May 13, 2013
Dear Family:
Hey will this week was good! It was fun to get to talk to you guys! I
really don't have to much to say about this week I didn't already tell you.
That and my time is cut short cuz I got the slow computer and it took forever
to get those pictures loaded to e-mail you.
Tuesday I was in Riverside to pick
up my greeny Elder Feist. It was fun to go to the mission office again and get
out of Hemet for a little while. Elder Feist is awesome. He is from Meridian
Idaho (right by Boise I guess). He actually lived in Emmet but I don't think he
went to high school there. He is really into baseball. He played at Dixie. We
get along good, we both like to work hard but have fun at the same time.
Wednesday Elder Feist got to have
his first lesson with Joseph. It was kinda a weird lesson. Wasn't really like a
good sit down lesson. But then he got a good lesson with Ruth and Jessie.
Thursday E. Feist got to meet Char
while I went through the baptism questions with her so that was good for him.
We had some good lessons with Sister Sambrano and Roy Brown.
Friday we had a bunch of meetings
that wasted a bunch of time. Then I pretty much spent a lot of time getting
stuff like the program made for the baptism. We had a few other lessons too. It
was Elder Feist’s b-day and Sister Doke had us over for dinner. She made us
chicken and mashed potatoes and stuff. Sister Doke and I were just talking it
up at the first while we were dishing up and Elder Feist appeared to just be
enjoying his meal. When Sister Doke and I got our chicken and started eating
she noticed that hers was pretty much raw all the way through (she is a good
cook but she was really tired and either the oven was on really low or
something) so she took hers and mine after I had a few bites and put them back
in the oven. E. Feist turns out he ate the whole thing before she noticed that
it was raw. So that was pretty funny. I also got a package from Glenn on Friday.
Thank you for that! I think my dad’s siblings are sort of competing, because I
keep getting more awesome things each time haha.
Saturday was the baptism of Charlene
and Isaac. That was really neat. We started teaching them when I got here and
it was just cool to be here for the whole process. The spirit was super strong
and was a great experience for everybody. Char was funny, right after she came
up out of the water she yelled Yes! and threw her arms in the air. We got
permission to confirm them at the baptism because of family being there and
stuff so that was neat. We did have one problem with that though. Somebody
thought it was a good idea to pull the plug in the font even though I told them
not too cuz I can open it with this metal rod that was there. So right in the
middle of Char's confirmation it was making a sucking noise that everyone could
hear cuz how loud it was. It didn't last too long though. Elder Cook had some
neat investigators there that are really excited to be Baptized now. He is an
ex-gangster that isn't questioning a thing and just making some huge changes in
his and his families’ life. It was good to meet them and
talk to them for a little while about the gospel. I am going to try and make it
to his families’ baptisms. E. Allen got to come back for the baptism so that
was fun too.
Sunday church was good. I taught my last gospel principals
class I hope. They got it set up finally to have somebody actually be a teacher
and not just have us do it every week. Everybody seemed to like E. Feist. In
Elders Quorum we have this guy that is 57 that is awesome. He has a white duck
dynasty beard and is ripped. He has a black shirt kinda like one Brett has.
Anyways he wears it every week and it is super tight on him. During class he
was asking why this ward didn't have any talent shows and talked about this
girl who could do this inverted crab walk. Then he did it! We went and taught a
really awkward lesson to this guy who didn't really listen but then he said his
mom might be interested! Then we biked to Sam’s house to Skype
with you guys. That was awesome. I really enjoyed that. I wish we got to do it
a little more often. In my letter to President I thanked him for letting
us use Skype because of all the other missionaries you told me about that
couldn't do it. For dinner we went with E Albright and E Kelly to a members
house we helped lay sod. That was really fun cuz that family was awesome. At
the end E Feist and I ended up singing and playing the guitar for them, so that
was fun and they really enjoyed it (it was kinda random we had the guitar in
the car ha)
Well that is all for now! It was good talking to you and I
am excited for the next Skype! Love you bye!
Elder Wood
Elder Feist and Elder Wood
Baptismal Font
Elder Allen, Brother Boyd and Elder Wood
