Week 5

Enjoy the Coast of NC

Monday, July 23, 2012 10:02 AM

Alright family...how ya'll doin'?

Excellent hopefully.  I miss you guys, but I'm having a really good time out here in Morehead City.  We are seeing a ton of blessings and miracles from the Lord.  This area is starting to blossom, and I'm super excited.  This Saturday, we are having a baptism for a girl who is super solid.  We are so excited for her and her family.  Her mom is a returning less active, and she is a way fantastic support.  Her brother is also progressing and should be baptized a few weeks following her, as long as he starts waking up for church ;) Yesterday in church we had some major miracles.  2 of the Less Active families we are working with showed up.  It was amazing.  We were so excited.  The father of the one helped prepare and bless the sacrament, and hopefully soon will be able to receive the Melchezidek priesthood as well as both him and his wife are excited to start taking temple prep classes!!!!  So exciting!!!!

So, let's get down to the Nitty Gritty ;)

I have received letters 3 and 4 and for my entire mission, you will be sending everything to the mission office.  They do that so that you don't have to keep changing the address.  They just forward everything on to me and it gets to me like a day or so later... so all good.  Also, could you pass along the alfredo recipe, (no i don't have it memorized, DJ, stop laughing...I know you're laughing).  Alfredo sounds quite delicious.  

Good story that I also forgot to include last time is that I participated in the decapitation, de-feather-ization, and de-gutt-itation of chickens in a service opportunity with a less active family.  Ahh yeah...I just did the plucking part of the activity though.  Elder Jensen did the de-gutting though.  What a boss :)  

ps. This is going to be really random email...The end

Back to the email...the other day, we had an appointment with the chicken service family and we kept playing phone tag with each other, so when the time came for the appointment, we didn't know if they were picking us up.  So we waited a little and then took off on our bikes.  Oh my goodness.  I have never biked into such a headwind as we did on the way to that appointment.  SHeesh.  it was ridiculous.  That kind of biking should be outlawed.  First of all, we were going fast in order to be as less late as possible (like my grammar??) and that head wind was laughing at us.  I got there, and I was basically dead and sweat enough to refill the dead sea.   ( that's the biggest thing with the humidity...if I sneeze too hard, I sweat)  I'm always drenched.

I'm so glad that you've been receiving rain.  You needed it badly before Grand Junction decided to take off like the city of Enoch :)  

Overall, the work is going excellent.  We are seeing tons of progress, and are excited to see where the Lord takes this area as we allow ourselves to be instruments in His hands.  

Today, we are going to the aquarium which should be fun :) They have penguins ;)  It's kind of crazy how the time goes by.  We are already in week three for the transfer...that's almost half way done.  I'm eating well...in fact yesterday, I almost exploded from too much food.  The ward is really nice.  The new ward mission leader is a great guy.  

Nice on the condo and on the babies and other such things.  Little Timmy is the man.  We have a ton of new babies in the ward.  They blessed two yesterday and 1 the week before.  Also, like half the ward is related. K that's a lie, but seriously, it's a lot.  Several generations of lots of kids = team domination :) 

I'm so grateful for you, family.  You are the best family I could have ever hoped to have, and I wouldn't want to live eternally with anyone else, besides God and Jesus Christ.  :)  I know that my redeemer lives, and as I meet so many people with different backgrounds, I'm glad that I always know that I have you guys supporting me and loving me at home.  Sometimes when I get down like that, I look to my God and my Savior and I remember my family at home.  Thanks for everything.   

Luvs for evers and evers,

Elder Patty,