December 8, 2009

So it's cold. I'm gettin used to it though. Faribanks and I run to the high school to work out every morning and it's about 13 degrees out then.  The coldest it's been that I know of is 5 degrees. I heard it snowed 5 inches all over Texas this week. Crazy!

Word on the street is Texas barely beat Nebraska. And Alabama slaughtered Florida. Everyone up here wants TCU to play Alabama so it'll make the mtn west look better. Appearently they're impressive. It's killin me to not be watching football right now. How can they expect me to miss Texas playin for the National Championship? UGH. But it's all good.

We get to watch another movie today, cause our mission got over 200 baptisms for November. I think we're gonna end up watchin Narnia. Not my fav, but it's still a movie. Tomorrow is offically my 3 Month mark. This is flying by.

So funny stories for the week. At a ward Christmas party there was this guy that looked like an evil wizard. He wasn't dressed up or nothin, just weird. He grabbed my hand and put a zip-lock bag in it with what looked like drugs. He told me it was a home-made candy made out of potatoes... weird. Then he kept waiting till i ate one. It was wayyy sweet and disgusting. Tthe rest of the night he kept giving us food and we kept throwing it away when he wasn't looking. He was tryin to be nice. Then at Testimony mtg a lady, who's son just went on a mission to Africa, went up, and read his first email, which was just him complaining about everything. It was akwardly funny. The bishop told Fairbanks and I later that he wasn't gonna let her up there for a while.

So I gotta end with good stories. We had our baptism last Sat, which was awesome. I didn't get to baptize her, her friend did, but I did confirm her. After she got baptized, we convinced her to bear her testimony, which was a hard thing to do. As she did the spirit flooded in and she was crying. It really reafirmed my testimony about being in the right place for certain people. She was my first baptized person who I taught from the beginning. She said that if it was any other missionaries teaching her, she wouldn't of gotten to this point. It's cool that things work out that we were able to work so well with her. I know that I was sent to the Terrace for this reason.

So at the baptism, I took some pics... and left my camera at the college institute. We went back a few hours later and it wasn't there. I was pretty mad. I was not thinking many good things. I had already lost my Oakleys I bought right before the mission and my first memory card with my first 4 baptism pics got messed up. so I was not happy to lose my camera. Elder Fairbanks kept telling me I'd find it, but I wasn't hearing it. After an hour and half of pouting I remembered what's really important and went to work. After dinner that night we got a last min call from one of the ward mission leaders asking if we wanted to go to an institute Christmas program thing. After we got permission, we gladly accepted. As we were taking our seats in the large auditoriom, the man right behind me looked at me, shook my hand, and asked if I'd lost my camera. He found it and recognized me from the pics. He gave me the info to get my camera and went down to the stage. He was the music director.

Someone explain to me why the choir director was sitting in the audience right before the program, exactly in the seat before me. And how he remembered me, out of all the pics in my camera, and would spot me in the massive audience, at a thing we wern't going to be at. Explain that without the obvious true reason of God's hand in all things, little and big, in our daily lives. It really is amazing how much he cares about our little unimportant things and works things out for us. All we need is faith.