9/16

wow this week was soooo close to being so awesome! but it was actually not very awesome. Winter hit this week. hard. Its really wet and rainy. One night we were porting in a hurricane and Elder Smith was just wearing a cotton sweater. He didn't have a umbrella or hood or anything. I had my rain coat but it had soaked through so I can only imagine that he was FREEZING. It looked like he had just came out of a swimming pool. We ported for sooo long that night and everyone was pretty nice but no one let us in or really let us talk to them.  We kept going and going and praying but it just never happened. It would have been such a cool story to be able to say that finally, at the end of the night, that we found someone, but we didn't. BUT the next night we were porting and 3 houses on the same road all told us to come back another time. We had sooo many people who had said that we could come back again and this week was when we had planned to do it every single house had somebody else (another member of there family) answer the door and send us away. I feel really good about how hard we worked and how much faith we showed, so I don't really think that this week was a complete failure. 

That is really scary about dad's truck. I'm pretty glad that we didn't sell the Jeep, but i hope its a good vehicle for him. And that's also scary about surgery. If its gotta be done, its gotta be done.

 

I tried a new food this week- pinecone. Yeah that's right. Well not the actual pine cones but the little seed inside of them. The lady who gave it to us told us told us that it tasted like they had been on the floor. That was true, but it was pretty good!

Yesterday at church someone stepped in poo and then marched alllll around the church. So Elder Smith and I spent most of Sunday school mopping up the church. It was pretty disgusting and it smelled so bad. The actually mopping didn't take that long but we made a pretty big mess with all the cleaners and buckets and stuff. and we had to mops stairs. and dry the floor.

What else? Oh I got the package. The cream didn't spill at all and I started using the razors. They fit on the handle I have.

The lady that called you used to live here and we have ported into her family before. It was pretty weird. The lady was like "I have a cousin who is Mormon who is in town, she moved to the United States" and then we saw her at church and told her about that. She was super nice. She was like "give me your parents email address, address, and phone number and write a little note." She is actually in the same ward as a sister in the mission who was in Angers at the same time as me.

So we just got transfer emails and I got transferred to Mantes. my address is 5, rue des Brouets 78711 MANTES-LA-VILLE. I'm going to be in another 4 man. I'm going to miss Elder Smith!

I'm not homesick. 

I don't want to be negative but really the Kings don't stand a chance. 

I kind of had an idea but idk if it would work. Is there any way that I could do some credits at Butte during the summer and then transfer those to SVU and the go there? or should i really just go out in 4 days? or just give up soccer? I really want to know your opinions.