February 12

  

Feb 12


This week was a pretty standard week.  No exchanges or anything but it was still a lot of fun.  

 

We went to visit an investigator that lived in the middle of nowhere.  We didn't even know if there was a house there.   We passed 2 abandoned houses/sheds before we found the right one.  There were also people outside and just watched us drive in so we were a little nervous.   But the person who lives there is actually very nice and we will visit them again.  We also saw another stray dog.  There are so many stray dogs here and we sometimes see packs of them but we can't do anything but give them some dog treats and leave them on the side of the road.





 


Later in the week we had a zone meeting and after that we played a little bit of basketball. The church building we go to doesn't have a court right now (they are replacing the floor) so I haven't played in like a month.  It was great but I had terrible shin splints after because I played in my church shoes. 

 

We got a new Bishop in our ward on Sunday.  The previous Bishop was really starting to like us so now we have to start over.  We have been teaching three people and two of them came to church on Sunday.  One of them only attends over Zoom though because she is too shy.  

 

We also got to see another member's farm and they had quail, geese, rabbits, chickens, and pigs. It smelled terrible but it was a cool place. 





 

Yesterday was the superbowl and there is a road here where there are a bunch of great and spacious frat houses all in a row.  We wanted to see how crazy frat row would be on superbowl Sunday but it was dead.  There was no one there.  I wasn't expecting that.  











 

It was overall a great week and I'm excited to have another fun week.

Elder Gurney

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