Its been an interesting week out here in beautiful Oregon! its kinda seems like a blur and we were pretty busy but we had a ton of stuff that got canceled on us this week. Thats OK though we made due! First off I'm not sure you all can tell from the pictures I've been sending but it is seriously naturally gorgeous out here! The mountains are pretty incredible! Its been raining a bunch lately so everything super green and it just looks awesome! Its a bunch different the back home beauty. I mean I don't think anything compares to the ocean and all of our trees and rivers but its pretty dang nice up here! Its also been super temperate recently! like it was low 70's ish all week long! haha sorry since its been super hot in VA and Florida and other places.. We've been enjoying it though! On Wednesday night after we did our planning for the next day we took a drive up this smaller mountain that has an awesome view of the valley and just sat there and looked at all the lights and ate Otter pops lol! Its was so cool! you could see everything! It looked way bigger then it is though lol. We take time to have little mini adventures like that to de-stress and enjoy the area while we have it! Next Monday as a last hooraa before transfers we are all going up to a town called Joesph were they have this incredible glacier lake! I'm super pumped! Its a bit away so I thought it would be worth it for potentially my last p-day in the area! I'll take tons of pictures of that! It apparently looks identical to the Swiss alps up there! Its that pretty! haha This area is so cool! The Elders in my Apartment are awesome to! I'll miss Elder Epperson a bunch. I hope we don't end up in separate missions! haha no dad wants to leave his son behind! but Elder Hatifi and Christanson are way cool to and we are super close! thats one of the best things about Lagrande is getting to live with 3 other missionaries! its just fun! haha it can be a little distracting at time though lol. Anyways we have 2 weeks left in the transfer and I do think I'll be moved this one...
Anyways the work this week was up and down. We
had a lot of appointments cancel but we also had a bunch of unplanned
opportunities! We finally found a whole family to teach!!!!!!! I'm flippin out
lol! haha I haven't got to teach a whole nonmember family yet!(well the wife is
a member but she got baptized when she was 10 and never went to church since!)
They are super cool though and they have been sooo prepared! The dad is just
full of questions and he feels that he's been moving towards this path for
awhile! The 2 kids are both teens and are super excited to learn! We taught
them the restoration of the Gospel and gave them each a Book of Mormon! The
spirit was crazy strong! We invited them to be baptized and they said yes!!
haha they also said that they have a bunch of preparing to do and they want to
make this change as a family or not at all! soooo tight!! It stinks that I'm
not going to be here to finish with them but I've just been praying for the
opportunity to help bring the message of the gospel to a whole family! So ya
that was way cool! The daughter is a
beast XC runner so I told her about you my sista's lol!
