Small Email for Small Week - received August 27

Hi Family,

Well, as you may have guessed from the heading to this email, we didn’t do a whole lot. On Tuesday we were in Oak Grove and we had to fix Elder Canova’s tire like crazy because he buys the cheap tires and there is glass all over the streets in Oak Grove. We caught a giant spider in a jar and a giant moth and a wasp. We were watching them fight for most of the night but they all took a break and the next morning the wasp was killed and the giant moth also a few days later.

On Wednesday we taught a few lessons. First, we taught an older lady in Oak Grove and she hugged me and kissed my neck - weirdly enough. She just talked and talked while we were trying to teach her. The second was with Jordan Lee and we taught the law of chastity to him. He was really good about the lesson and accepted our commitment. We then had to pass him on to the Midlothian Zone Leaders due to the fact he is going to college and will be in their area. Then we taught a lesson to Sister Joseph because Jacquan told us that she thinks it’s okay to drink tea and all that. She just has a lot of weird things enter her mind like it’s okay to look at porn as long as your spouse is there and you’re watching together. Weird.

Thursday was transfers, so I had to go early to go into a training meeting where President Perry just told us to love the new elders and get them familiar with missionary work. Found out the Elders were getting taken out of Wakefield for a transfer so Sister Harter ran into President Perry at the airport with all the new elders and sisters there and chewed him out for taking the elders. Ouch!

So the rest of the week Elder Capson and I have just been meeting with the less active people in the area and trying to get more referrals. Elder Capson is a very intelligent guy with Aspergers Syndrome which is a form of autism. President Perry took me aside and said that he is not lazy; he just has a lot of medical issues like he doesn’t get a lot of sleep at night so he sleeps in, he is overweight and in bad health, and he carries a Nook
around with him. It is difficult for me to relate to him due to the fact that he relies heavily on knowledge to start up conversations instead of just talking to people and he is just one of those guys who try to be funny when it’s more awkward than funny. Well, President Perry said he trusted me to stay strong and get the most out of it. It'll only be 2 more whole weeks of him, so if I can be out for almost a year and not do anything stupid  then I can handle this.

I love you all!

PS:  The picture with all the cards in a display case is our ward mission leader’s man cave and I also forgot to mention that I got stung by the wasp we tried to catch for the spider.