July 15, 2013
Dear Family:
Hi! I hope I can remember what to tell you about this week,
it went by super fast.
Monday was good because it was P-day. So we went bowling
again and did the regular E-mail and basketball at the church. I hope we have
time to go bowling again today, we have a lot to get done and I am running out
of money so we will see.
Tuesday we had Zone Conference with the President. I was a
little bummed it wasn't multi-zones like it normally is, but all the zones we
normally combine with for conference all got kicked out of the mission. The
meeting was still really good. We didn't go anywhere, the President came to us.
There were a lot of really good trainings. It was super long though. It took up
most of the day. The food they fed us for lunch was good. The rest of the
day was pretty slow, pretty much all our lessons dropped. Dinner was fun. We
went with the Clements family to Rubios. Nobody ordered, they just had us sit
down and they ordered for us. Then the waitress brought us tons of tacos. I
guess they have a sort of Taco Tuesday here too and they bought us 25 fish
tacos. They were pretty good. Luckily that was for everybody not just for me
and Elder Feist. Everybody ate 5 and I was pretty full.
Wednesday I had exchanges with our district leader. Elder
Moyer went to my area cuz he is the DL, and stayed with Elder Feist. I went
with Elder Baltazar to Spanish Land. He is the one who lives in Morgan and used
to live in Oakridge when he was at Utah State. Also he is the one that his best
friend bought my contract at Oakridge when I left. We got along really well, he
is a pretty cool guy so it was fun. Brett asked why I go on so many exchanges.
We have to go on two exchanges with our DL so each companion can go with him
every transfer. Then we also have to go on exchanges once a transfer with the
ZL's because everyone with leadership has to go on exchanges and I guess being
a trainer counts as leadership. I think also I talk more about exchanges than
regular days because they aren't just a normal day to me so it is exciting.
There were a lot of crazy things that happened that day. I kept a tally and
there were like 5 that were above average on the weirdness scale, and the scale
here in Hemet is pretty hard to tip. We saw an Astro Van jump. It looked pretty
sketchy cuz it came down pretty hard. Those things weren't meant to leave the
ground. When they told me about exchanges they told me I could either go on
Wednesday or Friday. I chose Wednesday because I asked them which day would
have a better Mexican dinner. The sad thing is when we got to dinner they
didn't have time to cook so we ate Little Caesars, but that was ok. It was
still a bomb day.
Friday We pretty much spent all day finding. We do that a
lot sometimes. We got a call and somebody needed Charlotte’s address so we were
close and just rode over to see what it was. We were just going to ride by but
I decided to see what was going on. It was good we went by, she ended up having
a lot of questions that needed to be resolved.
Saturday we pretty much spent all day trying to get everybody
to church. Our dinners wife got super sick, so he just took us to Carl’s Jr.
which was good. On the way there we were talking about his little Honda Civic
we were in. His daughter has the same car but it is an automatic. It gets like
5 to 7 miles per gallon worse than his stick shift does. So whoever is looking
at cars remember that sticks are better!
Sunday we heard a 100 year old man give a talk. He is in way
good shape and his mind is super sharp. He was really funny but he also taught
us some good stuff. We had a good lesson with Patty that afternoon. She has
quit smoking and wants me to schedule the building so she can start inviting
people, so that is exciting!
Ronny I remembered my notes for Ronny’s
last letter. Yes we do get the Ensign, they give us one every month at ZDM. So
don't worry about sending me one, thanks though! As to going to school before
the mission there are advantages and disadvantages to both. It really does just
depend on the kid. I think with the age change it is getting a lot more kids on
missions and not getting lost to the world. So sometimes it is better just to
get them out there even though there will be more challenges for them. If they
are for sure going to get on a mission, college was good to go to first for a lot
of reasons. I think it has helped me a lot in many different aspects and made
me a better missionary. I think the most important thing is to help them build
the desire to go on a mission for the right reasons and then get em out here.
Sorry if this letter is a little short and didn't really
talk about anything spiritual. I think you guys will still write me back
anyways :)
Love ya!
Elder Wood
