Week 68

Yup... the nativity festival thing was postponed due to "Severe weather"...  which was rain during friday and friday alone....  so they cancled the whole weekend and moved to this week instead, after we invited all those people.  That was pretty lame.  

People here are funny, at just the threat of snow or icy conditions they cancel school.  so friday there was no school... Haha.  Also if there are threats of snow everybody in town goes and buys all the milk and bread out of all the stores...  I think it's hilarious.

We had exchanges this week, i went with Elder Boyce in his area.  We for the first time of my mission had a successful time tracting!  Someone actually invited us in to hear our message.  It totally caught us off guard.  Never before has that happened for me.  And then later that hour we found 5 bucks on the road!  it was the holy grail of streets to tract. 

We taught seminary twice in the past week, it was good and all, but waking up at 4 to get ready and drive there is no bueno.  

The Christmas Devotional was Great!  i love to hear from the Brethren.   And motab was pretty good too.  

Okay, now i have a funny story that is pretty long so bear with it... Its funny

So one of our neighbors / members just had a baby on wednesday...  But they texted us like through the whole thing almost... Not the actual birth but like their stay at the hospital.   So we get a text Wed. Morning at like 4:30

"Arrived @ gateway Hospital!"

Wakes me up, i'm mad, don't respond...

Then at 12:27  ( and this whole story is literally straight out of the phone...)

"Oxytocin is at 8 milliunit/min.  Contractions steady"

(.... Thanks bro ramsey...) Still don't reply

5:29 PM

"Catrina's OB broke the water.  No baby yet"

Still have no idea why he's texting us all this.

11:10 PM  Wakes us up again...

"Melody Irene ramsey was born @ 10:30 pm. 6 lbs 11 oz 20 1/2 inches long"

?!?!? WHAT?  They gave birth to a toddler?!?! That's freaking bigger then yoda! and at 6 lbs only? man, is it just like one super long finger or something?

1:45 AM!!!

"Moving from rm 3204 to 3308."

.........  Are you freaking kidding me?  Why would you text us at nearly 2 in the morning that your changing rooms...

They wanted us to come over and see it on sunday afternoon, so we did.  Man, i was curious to see this toddler infant.  So we get there and he says the same thing, that she's 20 inches long and 6 lbs...  oh man, i wonder if that's really what he thinks.  But nah, she's like 20 cm's long

And thats the story.

Love Ya'll

-Elder Martin 

Week 67

Welp, this week was pretty great.  Thanksgiving was great.  I'm so thankful to be on my mission and to be in this ward!

So this week started off with a good p-day, we played two on two volley ball, Me and Elder Alvarez, against our companions.  They both think they are just the most athletic people out there so they were talking a big game, well needless to say we smoked them.  so after two games of getting walloped they got frustrated and said they wanted to play basketball instead.  Well everyone here knows i am terribad at Basketball and elder Alvarez isn't to great at it either, so they expected an easy win.  First to 7 wins.  Well long story a little bit shorter, we won.  Ha...  humbled them real good.

Anywho, so Tuesday we had Interviews, so those are always really good.  Good trainings too.

Then after dinner we saw Bro. Hooper, one of the LA's.  He's a lonely old man who's really nice.  So we went over and had a normal visit with him, but at the end we found out he didn't have any plans for thanksgiving and the holidays in general.  So we went over Thanksgiving night and had another really good visit with him.  

Thanksgiving was really good though, we had 2 dinners.  One at the Kleins, and one at a Less active's house,  The Browns.  So at the browns they had like 20 of the kids and grandkids and stuff, all of whom i don't think are members.  So thats a promising sign that Bro Brown would invite us over with all his kids and stuff.  I think he's about ready to come back.

Saturday we did our ward Turkey bowl, which was fun.  The warmest turkey bowl i've ever encountered...  Then later we had another thanksgiving Dinner with the Isoms, they are a really cool family.  So get this,  Their daughter auditioned for the new starwars movie...  Even if she doesn't get in i think that'd be pretty sweet.  

Then after that dinner we went back to Shelbyville!!!  Awwwhh yeah, back to the place of my birth.  For the Baptism's of Barbara and Fannie.  So that was prettty sweet. 

But, this email is too long and boring so i'll cut it off here.

Love Ya'll!

-Elder Martin

Week 66

The weather is already in winter mode...  I should snow tomorrow.  :(

 

But last week was really good, not so much work wise...  and we were both pretty sick last week.  So i'm not sure why i enjoyed last week so much. 

 

We did play some halfway decent volleyball!  and were going to again today!  So that's fantastic!

 

There is an inactive family here, the Slaughters, and we heard they were in the hospital and wanted their home teacher to come see them, so Bro. Richards called us and asked if we could go with him, and of course we did.  Well the Slaughters are a really cool older couple who we hadn't ever met before, and they apparently really like the missionaries!  So we are going to start going over there pretty regularly as they have also expressed interest in coming back to church.  He might even be Santa in our ward Christmas party!

 

So this ward here puts on a Christmas Nativity festival every year for the community at our church, so we are going to be part of a live nativity for 3 days.  We are going to be some of the wise men.  And we also are in the choir so we will be singing at it.

 

But apparently they get a Ton of visitors to come to see all the dozens of nativity sets we'll have on display and stuff,  So we might be able to get several investigators from this!  Fingers crossed.

 

In other news!  Barbara and Fannie from Shelbyville who Elder Bethers and I started teaching are getting baptized this saturday!  and Elder Peterson just came from shelbyville and so he taught them as well, So we are both going down for it!  Awwhh yeah!

 

Hmmm... i know i was going to say something else, but i cant for the life of me remember...  Oh well.

 

Love Ya'll!

-Elder Martin

Week 65

So this week started off Super cold...  like low 30's and upper 20's, but the past few days has been back in the 70s... So were all good :D

Anywho, our referral we got last week also dropped us...  So that was lame, she seemed like she was going to be really good too.

So back to 0 investigators we decided we needed some investigators so we went a tracting...  And tracting, and some more tracting...  And nothing...  That's one bad thing about our area, its the richer part of Clarksville, so people are alot less willing to listen.  Silly rich people.  

Bro. Vardy came to church again yesterday, so that was awesome!  he seems to be doing really good.  

We also met another inactive family this week who were really nice, so we'll see what happens with them. 

Oh, so in other news we have 2 thanksgiving dinner's set up for now, and one's with a LA so we cant cancel that one for sure...  So pray for my belly.  i don't like having two dinner appointments. :( 

But, That's all i got for now.

Love Ya'll

-Elder Martin