A Week of Okayness

This week wasn't spectacular, but it sure wasn't that bad. This week we started running in the morning for exercise and boy am I out of shape. We ran a mile in a little less than 9 minutes (which isn't too bad considering I haven't run that far in a very long time, possibly not even since I've been on a mission) but I felt like I was going to DIE! I ripped a muscle in my calf and it was hurting for a few days, but I feel better now. Hopefully running every day will help me lose some weight, I'm just glad all of my clothes still fit. 

This week we planted some tomato plants at the Neese's. The soil here in Carolina is really weird! It's basically clay. It feels like really sticky Play-Doh and was really hard to dig holes in. It's weird how different the soils are from here to Utah. 

We met with a lady named Melissa this week, she seems pretty interested. Two transfers ago, me and Elder Rothenburger were tracting an apartment complex and knocked on a door. A little boy answered and seemed super excited to see us, he asked us if we were from the church before we even introduced ourselves. We said yes and he said, "Cool! My mom is looking for a church! Can I get your card?" So we gave him a card with our number on it, and months passed and nothing happened. We stopped by a couple times and nothing. So we basically gave it up. But this Tuesday we just randomly decided to knock on her door and she answered and set a return appointment, that she kept. She's really friendly and has a couple cute kids. The conversation seemed really natural and hopefully we'll go pretty far with her. 

We met with the Goins this week and it went pretty well, the kids are now progressing investigators. We're excited for them. 

Well, we talked to this inactive member this week. Last week he got a call from his cousin, who's an active member of the church, and his cousin told Brother Rowland to talk to the missionaries. Rowland said he didn't really want to and kind of blew it off, but about 30 minutes later he was driving down the road and saw us, so he took it as a sign so he met with us. He told us his whole story. He's on his third marriage and his wife is 30 years younger than him...weird. He's a kinda funny guy. 

We mowed a lawn this week! For a less active family. We went out with a member of the bishopric and saw the Jessup's, and she talked about her yard (which is HUGE) and how her son hasn't mowed it yet and it's getting really long. So as we were driving away, Brother Bagley said we were going to mow her lawn, so we picked up a trailer, his riding lawnmower, a weed eater, and two of his five boys and we went and hammered it out. I got to use the lawnmower, it's pretty nice. It got dark before we were done. 

Well, nothing much more to talk about this week. We have bikes for the next two weeks and we've had bikes for the last two weeks, because we ran out of miles. Yay! 

We got to teach a youth Sunday School, that was fun, but made me miss my old Sunday School class, well, that's about it. Love y'all!