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Hello everyone!!
Man, let me just tell you all that I am just so happy to email you guys each week! It gets me to be so happy after a week of hard work and finally get to sit down and talk with you guys a little bit about my week. I hope that you find everything in my email spiritually enlightening and somewhat humorous. I mean, c'mon. We all need humor in our lives.
Alright, here's my week....
Tuesday: Elder Ward and I went and mowed a member's lawn. He was in great need of moving his extra yarn from his garage and into his van. We helped him out with both of those things. Also, we tried to remember the victims of 9/11 that day. It got to 97 degrees Fahrenheit in Tucumcari that day. A little toasty down here.
Wednesday: Elder Ward and I packed our bags and went to Amarillo Texas for zone conference! We were greeted by our zone leaders, Elder Collins and Elder McKenzie. Great Elders, I love them lots.
Before we went to Amarillo, we got directions from a man we are teaching to his brother who is in the hospital. We tried to go and visit him, but we couldn't find him. We tried again on Saturday.
Thursday: Zone Conference! Super fun experience. It's just like general conference except there is a lot more PowerPoint involved and there is a lot of role-playing. I had the privilege of playing the piano for the opening and closing song. They seem to take advantage of the talent I have. When zone conference was done, Elder Ward and I headed back to Tucumcari. When we came back, we were sooooooo tired. We nearly ran out of gas in the middle of coming back, the only thing that saved us was Elder Ward looking at the Gasoline Gauge.
Friday: Elder Ward and I went tracting in the morning on the street we live on, but no one was interested. We ate dinner with an inactive member at a restaurant called Del's. It has the best steak I have ever had in my life. You want good steak? Take route 66 to Tucumcari, New Mexico. We stopped around a lot at inactive member homes, and still no one answered. Oh well! We still had a great time as a companionship.
Saturday: this day was pretty interesting.
Elder Ward and I went to do a service project at a museum. Our job was to make a new flower bed. It was hard, the lady who was having us do this wanted petrified wood to circle around the bed, and let me tell ya: it's not light stuff. A basketball sized chunk of petrified wood weighs around 50 pounds. We had to move around 20 luggage sized peices to the flower bed. Unfortunately, when I was rolling a chunk of petrified wood, it fell right onto my right big toe, and I was hopping and yipping for around 2 minutes. I enjoyed every second of the service project. For one thing, who ever gets to move petrified wood as a service project!? Its so cool. And for another, it's a museum we're talking about. I don't think I personally knew anyone that has worked at a museum before.
Sunday (yesterday): Elder Ward and I gave talks on Gratitude, and one of our main progressing investigators came and listened. She loves it, and she plans on coming back. I played the piano for the primary children, since their original primary pianist had to leave. Her name is Sister Nemroe. She had a stroke at the grocery store while her son was there, and she was taken to the Amarillo hospital. When the doctors ran the tests, they couldn't actually determine if it was an aneurysm or a stroke. Either way, she was taken to St. George Utah to live with the isaacsons for the rest of her life. Ever since she has been gone, I have played in the primary, and the kids love it when a "mishy" comes to play the piano. I made a little friend, and she is Lucy's age. She's a sweet little girl. She was always trying to make me laugh during sharing time, and she actually made me laugh a little when she kicked me on accident when I was sitting next to her. I love the primary kids, they are sweet. They are actually getting a baptism, the boys name is Dylan Romriell. (Dad, if this sounds familiar, it's because the Romriells used to live in Cheyenne, and the dad told me he knew you).
So I haven't really heard anything regarding my visa. At this point, it's kind of hard to tell when it will come, but I still have faith it will. I still study malagasy tons, and I love it lots. I hope I can learn some more before I go to Madagascar.
I have 3 weeks left here in Tucumcari, and honestly the time here has slipped like sand through my fingers. It's amazing how much time passes when you do missionary work. It's literally the greatest cause going on on the earth today.
This last week, I saw a lot more tarantulas. September is the time of year where they start to migrate to their hibernating grounds. They will often cross the road and get ran over. I took a few pictures of them, and I will include them in the pictures. I had to quickdraw my belt again for a dog that was barking at us while we were sitting in the truck waiting to go inside. I didn't need to hit it, though. A cat came and the dog chased it all the way down the street, which bought me and Elder Ward time to get inside. I can hear coyote when we are walking kind of out of town at night, but I've never seen one around here yet.
I discovered that missionaries down here have quite a thing for humor and silliness. I will include a few videos of that as well.
Thank you all so much for all of your support, prayers, love, and all the above. I couldn't have made it where I am today if I didn't have you guys to back me up. So, thank you all so much. It means the world to me.
Alrighty! Hope y'all have a great rest of your week!
Malagasy scripture of the week
Môrônia 10:5
"Ary amin'ny herin'ny Fanahy Masina dia azonareo fantarina ny fahamarinan'ny zava-drehetra"
~Elder Johnson~
P.S I'm sorry I couldn't include any pictures of myself because I forgot. I promise I will do better this week
P.P.S whoever got me the space notebook and pens, you're the best
Holley: These are from me, so obviously I'm the best!
Holley: What a great shot Dave. Is that a hummingbird hawk moth?
David is so funny! I love the space notebook and pens. LOL What a cool Mom he has!!
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