March 18, 2013

Well as usual sounds like things are going pretty good on the home front so I cant really complain to much about what goes on out here. 

Things are going pretty good in my neck of the woods had some interesting weather but other then that cant really complain. We had some good lessons with Tony and he’s slowly progressing. Talked with him in a sneaky way about the anti that he’s been getting into like usual I can talk my way in and out of any situation. But it was good to talk to him about what he’s been getting into and seeing what his thoughts were on it. I told him that the spirit speaks softly and that if he’s listing to anti and other peoples outward thoughts and views he was turning the world up and blocking the soft voice of the spirit which I thing he understood so I cant complain I felt as though it was a good analogy even though I sorta stole it from a mormon message with a radio but heck thats what they’re for I guess. 

We saw a few LA members that I hadn’t met yet and saw a couple cool things like  69 GTO and a 71 chevy so I cant complain. We helped a less active guy in the ward who thinks he’s completely active clean out some stuff from his wife’s dads brothers garage. We moved enough stuff away to be able to light the fireplace in the corner and warm up the garage. While we were moving stuff around I was being nosey and opened up a small box. Come to find out it had 6 or so live 50 cal round from world war 2 in Italy. Kinda glad that I looked, would have been a terrible thing to put close to the fire one of them goes off take your dang arm off so its good be curious at times. 

We had Zone conference on Wednesday which was good until I found out that it was going to be my last zone conference on the mission and that it meant I would be giving my departing testimony. Its a weird thing to be getting this close to the end of my mission. Seems like just yesterday that I was fresh off the plane sitting in my first zone conference listing to missionaries giving there closing testimonies and thinking that it would never come for me. Now I've given mine and can only laugh at what Jaden is thinking in the mtc since I've been there. Time flies on lightning wings and sometimes I think I'm lucky if I can just hold on to the tail and enjoy the ride. Life's going good out here and I'm enjoying the ride sometimes you end up running into some crap riding on the tail end but you work through it and endure and enjoy the ride and you will reach the destination and its pretty good at least from what I've seen. 

Well I hope everyone enjoys there week and I look forward to hearing from ya’ll next week have a good one and I’ll talk at you later. 

Love 

Elder Kartchner

Elder Kartchner with Ace

Elder Kartchner and Tony