9 March 2015

I only have one new picture this week. LOOK AT ALL THE MAIL I GOT!!!!!!! When the ZLs were giving it to me, it was just like letter after letter after letter, and everyone was like wow, looks like no ones forgotten you yet! don't worry, it'll come in time. HAHA!! but whatevs, as long as i get like at least one letter every time, I'll be fine :P A slow week... That's what this past week was. BUT i got everyone's letters last Tuesday and we have Facebook!!!! But it was still slow, and it SUCKED!! On Monday we didn't go to Moxie's because I told Elder Keck the I didn't want to, and I'm driving, so I basically have final say now. Haha! Then later we met with President for a "trainer's re-training" meeting sorta thing, where he basically told us we need to be doing 12 week more and stuff, and when we were leaving, Elder Keck goes, "I'm sorry Elder Windham. I've been a bad example and a trunky pile trainer." He said it kinda jokingly, nut he's actually been doing a little better this week! Like we've done 12 week every day basically. Then on Tuesday morning, we all had personal interviews with pres., and that went pretty good. That's where he told Keck to do 12 week more and stuff, and he promised he would do that and we'd have comp. study every day, and we've done pretty good!! For lunch we went to this place called Sushi and Tai, and I've never really had sushi before, but it's not too bad! Of course I didn't eat the raw fish kind of sushi, just the fake stuff, but I kinda liked it! Then when we got back to brooks, we read the online manual for Facebook. Then, we went to this black guys house who our bishop referred to us, and he was like really only interested in the bible and king David for some reason, but I am pretty sure he's not even all there, but whatever, he's not a bad guy... Actually, we found out yesterday that he got arrested on Saturday for stealing from his work..... SOO the bishop said to just keep seeing him and maybe we'll be a blessing to him or his family at least. IDK!! Wednesday we tried more stop-bys with no success. One lady was on her way to work and said come by Sunday, but that was it. Also, I read all my letters and they were AWESOME!!! Thank you guys so much, and I'm gonna be spending a lot of time today writing back!! It'll take a while, but we're getting haircuts today, so I can write while he's getting his and showering after. Also, Wednesday was the first time we did Facebook on the mission!! I'm just finding some people on the mission and in the area right now, but they are going to let us use it starting tomorrow and then we can begin posting!! Thursday we tried to stop-by some people again, but, no surprise, zero success. We gave a card to one guy, so now if he's interested, he said he'll call us... Also, I had forgotten my chapstick at the stake center on Tuesday (I've never actually kept it without losing it for that long. I got it in the MTC!!). That was a bummer, but I got some Burt's Bees!!! IDK why everyone says it's so amazing, but it ain't too bad!! Friday was almost entirely a waste of time. We did language training meeting which I GUESS is somewhat productive, even though we played this pool jeopardy game for the Spanish thing... Then we all went to Canadian Pizza unlimited for lunch. Then after that, we did FB for almost 2 hours, then it was almost time for dinner at the Blumels, so we went and helped make homemade pizza, and just sorta talked and hung out until 9:20!!!! So yeah, a wasted day when it comes to finding/being a stinkin missionary!! :( Saturday Pretty sure was also a waste of time. But we did some stop-bys and this guy answered. He was the husband of the lady we talked to a bit a couple weeks ago. He was really friendly and super nice, but he said they probably wouldn't be interested. So now we have enough people crossed off our stop-by list that we'll have to start tracting again pretty soon, so HOPEFULLY we'll finally find someone else. Also, when we tried to stop-by Suzanne, the one from Newfoundland, and she said not right now because her husband is on his way back because he found out his dad has cancer.. So hopefully he doesn't somehow associate that with us in some negative way!! Sunday was also pretty lame. We went to a members house for lunch at like 2, and it was pretty dang good!! We had burgers, steak (WAY different than back home. Not as good I don't think haha), and Mac-n-cheese, which up here they just call Kraft Dinner. Kraft is the THE brand up here. So everyone does Kraft mac-n-cheese, so they call it Kraft dinner. ALSO, a funny thing they say is a garberator... That's what they call the garbage disposal thing in the sink haha. Anyways, sorry, but we played a few board games at their house too, and we were gonna play settlers of Zarahemla (a little different from Catan), but I told my comp. that we should probably go and be productive somehow haha. So we left at like 5:30, and we tried to drop by that lady who said come Sunday, but she didn't answer, even though I think she was home because her car was there. We also tried to set something up with Alaina, but she gave us a BS excuse. I was like 7:30 and she said how she's doing dinner and she wants to set the kids schedule up to go to bed after dinner. Like she told us the other day that they were like staying up 'till 3 in the stinkin morning. So we just texted her a bit about some uplifting stuff fo show, and after like 5 texts, she just replies "ok.." Like COME ON!!! If you're interested, tell us. If not, TELL US!!! But yeah, I can feel myself feeling more and more depressed in the mission because of the lack of work and extra time we have because of it. Like we don't necessarily want to start tracting quite yet because there are still enough people to drop by that we could possibly pick up like one or two more investigators, but it's not looking too promising right now :/ anyways, hopefully it picks up soon. I'm not up here to spend my time working in circles and not spreading the gospel because no one's interested. People say even if you don't change anyone else's life or whatever, then you'll at least better yourself. I don't want to better myself! I'm up here for them, not me, and it SUCKS that it feels like everything I'm doing is in vain because none of them really care, they just say come back because they're too nice to say no. Like seriously, tell us no so we can stop wasting our time with you and move on. Thanks again everyone for the letters. I love reading them and hearing from you guys. Keep working hard in whatever it is you do, and I hope you all miss me!! haha just kidding :P Sincerely, Elder Levi Windham