Hey everyone!

   

  This week was pretty good, had some interesting experiences but it was good. I forgot to mention last week that I finally got to go to the temple again haha. It was the first time Ive been able to go to the temple since the beginning of last december, so it was nice to be able to go through it again. Its starting to get pretty cold again, when we leave in the mornings its usually in the 30s, and it doesnt warm up much during the day, so Ive been using my ski socks and all that good stuff more and more. But its good I guess, because that means the end of winters even closer haha. We also helped the meadow creek elders move out of their apartment that I was living in while I was in that area. They moved to the apartment building that was just behind their apartment building that they moved out of haha, so we were just walking stuff from their old apartment to their new apartment, but we got some weights out of it and they offered to buy us lunch at hula hands. Hula hands is a super good polynesian restaraunt, I love it there so much that I could eat there at least once every week and never get tired of it. And were taking our wards priest quarom on a tour of the mission office this week, they want to see what its like a little bit to be on a mission and all that stuff. So us and the APs are gonna take them on a tour of the mission office,   Today one of the office staff is gonna give me a key to the mission office, haha.  Once I have that key I'll have the power! haha   i\It should be good though. Oh and today I'm getting an appointment set up to get those dern cavities fixed, yaaay.  

  This week we had a girl named Rebecca come to church with a member and she told us that she wants to learn about the gospel! That was the first time thats happened to me since I've been on my mission, so it was pretty awesome. We're gonna call her today and set something up with her. We also saw Kate twice this week, the first time we met with her we taught her about prayer and studying the scriptures, it went super well. She told us that she said a prayer and had it answered, so that was pretty cool, and all the hymns at church were about prayer, so it was even better. The second time we met with her this week we taught her about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Which is faith, repentance, baptism, the holy ghost and enduring to the end. It went pretty good, she retains everything from church and when we meet with her, she was answering questions before we could finish asking them haha. It was a good lesson, she's been keeping up on the chapters weve been giving her to read too, she's doing great.  We met with sister H-------- again, we were only able to meet with her once this week though, but it was good because we were able to read 3 or 4 chapters that time instead of just 2. We werent able to meet with Bill though, he got sick this week. We had a lesson scheduled with him but since he got sick he had to cancel with us. And Terry was super busy so we weren't able to meet with her this week either.

  We had a fun experience this week, so a member wanted us to go see his neighbor and try to get in with them. He said theyre super nice people and would probably let us come in, but he told us that they have a license to grow medical marijuana so that would probably come up as an issue they might have with the beliefs of the church. So we went over there and once we got within probably 15 to 20 feet of the house we could smell the marijuana. We knocked and out of the side door the lady popped out for a second and had a joint that she was smoking so she got back inside pretty quick, and the husband very quickly came out and told us that they're not interested haha. The member who is their neighbor said they probably would of let us in if we didn't catch them at a bad time haha. Then we also tracted into this super akward guy who didn't say much except for no and bye. Then we left and knocked on some other doors.  When we passed by his house on our way back to the car he yelled "YO!" and waved to us to come back. So we went back hoping that he changed his mind and was interested, but we soon realized otherwise. He let us come in and after a few minutes of getting to know each other, he started quizing us on little things that unless you really sit down and study the bible and look for little things that don't really matter, you won't be able to answer his questions.  So then he was pretty dissappointed we did'nt know the answers to his questions to pointless facts.    But, we got to warm up for a few minutes so that was nice. Interesting people here in Chugiak, that's for sure. 

  It sounds like you guys had an overall good week, mingled with not as good parts. Im glad you got to go to St George and golf Dad, sounds like it was a super fun trip. It sounds like Avery had a good time at the dance. Too bad that BYU lost that game and that you dont like the coaching staff. Im glad that Brolins enjoying his new school schedule, I would too if I got to sleep in later, that'd be awesome. And those pictures are pretty good that Brolin sent me, he's getting pretty good. That's crazy that Damons already back from his mission, that was fast. And no I haven't gotten the box yet so I don't know if the socks you sent are like what I have, I'll probably get it today when I go to the mission office.  this week was pretty good, sounds like the majority of your guys week was good too. Anyways, I think I didn't miss anything, but if I did Im sure I'll probably tell you about it next week or something haha. Hope you guys have a great week this week, love you guys!

 Love Elder Roney