Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Weekly Update for 8/5/13

Well I took a ton of pictures of my new apartment and stuff, but I forgot my camera to the library, so you guys will probably have to wait till next week.  I also forgot my pad of paper that I write everything down on, so this email will probably be pretty short.
 
I got a bunch of new stuff with my new area and new apartment.  We got a brand new Toyota Corolla and an LG  Rumor Reflex phone, It is a sliding touch screen phone.  Our apartment is pretty cool except for the fact that it does not have A/C just a window unit that doesn't help very much, but it at least helps a little bit.  It makes the room it is in really cold and all the other rooms not as cold the further away it is from the unit.
 
This is my mailing address by the way, so send all mail to this address and please let everyone know that.
457 Fair Alley
New Eagle, PA 15067
 
My new companion's name is Elder Workman.  He is a bigger guy and he is really cool.  Before I even met him everyone was like: "Oh you got Elder Workman, he is really cool!"  and stuff like that.  Now I kinda know why they said that, he is pretty cool.  We get along great and we make each other laugh a lot and it is a lot of fun.  We talk and laugh about The Office a lot.  He is a District Leader, it looks like I am the companion of another one.  He has to go on 8 exchanges this transfer, since there are so many missionaries in our district.  That means I will have to be with a different companion 8 different times in this 6 week period, that is a lot!  
Recently we have been starting to teach a recent convert's husband that we baptized a little bit ago (the recent convert not the husband is who we are teaching, I hope that made sense). He is this really cool tall black guy and he is pretty smart and has great questions about a lot of things. We are also hoping to start teaching two of his kids, hopefully we can get them to sit down with us and talk.
 
I am sorry, my emails tend to jump around a lot, because my thought process is really random and doesn't make a whole lot of sense a lot of the times, but hey life is more fun that way anyways.

I had a really cool spiritual experience lately.   We were at a Part Member Less Active family's house and we were talking and  this sister just broke down crying and was going on about how a lot of people here are really mean and she was just overwhelmed and stuff.  So a thought popped into my head to talk about how church is a good place to go to be accepted by people and everything worked out really good for her and we commited them to come to  church (even though they didn't come) it was really good for her and I felt like I blessed her life!
 
 
Love you,
Elder Mellor