Elder Pack

Hi everyone! We got some snow this week! It snowed about 18 inches in 2 days. I've never really gotten to drive in the snow, but I did this week. We also decided to go disc golfing today. There was a lot of snow, and I lost a disc, but it worked pretty well anyway. Also, to try to find people to teach, we walked around with shovels and asked to shovel people's driveways. We went over to Justin's house last night to try and set up a chapel tour with him. Justin is pretty hard to get ahold of and is usually a bit intoxicated. Fortunately, Justin was home, and so was his mom. We set up a time to do the tour, and Justin's mom was very excited to come. I bet we can start teaching her too! That's definitely a highlight of the week. Also, yesterday we went to see if we could set up an appointment with a lady we met a little while ago who was interested in our message. Her husband was in the front of their house filling up their car's tires with air. We talked to him an...

Hey everyone!  As I think I told you last week, I'm still in Wellington with my companion Elder Unruh. This is his last transfer, and he trained me so we'll have been companions for about 4 and a half months by the time this transfer is over. (Ethan told us today on the phone that there is a mission rule that the missionary going home can't drive during their last transfer period.  So Ethan has been doing all the driving, which is hilarious because Ethan doesn't like to drive.  He much prefers to ride in the car so this is interesting.) Over these past few weeks, our teaching pool has diminished a lot. We had to drop a few people who weren't progressing and a few people dropped us, haha! Fortunately, we've been seeing success in finding people with interest, so we have a few new person prospects. The fire is still burning up here. We could actually see the glow from our apartment a few nights ago! It shouldn't be a problem for us here though. It looks pretty...

  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...

  Hey everyone! I hope you're all going good. Things are going good here in Wellington. We are finding some more people to teach. It has been a blessing. We might have to drop some people soon, though, if they don't progress. Conference was pretty cool. It was really comforting for me to hear the general authorities talk about the current events and how to get through them. I wish that everyone could hear what they had to say. Here is some exciting news: I get to go through the temple in November! I'm pretty excited to go. My companion and I are doing temple prep stuff right now to get me ready to go. Sorry I write short emails haha. Things are just going well here, you know? Thanks for all of your support and prayers. I really appreciate it. Have a good day everyone! From, Elder Pack Note: I have no idea why Ethan is playing with a wheelchair, but he is fine.  The other pictures are of the smoky skies.

  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...

Ethan's letters are super short.  I think this is an effect of talking to us twice a week.  When it comes to writing letters, he doesn't feel like he has anything to say.  So here are some little tidbits that he shared with us this week. They finally got a couch for their new apartment.  There is a nicer part of the zone and the zone leaders were able to pick up a nice leather couch for them and it was FREE!  So now they have beds, desks, and a couch.  What more could Elder's need? Their new apartment doesn't have WIFI.  So when Ethan calls we have to try and do it over their data plan, which is unlimited, but makes it kind of hard because it is slow.  So he will ask a question but we won't hear it for 10-15 seconds.  It made talking this morning really hard because we couldn't tell what response was to which question.  Hopefully, they will get it figured out. There is a huge frisbee golf park in Ethan's area.  Today they went there...