Week 52

Hello Hello!

 

First i wanted to say something in response to Cameron's letter from last week...  No letter's for 2 whole weeks?!?! Try no letter's your whole mission!!!!

 

Anyways.

Dickson has been pretty good so far.  So i found out that we have a Truck here!!!  full time!  and i'm the driver now!  so thats pretty neat..   It's only a chevy colorado though... 

 

Then i found out that we live in our own house!  Which is also pretty sweet.  Except that it's probably the smallest place i've lived on the mission so far....

 

Dickson is a pretty big place, not sure quite how big yet though, our ward boundaries are Huge, like even bigger then Foxcroft was, and we only have 1000 miles so we end up walking A lot for having a full time car.  So most of our time here is spent walking.

 

Heh... So we had a zone meeting on Thursday and both of us don't have a GPS so that's a thing, but anyways we take a pretty straight forward way to get to Columbia TN where our Zone Meeting is, but Elder Lofthouse tell's me to go a different way on the way back.....   Long story short, he gets us lost in some Crazy hick'ish back roads and even some dirt roads and it takes us like 2 1/2 hours to get back where as it only took maybe 50 minutes to drive there.

 

Do any of you remember me talking about "The Krew" back in lewisburg?  Well Dickson has it's own version of "The Krew'!  except this one is more ghetto.  It seemed super fake when we were there because people don't ever act like they did, at least i thought so...  Like there was this weird black guy who was throwing chairs out of his house and breaking them outside because i had a picture of Jesus on my planner and he didn't think that Jesus was white...  Crazy stuff like that, it was pretty funny.

 

Anywho, the ward here is pretty good, its got about 400 members but only like 90 to 100 people are active, and almost all of them are like 60 and over... Its an Old ward...

 

But uhh, i cant remember anyhting else... So Bye!

Love Ya

-Elder Martin

Week 51

Well Hello there!

 

First, i want to say that as i'm writing this there is the second biggest thunder storm i've seen on my mission... So... crazy stuff. flash floods and the like. 

 

Second i want to say that i am indeed getting transferred... But here is the crazy thing, So is Elder Tomlinson and elder Ackroyd!  and elder Webb is going home.  But they are bringing sister's to live in our apartment and putting two new elder's in the whitehouse apartment.  Making this the 3rd time that sisters have taken over my apartment...  out of 3 times i've moved...  What the heck... 

 

Anyways, i am going to go to a place called Dickson TN, with Elder Lofthouse who i have been on exchanges with before.  He is kind of a goober, like even more so then me.  But he's a good kid so i think we'll get a lot done in Dickson.

 

But as for my last week in the whitehouse ward, things were pretty slow...  But Kalie and Cyrell did come to church again! Which was Awesome.  Cyrell is a funny guy and hard to read sometimes but i know he'll get baptized sometime, it may be when they move to idaho in a year or it could be in a month... who knows.

 

We found a dead raccoon one day... Just in a random spot... like not on the road or near the road or anything. TENNESSEE!!!!

 

Well...  I gotta go pack and stuff...  So talk to ya'll next week

 

Love Ya'll!

-Elder Martin

Week 50

Hello hello hello!

 

This week was filled with stuff!  Except for P-day...  last p-day was LAME...  We helped pour more concrete at Brother Boyles house on Monday and Tuesday evenings, that was pretty fun, we had interviews this week as well, which was good to finally get to know the new President a little better,  We worked on Sis Durhams farm again, we Almost saw a Gnarly crash happen!  I say almost because i happened like less the 5 minutes before we got there.  Someone ran into a telephone pole and it completely demolished the car and the horn was still going off when we drove by...

We visited Cyrell and Kalie a couple times.  One of the times we went there they were watching Whose line is it anyway!!!! ITS BACK!!  So i was pretty excited about that. 

Our ward put on this mini mission thing for the youth where we spent a day with one or two of the youth and a driver and just went out and did missionary stuff, I went with the Bishop and a kid named Matt Kinney.  It was a pretty good day. Oh and the other elders had a baptism right before that...

Speaking of the Bishop here, his name is Darrell Minton.  The funny thing about him is that he is the second Darrell I've known, (the other one of course being our uncle...) and He reminds me A lot of uncle Darrell.  He even kinda looks like him, has the same hair cut and everything.

 

Oh and Cyrell and Kalie came to church for the first time since I've been here!  all three hours and then they came to the FHE group thing after!  Which is pretty impressive.  That's 4 hours of church in a day.

 

Transfers is coming up this week,  I wonder what will happen.

 

Welp, cant think of much else to say so i'll just say Swag.

 

Love ya'll

-Elder Martin