This week went really well :) We were incredibly busy working, visiting people, and then having to call other missionaries and doing other planning and stuff at night that I haven't even written anything in my journal for the past week or two! I feel really bad about that though and I know I'm going to regret it when I want to look back on it all...I should probably repent and start writing more again, ha-ha. This past week was really, really busy though. We had to do two exchanges with a few missionaries and then we were just running all over visiting everyone we have to teach. It's always way fun and the best feeling ever when you get home exhausted because you know that you've been working hard and doing the work of the Lord and seeing His hand in the work. But on the other hand, sometimes it's nice to have a little break, ha-ha. That's why preparation days are sooooo great. You can sit back for a little and relax :) Today I'm not even sure what we're going to do...and then next week we have yet another meeting which means we'll be losing our preparation day. But this past week I actually missed church in my ward! That never happens! I missed it because we had a "special" exchange that we did with the Elders in another area on Saturday and Sunday. It went well and I learned a lot and I hope that the other Elders learned a lot as well. Investigator-wise we're doing pretty well. We have some really great people whom we're teaching still and a few who can be baptized soon...but they just need to realize it, ha-ha. Sometimes they just lack something and sometimes we have to try to help them realize what it is that they are missing. Sometimes they're just scared to make a change in their life. But when they do finally do it, it's the best feeling because you know that it'll help them forever. And not just them but also their families :) Missionary work is the absolute best thing that anyone can do. So for those of you at home who actually read this, I invite you to try it out. And I promise you that if you do so, you will get to taste a little bit of what we go through every day out here :)
On Saturday we had an activity in the ward and we had a few investigators come which was really exciting. We had a little hike activity where we applied things to the vision of the tree of life that Lehi had and it was actually pretty fun. We hiked up a mountain/big hill thing to an old castle ruin and my companion & I, as part of the planned activity, brought a tonnnn of water balloons and we ran ahead to the castle and set up our little attack station, and as the youth and leaders were hiking up we just starting throwing the balloons at them, ha-ha. It was great! The point was to help them to see that even though they were really, really close to their goal, that there would still be some sort of "opposition". Luckily it was a warm day and the water felt good, ha-ha. But later as we hiked down, they all decided to gang up on the missionaries and pour cold water on us. But overall, it turned out well. I got a bit of sunburn too actually, ha-ha. But now it's just dark. Elder Call on the other hand looked like a tomato ha-ha-ha! He's still a bit red but doing better now. Lesson learned: sunscreen :).
This next week we have zone conference. It's the last one that President Hinckley will be at here in our mission and then on the 30th he and his wife go back home and we get a new mission president :( It's a little sad to see them leave but I can't say I didn't know it was coming. I guess it's the same about the mission. It has a beginning and an end. But luckily I haven't had to think about that a lot, ha-ha. I gotta go now but love you a lot and miss you too! Let you know how things go next week :)
