Sallisaw

My new address is 1116 Jess Drive Sallisaw Oklahoma 74955. So a lot happened this week so I will try to be as quick as possible. First of all I miss serving with Powers the entire time we served together was like a big party it was really fun. Things have drastically changed.  Elder Lopez is a really nice kid from San Francisco and it is weird being with a brand new kid there was a lot of rules I forgot about so it has kind of been an adjustment for me, but he is nice and I like him so that is good I was worried I was going to get a really weird kid.

So Transfer day I was riding down from Joplin into Fort Smith to get Elder Lopez and get started well on the way from Mt. Vernon, MO to Bentonville, AR the transfer loop, the van I was on broke down and we coasted under a bridge and sat there for the next 3 hours waiting for help. They called a tow truck, rented another van, and enlisted the help of a member with a truck to pull the trailer so that was really fun. My comp was at the Wal-Mart in Fort Smith since 8 in the morning and I didn't arrive until pretty close to 5. Then because of the delay the member that was going to give us a ride had to find another member and they picked us up around 5:30 and took us to Chilis which was good but we didn't get to our house in Sallisaw until after 9. That's right I said I have a freaking house it is pretty sweet it is a 3 bedroom house with a nice kitchen and a bunch of other stuff I was kind of thrilled by that. The members out here are really nice and I am going to like serving here it is a lot like Fort Scott but more spread out and the people are a tad bit more normal and their are a lot more Native Americans. So since we both got put in it has been hard to figure out what the other elders have left behind especially because they had a car and now we are on bikes for some reason the car got taken away which kind of blows the area is pretty dang big. So far we have been getting a lot of help from the members though.

Well the work here is going well so far. They have two people who seem really close to baptism one girl is B,she lives with a family who are returning to activity and the dad just got baptized. She is 19 and was abandoned by her boyfriend who was the Dad's nephew and so they took her in she is 19 and we are getting ready for her to be baptized on the 2nd. The other guy we have met but haven't officially taught he is also scheduled for the 2nd but I don't think he has gave up smoking yet. That is kind of where the work is at and it will continue like everywhere else in the mission there is interesting people. One old couple we visited that the other elders taught are pretty strange they see spririts and the husband yells and screams and fights with them. The wife just sees them go into the bathroom and she is scared to go in because they don't come out. So that was fun and that was like Elder Lopez's 3rd day. He is shocked by everything but he seems to be doing good.

Well Heywood crafts day sounds good I guess I will just watch. Jokes no that sounds pretty good but I will be the BLT maker I can't do all that other stuff. Well it sounds like everybody is having a lot of fun I am too just different kind of fun.  Have a good one moms.

Fort Scott

Jumping mission boundaries and got to go to Kansas City Temple.

Fort Scott

Well howdy I am doing just fine well not exactly so every time I get a companion I really like I only get them for a transfer what is up with that I don't understand that it's like come on...he just got here. Well  the big news is that I am getting transferred to Sallisaw Oklahoma. I guess that will officially make me a :"four-stater" which is something to be proud of. I have to train a brand new missionary I hope he is not a tool.  This second year I have had companions that I really like so I hope my streak does not end. But I will be with Powers no longer which is sad but I am happy about leaving Kansas.

I didn't feel any earthquakes last night.  

I guess hold off on the package and I wear a 9 and I can get fit into a 91/2 but 9 suits me best. At this point I don't care what color anything is all of my clothes are old and ragged I will talk about that a little later. Well It sounds like everybody has after vacation syndrome which is really cool I think.

Did you guys go to Tucker's farewell

Well as for my week it was really good mixed with some bad. The poison Ivy that Powers had last week really spread and destroyed him this week as we ran around in the humidity on our bikes and he sweated it just spread throughout his entire body and it was pretty gross looking it looked like leprosy and so when he could he would tape paper towels to his arms to keep all the juice from spreading which was also nasty he looked like a mummy sometimes. Well Wednesday afternoon he had enough and we went to Urgent Care and they gave him a shot and medication and told him to take it easy for a few days. So we only went out when we had appointments and tried to get rides as much as possible.

Thursday we got permission to go to Kansas City temple with recent converts and that was the highlight of the week. The Mullenaux's drove our entire crew up there which was a Less Active guy who is returning to activity and two recent Converts. Elder and Sister Mullenaux are to kind for us they said that they would help with the baptisms and that they scheduled us in at the 5 o clock session which was awesome man I forgot how great it was to be in the temple and we saw one of the new movies which was exciting. The only problem is that dressing in all white I used one of my shirts and it was embarrassing because while I was in all white my shirt looked yellow. Elder Mullenaux jokingly said, "I was surprised they didn't kick you out"  but the temple was awesome.

As for our investigators they are doing good the two baptisms are now moved to August so it is a bummer that I won't see them. I guess in Sallisaw one of Power's friends is there right now and me and the new guy will take over I guess they have two baptisms that are happening in August as well so that will be exciting for the new guy I wish I would have seen a baptism in my first area. So that is all with me I think probably had a few other things that I meant to write but I didn't but yeah I will give you my new address in no time. I will also give you some Kansas City pics.