Monday December 19, 2017 - The One with the Cheap Shoes

This has been a good week here in Pineville. If I'm being honest this will probably be the last group email report I'll send. I'm thinking next week I'd rather spend time getting my stuff packed and saying goodbye than spending time on writing a group message. If you write me individually I'll try and get back though. The week has been different. We lost Elder Merrill last week so it's been lonely with just the two of us. His companion injured himself...

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Monday December 12, 2017 - The One with the Wedding

Oh my gosh. This week has been insane! Though that's basically every week. But this one in particular. Okay. First some more crazy emergency transfer news that we had to deal with. On Monday we found out hat there was a struggling Elder that was going to be coming down to be in the ward adjacent to us. It meant we lost a good Elder who would need to replace him in his old  area so we were pretty bummed about it. Well yesterday we found...

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Monday Dec. 5, 2016 - The One where I lead a Choir

This has been a pretty good week again here in Pineville.  Monday night was a bit if a wired one. We got a call from the Sister missionaries in ourward saying that they had just got off the phone with PresidentAlexander and Sister Stensrud was going to be emergency transferredout of the area. They were in a trio and there was a Sister going homeso they needed to have someone replace her. It was super sad. We wereeating dinner with a member family afterwords and they stopped in tosay good bye to the member and to us. We got a picture.Tuesday...

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Monday November 28, 2016 - The One with the Christlike Poker

Is has been a pretty great week in Pineville. We are trying to stay busy.Tuesday we went on exchange with the Catawba Elders. I went down tothe Reservation with an Elder Johnson. We had a good time. We did someservice for this Children's shelter. We washed the windows on all ofthe buildings. One of the lessons we taught was actually with twokids there whose baptismal interivews I did last month. We wentto their district meeting the next day all the...

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Monday November 21, 2016 - The One with the New Car

This has been a really good week here in Pineville. We had a goodDistrict Activity on Monday. We had some Elders who got a couple ofracks of ribs so we cooked those and we made homemade French fries. Aftereating we went bowling. It was pretty fun. That night our RecentConvert Chris (he was the one Elder Peterson and I baptized in July)asked us to come help with a Single Adults Family Home EveningFireside he was putting on. We gave a little lesson...

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