October 12, 2015 - The One with Tracting in the Rain

This has been a great week here in Albermarle. It was pretty solid overall. Our investigators are starting to drop off but we have been taking in the counsel of a mission wide call in we had on Wednesday night and have found some wonderful new people we are excited to start working with.The conference call was all about how we need to be putting more of an emphasis on finding new investigators and consecrate three hours a...

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October 5, 2015 - The One with the Bug Investation

This week was a great week. It was full on a lot of non proselyting activities but overall it was fairly successful. Last Monday we had a Zone Activity in Charlotte which was a lot of fun. We went to this park and played different sports and brought a bunch of food and had a little cookout. I saw Elder Burkhart again which was a little wired since he only just left but it was good. I played some volleyball and Ultimate frisbee...

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September 28, 2015 - The One with the Most Normal Week EVER!

This was a bit of a crazy week here in Albemarle but it all turned. First of all, congratulations to my cousin on getting married! Best wishes!Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to write this week, we have a zone activity in Charlotte all afternoon so we'll spend a lot of time there.The week started off pretty bland. We didn't teach anyone on Monday night because no one was home. We were supposed to have a lesson at our...

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September 21, 2015 - The One Where I get a New Companion!

This was another amazing week here in Albemarle. As I'm sure you have already heard my new companion is Elder Simpkin from England! He is from Southampton. We get along great and have a lot of fun together.The new Elder with Elder Valgardsen is Elder Lopez. There are also two new sisters and one of them, Sister Flaherty came out with me and was just serving in Lenoir! She was able to tell me all the wonderful things that...

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September 14, 2015 - The One Where I Only Have to Make Two Meals

This was probably the best week ever. No joke. It went by so fast which was great and it was so full of so many miracles it wasn't even funny! It started Wednesday with one of my best exchanges ever. Elder Mautz, one of our Zone Leaders, came with me to Albemarle. They came to our district meeting and our district went to this nice Japanese Restaurant for lunch. Then I said goodbye to Elder Burkhart and we headed back...

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September 8, 2015 - The One with the Blackout

First of all Happy Birthday to my dad! He got older this last week!  This was a really great week. We were able to teach a lot of people and I was just really good. Everyone under the sun decided they wanted to move so we spent a lot of time moving people. We helped the couple families pack up and move stuff onto U Hauls and it was actually a lot of fun. I got to sweat a lot and it makes up for my poor morning workouts! I've actually...

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August 31, 2015 - The One with Lots of Sleeping People

This was a pretty average week. And that's a good thing. It started great and fizzled by the end. It was overall pretty average.Monday night we had the most perfect lesson ever. It started by having dinner with our bishop and our progressing investigator. We had some great conversation over dinner then we went into the living room to teach. And this on its own would have been fantastic but it got even better. Not only did...

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The One With the Mosquito Bites

Me in Brother Champagne's hat!! This has been one of the most up and down weeks so far. Not because of how high or low or got, but because of how frequently everything shifted back and forth. So many days started awful, got good during the day, then were awful again it wasn't even funny. Just as frequent were the great start to a day, then awful most of the day, then good in the evening. It's hard to keep up with everything...

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The One Where We Get "Illegal Hand Sanitizer" ;)

This was a really good week until Saturday but more on that later.  We had a great Pday last week. We went to the same trampoline park we went to a couple of months ago.  Tuesday night we taught a lady in our Ward and her son who is eight and we are preparing for baptism. She works as an overnight cleaner at a doctors office and they rotate the hand sanitizer there so frequently that they throw out so much. So what happens Is...

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The One Where We Hang Out With the President

This has been a pretty decent week. We're teaching a few more people so that's nice. We have been doing a lot of knocking on doors to try and build up our teaching pool because all of our other efforts aren't working.Wednesday night we got a call from our mission president, President Alexander. He asked us what our plans for the next night were. We didn't have a whole lot planned but he said he wanted to come teaching with...

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The one where I have a lot of late nights

This week was very average. Not a lot happened, which for most people is great but for us it's basically the worst thing. We did go on two exchanges this week. They were a lot of fun. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Monday night was good. We went over to a family in the wards house for dinner and they served us a pork loin. Unfortunately, two very bad circumstances came into play. One, Elder Burkhart is allergic to pork, two, Elder Burkhart...

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The one with the birthday party and the return of the cockroach

Hello everyone!  Hope you had a great week! Sounds like there were a lot of big things happening at home that I'm glad to hear about! This week was pretty alright.  We were able to teach a few more people than last week which was really good. We are trying to surround ourselves with members because we know that this connection is what makes the transition to accepting the gospel easier. Nobody wants to talk to a couple of strange...

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