Week 20

Monday, November 5, 2012 9:57 AM

First off, Dad, did you really write this letter at 1:00 in the morning??

Anyways,  Hey ya'll

Glad to hear that everyone's doing well...mostly ;)  Sounds like some pretty intense stuff is going on back home.  So life's going pretty swell.  It's pretty crazy that it's already November.  To think...I've been here since early July!!  Wow.  Well to answer the question that's begging to be answered...yes, I got my ballot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Once I talked with the Mission President to see if I could check my email and then saw what you had written, I was almost positive that it must have picked up accidentally by the family I live with.  Things have been pretty crazy for them for the past couple of months.  So, I was hoping they would have a central location where she keeps all the mail so I could just look through it; I asked the daughter that runs the horse farm thing, and she laughed thinking about her mother having a central location.  :) :)  So, I asked Sis. Reece if perhaps they had accidentally snagged my ballot.  Well, she looked for it and long story long, she called me that night and said she had found it.  This was on Thursday night.  So I mailed it Friday and debated whether to express it or just priority since apparently they don't have 2 day guarantee.  Priority was 5 something.  Express which is 1 day was 19 something.  They said priority should get there Monday, Tuesday at the latest, so I went with that.  Should get there.  But I hope they take ballots that come in post office envelopes because that's how I had to send it.  If not, yours is the Return Address.  Good story right.  Trust in God, and give it all you got.  There's nothing else to it. :)

So, I've had the blessed opportunity of wearing my coat a few times so far.  Needless to say,   I'm in love :)  BEST COAT EVER!!!!  I got letters from mom 19(in the ballot pack) and 20 and also a postcard from dad and a letter from Stephanie Hiltscher.  

Elder Moses and I doing great together.  We are becoming more and more unified.  He's doing phenomenally well.  He really only needs a 6 week training program because he's good to go already.  :)  Really no problems together so that's good :)  He's grown tremendously...as have I...which is always good.  This Friday, we have a baptism and then we will have one on the 18th as well.  It's super exciting to see how much the Lord is blessing this area and our efforts.  We have another couple of investigators who are doing really well, and should be able to make those essential covenants with our Heavenly Father in December.  I'm really going to miss this ward...a lot.  So many wonderful people here.  

I'm glad that Mom gets to go visit Nana soon.  It's crazy kind of being cut off from everything.  I really don't know a lot about the north east right now.  Also, it's crazy that election day is tomorrow.  We'll see what happens.  So, I'm not gonna lie.  Trying to interpret those amendments things on the ballot was a fun time without the ability to look anything up. They write it in cryptic language and then they don't inform you as to where the law currently stands now on some things, so I don't know if for instance, they are going from no regulation to some regulation or from lots of regulation to some regulation...all they put is the some regulation.  Whatever.  I did my best, and the Lord probably blessed me and helped me. :)  Apparently, we're voting for the legalization of Marijuana.  I think I voted no on that.  I hope I read it all right :)  Good stuff.  

It's getting kind of cold out here.  Especially with wind, which is augmented by riding on bikes.  We had 3 investigators in church which was amazing and we had several less actives we are working with come as well.  Truly, we are seeing many many miracles each and every day.  I hope everyone else can see them.  

Hope ya'll have a great week.  Know that I love you more than anything in the whole wide world.  Good thing families are eternal ;)

Love,

Elder Patty