Hey everyone!

 Happy Birthday Britt!!

So this week was kind of a bummer week, but some good things came from the week too, so that's good haha.  Alot of people were gone this week or weren't interested so we werent able to see very many people.  So really nothing exciting happened this week.   But we were able to find out who some of the do not contacts in the ward are, and where a few people live.    Also we got to see sister Hansen this week.  They had us over for dinner and they had some visiting people eat with us, so beforehand, they asked us not to have a lesson afterwards like we usually do. :(  Then they went on a motor home trip over the weekend and should be back now.  One of the good things that came from the week was that we were able to get ahold of alot of people on the phone and set up 7 or 8 appointments for this week! It's so nice to have appointments haha. We've done a decent amount of service this week too.   On Wednesday, at the nature center, they had us dig a new septic pit for their outhouse at the end of the trail.
So they had us take turns down in the new hole we were digging with a jack hammer since the ground was so compact and had so many rocks.   It was fun, we found a big surprise too, a giant 400ish pound rock and 4 of us had to lift it out of the hole!   It was so crazy. Then at the senior center we helped them decorate little tiny hats haha.    One lady was super possessive over the little flowers she was using and wouldn't let anyone touch them haha.   She made some funky growl noises and pulled all her fake flowers away when another old lady tried to take some to put them away haha.  But on Sunday we gave like 3 blessings, it was pretty busy.

We ended up driving to Wasilla and Palmer on thursday.  All the district leaders and zone leaders for our zone and wasilla went on a hike getting things ready for zone conference. Its gonna be a zions camp training thing and so we're gonna go on a hike for zone conference. They were gonna have us pull handcarts too but those are down in Soldatna right now and are going to be unavailable.   We went into Anchorage yesterday to play sports and hang out with a bunch of missionaries for pday.   The first chapel we went to (chapels are where alot of the missionaries go on pday) was taken over by alot of samoans, the samoan ward was having a big party and playing basketball and volleyball and so there was no more room for missionaries.  So we got to go to a chapel by the temple. Everyone just played basketball then some played settlers of catan. It was pretty fun.   On  pday last week I was playing volleyball with a bunch of tongans and 4 other white people and that was pretty fun. I ended up playing volleyball in my slacks, shirt and tie because we werent expecting to be there that time. haha and now I can say that I've had the ball spiked into my face by a giant tongan.   It didn't really hurt but should of.  Things are starting to cool down and I drove when the sun was down for the first time since I left to Ketchikan!   I'm not excited for winter, I want the sun to stay up forever!

Hopefully things are great this week for you guys! Love you guys! Enjoy the sun for me!
And sorry this email isn't longer. Love you guys!

 Love Elder Roney