So this week was good, better than last week. The weather has been warming up a ton! Right now its like 40 degrees out side! Im not even wearing a jacket when I came to email. Its been nice, I love the weather right now. So Were still working with Eric, Paige and Pierce. Theyre doing good. So last night we had a lesson with Eric, and taught some of the commandments, it went good, and at the end we set a baptismal date with him. Me and elder Coombs picked out the 10th for Eric to be baptized, he accepted and said he would prepare for that date. So that was good, we set that with him, and once we set the date I think it really sunk in even deeper that this is real, this is actually happening, so that was great, its giving him something to work towards. And then this morning we got a text from Eric, he told us that he wanted to switch to one week earlier, march 3rd, haha we just told him that we could definitely do that, so now we got to get him ready for the 3rd. And were still just waiting on Paige and Pierces mom to give us the green light. Then we went to Ronnie and Josies sons birthday party that they invited us to, Phillipino food is amazing! at least the food she made us. I loved it, they made tons of it too and had us take it home with us, so now weve got a huuuge container full of this Phillipino noodle stuff, and this good chicken stuff and this dessert stuff. And before we went we went over to Walmart and got their son the game Trouble. Now theyll be doing family home evening with out even realizing it haha. He was stoked about it though, it was good. Oh, and I accidentally ripped one of my pants super bad Ill send a picture, not from bending over or anything like that but from being kind of stupid, but not that stupid... So we were shoveling off the roof of a members house, and we had a huuuge pile of snow in the yard on top of the 4 feet of snow already in their yard. And the roof is only like 10 feet high, so we finished up shoveling, threw our shovels and stuff over in a snow pile by the front door. Then since there was so much snow we had to jump off the roof, we had to. once I got back out of all the snow I looked down and the middle was destroyed...Im gonna see if I can get them fixed though...Sorry! Also this week, we saw some less actives, one of them is a part member family as well. Theyre awesome, the Hanks, her husband isnt a member and hes halarious. He was telling us that he 100% thinks this is the right, true church but doesnt want to join. He told us that hes been in more fights defending our church then well ever be in in our lives haha. He was telling us all about the old days in fairbanks and in CA and his fighting days haha, he discribed himself as a modern day porter rockwell. We ended up talking about standing up for what you believe in and he started crying and told us that we won that night and that he'll let his wife read the book of mormon to him more and all that good stuff. The funny thing was that we werent trying to convert him or anything that night, we were just trying to get to know them a little and see how they were doing since ive never met them before that. Theyre awesome, theyve got tons of legit, artifact native stuff, and tons of animals theyve hunted up here, the coolest thing was a polar bear rug thing on their wall, and theyve got ivory and walrus tusks and all this crazy stuff. So their house was like a museum, it was fun to go to. Oh and sunday was good, were covering two wards right now so we ended up going to two sacrament meetings haha. Other than that weve just been trying to see less actives and former investigators. We ended up tracting earlier this week and got tons of potential investigators. We knocked I think 6 or 7 houses and we got 4 potential investigators from it! That was awesome, ussually ive been lucky to get 2 out of an entire street. It was nice to have people say that we could come back sometime. Were meeting with one tonight actually, so hopefully that turns out good. So this week was good.
Thats good that you guys got more snow this week, I love the snow. As long as its snowing here its somewhere above 0 so im happy when it snows. It is surprising how cold it actually gets up here, I saw -20 or a little colder and Im in an area thats not too bad, up north it gets even colder, crazy stuff. So were helping out with the iditarod this wednesday, stuff with the food for the dogs, and then on the 21st were helping out again, its gonna be sweet, Im stoked for it! And then were helping out with a few other things that are going on too. So its gonna be sweet. Im pretty good on everything I need, I can get just about anything up here since im in a city with a Walmart haha. So I think Im good and dont really need anything sent up to me, some members gave me yak tracks, things you put on your shoes that give you traction on the ice theyre sweet, so Im good and if I need anything Ill let you know. And on Pdays like today we just wear slacks and a white shirt and tie with a thin jacket or coat. Were supposed to wear our normal everyday clothes on pdays unless were playing basketball or doing something that requires work clothes. So this week was good, it sounds like everyones doing good at home. And thanks for that package, it was delicious. I think I got everyhting, Love you guys!
Love Elder Roney
And here are some pictures,
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| One of my pants...again sorry... |
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| The Salmon we made for lunch one day. |
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| An eagle that was by our apt in a tree. |
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| Eagle River from a road in our area. |
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