Subject: Jerusalem to Minas Tirith
Dear People,
I'm still living in a two bedroom, one bathroom apartment with three
other elders. So mom you should probably just send the package to the mission
office address because who knows when we'll find a new apartment. Elder
Heidenthaller and I solely cover the White City ward which we were able to
attend for the first time yesterday. It was awesome! The talks were pretty
much right from PMG on the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation. A bunch of
the less-actives and a few investigators we had met during the week showed up
for sacrament. :D Our Ward Mission Leader is pretty great. Him and his family
kind of remind me of the Nelsons. The kids are homeschooled and are really
smart. We had Ward Council after church and it seemed like it was straight out
of the District videos. They used the progress record as the main agenda and
then they discussed how they could help the less actives and part member
families and others in need of help, instead of a bunch of useless things. It
was way cool.
President Young has recently asked us to invite members to pray for streets
for us to tract. As I wrote this I realized that this is something we should
start doing in our new area. Everything's pretty far apart here, and good
tracting streets are few and far between. Inspiration!
I definitely can't watch any Youtube, I just want Seth to be recorded for
when I get back so I can laugh at him then muahaha. Anything else is too
complicated.
Worst thing ever! My camera's totally broke! Can you send it a little
moolah? No but really, when I try to turn it on it just says, "lens failure"
and turns back off. Saddest of days! Whatever canst be done?? I might just
buy a cheapo kind.
Hahaha this is random, but we've been borrowing a gps from another elder
because neither I nor my companion have one and there's no way we could get
anywhere without it (we have enough problems getting around as it is). But for
the longest time we thought it couldn't talk because it wasn't high-tech enough,
and it didn't have a mount, so Elder H would just hold it and tell me where to
go. Then just yesterday we discovered that all we had to do was turn up the
volume.... So we did and it had this Australian man's voice! It talked just
like one of our AP's from Australia so we named it Elder Mckenzie after him. It
says, "turn left on Highway 65," and we say, "Blimey! Thanks Mckenzie!" Oh
pointless paragraph.
K. So we have some really great people to work with here. We're teaching
the Oddo family, Sister Oddo had had her records removed but she wants to come
back, and Brother Oddo is investigating with a very open mind. :) He's not
someone I would like to meet at night in a cage surrounded by cheering
crowds though. Haha he's an MMA fighter with a neck more broad than my
shoulders and tattoo's all up his arms. He is also a bear hunter, a bull rider,
and a racecar driver. The whole family is pretty great. Their daughter who's
about six was playing catch with me the other day and she started saying, "Hey
dad, I mean missionary...." So I'm already a father.
Another awesome family is the Steens. The wife is a super nice less-active
member, the husband is an extremely argumentative but fun nonmember who has
taken the lessons millions of times but has never joined, and his son is being
really introduced to the church for the first time. Steen junior believes more
in religion being between God and oneself, but he really likes that we ask him
to read the Book of Mormon and find out for himself of its truth and divinity.
He says everything he's been taught so far just makes sense. So I'm pretty
excited for him, and I think that Steen senior will come around eventually.
Then Sister Steen will be able to have an eternal family! :D
So things are going pretty great here. I hope that this e-mail was long
enough for you mom. I love you all,
Elder Georgia
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