[1]This
week our mission president called me on Friday night. It was odd; he's never
done anything like that before. He asked me how I was doing and how the area
was going. He even specifically asked me about the werewolf thing which he told
me to forsake back in February.[2]
Anyway, I'm getting a new companion, named Elder W. I don't know anything about
him, except that he came to the field at the same time I went to Ritzville
(beginning of October). This is good, as I don't think either Elder L. or I
could have handled another six weeks.
This past week I got to go on two exchanges--one with my district leader and one with my zone leader. Elder L. has some physical conditions that make riding a bike difficult so we walk everywhere, and it was nice to be on a bike again.[3] I'm looking forward to biking full time. I think I'll even bike when we have the car, because I want to save miles to go to the small towns we cover, and I hate finding parking spaces when we go see random people. I had worried the hills would be difficult since Hayden was flat, but only one part this week was extremely difficult, and I only ended up there on accident, anyway. I was annoyed, though; in Hayden I got my bike all tuned up, but now my first gear is acting up, so I couldn't use it to get up the hills. It wouldn't shift when I wanted it to, and when it finally would it came as such a surprise that it threw me off.
On the bikes we were able to go many places and see much more people than we could walking. Therefore, I was able to fill up our Progress Record with all sorts of reports of less-active members and bring it to ward council, which impressed them. I hope to still be able to do that. I don't think the ward distrusts me, but I don't think they entirely trust me, either, so I hope to remedy that.
I was kind of disappointed at some news. We've been teaching a girl whose parents were baptized about two years ago. Her sister will be coming up from California to be baptized. Originally it was supposed to be this week, but now they won't be coming up until August. From what the assistant who gave me my transfer call (which was another anomaly)[4] was saying, he might be another six-week companion, but I might have been inferring wrong, or he might have been inferring wrong. So, I may or may not be here until August.
I am going to send a thank you letter to Caroline W. for the big package of candy she sent me to make up for all the years I didn't go to their house on Sunday afternoon.[5]
I'm short on time :( sorry
Love,
Elder Melville
This past week I got to go on two exchanges--one with my district leader and one with my zone leader. Elder L. has some physical conditions that make riding a bike difficult so we walk everywhere, and it was nice to be on a bike again.[3] I'm looking forward to biking full time. I think I'll even bike when we have the car, because I want to save miles to go to the small towns we cover, and I hate finding parking spaces when we go see random people. I had worried the hills would be difficult since Hayden was flat, but only one part this week was extremely difficult, and I only ended up there on accident, anyway. I was annoyed, though; in Hayden I got my bike all tuned up, but now my first gear is acting up, so I couldn't use it to get up the hills. It wouldn't shift when I wanted it to, and when it finally would it came as such a surprise that it threw me off.
On the bikes we were able to go many places and see much more people than we could walking. Therefore, I was able to fill up our Progress Record with all sorts of reports of less-active members and bring it to ward council, which impressed them. I hope to still be able to do that. I don't think the ward distrusts me, but I don't think they entirely trust me, either, so I hope to remedy that.
I was kind of disappointed at some news. We've been teaching a girl whose parents were baptized about two years ago. Her sister will be coming up from California to be baptized. Originally it was supposed to be this week, but now they won't be coming up until August. From what the assistant who gave me my transfer call (which was another anomaly)[4] was saying, he might be another six-week companion, but I might have been inferring wrong, or he might have been inferring wrong. So, I may or may not be here until August.
I am going to send a thank you letter to Caroline W. for the big package of candy she sent me to make up for all the years I didn't go to their house on Sunday afternoon.[5]
I'm short on time :( sorry
Love,
Elder Melville
[1] My
email’s title is a play on my companion’s name, but since I’m removing
companion names, I changed it here.
[2] I
had an obsession with the macabre and claimed to be a werewolf. I hoped to
become a vampire when I died—not an evil one, more like the Count on Sesame
Street. But some companions mentioned it to the mission president, and he
told me to stop.
[3] In
hindsight, I’m not convinced those medical reasons are the real reason we didn’t
bike.
[4] Usually
the mission president himself called you when you got a new companion, not his
assistants.
[5]
When I was seven years old, I would go to my primary teacher’s house on
Sundays, and she would give me a treat. So they sent me a big box of candy on
my mission.
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