Separations

We unexpectedly had to have Elder Kervin leave us to go back to Lancaster because an elder was super sick over there. We had exchanges and I got to be with Elder Webster for the day which was awesome. I've now been with everyone in his mtc district.

We keep being disappointed by the people we are teaching at church. They keep bailing on us. We have met a lot of really awesome people recently but we haven't begun teaching anyone steadily yet.

Elder Kervin came back and the end of Friday in the evening. We got to meet with Andrew Adkins who is doing awesome as a new member of the church.

Not much else to report about our week just trucking along doing the work and learning.

Reponses to rely emails:

Thanks so much for the package. We were all losing weight and now we have a giant pile of candy from you and Elder Blackham's mom who sends him packages like every two weeks lol.

The ties are great thanks!

I've still kept the 30 pounds I gained... lol

A week's time

This week had a lot of disappointments. A lot of really solid people that I was looking forward to getting to know have stopped talking to us and Jermain cancelled on church once again!

We have been working on exercising charity. So instead of having normal conversations we are making sure that people know that we care about them and we ARE grateful for every kindness they show to us. You can tell that it effects people a lot more when you thank them for being nice to us. Hopefully it helps them reflect on what we said as well.

Welcome to winter and with that comes the police. This week I got to meet officer Brocklehurst in north Tonawanda. He was very reserved and seemed like a great guy. I forgot to invite him to read the Book of Mormon though :-( . There is always a next time.

It was literally just a normal week I just had to write about some aspect of the work to be honest. No worries.

Andrew's baptism

This week we were surprised by Elder Bennett of the seventy visiting our mission. We went to that on Friday so that we could have our baptism on Saturday. 

Being with Elder Kervin again has been a good time. It's helped Elder Blackham and I teach better in unity actually. At the very end of the week we met this super awesome girl named Jamie whom we got to teach. I hope that everything goes well with her because she is so ready for this.

Jermain didn't make it to church again which was saddening, but we had a great priesthood lesson.

It was decently hot and now it's a little chilly and I don't think it will get back up in temperature very much until I go home... harvest season here we come.

Abby Adkins is his daughter that was baptized about 5 years ago. She was able to make it to the baptism from Fredonia.

I never liked it anyways

I've always disliked the nicknames of the church. That's all I have to say about that.

This week went swell. We went on exchanges so I got to go with the other zone leader Elder Griffiths to the Niagara falls north area. He is a great missionary and he helped me a lot. 

Conference was awesome but no one in the ward was willing to come to the church building for it so we couldn't get a ride for one of our friends to come to watch conference. :-(

I will be staying in Niagara falls with Elder Blackham and Elder Kervin will be coming to join us this transfer.

Weekly reminder of my existence

This week was fine. We had interviews with President Evans which was inspiring as always. Elder Blackham and I have been trying to refine our tongues with a more proper form of language. It usually results in less speaking. 

Tim the old man was able to make it to church this Sunday. The other man we are teaching named Andrew was able to give him a ride.

Andrew has had his baptismal interview and is ready for baptism on the 13th!

AJ is on a cruise in the Bahamas so he is on hiatus for a week. 

Jermain the hot dog stand man didn't make it to church though he had a ride. He is doing awesome though. He is in chapter 9 of 1 Nephi. 

Pretty normal week in Niagara falls.