Week 8

Hey everybody!

 

I can't believe that the baby of our family is already 15!

 

The spider drop would be much more terrifying here, because the paper one that Dad cuts out is the same size as real ones here.

 

The Carr household must be a happy one with BYU winning all these games!

 

In answer to some of your questions: We eat late every night, if at all. We have planning when we get home, and if we had a late lesson, there isn't time to make any food. My usual dinner is ramen noodles and hot dogs. You're probably not surprised.

 

We get mail on transfer days and whenever president is out here, so usually twice a month.

 

Nothing too exciting this week, just lots and lots of walking. We went to a part of town that we've never been to to contact some old investigators and maybe find some new ones. We taught a couple lessons up there that went really well and we have return appointments this week, so hopefully they hold up. That's something that I've noticed here, is that most everyone will talk to you and give you an address and a time to stop by, then about half of those people are home, and then about half of those people drop off the face of the earth and are never to be found again. But for the other half, we continue teaching them, which has been going great! I can pretty much teach the first lesson without any problems or forgotten words.

 

A small miracle that happened this week:

We received a reference from the other elders here, and we went to go contact them a couple nights ago. We were looking for house number 10, but it didn't exist. We figured that the people had given the missionaries a random address, which tends to happen, but decided to knock on some doors and ask if they knew the people we were looking for. It was nighttime, so the first couple houses didn't answer, but finally one did, and it turned out to be the lady that had talked to the other missionaries and given them the address. It was actually number 110 that she lived in, and she just happened to be visiting her daughters house, which was the one that we knocked on! So we taught them all!

 

Ate mais!

 

Elder Carr