November 21, 2011

Well another week has come and gone and in one more day another month I’ll be 5 months. Well this week was fairly interesting I got my first experience to drive in Pittsburgh its kinda a crazy area its only 2 lanes of traffic on each side and there is no way they can expand it so its always pretty packed up. But I made it back to Somerset alive with my new companion elder Hendrickson from Drayton Valley AB or something like that its 6 hours north west of cardston wherever it is all I know is that he knew Levi and a few other people I know and he was at the provincal game where raymond played cardston 2 rows behind me so we've been fairly close to each other a time or two. But we have been getting along well and by the sounds of it we will be together in Somerset for a day or two. But tell dad I was not able to get his email this week I did get the little short one of 2 lines but I don’t know if he sent one that was a little longer or not. But tell him that I got the protein and thanks for it I will be putting it to use fairly soon.

Well this week was a little bit of a slow week due to elder banks leaving home so we just said goodbye on Monday and we did a lot of driving and unpacking and cleaning on Tuesday. Wednesday wasn’t to bad we were able to see a few people but nothing really worth noting came of it. We had district meeting on Thursday and while in Johnstown we took are car to get a tire looked at only to discover that 3 of the 4 tires had nails in them and one went through the side wall so I got 4 new tires for the winter thankfully because the tread on the other tires was about as smooth as dads freshly shaved head so they were kinda like skies. We had our stake conference this weekend so I was able to see prez again and to discover yet again that I was going to be here for a while he’s trying for like 6 months an area it seems or something of that nature at least 3 transfers or 6 weeks so 4.5 months. After conference we went to brother Farris's house for dinner on Sunday and then had a lesson with them and their foster girls. During the lesson the younger of the girls shaylin who I think is14 said she wanted to be baptized so walah another potential baptism we kinda have to hold off on her until she gets approval from her real mom until we go to far but were hopeful. She seems determined they've been going to church since I've been here so it must have finally started to sink in I guess. But other then that not too much has happened we were not able to meet with Lynn this week but he was at stake conference so he’s still making an effort so hopefully we can meet with him this week.

Well I cant really think of anything I need I kinda wish I would have caught you before you sent that coat I would have told you to buy me some d:fi hair stuff from wherever I got my hair cut in az that sports place I cant find it anywhere out here and all the other stuff is like 20 bucks and I cant really afford that. But um I’ll keep thinking about the essentials I would like a nice hoodie for pdays though this john deere one is kinda turning into a work hoodie.

Ha funny story before I leave we did service with bro snyder again to "hang Trusses" well we got there and he had one made and it fit so we used it to trace out a mass production of truss parts. Well we start getting ready to put them together and at the bottom where we’re going to be sitting it on the roof its supposed to be 16ft 3 inch well when we’ve cut 24 boards to an angle and start putting um together every one of them was 17ft 4 inches so we had to re measure and recut every truss so it took us about 4 and a half hours for us to build 12 trusses and we never put a single one in place so hopefully everything fits and hopefully bro snyder did his measurements right cuz I never had anything to do with the cutting and the marking of the boards I just nailed um together so I had nothing to do with anything important haha. But I hope everyone has a good week and I hope to hear from everyone soon. Oh and if you can find my coyote calls could you send um out to me I want to do some callin on pdays not much else to do so I think it would be fun to howl in a few yotes.