February 27, 2017

Yeah still haven't been able to get glasses haha. I forgot to write down the information you told me last time, so I wasn't able to call the doctor. We haven't gotten the mail yet, so not sure if I got the package. But yeah, 6 months left! It's weird because time feels like it goes by kind of slowly but looking back it feels like it's been really fast. But yeah 1 more area probably. It's pretty crazy! So the truck elders are the elders the office use to deliver things that missionaries need like furniture. They also do things like moving the missionaries out of apartments, like if they close an area or they need to move the missionaries to another apartment. Stuff like that. They still cover a ward though so it's not like it would be full time doing that. 

Work wise I'm honestly getting a little frustrated, just because we have gotten all of these potentials and none of them ever come through. Something seems to always keep us from being able to meet with people. Like we didn't have a single lesson this week. Sigh.. Oh well. We'll just keep pushing on. This transfer's kind of flying by actually. I feel like I'm really going to miss this area when I leave. It has been my favorite ward by far even if not much has happened. Our ward mission leader had us go to our ward activity, so we played Battle of the Sexes with the ward. That was kind of fun even though I was pretty clueless on most of the guy questions even, let alone the girl ones. Trivia is not my strong suit.

How's the weather? It's raining again here. I'm pretty over the rain.

I'm excited to get some cool games. We played chess last night and I literally flipped the board in my companion's face. Something about chess has just been making me lose it lately haha. I think it's because it makes you feel completely retarded when you make a bad move. So hopefully those games are here haha.

I might have to wait till next transfer again to get glasses haha. Maybe I should just wait at this point. I'll think about it. 

Hope your week goes well!

Love you!

Elder Sherwood

February 21, 2017

Hi!

thanks for the info! I'm going to try and see an eye doctor this week. We're like swamped though so we might not be able to. 

That's kind of what I've decided is to finish my associates. Then probably a business degree. I don't know. I'll figure it out. I'll talk to that firefighter in our ward when I go home.

As far as the work goes. Marc Dowd has been smoke free for 8 days, so that's pretty nuts! We don't really know what his desire is so we are taking it really slow. We'd be super excited to baptize him but neither of us feel like he's doctrinaly there. He has a lot of Born again view points which aren't necessarily bad, but they become a concern when he says things like "These ordinances aren't really that important" or "What's the big deal about prophets?" So yeah... It's a process. We scheduled an appointment with Maureen Luecawits for this Saturday. It sounds like we'll be able to pick her up and that she'll keep commitments so that's cool! We're still trying to contact some other potentials as well. We are probably going to be spending most of the week helping Richard and Elena move out by Saturday. That's going to frustrating haha... They're very nit picky and we've spent almost 4 months tring to help them get out of their apartment. We have Gospel conversations with Richard so I'm hoping that we can get him to accept a Book of Mormon before he leaves. It could go either way. One of our Ward missionary's son just returned from his mission and he's something else haha. It's like he's permanently high or something. I think the ocean messes with your brain or something and that's why surfer bros act the way they do. He took us to In & Out. Have I told you about In & Out? Everyone in California is obsessed with In & Out. It's kind of cheap but really not that good. I like Wendy's better, but everyone says it's the best and there's lines out the door every day. It's kind of redonculous. 

I'm doing pretty well. I'm only trunky on some days haha. I'll probably only have 1 more area and I feel like that area's going to fly by. We'll see what happens. I kind of want to so something new, like be a truck elder or go to a YSA ward or something. 

Love you!!!!!!

Elder Sherwood

February 13, 2016

HI!

Yeah so we helped the lady move and we stopped by her house like a week or so after that and she invited us to come by. We got him a little card and put $5 in it. He opened it up and was like "I'M RICH!" It was pretty funny haha. We are going to go by her again some time but we're both kind of unsure if it'll go anywhere. But who knows? 

So a business degree might be pretty beneficial as well and I could take some public speaking classes along with that.I should really talk with someone and figure out what makes the most sense. 

So not as much happened as we wanted to this week. The potential Mellissa wasn't there at the time she told us to come by. We weren't able to talk to Naomi very much at the birthday party and Marc is still being very stubborn. We keep trucking though. We have an appointment with another lady named Maureen on Tuesday so there's still hope! So on Friday... we were talking to this family and sharing a message about keeping our minds focused on good positive things instead of negative or impure things. Right at the end of the lesson their daughter comes home from dance class with her shirt off and in like the shortest shorts ever. Pretty freaking hilarious. God has a sense of humor. Amen. 

So yeah not much else happened this week. We had a dinner with a lady named Jonesy which was just all vegetables. So no I have a six pack. Just kidding but I'm eating pretty healthy right now! Woohoo................................................................

Love you!!

Elder Sherwood

Hi! 

Yea I still want to do fire I think.  I think I'll finish my associates's degree first though. 

 

Yeah I heard the Super Bowl was crazy too bad the Pats won though. I guess Brady's the only QB to win 5 Super Bowls. Too bad it was him haha. 

This week was pretty awesome actually. We picked up like 3 solid potentials and we also have Robert who should come back from Romania some time soon. So things are picking up! One is a really cool single mom we helped move. We went over like a week or so after and talked to her a bit and asked her if she'd be willing to learn more and she said yeah. She doesn't sound like she wants to commit to joining but she also seems like she'll keep commitments and that's the most important part. We were invited to her son's birthday party and we'll talk to her some more there. Another is a nice mother named Mellissa we talked to a couple times. We have an appointment with her on Friday. Marc Dowd has also said he wants to quit smoking. So we'll be able to start working with him even more now. We visited Johnie and she is still pretty solid but she just keeps getting scheduled to work on Sunday. So she'll get baptized but I'll probably be gone by the time she does. And there's Robert who we'll start teaching when he gets back from Romania. So things are getting pretty busy! Woooo!

All board games have been approved so I bought Sheriff of Nottingham. It was pretty fun haha. It's like all bribery, and bluffing and if you have a good group it's pretty hilarious. We're also going to watch a bunch of cheesy church movies today. Our district pretty sweet. All of them are hilarious. 

Umm that's all I can think of. Things are good!

Love you!!!!

Elder Sherwood

January 30, 2017

Hi Mom!

I am staying. College has been on my brain a lot.(probably because people keep bringing it up.) Should I like apply to BYU Idaho right now? Or should I just finish my associates at PPCC? Baaaahhhhhh

We had a crazy service week. 22 hours of helping people either pack or move. 1 family we moved we might be able to start teaching so that's cool. We had stake conference this week and the 70 Elder Blunk came and visited the stake. In the adult session he taught the stake how to share the Gospel in a non-awkward way. President and Sister Thomas role played with him and it was an awkward train wreck haha! President Thomas also spoke in the general session and he talked about when he was recovering from throat surgery and he really wanted some shrimp, and he was really surprised when his home teachers brought him a platter of shrimp. He was cracking up the whole time. I was busting up at how funny he thought it was. It was a good talk about following the promptings of the Spirit. 

This will officially be the longest area I have on my mission. After this I will only have 4 more transfers so probably 1 more area.

Love you!!

Elder Sherwood

Hola Como estas

We are doing pretty swell. Just trying to deal with the rain. California is not built for rain and wind. We saw a bunch of trees fell over and they took out power lines and all sorts of stuff. 

This whole election year has been kind of a big joke if you ask me. Just kind of embarrassing for our country. Not because Trump but because of how people are reacting to him. You can't impeach him, you can't protest him out of office, all you can do is support him and give him a shot, and maybe he'll do some good. 

As far as food goes. I still haven't eaten all of it haha. I'm also determined to become healthy so I'm cutting out a lot of junk food and this lady's going to teach me how to cook some fast and healthy food dishes that'll keep for a while and are pretty cheap. She gave us some two days ago and it was pretty tasty so I'm excited. It tasted way better than the soup I'd been making. 

The work is going pretty well. We had a good week. We didn't really teach anyone but we got some referrals and picked up some potential investigators. So hopefully it will turn into something! We also started teaching Sister Love again who is kind of struggling with her testimony. We had a good lesson this morning with her. We'll probably see her once or twice a week. Robert's in Romania so we can't teach him. Cathy might be getting back in town so maybe we can teach her this week. And HOPEFULLY, Praying, reaally reeeaaallly want to meet with Johnie Cropp this week as well. 

Yesterday I prayed and asked Heavenly Father to help me have a better attitude and we went to Church and in Elder's quorum the lesson was on how to have a better attitude......

Church=True

That's all I got this week

Love you!!!!

Elder Sherwood

 

 

January 17, 2017

Hey Mom!

That weather sounds crazy but I'm glad you guys got everything fixed.  It's supposed to rain like crazy some more this week down here. We got caught one day in the rain and got totally soaked. We went to the Orme's family for dinner that day and they let us put all our clothes in the dryer which was nice. Kind of weird hanging out in just a sweater and pants at a member's house but not weird enough for me to say no haha. There's a lot of sickness going around here as well. I've gotten sick twice in the 5 weeks I've been with Elder Talbot. We had to spend a couple days inside each time it happened. Staying in sucks. It's really boring. 

Work wise we have a couple things going on. We just got asked to teach sister Love the lessons again. She is kind of struggling with her testimony. Dora Bocater is going to ask Naomi Coons (a non-member who is married to Brother Coons) to take the lessons. So we'll see how that goes. We also might start teaching Marc Dowd again. We still haven't been able to meet with Johnie Cropp. Pray for her please we're all starting to kind of worry about her. We helped an old lady get her mail and then she asked for a pamphlet and said that she might be willing to talk to us another day. That was a cool experience. We were trying to find something we could do before going in for lunch and I felt like we should go stop by this old potential. They didn't answer but we decided to tract the houses around them and we ran into the old lady. Pretty cool faith building experience.

Can't think of much else to say

Love you!

Elder Sherwood