home sweet home

Hey everyone!

This weeks been ok. We've done tons of service this week, almost every morning. And we've been able to pick up a few decent potential investigators this week! This morning's been interesting and long, so we did service this morning and we re-tiled a guys roof with a bunch of other people and missionaries. But we had to do some (pday) stuff so Elder Merrell and I left early(as well as the other missionaries) so we didn't get to help finish it.  BUT we got half way done so that was good! And on the way to that service project there was this big long military caravan on the highway going the other way than us.  It was pretty cool looking.  Then after service we just  did our shopping while we were in Eagle River and did our laundry as well.   We had to go to the mission office to get a package for elder Merrell, and guess what I got? I got your postcard haha! (a postcard from "Hell" in Grand Cayman)  ...and some granola bars and candies from the giant candy bowl at the office (: I love mail and going to the office so much, there's alway's free food and its always not old, good tasting food so its great. Then I came to do emails and thats why its taken me so long to send this email today, sorry.

Right now we have a good amount of potentials, now we just need to get them to be actual investigators. We haven't been able to meet up with Sierra again, we're still waiting for them to call or text us to let us know if they still want to pursue the church more. But if they don't call in the next day or two we're gonna just contact them instead of waiting for them to contact us because I don't want to wait too long haha. And we weren't able to meet with Terry this week, she had something come up and she wanted to just do it this week instead of last, so hopefully she won't have anything else come up and we'll actually get to teach her again. Then we met with our other investigator and we just read the Book of Mormon with her so she can gain a testimony of it and of Joseph Smith, even though I'm pretty sure she knows it's true but doesn't want to admit it :)  And thay'd good.  She makes alot of comments about what were reading. Like we were reading where Sariah was complaining to Lehi that her sons were gone trying to get the plates from Laban and she was like "I probably would of complained too, it's a logical motherly thing to do" haha so she definitely likes it and i'm pretty sure she knows its true.  Oh and I found out that our ward mission leader and bishop like us so that's good, I'm glad they dont think were dumb or something haha. (Whats not to like???)  And we had some training for all the missionaries down in Anchorage on Thursday, it was good. It was fun to actually be at a training in person instead of listening to it on a phone.  It was fun to get to see some of the people I came out with and a former companion again. And guess what?! our zone was able to go eat at the mission home afterwards, all of the food there is so good and non existent at our apartment (expect fish and canned foods, we have so much of that), and they have an abundance of left overs and different bread and those giant marshmallows!  (He LOVES food!!!)  So good. Then we got an email from president Beesley today giving us the temple trip dates for each zone and if I stay in this zone for another transfer or two I won't get to go to the temple until october, haha.  So it might be about a 9 month gap without going to the temple, but some missionaries go even longer without going to the temple.   Like one missionary didn't get to go the majority of his mission. So I'm excited for October now. Then on Saturday there was a baptism in the meadow creek ward, it was pretty good and there were so many people there it was an awesome baptism.

So this week's been good, and Im glad that you guys had such a good trip, even though getting back seems like it was pretty crazy. And sorry there's no pictures, Im finally getting my camera set up, I have to install some software before I can use it and Im in the process of doing that right now, but the computer here at the senior centers pretty slow so its taking a while. Anyways, thanks for everything, and have a wonderful week!

       Love Elder Roney