Dear People whom this email may concern,
This week was an interesting one. On Monday I went to a tri-zone basketball game and had a lot of fun. I played twice; some of the people are really good at playing basketball and I was just good at defense. Afterward, one of the elders made a bunch of homemade pizzas and they were scrumdidlyumcious. Pizza just fills me up in all the right ways.
The next few days were up in the air - finding new investigators and also teaching people but, like Wakefield, most of our appointments weren’t home or they were busy. We were able to have a lesson with this one guy named Don Whitenook and, like usual, Elder Corey took over the entire lesson on the Restoration and didn’t let the guy really talk till the end or ask questions so it was just him droning on and on and I was waiting for my chance to add my testimony, but we never got to that. But Don was able to read 3 chapters of the BOM which was sweet and we really felt good about him. We were able to do service two days for a member family, the Wards, by putting mulch on the flowerbeds and other things as well. It was just really fun and tiring. We also got to go to the Farmers Market and check out some stuff there like this one stand sells this frozen yogurt called Sorbet which is the Holy Grail of Sorbet. Pretty weird and we also were able to volunteer at the library to clean up the kids section and that was a combination of fun and weird.
Friday and Saturday were fun because on Friday we went to zone meeting and I got to meet the people in the zone and they are really nice people. I really like my zone leaders and they are really funny. The lesson was on obedience because a lot of missionaries seem to not follow the most basic of rules. Terrible for them. After the meeting, Elder Cooley and I blitzed (tract for a day to help another area) Clover Hill while walking for 5 hours. We met some cool people like this kid who offered us goldfish and then we taught him the Restoration and this lady with a healing broken back was really nice to us and charitable. I really liked that.
The next day the whole upper half of the mission volunteered cleaning up the James River so me and a small band of missionaries went and walked all the way to these areas to help clean up and one of them was a run down building in which people have drunk parties or where hobos live. And it was dirty!!!! We did a lot of hard labor and took a lot of cool pictures of us cleaning up and scenic pictures that you all can get next week. We then came back to Powhatan and helped clean up a bunch of cut down trees. Then we got cleaned up and went to two graduation parties that had 5 separate graduating Mormon girls who are all going to BYU Idaho this Fall; super exciting.
Well, Sunday was pretty hard but we got a fun talk by one of the members about wisdom we receive from God and how we use it. He worked Karate Kid in there and it was interesting. We also went to a member’s house, Brother Noe, and he decided he was going to sell me this really nice bike he restored and it’s the bomb and it’s red. My time with Elder Corey is okay but frankly he just gets on my nerves sometimes and he has done this to other elders as well. But I’ve got to deal with it for 4 more weeks til next transfer call. I miss you all and hope that you are all doing fine. Please write back or send a letter!
Love,
Elder McClure
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