♪♫I’ve
got a lovely bunch of coconuts♫♪ Good morning!
How are you doing? I’m doing
pretty good out here. Let me think, the sun is shining, it’s a beautiful day,
the tank is clean… I think I’ve made that joke before on this (?) (laughs) Actually I need to do some cleaning up a
little bit. We have some dirty dishes
that we need to do. On my bed I have
clothes half put away… All my clothes-clothes are folded, but they’re still on
my bed. And then I just have a basket
full of socks that I need to put together and fold up or roll up or whatever
and put in my drawer. Yeah. Then as soon as I do that, I’ll make my
bed. That’s my excuse for not making my
bed yet.
Let me think, we had some really good days. Man, I had stuff I was gonna talk about, but
I don’t remember anything. We have some
really, really fun preparation day plans today.
We were planning on going to the stake center and I think just doing
another “Zone Prep day” yay. Every
week. But instead, us, the zone leaders
and the Corvalis elders, which actually live with the zone leaders right now
since their apartment flooded with raw sewage, where have you heard that one
before? They’ll be coming with us. So last night, some members offered to drive
us and some other members up to Missoula to go play laser tag and eat
lunch. I think it’s because they will
really miss Elder Johnson, they heard he’s leaving. But they are really really great members, and
I’m really excited. I haven’t been laser
tagging in ages. I’m going to have to
take some ibuprofen first, but that’s what pain meds are for. So you can do fun stuff. I’m just kidding. I know that’s not what pain meds are for.
So awesome. So
Mission Tour was amazing. Elder Dyches of the Seventy was just so great. He was
a mission president I want to say twice, but I’m thinking more once. We just had a really really great experience
with him. At one point he even had
President and Sister Wadsworth leave the room and on a white board he listed
one by one, first he started with sister Wadsworth and then president Wadsworth,
all the great qualities we could think about them. For Sister Wadsworth it was all “She loves
us, she cares about us, she’s motherly, she cares about our health…” All these great things, and then someone
shouted out “Opinionated” (laughs) which is fair, she definitely has her
opinions and she’ll stick to them and make sure that you do them. And he laughed, and said “just for that one,
I’m putting it on the board.” For
President Wadsworth it was like “hilarious, loving, has a great testimony and
shares it. Great knowledge of the
scriptures. Cares about us and our lives back home. Wants the best for us.” You know, all these
great things. I took a picture of them,
but I can’t remember. And so then he invited
them back in and that was just tons of fun to see their reactions. Love them to death. Love President and Sister Wadsworth. They really are your parents away from home.
The longer and longer I’ve been on a mission, the longer and longer I’m really
like feeling that. Yeah, he was amazing,
gave us some great advice. Talked to us
a lot. We were promised that as we
prepared for it, we would get a lot out of it.
Kind of like Sacrament meeting.
You know, how big of a cup are you going to bring today to be filled up
type of deal. Where we prepare ourselves
to be spiritually uplifted, and it was just amazing. I really tried to pray and read the
scriptures. At one point, while we were
waiting for him to come, because they were having some car problems and were
late a bit, the assistants were going around, and they were promising us that
if we were reverent we would get more and oh my goodness, I got so much out of
it. It was great. I’m not trying to
brag, I hope you know that, but it was just like, I was really spiritually
uplifted. I loved it! He gave us a lot
of promises about obedience. Made a lot
of comments I love like “Companionship study is the LIFEBLOOD of a companionship.
If you are having a wonderful companionship study every day, you don’t need to
have companionship inventories.” I’m
like, “Awesome!” And we’ve already seen that.
We’ve had a couple of great companionship studies, and its just like the
spirit that is felt is amazing.
Things here are going great.
Also, I got to see Elder Burch and Elder Hendricks. That was amazing. I love those two guys so much. We got to see Elder Tucker. I got my journal
back. Well, my journal 2.0. I told you that, right? That like after I left Powell, the journal
that I’ve had that long on my mission, it went poof! I had the Elders there looking for it, I was really looking for it, and I was just
like, “ I don’t know where it went, so I guess I don’t have that journal anymore. I’m hoping it really turns up. I have my contact information in there
so. Granted, I wasn’t the most
diligent, but there’s still good stuff in there. This journal, actually I think it was a bit
of a wakeup call for me too, it turned out at least for me better because with
this new journal I’ve gotten I’ve been… I still miss days and weeks, well, I
missed weeks this time because it was with Elder Tucker. I gave it to him at transfers, I’m like,
“okay.” He’s like, “ Can I have just a
little bit more time to write a note for you in it.” And I’m like “Sure! Go for it!” And he’s a
zone leader, so he’s like “I’ll give it to your zone leaders at MLC.” He says
he had an “Elder Berrett moment” and forgot.
So I got it at mission tour now.
So I have my journal and its been great writing in that every night
again.
Anyways, Elder Hendricks and I exchanged name tags. So now I have one of his and he has one of
mine. We don’t obviously wear them, but, yeah.
Ooh, speaking of which, yeah I can do that today. I’ve got to call the office and order a bunch
of name tags, since you can’t order any your last transfer. They said that if you want to wear home any
shiny extra new name tags on the plane ride home, order them basically
now. I’m like “Oh, ok.” You can order a max of four per month, I
found that out awhile back and so I’m thinking that if I order some like now,
and then order some in like a month before my last transfer, that will be like
6-7 nametags that I will have that I can give out to my kids when they go on a
mission, or something like that, you know?
I feel like it’s good to have extra nametags. The church may not like me doing it, but to
be fair, I do pay for them, its like 2 bucks a nametag. 2-3 bucks that they
just kinda take out of my allotment for the next month.
(Whistling the Nutcracker Suite) Again, I love that new book you sent me. I just recently went through them all
again. They’re great. Just finished laundry. It’s been a pretty good Monday so far. (
yawns) I’m tired. I’ve been less tired recently, so that’s been
good. Been getting some good sleep.
Oh yeah, another thing Elder Dyches kinda like, he didn’t
quite chas… he never really chastised us, there was kinda one point where he
was like, “We’re in the chapel where you take the sacrament. Be more reverent.” He talked about the
sacrament and the importance of it, and we’re like, “You’re right, we’re
sorry.” It was during President
Wadsworths when we were shouting out things and getting all rowdy, and he’s
like “Guys, this is still a very sacred place we’re in.” Anyways, I don’t even remember what I was going
to talk about. It was just a great
experience with Elder Dyches. Mission
tours are the best thing ever. I’m a
little sad I missed Elder Christofferson, a couple months ago because I was in
Wyoming, but hey, he gave some blessings to the mission, like an Apostolic
Blessing that I DEFINITELY felt. It was
really cool. I wasn’t even there. I didn’t even hear about it, until like from
President and sister Wadsworth a couple weeks later, and I still felt it. It
was amazing. Those are definitely real.
Umm. Yeah, I really don’t have too much to report. Laundry’s going good. (laughs)
Just wrote Christopher a birthday letter. Bless that wonderful kid. Love him to death.
Um, yeah, I’m going to pause this recording, how long has it
been going on? 12 minutes. Yeah, I’m going to pause this recording,
gather my thoughts, and probably going to make another one in a little
bit. Love ya to death and hope you have
a wonderful day. Bye!
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