Car Week is Over

Well, this week wasn't too bad, probably because we had the car. We had exchanges on Tuesday! Elder Washburn came to Newton with me! He's probably one of my favorite missionaries. He was in Kannapolis when I was in Concord, so I got to know him then. We didn't have a super amazing exchange, we only saw one less active part member family, but it was nice to have someone you can goof around with and talk about old times and Elder Nelson😀. Good times. 

The next day for district meeting we were supposed to have a bake-off between the four companionships, so Elder Washburn and I both made some treats later at night after we got home (he made peanut butter bars and I made red velvet cookies) and that was a lot of fun. But the next morning at district meeting no one else had brought anything, so that was kind of a bummer, but our stuff was good. We then all went out to a NY Hibachi buffet, which wasn't really that good so I didn't really eat much. Then we exchanged back. 

We talked to Lizz a lot this week. On Thursday night we went over with our Ward mission leader, Brother Melonakas, and taught her about the Book of Mormon. It went really well. We gave her a regular Book of Mormon and one of the children's version as well. The next morning, during personal study (about 8:30) she messaged us with some questions about the chapters she had read. Apparently she had read thirteen chapters from later at night on Thursday to early morning on Friday, pretty crazy!She had great questions that we were able to answer and we are teaching her over Skype tonight. I'm pretty pumped for that. 

On Friday we did service at the local library. We sorted books and put them back on the shelves

and other little jobs like that. I enjoyed it. We are going to go do that every Friday from now on. I finally got my suits dry cleaned! The first time on my mission! There is a Hmong family that has their own dry cleaning place and they dry clean our stuff for free! Pretty nice. My black suit doesn't fit me very well though, so I don't really ever wear that one. It hasn't really fit me since Concord. It was okay in the MTC, but I hadn't really gained that much weight at all and it started being uncomfortable. I don't think missionary mall did a great job tailoring the suit, because my gray suit fits me perfectly still, but my black one never really has. Oh well! 

We saw this guy on Friday who was pretty crazy. We were looking for some less active members, but they moved. This guy came out and started talking to us and obviously he was drunk. He told us we should lose our ties and go to Crazy Horse. I thought he was talking about the huge stone monument in South Dakota, so I told him that was too far for us and he looked at me strange and told me it was down the street. He was talking about the local strip club😳! He also offered us a beer. Eesh, people are so crazy out here! 

We went to Golden Corral for dinner with a member on Saturday night. He picked us up in a brand-new WRX! Pretty sweet car. I"m pretty tired of people taking us out to eat though. This month we have had 16 dinners with members, and seven of those have been out to eat! I've eaten at this one place called El Paso four times since I've been here, Golden Corral twice, and then a bunch of other random places. It's so hard to lose weight when you are eating fast food, a buffet, or huge Mexican dishes every other day! I could eat well all day and then we go to dinner, it's crazy. I've only been in six different homes this month for dinner, it makes it really hard to share spiritual thoughts, and that kind of bugs me. That's the whole reason why we have dinner appointments, I could really be okay without the food, it's just a great perk😋. Oh well. 

Transfer calls came Saturday night...Elder Garrett and I are both staying. Elder Garrett has only been in this area two weeks longer than I have so we might be together for a while... Sister Marshall is leaving to go to Winston-Salem and Sister Lovell is coming to Conover. It's kind of funny cuz she was in my last district in Summerfield. Well, that's about it for this week, hope y'all have a great upcoming week! Sure love ya!