December 12, 2016

Buenos ding dong didly dias!

The dog is pretty cute. That sucks it's getting sick though. Speaking of sick me and Elder Mangus have come down with some bug. I'm feeling a little better today and Mangus woke up saying he felt like he caught it. So I'll probably be better by tomorrow and he'll go to his new area sick. Hehehe. So yeah it is transfers. He is going to San Marcos. I am getting Elder Talbot who is from Utah and is coming from Lake Skinner which is the area I served in before this area. So that's pretty neat. I've met him before and he seems pretty cool so I think it'll work out well. You should send me a picture of your new car. How is Bandit able to run loose all the time? Do you leave him out when you go to work? The cravings went away but I've also been eating all the stuff in the Christmas box. So maybe it was just sugar junk food withdrawals. Kind of scary to think that I'm addicted to it. Those chocolate covered Lays were so good tho... You wouldn't think they'd be that good, but they're reeeeeaaaly good.

Christmas sounds like it's going to be pretty fun! The Curtis's, the same people who invited us for Thanksgiving, invited us for Christmas. They say we're going to have a big Christmas Nerf war fight and that they usually have the missionaries over every year for it. Luke, the guy we shared the first discussion with, might be there as well. So it sounds pretty epic. Plus I'll get to talk to you guys! 

We had a pretty good week! We went to Taco Bell with Robert (The big Scotish genius who speaks like 30+ languages or something) and we talked to him about the Christmas Concert and he really liked it. He said when they started singing it felt like he was getting lifted into heaven. He also says he feels this strong aura every time he goes into a Mormon Chapel. So we taught him that he was feeling the Holy Ghost and what it's job is. A little while later we invited him to hear the discussions and he agreed, So that was definitely the best part of our week. Bishop's wife gave us kind of an advent calendar. It was a 12 days of Christmas bag. It said we could open one a day until Christmas and there was one for each of us on each day, or horde them all until Christmas. But since Elder Mangus is leaving we decided to open them all yesterday night and call it our parting celebration. We were going to get all you can eat Sushi but Elder Mangus is broke so it's probably not going to happen. We got some Chick Fil'A gift cards from the Christmas bag so that'll be our substitute. Don't worry i didn't cheat on your bags. It's pretty fun opening one of those bags every day actually. So thank you for putting that together. I am going to At LEAST send you guys a card. It's been hard for me to get somewhere to find something. I haven't gotten any cool souvenirs in this area yet like my last 2 areas. We stalked one of our investigators (Johnie Cropp) at Home Depot. She has crazy hours so we decided to try and find her at work. We found her and were able to talk to her and it sounds like she should be able to get Sundays off soon. When she starts coming to church she'll be ready to be baptized. So hopefully nothing happens between now and then. The Brazilian guy Adam dropped us, which was unfortunate but I think he'll come back eventually. He really liked the church.

 

Ummmmm I can't think of anything else right now.

Happy Holidays! Can't wait to talk to you all in a couple of weeks!

Love you!

Elder Sherwood