Elder Pack

Hey everyone! Hope your week has been good. Mine has been a bit stressful but good anyway. It's just how it be sometimes. I got a new companion, Elder Elkins. He's pretty cool. He's from Hurricane, Utah, so pretty close to St. George. Pday was fun today. We played a lot of sports and board games.  Sorry for the short email. But I'm alive and doing well in Casper! Thanks  for all of your support! It means a lot. Love, Elder Pack PS: Ethan is training Elder Elkins.  This is the second time Ethan has trained and he said it is going a lot better than the first time.  "I have matured since the last time I trained."  It's hilarious that Elder Elkins is from Hurricane, so close to home.  But they are both enjoying the mild Wyoming weather.  Ethan said it has been beautiful and he talked to us as he sat on the balcony of his apartment (he has a really nice apartment). Elder Elkins was able to go to the Provo MTC for part of his MTC experience.  It was int...

  Hey all! I hope things are going well for you all. I didn't get to write an email last week because I got to go through the Fort Collins temple! It was pretty cool. I'm grateful that I got to go, and that my family got to come out and see me for it too! We have been encouraged to be more creative in finding. So, as part of it, I posted something on the Facebook page in Wellington asking if anyone was willing to teach me any skill (I might have told you all this already but I can't remember). So, someone said they could teach me how to fuse glass, and someone else said they could teach me the book of Acts. So, I got to fuse glass! However, that person was already a member, albeit a non-active one, so we're going to try to figure out what's going on. I'm also going to be offering free family photos with my better camera to see if anyone would be interested.  Otherwise, not a lot is going on, other than us finding two more people to teach! It's been a while, ...

  Hi guys! Things are good here. I'm going to be staying in Wellington for another 6 weeks with Elder Unruh. I'm excited. We're making progress with some of those that we're teaching. Some others might have to get dropped, unfortunately. They just aren't progressing anymore. We did some service at Laughing Buck Farm. We cleaned out a chicken coop. It didn't smell or anything; it was just really dusty. It was a great day, though. The wind we had over the past few days blew away most of the smoke, so it was really clear. We went to talk to a guy we're teaching to tell him that he had to keep commitments or we can't come over. He kept changing the subject to talk about other random stuff, so we didn't get very far. In fact, he gave us some disc golf discs he had. So now we're going to play disc golf on Saturday and try to set some expectations there. It was just a really weird situation. I invite all of you to check out Mosiah 14:5. It talks about J...

  Hi everyone! We found 3 new people to teach this week! That's really exciting. Two of them are a young family with a 3-month-old, and the other one is a guy, also with a family. We also tried to put on a small Sunday worship service, just for the people we're teaching, because we only have church once every three weeks right now. Unfortunately, all 3 people we invited and got to commit bailed on is. Super frustrating. Fortunately, church is going to start back up every week after conference. It should be a lot easier then. General Conference is coming up. I'm super excited for it. How are you guys preparing for it? It's still pretty smoky here. The Cameron Peak fire is the third-largest fire in Colorado history, and it's on track to be the biggest. I think part of it is in our area, too. Don't worry though,  it's pretty far from Wellington. Here are some pictures. A few are from disc golf today, and there's one from a bad picture of the red moon we had...

P-day was switched to Monday because they had Zone Conference Tuesday. Hey everyone!  It's been a good week here in Wellington. I've seen some cool things, including a time when a woman drove up to us and asked to talk to us. I was worried she was trying to bash with us, but she asked us where she could get food because she needed some help.  We got to talk to her about the gospel, share a few scriptures, clear up some misconceptions about the church, and give her a Book of Mormon. It was really cool, especially considering our difficulty recently finding new people to teach. Hopefully, things are turning around.  It's still really smoky here because of the Cameron Peak fire, as well as the other fires in other states. It makes for some cool sunsets but pretty crappy days and air quality.  Things have been pretty chill here otherwise. If you guys want, you can pray for Jeremiah that he'll find relief from his crazy stressful life. He's been dealing with some struggl...