Hey everyone!

  So yes. there was flooding here in Chugiak,.  We didn't have flooding in our apartment but there were lots of people that had their basements flood because the rivers been so high.  Bummer that Alyssa got flooded though.

    Well,  this week was good, we did lots of service and a good amount of teaching. So we met with Kate twice this week. It went really well both times. The first time this week that we saw her we talked about the Book of Mormon and Godhead and especially the Holy Ghost and who they are and everything, she had lots of questions about the Holy Ghost which was awesome. So we spent a good while answering her questions and helping her understand what the Godhead is and what role each of them play. Then at the end of that lesson we gave her a Book of Mormon to have for herself. She was pretty excited about that, she kinda perked up and was pretty happy that we were giving her her own copy. During church sister Townsend, the member shes staying with, told us that she really wants to start reading the Book of Mormon and likes learning more about the gospel and what we believe, its nice to have someone to meet regularly with whose genuinely interested and will take the time to meet with us. It makes the area so much better to be in. Last night we met with her the second time this week and taught her the restoration and taught her about Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon and where it came from and all that good stuff. And again she had lots of questions which is perfect and awesome! It makes teaching so much easier/better when the investigator asks questions, its fun teaching someone who has no religious background haha.

  We met with sister H and finished 1st Nephi, it went good, she still enjoys reading from it. Hopefully she can just change her mind about not taking the lessons and decide that it would be fine to take the lessons.
 
    And then we finally were able to meet with Terry again after many weeks of failed attempts. It was alright, she always asks deep doctrine questions because she meets with Jehovahs Witness  missionaries as well as with us and she tries to see what we believe compared to what they teach her. So thats kind of obnoxious, she needs to just focus on looking into our church haha, that way she wont get confused about who taught what and she probably wont ask so much about deeper doctrine stuff.  But it was good to be able to meet with her again, and we taught her about the restoration as well and she seemed like she really enjoyed it. And her kids go crazy and start putting toys on our laps and are super distracting haha, I think they handed me every toy that they own during that lesson, and lots of scribbled on and cut up pieces of paper too. Its always interesting going over there haha.
 
    This week we've done tons of service too.  We cleaned out gutters, with our hands.. Super Nasty!  At the nature center they had some water that over flowed and was running over the trail so we dug some ditches to redirect the water so the trail isn't a river anymore haha. We helped a member in the ward cut down some trees so they have firewood this winter to heat their house, which was awesome! We cut donw a pretty tall pine tree and it was super fun to watch fall, then some smaller trees too.  Then we helped another guy rip out tree stumps and clear out some of his woods so he can park his motor home there. It was fun,  I like doing service like that. Oh and the northern lights were out last night! We only saw it very faintly because we were in the lesson with Kate while they were out and when we came out they were disappearing.

   Well Im glad you guys had such a good week.   Tell Zac hi for me. I'll try to write a letter for you to give him. I'm glad Avery was able to have fun at the concert.  At the Jack Johnson concert with Keaton, Kortni, and Nicco it was pretty funny to watch some of the drunk people too. Tell Kortni hi back for me, its good to hear that she's enjoying California. Tell Keaton hi too.   That's pretty sweet that Brolins gonna be doing a the first half of his day on the internet classes instead of at the school.  That would be kinda nice to be able to just do that instead of traveling early in the morning in the cold to school. Too bad that Braedon and Virginia weren't able to end up camping, but fun that they got to watch BYU dominate. I'll bet Dad really enjoyed that game, one of the members told me about that game and I figured that Dad watched it and loved it. Hopefully Britt enjoyed Moab too, one of the missionaries in my zone is from a small town down by Moab. You guys are all the way at 50 degrees?  In the morning here it's getting a little chilly.  Today when we left our apartment it was 23 degrees, and it snowed for the first time this past week. Only a couple inches that melted by the next day though.

Well, take care and love you lots,
 Love Elder Roney