Good Morning!
Well, no, actually
it’s still 9:55 PM. Making these things is
just like so addicting. Like, I’m really
loving it. Hoping that’s not saying
something about me like I like talking to myself or anything, but… it’s just
the idea that I’m sending a little message home, and that’s super cool.
Oooh, sorry, random thought about something I’m sending
home, Oh, yes, by the way if you’re still expecting that nametag, which is
totally on its way soon. I literally
have it made. I just haven’t gotten to
the freaking post office yet we’ve been so busy. We should have time to run by tomorrow, we
were going to do it two days ago, but long story short stuff happened. Umm yeah, it’s just been super crazy.
This one is to no one in particular, sorry but this is probably
going to be towards mom as mom is probably going to love it the most. Since I don’t know how much patience Zach,
Mad, and Christopher have just listening to me ramble on. But moms are just awesome. They’re like “Oh! It’s from my kid!! I love that guy!!” They’re like that with anything, it’s like
the art you make when you were a second grader all over.
Umm, yeah, I have a lot of different plans for after my mission. The biggest one that seems to be sticking is
staying home and going to Chandler-Gilbert (coughing fit….) At some point
returning and living in Greybull for a season and being taught how to fly by
brother Cheatham. Not sure if that will
be soon after, or a year, but at some point I’m going to learn how to fly. I’ve just been feeling like that seems so
wonderful to me still and so amazing and I feel like I should. It’s just, it’s gonna be good. I don’t think I’ll ever fly commercially in
all honesty, I don’t want to be away from my family that much. But even as just a hobby. I know that’s an expensive hobby, but… I just
want to be able to fly. That would be
wonderful.
I think I’m gonna break down and have some of this
cake. No, this chocolate cake is not as
good as the big one that mom made. I
don’t think anything is going to beat that cake, because honestly that cake was
one of the best cakes I’ve ever had in my life.
However, this cake is still wonderful, like it comes close to it, it’s amazing,
just amazing. And I’ll eat some of this
cake while I’m talking to you guys.
Things here are going well.
I think I say that at least three or four times. It’s just like my standard – “Things are
going well.” It’s true. Like, they really are.
Oh, I got the sweetest letter the other day from, uh, I
think it’s over on the pool table? But
it was a Sunday School class – 15 and 16 year olds from our ward. And it was just super super nice. People like, Parker Nuzman, is that how
you say it? Nuzman? The people that live next to the Hixons.
Super awesome people. Yeah, their
kid was one of the people that sent me that letter, or signed it, and it was
just super nice of them. It was really
touching.
Oooh! That’s right, I forgot about cake. I’m going to take a
bite real quick.
So things are going well.
Mmmmm, yep, worth it. Worth the
calories. That cake was good. While
we’re at it, I think that’s when you know you’ve made a good cake, when you can
take a bite of the cake and not feel guilty at all.
I really, really hope that you
like actually enjoy listening to this, and I hope this isn’t a waste of your
time, and you’re like “Do I really have to?
I love my kid, but I really don’t want to listen to this. This is just him rambling. It was cute at first, but I don’t want to
listen to this.” If you feel that way
let me know, and I will actually write down a plan what I want to say, I might
as well just start doing that as well.
You know, there’s like a plot, I’ll have a climax with my stories,
there’ll probably be some random stuff, yeah I’ll start planning out some more
stuff.
(coughing fit)
Not sure what else to say, I’m getting a
little more tired. It’s like 10:07. You know, getting 8 hours of sleep every
night has been really really good for me on my mission. I feel a lot better. Holy crap, like being on this schedule, when
10 starts to hit, your body KNOWS that it’s going to sleep, it’s like, “Well,
I’m gonna start shutting everything down, you all better be in bed before 10:30
when it’s lights out, because I’m shutting down. ” You just like FEEL it hit.
It’s been super nice, it’s a blessing, we’ve had to do
almost zero zone leader work in the last little bit. We had to collect mile requests from everyone
because we get a certain amount of miles a month, so we had to collect those
this week, we put them in the system, and in a couple of days on the first,
we’ll have to collect the total amount of miles that people went that month and
put that in the system, and then all we pretty much have to do is send in
supply requests. I think that’s it. For at least awhile. Let’s see, we already have the assignments we
were given from President and Sister Wadsworth for zone conference next week
assigned. Ummm, yeah we have no more administrative work
to do. It’s been really really low as
far as like administrative stuff this week, it’s been wonderful. I’ve gotten over the initial, I don’t want to
say hatred, like that is honestly way to strong a word. Dislike. I’ve gotten over the initial dislike, and
just kind of accepted it for what it is.
But we didn’t even have to travel, as sad as that was actually, to not
go to MLC… We got those couple days in our area, granted we were shut down for
a couple days so maybe that makes up for it.
I’m going to Greybull this Monday for a zone prep
day, I’m so excited. I’ll get to see the Cheatham’s
hopefully. If not, I’ll get to see a
couple other people. I stopped by and
saw some at the old folk’s home.
Larna. Bless her heart. She
somehow managed to touch my heart, like a lot of people on my mission. She’s this old, senior lady, kind of lost it
a little bit, but to be fair she’s gone through A LOT of stuff. I think mom might have heard of her, I don’t
know how familiar you guys are with Supreme Court cases. But Larna, back in I think the 70’s or 60’s,
I could be totally wrong, it could be the 80’s or 90’s, she had an abusive
husband and she ended up shooting him.
And they were going to put her in jail for that, but she took that all
the way literally up to the Supreme Court, the US Supreme Court, and there is
now a law in place, that says that if you have an abusive husband, you’re
allowed to shoot, like kill to defend yourself. And that is because of her. And
I met that lady, and I taught her, not necessarily taught her, but I served
her, at the Senior Center every week. I
have a friendship with her, that’s so crazy like I met someone that is part of
a major US History event! Anyways, she’s
been through a lot. Kinda funny, like as
a missionary we’re warned not to let her grab our ties, cause she’ll pretty
much grab that and try to choke us and other things. Crazy, but then she goes
from that to, she’s blind, my nickname is Gilbert since I’m from Gilbert, and I
was there with Elder Burch, and she called him Mesa. And there’s someone there, a less active that
we’re working with at the senior center in Greybull, so we’re always getting
updates from her, she told Larna that I would be stopping by to say hi, and I
did, and apparently just made her day, so I’ve been stopping by and seeing her
every time I’m there and it’s been good.
She’s a character.
This recording is already 15 minutes long. I’m gonna stop rambling and I’m gonna go to
bed. I love you guys a lot. Thank you, you guys really give me the
strength that I need. Thank you for all
you do. I love you guys, bye!
PS- Hey, so I know I said I’d stop, but I just had like a 6
th
or 7
th bite of cake. Still
totally worth it, not feeling guilty. Show’s it’s a pretty dang good cake. Last
thing before I go, you know what’s like
the most pleasurable thing to do right after eating cake? You hear that? That’s right.
Half a glass of milk!
Love you guys, seriously I love you all so much, bye!
