Whoo Boy!

Can you believe it?!?! Tomorrow, I've been in the field two weeks! And Saturday is my one month point! I still have about 100 weeks! How
exciting! So, I don't think I told you this last week, but I know when
I get home. October 9th. That's when my authorized preacher or
whatever card expires. Okay, now I need to answer some questions. So
last week was kinda crazy and busy. I kept having to write my email in
different places and my email was kinda scattered and I didn't get to
address everything, so I'm sorry I didn't answer your questions, I'll
try to do better this week. 

My companion has been out a year and a
quarter. He leaves next summer. My companion is pretty bubbly and
outgoing (well, at least he is more than I am) so he usually initiates
conversations with random people, but we are pretty close to 50-50
teaching already. He's better at finding scriptures and references and
then he wants me to bear my testimony about that subject, which he
says I do better than he does (I don't buy it, but I happily do it). 

Housing is pretty good. My companion and I live in our own flat. It's
a two bedroom, 1 1/2 bathroom, AND IT HAS ITS OWN WASHER AND DRYER!
WHOOPIE! It's so nice because I can just do laundry whenever. Which was not an option in the MTC. We use one of the bedrooms for our study room. I have my own desk, of course. And my closet is in that room too. We spend most of our time in that room. Then the other bedroom my companion gets his closet in there, and the ironing board ( which I haven't had to use because of the awesome shirts I have🤘), and our beds. Those two rooms and my bathroom are upstairs. Then downstairs we have a living room, Then we have the other bathroom downstairs as well as the kitchen. Then we have a driveway outside...of course. Our front door is pretty awesome.

Of course it's raining...it seems like that's all that the weather wants to do here. Which is okay, for now because we have a car (a Chevy Cruze), but I am not excited for this Wednesday, when we give up the car. 
Elder Nelson and I are doing pretty well, this week wasn't super productive because of the rain and no one wants to talk to us in the rain. We go around and marinate, which is basically walking around and knocking on some doors and talking to people outside. We meet some crazy people. We can't catch anyone outside. We also marinated around better off neighborhoods this week so people were a little more prideful and didn't want to speak to us. We did talk to a pretty nice older gentleman though. We caught him outside walking across the street to his house. We were all the way down the street when we first saw him, but since he was walking so slow, with his cane, we were able to gain pretty good ground on him. At one point he saw us and I swear his pace doubled. We had to speed walk to catch him. He was a pretty cool guy and when we asked his name he said, " just call me pops" which was kinda weird since we just met the guy. We taught for a while and he seemed pretty interested, so we kinda got our hopes up, but then he said, "Well, it all sounds good, but I go to my son's church." Aargh! Supposedly, his son is a pastor, and to make it even better he lives with his son. So, oh well. Maybe we'll talk to Pops again someday. 

Halloween was pretty chill. We spent all day tiling some guy's house. Elder Nelson did tiling for his job before his mission, so he knew what he was doing, and he worked hard while I sat back, ate chips, and killed cockroaches with a hammer. I did work though as well. I cut and laid down backer board in preparation for the tile. I also cut tile, which kinda freaked me out. It was really loud and the tools we were using were pretty sketchy, but I felt bad that Elder Nelson was doing all the work, so I did as much as I could. We worked there for about five hours, but I felt pretty good about how we spent our time, because this guy just lost his wife and his house is filthy. We did the best we could to make his house look a little better. We then had to go back to the apartment at six because that was our curfew. The mission president didn't want any shenanigans. So we played Marvel Guess Who, which was pretty fun. I destroyed Elder Nelson. I beat him six games to none. We had no trick or treaters at all, so that was pretty good because we had no candy for them. 

We had a pretty good fast and testimony meeting on Sunday. We had two investigators show up for us and the testimonies were really good. The lessons in Sunday school and priesthood were really good too. Hopefully Te and Nicole will get baptized, though I don't know if they plan on it or not. We had dinner at the Howard's house that night. Their son is a type 1 diabetic, so they have a diet of no meat or wheat. Crazy, but the soup we had was pretty good. They have five crazy kids (Reese, Eden, Jesse, Layla, and Logan. I am doing so well with names!) and Brother Howard is hilarious! He told us awesome stories of his mission is Chile. He talked about he got attacked by dogs all the time so they made contraptions that flung beans at dogs like a bullet.  We were laughing for a couple minutes. We then had a good lesson on faith and hope. Then we took brother Howard to Homer( a recent convert) and Te and had a lesson with them. We ended up crackin up there too. I don't even now why we were laughing, something about a crucified chicken and Kool aid. Whatever. We had a good lesson too, I have to mention that too. We had a pretty fun p day today. We went to a trampoline park and then went to the church and played volleyball.  I love y'all and I love all your emails. I'll see you on the flipside. Hopefully I answered your questions.