Anchorage

Hey everyone!

   This week was good. We went to Anchorage everyday monday through friday, it was weird. Monday we came into anchorage for emails and pday stuff, tuesday we got some chips in our car window fixed, wednesday we got our flu shots, thursday we had a training, and friday we did family history stuff/looked into college to figure out the answers to your questions last week about college. Lots of driving to and from Anchorage.   The next transfer is on the 12th, I find out if I stay or go friday of next week.  And no, theres not very many moose wandering around chugiak or eagle river this year, I don't think there was enough snow to push them down out of the mountains this year. District meeting was good, I had the senior couple missionaries give a training.  They picked the topic- about cleaning our apartments and hygene haha. They're the apartment cleaning checkers for the bowl area so they've seen some pretty nasty missionary apartments - haha.  They said that our districts apartments are some of the cleanest that they've seen though. They ended up taking the whole time for training so everything else that I planned on doing last week we're doing this week instead.  So next week, a sister missionary is doing an activity on patience, I'm gonna train on becoming a more christlike missionary/person, and elder sant is also going to do a short training on our purpose as missionaries. Delegation's the best thing ever, haha, so it should be good. 

  

   We had a decent week, we started doing more lessons with active members to try and get referrals and its been working.   Last week we got 12 referrals, which is the most I've ever gotten in this area so it was awesome. We weren't able to meet with investigators, because we had alot of cancelations. We did meet with a new person though, he's friends with a less active lady. We were intending to meet with her boy friend but he's out of town working so she had her friend staying with her because she gets nervous being alone with a baby. And we were able to teach him about the first vision and who joseph smith is.  He said he would be fine learning a little bit about our beliefs, so we set up a lesson with him. Then we met with less active members and did lessons with active members. But we were able to set some lessons up for next week so that was good.

   I hit my 18 month mark yesterday and burned a pair of pants that were all beat up and worn out with elder merrill at a members home in meadow creek. Pants stink suuuper bad when you burn them, it wasn't good. It sounds like you guys had fun up at park city and doing all sorts of shinanigans during the week, thats good! :) Welp, I hope you all have a great and glorious week this week and do even more fun shininigans too haha. Love you guys!

 Love Elder Ashton Roney