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.