Week #37 - French Fried Oreos

Good Morning!

Quite the fantastic week. The work is excellent and things are great! We've been finding a lot of opportunities to teach which is always a major plus. Our ward is finally starting to really help us out with a new program introduced by L. Tom Perry to help us get more referrals and teaching opportunities. The program was introduced and (should have been) in effect about six or seven months ago, but for some reason every ward in the mission was less than cooperative and very "We don't understand" and "We've received no instruction on this." But, it looks like it's finally going to happen (at least in our ward) so I think it'll help the work a ton.

I have to throw a shoutout to my boy The Chief for the "puzzling" letter and the also the copied picture of the Nauvoo temple. That wasn't half bad for being like ten years old! The letter was a total hoot though and all of the missionaries were way jealous that they didn't have their very own The Chief to send them homemade puzzles. The quotes were awesome too. Thanks The Chief- I appreciate all you do and it's always a pleasure. My best to you and yours.

I went on exchanges for the day with another set of missionaries who are in a bike area last week. It made me a whole lot more thankful to have a car. Although riding a bike is fun it really limits the amount of work you can do and you lose a whole lot of luxuries that you'd have otherwise. Not to mention you end the day with a sore rump (butt).

Our bishop kinda let us down with the musical fireside we were planning. He called up a guest speaker that he thought would be really good and had flyers made for the fireside...well, the flyers are advertizing the speaker and say absolutely nothing about missionaries. When asking him about it, he said "Sorry- we must have had a misunderstanding. I figured you two could do a musical number at the beginning and then we'd have him do the fireside." I'm not really sure what he heard in the twenty minute meeting we had with him over why we wanted to do this and what we wanted it to be, but basically, a really good missionary opportunity just went down the tubes. We'd put in a lot of preparation so we were pretty frustrated.

Thanks to everyone for the mail this week- it's always fantastic to see a letter in the box with my name on it. Have a good week!

Elder B