Wonderful Temple

Hows it going everyone?!
 So this week was good, it sounds like you all had a pretty good week too. Happy Birthday Dad! Im glad you liked my little box of gifts. Thats sweet that it arrived on the doorstep the day of dads birthday! Perfect timing. Thats awsome that you guys got to go to Jarom and Kendis endowments, that probably was awesome. So many missionaries in the family. Everyones leaving coming and getting their papers in and ready. Definitely let me know where  Lane gets his call too! and same with Ky too. Thats aweosme that OHS was good enough to win state this year! They werent even close to being that good when I went to school there. I havent gotten that letter from his mom or you yet, Ill probably get it today. Hopefully we can pull something together for his birthday. Dad, no we werent able to have that baptism on your birthday, we pushed it back, we still have to set another date, Itll probably be within the month. That would of been so cool to get a baptism for your birthday, but oh well, hes almost ready though. And I did get that box with the proactive stuff in it, and that tie, thank you guys so much! Thats fun that sister Johnson emailed you about us eating over there, theyre a fun family. The people up here definitely take good care of us. And thanks for the idea for district meeting dad, I think Ill use that htis week.
  This week was great though, we helped out with the actual Iditarod start! It was so cool! We didnt do anything super cool as volunteers, we only helped out with the bus stuff, but before that we got to go check everything out.  It was legit! The start we helped out with wasnt the actual start, this was just the celebratory start, the real start was the next day, but since most of the people in AK are in anchorage they do this celabratory start thing in anchorage.  Its really fun though, theres people from all around the world, and we were volunteers so we could walk around on the track and get pictures before it started, I sent some pictures of that. Oh and on Friday it was elder Savaiinaeas birthday! He turned 21, it was fun, we went to coldstones and ate his cake and some ice cream. It was fun, then on thursday at the nature center we played around by the river and got some pictures as a district, it was pretty fun too. So this week was pretty fun overall. Were still working with eric, were still getting him ready so hes still not on date for baptism, but hes close, I can see him being baptized within the month or at the latest the end of this next transfer for sure.  So hes doing good, weve seen him really change since weve taught him. Also, weve found a couple more people to teach, hopefully they turn out to be investigators. Oh, and we get our transfer calls this saturday, Itll be fun to see where everyone goes. But everythings going pretty good here, I might be sending home one of my SD cards today, its all full of pictures. So the pictures I sent, I sent a bunch of the trucks the mushers use to transport their dogs and all that stuff, theres some of the actual iditarod with the dogs running, theres a map of the iditarod and a big list of all the winners of the iditarod, Elder Savaiinaeas rainbow birthday cake that the sisters made for him, me and the district at the first bit of service we did for the iditarod, me standing on a frozen lake in chuguak, and me and the district at the nature center. So theres all the pictures from the other emails. This week was good, Im glad you all had such a good week, sorry this email isnt longer.


Love Elder Roney