♪♫Good
morning, good morning!♪♫ Happy
morning again! Eggs are going great. Oh!
Hello! I just flipped it and it went everywhere. Or little bits of it went everywhere. Ok, this egg is most definitely done, moving
it off the burner, and putting the bagel in the toaster. It’s amazing the things you take for granted
when you’re at home. Like, for instance, a toaster. I REALLY missed having a toaster when I was
in, let me think, cause I don’t know if I had one in Great Falls, that was so
long ago. If we did we never really used it.
Butte, never really had one. Like we got one near the end of my stay
there, and that was nice, but I missed it at times. And like, at least now that
I’ve had one, oh my goodness, it’s been great.
Oh! And in Powell I got used to having a Panini press. The
members there had one and it was glorious. Paninis for days. Like the most
simplest lunch ever. You just – Bread!
Turkey! Pastrami! Cheese! Boom! Put it in the Panini maker, press it down… It’s
just basically a fancy grilled cheese. A quick grilled cheese. I could probably just make one for lunch
today and have it be the exact same, now that I think about it. It was just a
grilled cheese. Just, yeah. Really good
though, I enjoyed it thoroughly.
It snowed a bit yesterday but it all melted. It’s so nice.
There’s still remnants of the snow from winter, you’ll still see patches,
there’s still snow on the mountains. For
the most part it’s all off the roads. It’s so nice. Grass is coming back, all
the trees are still dead. Minus all the pine. That is the cool thing about
Montana. Like in Arizona, all the trees
just die, minus palm trees. Basically if
you put them in the winter here, everything would be dead. But now you have
these, like I look and you see these dead trees, but then you have pine trees.
And they’re just always alive. And always looking great. Maybe that’s why
they’re everywhere, because people are like “I want to be able to look at a
tree year round, and not have to rake leaves.” That is definitely one thing
that I’m like, I don’t know if I want to live in a place with fall, like it’s
beautiful to go see and visit, but then leaves. And if you don’t get them raked
up before snow hits, you gotta deal with a lot of mushy old leaves when it all
melts. #Arizonaforthewin.
Let me think, oh we had a powerful recent convert fireside
last night. That was pretty amazing. Basically it was all the recent converts or
the recently reactivated members within the last year or two, and they were
invited to come bear their testimonies and hear the testimonies of others. It was about an hour and a half, so it was
like the length if a Sacrament meeting, with some treats. It was a Sacrament meeting with treats. Minus
the sacrament. The sacrament is our treat. I forgot where I was going with all
this…. Oh yes! Wonderful, wonderful meeting.
I really enjoyed it. Super
spiritual and powerful, there’s a few points where, I will admit, I was
struggling to stay awake. I feel that that hits, I don’t know, I’ve had points
where like, it’s hit me really hard.
There were some sacrament meetings where I’m like, this is it. I’m dead. But then there’s other ones where
I’m like totally awake! I don’t know, maybe it happens more in the summer? I don’t know, I think it’s probably more
summer. This last winter was hard. Cause
I hardly ever fell asleep in Butte the whole time I was there. Greybull was fine until it started to get
warmer… maybe it is the summer? Cause I don’t think I struggled… oh, okay well,
I did struggle a bit in Powell, but that was usually only the last ward and
we’re at church from 7:30 to 4:00 with all the ward council meetings. So maybe that’s part of it. At least I hope it is. I hate to uh,
yeah. I remember I used to do that back
home a lot. And you’d bring up the point, “You gotta get over this for your
mission!” Well, for the most part I did.
If I fall asleep it’s usually for only 10 or 15 minutes. Then I’m totally awake
for the rest of the meeting. It’s
bad. I have no excuses. I haven’t been doing it lately in these
sacrament meetings though. It’s like, my problem now is extra meetings. Like
stake conferences or firesides. It’s like, well, end of the day, I’m sitting
down in a comfy chair. Good night. I’m gonna pause this real quick while I bless
the food.
Alright I’m back. And now I’m going to take this over to the
table. Oh, I’m hungry. And I also feel a
little sick to my stomach. But I’m
hungry, so we’ll see how this goes.
Going and getting a haircut today.
Really great guy, I’m debating it, so all the missionaries keep talking
about this guy, he’s super, super great, it’s expensive, so I’ve been saving up
a little bit of money for it. The thing
is, it’s a $20 hair cut, which I’m like “pfff, that’s so much money…” but he’s
also a real barber, like straight shave, everything. It’s only like an extra $4
and I kinda want to try that today. But the problem is, is that like I still
need to shave today, it’s not that much, so I kinda feel that getting a
straight shave on a mission is kinda, pointless. If that makes sense just
because it’s, I don’t know, there’s not much to take off other than the stuff
you grew overnight. I hope that made any sense.
I’m probably just going to shave and maybe try one later when I get
home. Because I do want to have that
experience at some point in my life.
This sandwich looks really good. I put some cream cheese on the top bun. Yep. It’s good.
Oh! Duh! I know what you’re waiting for! Transfer news.
(laughs) Bless your heart, mom. So we both got our transfer news and we’re
both staying here Helena. I’m really
excited and it’s gonna be another great transfer. I love it here, I love Elder
Shumway, it’s gonna be wonderful. Elder Hendricks I know is staying in
Billings. Our zone isn’t changing too
much, apart from the three missionaries who went home, and there’s one more
missionary that’s going down to Lovell, Wyoming. I loved giving him that news. It was great.
To be completely honest, I can’t think of anything else to
talk about, and I really want to enjoy my sandwich. So I’m going to stop this recording, I’m
going to send it off, and I’ll probably send another one later! Love you mom.
Thank you for all you do. And I hope you have a wonderful rest of your
day. Bye!
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