2 Weeks

Holy wow! I cannot believe I'm down to 2 weeks. That is utterly insane! I'm joining the group that says missions go by super fast. At least once you're at the end of it. It was super slow during everything but SO FAST in hindsight.

Anyways! It's a new year. It feels like I left in 2011 and now it's 2014! Time's a churning. I was talking with some other missionaries and their new years resolutions were to work harder and be more obedient, since for a lot of them, this will be the full year that they're on their mission. I said "I want to serve a mission this year! Oh. wait." And made one of my faces. It was pretty funny.

So I finnaly met and had dinner with Bennie Lombardi. She's a funny one. Slightly off the wall and definitely not much for rules but a good woman with a caring heart. I'm sure grandma told you that Bennie called her while I was there. That was kind of weird. Anyways! I think she's feeding us breakfast tomorrow. She really took a liking to elder Rosa. They seemed to connect really well.

 

Most of the rest of the time has still been spent in the office. It's not as stressful as it has been but it's still plenty busy. Actually, I found out that Elder Houser got several of the newer cars confused and put plates that belong to one car on a different one and got the registration confused and swapped and now we're missing a set of plates. Great. I'm going to contact all the zone leaders today and have them check with all the missionaries in their zones if anyone has any plates lying around, especially in any of the new chevy cruzes. We had more lessons lined up this week but they fell through as we were on our way to them. Oh well. What can you do. We're going to try and work more on fellowshipping the many less actives in the ward and having more splits with the members so that we can get more done in the evenings. It might not happen until after I leave but Elder Rosa is determined to build up this area by the time he'll probably get transfered in March.

 

There weather here has been great. In the 70s every day for weeks now. I really am going to freeze when I come home. haha. I kind of hope it'll drop to the 50s so that It's not a huge shock being in sub freezing and even sub zero temperatures again.

 

I sent another package home. More boring stuff - books and binders, stuff that's dense and heavy. Feel free to just dump it with the other one in my room. As I've been getting closer to going home there is more stuff I want to keep than I'd originally thought so space is almost as much of an issue as weight. I might send a 3rd package of additional heavy/dense stuff depending on how much my luggage weighs. I won't really know before the 18th though.

 

Anywho. I have to go to take Rosa to his appointment. Wish him luck! I'll be catching up on my journal and on scripture reading while I wait. haha.

 

Peace, love (but not war),

Elder Nelson Browning