September 10th, 2012

Hey everyone.  Well this was a pretty good week.  I've just been getting more familiar with the area and also trying to get to know the members.  This ward is really great there are a lot of nice people in it too.  The work is going well they were only working with pretty much 1 kind of solid person when I got here but has kind of dropped us.  But we did meet this guy knocking the other day and talked awhile and set up a return appointment.  We went by with a member and had a pretty good discussion.  It was pretty much just getting to know him.  His family is nice.  We didn’t know but when we got there they were cooking burgers and other food for us so that was a nice surprise.  And we also had a dinner appointment right after the lesson so we got extra full.  The guys name is Miguel but he goes by Mike.  So we are excited to hopefully get back over there and teach him and his family.  But so far the area is great.  The members are really nice that we live with they usually give us leftover food and last P day they cooked breakfast for us.  They have a big tree in their backyard and there's a big branch you can climb on and they have a rope swing on a tall branch and basically you hold on and jump off and before you hit the ground the rope catches you and then you swing back and forth.  It was really fun but pretty scary the first time it took me awhile before I would do it.  Dang dad it seems like you get bronchitis every year so that’s good you know what is causing it.  Hopefully it helps you to feel better and not get sick anymore.  I’m glad that the dinner you did went well.  That sounds like a heck of a good football game you went and watched.  Beaver must be pretty good this year if they beat Kanab.  I really hope BYU has a good season.  But yeah my comp is pretty cool we get along well.  There is a shortage of active priests in the ward so yesterday I got to bless the sacrament.  It was the first time in awhile it brought back old memories.  I hear that Elder Holland gave a really good fireside last night for the 18-30 years old.  I really wanted to go and watch it.  I’m glad that the monkeys are loving volleyball.  There must be some really good teams this year to be beating beaver.  It’s been nice this week--we have had cooler temperatures so hopefully they stay this way ha-ha. I bet the fall back in Utah feels really nice.  Hopefully it gets a little more snow this year in the mountains.  But yeah on my year mark I had a gift card for 25 dollars to Chili’s that Tyson and Stephanie had given me so I took me and my comp out for lunch.  It was really good food it was fun to go out.  Now I am able to go back on my journal and see what I was doing a year ago so that has been fun.  It’s crazy to think in another year I will be home.  Well it’s good to hear that the monkeys like school.  It seems like as time goes on the classes are getting harder with more requirements so hopefully they can stick with it.  How is mom enjoying the new school?  That’s cool that Candace is on the stake youth committee and gets to plan all that stuff the Halloween dance sounds really fun.   Well that’s all I’ve got for this week.  I love you all and have a great week! :)

Love, Devan