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Hey everyone!
   So this week was alright. We helped out more with Iditarod and also the Fur Rondavu.   For the Iditarod we're still helping get things ready for the race in a few weeks. This week we helped move furniture out of a hotel into a big moving thing so they could get furniture to different checkpoints for the race.   So that was good.  In a few weeks the actual race will start and hopefully we'll get to help out that day.   Also, we helped out with the frostbite footrace.   It's part of the Fur Rondavou, a big thing and there was a parade and ice sculptures and a bunch of that kind of stuff.   We only stayed around until the race was done though.   It was lots of fun, people are crazy up here man.   It was only like 16 or 20 degrees outside and people were running in shorts and no shirt and all these funny costumes.  They're crazy, there's no way I could run around without a shirt and in shorts in 16ish degree weather.  So that was fun, luckily they had hot chocolate for us haha, and we got a sweet shirt for being volunteers. It was lots of fun to see the race.  This week has been fun.  Elder Savaiinaea makes missionary work here lots of fun. He's been out 16 months.  

    So this week was good, it's interesting covering both wards.  For bear mountain ward, we only go to sacrament meeting then head over to meadow creek ward for their sacrament meeting and the rest of their meetings. We're meeting with Eric tomorrow, and taking him off date, he wanted to move it up but we don't feel like he's completely ready yet.  We still have to finish teaching him the commandments and go over a few things again with him before we can dunk him.   But he's progressing right along, he's doing good.   We're still working with Paige and Pierce, just waiting for their mom to give us the green light.   But they're doing good, super smart kids, their lessons are always tons of fun.   At the end of each lesson we play a game of soccer or ball tag in their house, and then I realize how out of shape I am haha.   But it's fun, they always ask super good questions and are deep thinkers.  Then we're still working with some people in the bear mountain ward, they're all doing good.   We've just kept on keepin on, maintaining bear mountain wards work and trying to get our wards work to grow.  Slowly but surely it is.    So anyway, this week was pretty good.   I got your package, thank you!   I loved it, the cow tails are already gone haha.   And I'm probably gonna buy a case for my scriptures that you sent up while I'm in Anchorage today.   Anyways, I think that's everything.

Love you guys, hope you have a good week!

 Love Elder Ashton Roney