July 24, 2017

Hey Mom! 

I was good to talk to everyone. I'm glad I got to talk to Grandma. She is a very special lady. A great example for everyone. I thanked President for you.

I can't wait to see everyone again. It's crazy how different 2 years makes you.

Yeah, I got my new ID. It's not a license so I still can't drive. Did you get my birth certificate?

The new area is pretty good. We live three miles outside of our area. The people seem pretty cool though. Some of the members are really obsessed with deep doctrine though. Our Gospel Essentials lesson was on New Jerusalem and when we're all going to go to Missouri. I also had a whole dinner conversation on whether or not Jesus had a body before he came to Earth. Most of the time I'm just like "whoooo carrresssss" We haven't gone on the reservation and I kind of doubt we will. My companion is Elder Barclay. I like him. It's a lot better than last transfer haha. We get a long pretty well and he doesn't do super sketchy things with members haha. We're staying a lot more busy too so that's good.

There's not much else I can think of.

I think I'm going to just sell my bike. I think it's going to cost $150 at least to ship it. My bike needs a lot of work too. So I'll just give it to he office and they'll sell it and send me the money.

5 more weeks!!!!!!!!!!!

Love you!!

Elder Sherwood

July 17, 2017

Hi Mom

Surprise ending! We both got transferred. In our interview I told President that he should probably whitewash the area and I guess he listened. I'm kind of second guessing that decision now though. We have a lot going on and things are turning around., and they're replacing us with this super awkward guy and a greenie. Oh well. God knows what he's doing I guess.. I'm heading back to Temecula to be with Elder Barclay. I'm going to die of heat exhaustion. They released me as District Leader as well. I'm ok with that. I also will get to come to Steven's Baptism. So that's cool. 

I got emails back from my teachers. They say that the College requires them to drop students who don't make it to the 1st week of class. The fire class is all online. So I have to do the 1st week's check in/assignment basically. So I guess I'll just get permission to do that. I'm not really sure how it works though. I'll email Suzanne or something about it. The other teacher said that he can't promise me a spot but I can come in on Week 2 and see if there's still room in the class. HE can't promise me anything though. When do I need to pay tuition by the way? 

So I'm not really sure what else to tell you.

Thanks for all your support.

I'm glad I served a mission. 

Can't wait to see you guys!

Love you!!

Elder Sherwood!

April came to visit our ward

July 10, 2017

HI Mom!

Not sure if I got the birth certificate yet. I'll let you know.

The 4th was pretty fun. They had us stop proselyting at 6:30 so we threw a zone party at the church. We got to see some fireworks too so that was cool. 

Dang Angel's having a rough time. I hope she doesn't die before I get home haha. Seems like a hard dog to put on a diet haha. Dang that sucks. 

This week was pretty good! We set a baptismal date for Steven! So that was super cool. It's for August 12th. If would have gone home early for school I would have gone home on the 11th. So it's like God's present to me for not going home early haha Another non-member came to church for the 2nd time with Sister Perkins who's from my first ward, Carlsbad 4th ward. So we might pick him up as an investigator this week and it was cool to see her again.

I finally got a chance to talk to Brother Edmunds. We're only going over there on Saturday for dinner now. So hopefully that will solve the problem. (and we can actually get some work done)

Would it be alright if I got some spending money? I feel like I'm having to buy a bunch of stuff now. + I have to pay for laundry. just like some gift cards or something.

I'm hopefully going to the DMV tomorrow and getting my ID and then I should be all set to come home, besides shipping my bike home.

I think that's it. I'm doing pretty good!

Love you!!!!

Elder Sherwood

HI Mom!!

Super jealous you guys get to light off fireworks, We go in at 6:30 tomorrow. Well we can go in or go to the church. So the zone is going to throw a 4th of July party at the church tomorrow. Hopefully we can see fireworks from where we are.

I talked to President. I don't know for sure how this transfer's going to go but I think he's going to leave. Elder Pierce is pretty confident he's going to stay. I told President he should just whitewash the area and put 2 new elders in here. We'll see what happens I guess. Another thing we talked about was My Plan. So I have to do that now. 

This week was pretty good. We taught Steven the Chiropractor and he started crying during the lesson so I think he's feeling the Spirit. He also came to all three hours of Church so that was cool. We picked up a potential while we were in between visiting ward members so that was cool. I also performed my first baptismal interview which was an interesting experience. Her name was Amy and we were kind of just joking with each other the whole time. But she passed and she had a really cool conversion experience. She got a priesthood blessing to help her quit smoking and the next time she tried to smoke it made her feel really sick. Now she doesn't have any desire and it's only been like 2 or 3 weeks. So that was awesome. We went on a hike this morning, I forgot my camera but in my defense I didn't get any sleep last night because Elder Pierce was snoring like crazy. The ear plugs don't even work. 

MOM I"M SO TRUNKY holy freak. It's getting pretty bad haha.....

I think that's it

Love you!!!

Elder Sherwood