Elder Pack

Hey everyone! Thanks for the emails, packages, and letters for Ethan's birthday last week.  He said he was spoiled and appreciated being thought of. The last transfer in Ethan's mission (minus the one home) happened this week!  He stays in Windsor, CO, continuing with Elder Nichols, and continuing as a Zone Leader.  There are quite a lot of changes in their Zone but Ethan said that change is really good and he is looking forward to a shake-up of things. They had some success last week finding people to teach.  Ethan and Elder Nichols have been driving to parts of their area and then walking around.  They don't knock on doors, they just walk around and talk to whoever is outside.  They were blessed to find people to teach on Sunday and Monday just walking around.  One of them let him borrow an umbrella because it was starting to sprinkle.  When Ethan protested, the man told them that he would get it back from them at Church on Sunday.  They ar...

  Hey everyone! This week was pretty normal. Things are still going good with those we're teaching, except that we realized that Gary and Heather live outside of the zone by a block. So we need to pass them off to some other elders. It's pretty disappointing because they have already met a lot of the ward. So it's not a great situation. If you could all pray for the new ward's hearts to be softened so they are friendly to them, that would be great. Otherwise, things have been good. I took some pictures from p-day so I'll send those. Thanks , everyone! You all are great.  Love, Elder Pack PS.  The last picture is of Ethan's  birthday cake .  I sent him a party in a box which included a cake mix, sprinkles, homemade icing, a cake pan, and some other cake decorations.  He didn't want to eat it all himself so he waited until it was p-day so he could share it with his district. But he kept forgetting to make it the day before.  He finally set an alarm and m...

It’s Ethan’s 19th birthday! There is a member of the 70s touring the mission right now so their p-day was moved to Friday. They were given permission to do a few regular p-day things but they needed to be out working. Ethan couldn’t call at his regular time so he called us for a quick chat around noon. We got to watch him open his birthday box I sent.  I sent him a cake mix, frosting, sprinkles, and those candies that spell “Happy Birthday” so he could make his own cake. There was a piñata, small bat, balloons, party hats, candy, Cosmic Brownies, and Twizzlers. So he has everything he needs for a party!  Courtney bought him a Lego birthday cake when we were in Florida so he got that too. I think that was probably his favorite. He sent us pictures: I’m sure he will write on Friday when they have their actual p-day. He said he loves Casper because it is so beautiful. The members are taking good care of them. They have dinner appointments every night and a lot of times the member...