Oh Little, Little Town!

Hello. Well, we had a pretty good week this week. We started off this week with an exchange with the Kannapolis Elders. Elder Christensen came over to Concord. We biked a lot that day. We had already planned out a pretty heavy bike day, but then to make it worse, a member cancelled on us suddenly so we had to bike to the appointment he was going to take us to. Eesh. We found a guy named Canaan, who was a former investigator. Now it's my turn to talk about cars, Dad. He had this little car called a Yugo. Have you ever heard of those? I guess it's a very rare car that used to be made in Yugoslavia. He also had an original Fiat and whatever the car that Knight Rider is.Pretty spiffy. I wish I could actually drive. There are so many Mustangs, Challengers, Chargers, Corvettes, and Camaros, down here in the South it blows my mind. I can pretty consistently see one on the road when we are driving around. I guess Southerners like muscle cars. I am also actually surprised how many pickup trucks are down here. I though that there wouldn't be that many but I would say there are about the same amount as trucks in Utah. I really want to drive the Black Hole again. I'm not too excited to drive in the mish because there are only Chevy Cruzes, Toyota Corrolas, and Ford Fusions. They are all pretty nice new cars, but they are also boring. We have a Cruze. Driving would be
a little easier if we didn't have the weird monitor box in our car. We call him Jarvis. He monitors our speed and other things like seat belts, tires, suspension, RPMs, and brakes. He gets mad at us a lot. If we go over the speed limit by five miles per hour, he says, "check your speed!" We get violations if we go too fast for too long, our RPMs exceed 5000, we brake too heavily, or do anything crazy. Which is good, but really stinks when someone pulls right in front of you and you have to slam on our brakes. Oh well. Oh, by the way, Brother Henrie (husband of the lady that friended Mom) has a Mazda 3 very similar to yours. It's the same except it's gray and it's a turbo instead of a 2.5 liter. His driving reminds me a lot of you too. Well, that's all I have to say about cars, I'll move on now.
We had a pretty good exchange. We stayed up a little late just talking, but it was fun. The next day we exchanged back and headed into Mt. Pleasant and talked to some people. We got yelled at by a lady who supposedly works for the DOT. She was mad because one of our tires was on the road. She drove up to us and said, "I hope you're not parking there! You know, I work for the DOT and I am not happy with the parking job." We asked her (kindly by the way) what the problem was and what was wrong with our parking job and how should we move it. She said that she just didn't like our parking job and she wanted us to move because the road was a pretty busy one. We tried to be kind and do everything she asked, but whenever we said anything, even with compliance to what she said, she just yelled back at us. Well, anyway we moved the car, but it just goes to show, some people are just set on being angry. Oh well.
We went to zone meeting this week as well. It was pretty cool. We had a Christmas theme and President and Sister Alexander showed up as well. 😳 It was good though. Afterwards we exchanged white elephant gifts. I got a NC State back scratcher, which is already broken. 😩 I gave a Batman mug. It was pretty good. I found it at Big Lots. I also found a pretty fly Boba Fett watch, which I got for myself. It's actually a quality watch which surprises me. After zone meeting we did another exchange with the zone leaders. I went with Elder Ellis in Charlotte. We did a Christmas stand in "uptown" Charlotte. We passed out pass a long cards and gave out free hot chocolate. It was pretty fun. We are psyched for the new Christmas videos. It's an easy way to talk to everyone. They are pretty good videos too. I was on Elder Ellis' last exchange as a missionary. It was one of the oldest and one of the youngest missionaries on exchange. He leaves this Wednesday. Transfers are this Tuesday. I'm a little sad. Elder Skinner and Sister Sandie are taking off. I'll miss them, but I'm happy for them. They are leaving their first areas. Elder Skinner is going to be a district leader. Which doesn't surprise me. He's pretty solid. Sister Daly and Christensen are staying and Sister Daly is training. So I won't be the youngest missionary!! It's going to be weird.
So I was jumping a brick wall to be fast. I wish it would have been something awesome like running from a dog or running from people with guns, but not so. I still have a bruise and some scabs, but it's feeling better.
It doesn't feel like Christmas here. I'm still walking around in a short sleeve shirt. It still gets pretty chilly 'round here but it is also pretty warm sometimes. Like right now as I am writing this I am outside in short sleeves and shorts and I am very comfortable. But Union street is decked out in Christmas lights. It looks pretty good. Well, I think that's all I got. I love y'all and hope to talk to you soon.

Elder Huff finds a new investigator?

Elders Nelson, Christensen, Huff & Skinner