Thanksgiving Fatness and a Baptismal Date - received November 26

Hello my Idaho and Oregon peeps,
This week we had Thanksgiving. Yay, but I have to tell you about the rest of the crazy things that I’ve done this week.

Well, we had a lot of cancelled appointments this week with investigators and a lot of tracting for long amounts of time but no luck. On the good side, we were able to be fed every night this week by members so no complaints there. We are just working hard to help people and stuff. Elder Russell and I are helping Elder Downs get out of his shell and talk more. Elder Downs is getting more responsive.

Thanksgiving: we got to sleepover at the Staunton apartment and so we all woke up and got McDonalds food in the morning because the Staunton elders didn’t have any food. Then we played Phase 10 and other games till they got boring. We played around with this electric guitar with a cool sound changer so it sounds really awesome. Then we decided to go to the old Staunton graveyard where there were really ancient graves and also a big confederate statue with all these bodies under it. We then went to eat at the Iseman’s and they fed us a traditional meal for Thanksgiving.  We ate pie afterward and played a Christmas trivia game and also the house was decorated for Christmas already. We also played Axis and Allies. The Allies won. Then we went to the Barton’s for dessert but it turned out they hadn’t started eating yet so we ate more food and some of it more Southern, like collard greens, ham, and etc. We got to meet their RM daughter from Georgia who is newly married to a Mexican guy who is really cool. We could have had a third dinner when we stopped by a member’s house later that day but we just couldn’t eat any more.

The rest of the week was good.  We got to watch a baptism in Staunton which was really sweet. It involved a part-member family, so it was a really happy occasion. We also got a really long story out of a member who was feeding us on how she married her husband. We also heard of a miracle from the sisters in Farmville.  They told us about a guy whose son wants to be baptized and because of this, the father realized that he needs to be baptized, too. So he wants to be baptized on the 13 of December – very exciting! We couldn’t find where he lived though, at first, and we went to the house where the sisters said he lived but he didn’t live there. I went out with a flashlight at night in downtown in the cold looking for an address.

On another day, we went to see an investigator but his mom came out instead with a loose fabric see-through shirt on and a very see-able bra. She talked with us and then gave us hugs for stopping by, which was very awkward.  I wanted to poke my eyes out. Well everyone, be warm and modest this week and love ya!

Elder McClure