activity around 4, we said goodbye, and prepared for our dinner at around 6:30. At 6 Elder Call opens the door, and poke's his head through the doorway! As it turns out he was the driver, when he flipped a U turn, he ran the car into a curb in a parking lot, and bent both rims, and flattened both tires on the right side! They called the vehicle coordinator who told them to put the spare in place of the worse tire, and drive to our apartment, so we get out there, and the car has two good wheels, the spare tire, and is jacked up and missing the fourth tire! We had to drive them to their apartment, and early this morning, they went and got the tires fixed. It was a pretty funny, totally a negligent accident.
This week I hit my four month mark! Crazy. Well that is about it. The work is going well, and I am in a feeling good inspite of this week's challenges.
Today I got your package! Thanks so much those Ensigns are great! I love your gutz so much!
Elder Ellsworth
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