its was so good to hear from you all this past week! :) i got the tape and all the letters on Monday and i listened to them last night! it was so nice to hear your voices! haha, kind of a relief to know that things are still happening at home! that's crazy about all the new stuff going on, it doesn't seem like i have been gone too long, yet there is all kinds of crazy things going on there! that's too bad to hear about all those potatoes! its kinda funny, when ever i tell people that i farm in idaho they are always like ohh potatoes, then i tell them that we don't farm them cause where i am from its too cold for potatoes, they about die! PPL down here have no idea what cold really is... when it hits 65 at night people are putting jackets on and i am like, what the crap are you thinking, its just starting to feel good! haha, no one comprehends a night that it freezes in july! haha but the weather has been crazy here! lots and lots of rain! the first night that it hit hard we were on the far end of town and it started to pour and no one was letting us in! it was only 6:30 so we were already soaking wet so we just biked around for the rest of the night! we took some pics wen we got back to the apt so i will send one of them to you! :) also the thunder and lightning has been insane! kinda scary at times... but its alot of fun! :)
In the tape you sent me Cary talked about nasty homes...welcome to downtown snowflake!! i dont like to talk bad about any body or my area but... i will tell you one story! haha, so we are teaching this guy right now, he is a less active member and lives in a single wide trailer out in the middle of no where! the first time i seen it i was so scared! haha, all the way around the bottom of the trailer is strawbayls, what lives under and around straw and hay... yep... mice! so we knock on his door and hes is like oh come in! so we go in and the smell is something i cant describe. there is trash stacked to the ceiling, i had to turn sideways to walk down the hall!! so we finally get to his living room and he clears off a little spot on the couch for us to sit down, it is like 101 degrees out side and 110 in side! so that makes the smell 10X worse and sweat is just pouring off us. so we are just sitting there talking to him and out of the corner of my eye i see something move, i didn't say anything but i kept looking over there and then all of the sudden i seen 4 mice runn across the back of his stove and into a bag of open cereal! ohhhh goodness.... i about jumped up and ran out, needless to say, we ended conversation early and left, now we do our best to have lessons at the church or at someone Else's homes, but every now and then, we have to go over there! so that was most defently on of my most pleasant experiences! haha ;)
there have been several ppl ask me about snakes...there are tons of snakes down here, in snowflake it is mostly bull snakes but they get like 6 ft long! nasty but ya, they are every where, we have to be really careful biking at nights cause they come out and lay on the roads! and with my luck...haha talk about make you want to pick up your feet!!! :)
you said that i am looking skinny... i weighted this morning after i got out of the shower and i weigh 160! so ya the hot weather and biking around takes it toll but all is going well! :) i just got my dex in a few days ago for the first time in a while and my sugars are awesome! i hardly ever go over 250 so i am being blessed and watched over so much! :) but as far as sending more for right now i still have 3-4 left! :)
Our mission is way lax on music! as long as it invites the spirit its for the most part O.K. :) but ya i would love some music! we have a CD player in the apt and we listen to music all the time! that would be awesome! thanks :)
here is kind of a crazy thing that happened to me the other day, we were tracting so homes that we didnt know who live there and we knocked on this house and they invited us in and they were members. there niece and her husband were there visiting and we were just talking and the husband kept staring at me. we finally got to the part of the conversation where they ask where you from and how long you have been out, i said i was from driggs ID and have been out for a few months. (I always say driggs because some one might know where driggs is...but never Tetonia haha) and then the husband was like wait, your not from driggs, your from tetonia....and i was like....uuuuuuuuuggg?!?! how do you know this!?! and he said that he was at my farewell wen i gave my talk! haha, his parents are the mission pres of the Pocky mission!! haha, it is such a small world! so that was kinda crazy :)
And mom, for your talk you asked how Doug and Kaitlyn are doing!? and ya i think that would be a great one to talk about cause they are like my best friends! :) they are coming to church every week and fully active. the latest news is Doug has been working at the pig farm for the past 4 years and absoulty hates it! he has been looking really hard trying to find a new job for the past two years and nothing has come up! he was getting really frustrated and had finally come to the conclution that he was going to have to settle for the pig farm for the rest of his life! haha, but sense we have been meeting with him he has totally change, not only how he is living, but his entire attitude on life! he has grown his testiony in a way that he didnt know possible and has gained a real, deep, sincere relationship with the Lord! he started really praying for his life to be directed in the was that would best help his family and last week he got a phone call for a power company in Sho Low that he applied to 1 yr ago and they wanted him to come in for a interview. he stared working there on monday and he is so happy! when he told me that he got the job offer/interview/JOB, he gave me a big hug and started crying. it was truly a miracle! when you forget about your self and focus on the needs of your family and there well being and rely on the Lord, he will put you where you need to be, when you need to be there! so ya, they are doing amazing, you can even see the changes in their sweet kids! their family is amazing and i love them so much. they have turned everything around and they will make it as long as they continue doing what they are doing!
The Lord always blesses us and our families, He wants us to be happy and prosper, but often times we don't realize the full potential of the Lord till you put your self in the right situations and starting living the way we need to, that he will "open the windows of heaven and shower blessings upon our heads to where we don't have room enough to receive them." (Mal 3) i think that is the right scrip. reference, sorry if its not! haha :) things are going really well for them. it always makes me so happy to see ppl change! :) and being a missionary, i get to see alot of that, its really wonderful! :)
well i got to get running but thanks for all that you do for me! i means alot to me and i look forward to hearing from you all again soon! hope all continues to go well for you on the farm and in all of your other activities! i am praying for all of you! hope you have a wonderful week! keep moving forward, its was better than the other option! ;) Love you all and miss you tonz! take care and be safe!
Love
Elder Dalan Lerwill
A little wet behind the ears!
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