11 Months Out!

5-26-14

This week has been pretty good.  We just had transfer calls Saturday and  I will be staying here with Elder Lawless.  Yay!  I'm glad.  That way I don't have to have my birthday in a brand new area.  This last week has been pretty exhausting because we went on 3 splits and we had a lot of lessons, which was great!  There was also a baptism this weekend that the sisters in the ward had and we helped out with that.  We also got to be in the confirmation circle on Sunday.  We had two investigators show up to church and it was a little strange at first.  They had all of the seminary students that were graduating speak and they were suppose to each give 3 minute talks, but they were all about 4 seconds long.  The last person that spoke, though was great.  He is about to put in his papers for a mission and he did a really good job.  He talked about his seminary experience and bore his testimony of his favorite scripture Helaman 5:12.  I was kind of scared that bishop was going to have Elder Lawless and I fill in the last 15 minutes of the meeting, but he had the seminary teacher do it and he talked about how we are able to receive personal revelation.  It was really good.
For the past week, we have been eating some pretty boring food because we ran through our funds this month pretty quickly.  Luckily a member gave us a big box of food yesterday, so that should last us till the beginning of this next month.
Also, lately we have had the opportunity to give members and others blessings a lot.  Almost on a daily basis.  The oil vial that you guys gave me was starting to leak because the rubber seal was breaking.  A member gave me one of his, so that was nice.  A lot of great things have been happening.
Something else that happened that was funny and kind of stunk at the same time is that while we were in our apartment last night, we were throwing around a frisbee and trying a bunch of trick throws and Elder Lawless threw the frisbee into one of the light fixtures and shattered it all over the place.  It was pretty funny, but now we have to go replace it.  Haha.
I can believe that I have been out that long, but it feels weird.  It feels like I'm just stuck in the middle, like I've been out for a while and I still have a long time left, but it also feels like it's not that much longer.  It's weird.  I'm sure that it will start flying by once I pass my year mark.
I love this area and I love the things that I am learning.
I hope that you have a good week and I'll talk to you later.  Love you, bye!

Love,
Elder A. Whaley