OK! so kinda a bit of an overview of last week and this week! LAST week, so really two weeks ago, we got a call from the Mission Prez, it was the worst call ever! pretty much, he told us that Elder Ashby's driving privileges were being REVOKED! so, no more driving for him, (he got in a small fender bender 3 months ago and they finally decided to not let him drive) as for me, I had a bit of a record when I got here, and I guess I didn't qualify.. SO! an emergency transfer was IN THE WORKS! and that made me very, very, sad, BUT ALAS! I was able to take a little defensive driving thing, and now I am the driver, so all is well! always remember to PRAY! ok, now for the week.
DAY ONE! didn't write.. BUT! I do know that we saw CHIP AND MEAGAN! YAY! we thought they hated us and were avoiding us, but no, things just never worked out.
DAY TWO! that's when I sent my last email, after the leadership training in which I was training to be AP!
DAY 3!! DDM, that was really most of our day, but that night we went out with the brethren again, (brother muse) and went to a less active family, who live kinda far, and going there would take up the whole night, and I was thinking to myself "we should really use this time better, they probably wont even be there, no way are they expecting us, what a waste!" yeah, they were expecting us BIG time, I was humbled! they even made us cookies. it would have been the worst thing ever if we didn't go, so that was great!
day 4 biked... cause we had no car yet.. so far.. went to Peal River, another Indian reservation, only this one is twice as far as tucker.. AH! when I got inside, I sat down, and STILL haven't recovered! that, was a tough day, real tough! we saw a guy, who really likes what we are teaching, and we WOULD have him get baptized and such, but, he KINDA needs to go to prison.. he MAY or may not be running from the law. so that was cool stuff,
Day 5, YAY DAY! the day we got the stuff in the mail that made it so we could DRIVE! but we still biked all day.. even though I was still dead from the day before! so we went to the post office, to mail that thing that made me drive back, and right next to the post office is this gun and pawn shop, and I just felt the impression that we needed to be semi apostate and go in and look around, of course, Elder Ashby wouldn't have it, but I can be very convincing! so we went in! AND! turns out, it was VERY good that we did, cause as we were leaving, we ran into a less active guy that we had been trying to get a hold of for weeks! Brother Agusto! good guy, was very active all growing up, kinda stopped going at like 18, he is now 30 something, has not been back since, his wife is not a member, and knows very little about the church, and really church in general, which is CRAZY for the south. He invited us over for dinner the next day! Just goes to show, it pays off to be lazy sometimes! I will never let Elder Ashby live that one down.
Day 6 TUCKER! So, a whopping two days after the worst bike ride ever! comes the ride to tucker, again! AHH! I had never been is so much pain by the end of the day.. BUT! it was still a really good day, talked to all KINDS of people, Indian people, black people, drunk people, shape shifters, even a white lady! who, is semi crazy, talking to the drunks was hysterical! thanks to good ol Canada! I know very well how to deal with drunks! Elder Ashby, on the other hand, not so much, making that meeting the funniest thing ever! he was so scared! It was great... don't bring expensive sun glasses on a mission.. in fact, just never buy expensive sun glasses.. That night we went to the Agustos! had dinner, and then had an AWESOME lesson! She said it was "very positive" and that she had never seen her husband (brother Agusto" open up that much, GOOD STUFF! so glad I went into that gun shop! GO CAMCAM!
SUNDAY! welp, half the men in the stake were asked to go down to New Orleans to help clean up, so we only had sacrament meeting, AND we didn't confirm Richard Jones, so y'all still have a week to pray for me! after Church one of the few Brothers that stayed behind took us to see Will again, (along with all kinds of other people. but NO ONE WAS HOME!) The meeting with Will went great, again! He pretty much said that he wanted to go on a mission! BEST! THING! EVER! SO! after we got home, we got on our bikes (so as to make sure I NEVER recover!) and biked out to see some formers, met this awesome black guy, who's life story could SO be a movie! I kinda want to make it, he is very old, 82, which, is crazy! He doesn't look any older then 50, but that's really how most black guys are. anyway, he is old and does A LOT for his church, so probably not going to baptize him.. In this life. WELP! that was really my week, this is the last week of the transfer! it's CRAZY to think it has been 9 weeks from the time I left home! let camcamian fill your life! LOVE!
P.S everyone in the south LOVES to point out color of skin, its funny!
1, we MADE COOKIES! for my bday,
3 and 4, BEST DICOVERY EVER!!!
5 and 6 , this little guy found his way into my tire on the way to pearl river, I of course got a flat, we changed the tube but I never found why it went flat. we went on our day and had no problems, it was not till two days latter that I found a very small metel looking thing in my tire, and THAT is what we pulled out, it took some effert!
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