HEY Y'ALL!!!
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| The steps to one of the Tallulah Gorge Falls |
It's been a great week in Cornelia. Thank you for your emails and letters. I look forward to hearing from you each week.
Last week
after emailing, we decided to go to Tallulah Gorge State Park and hike around the gorge
and the waterfalls. It was so much fun! One blessing about being tucked away in
the mountains of Cornelia is the beauty that's all around.
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| Elder Roderick & Elder Larsen at Tallulah Gorge |
Well,
Elder Larsen and I had a great week working together. In our efforts to find as many people as possible
to teach, we tracted our butts off! And, we are finding a lot of potential
investigators. I really like working in this area because people are humble and
willing to talk with us for a long time. We are trying to work with the current
members, but first we have to teach the ward missionaries how to actually do missionary
work. So, getting the ward involved will be a process but we'll figure it
out.
On
Thursday we did some service work for our ward mission leader, and he asked us
to do a million odd jobs all over the place; everything from cleaning his
hot tub to cutting down corn stalks (Yaa!). We were about an hour into our work
when all the sudden we heard his wife, who was back at the house, scream bloody
murder. So, we ran back there to find her pointing at something in the driveway.
We ran next to her and saw that she was pointing at a hugeeee black snake. It
was completely harmless but she did NOT want to find it again. She yelled,
"Kill it Elders! Kill it now!" We thought, “Wowwww. She’s serious.” I literally had to take a flat head shovel and
whack the poor little guy! (Well it wasn't exactly little and it took forever.
It was a tough bugger.) That was an experience! We also had the pleasure of lighting
a huge bon fire and one of the Elders singed his eyebrows! Suckkaaaa!
I received
some great news from Grayson this week too. Kamari passed the sacrament on
Sunday. Yeaaa, Buddy! I'm proud of that stud.
Well, this
Thursday, August 21st, I'll be hitting my year mark. It's so crazy
how fast time as gone by. I feel like it was just yesterday that I was being dropped
off at the MTC and now I've already been in Georgia for a year. I can't even
begin to list all the miracles and amazing experiences I've had, so I won't for
now, but I see God's hand in my life every day and it's incredible. There is
nowhere I would rather be than serving the Lord in Georgia. I’ve been told that
the second year always goes by ten-times faster than the first, so I'm going to
make sure I take advantage of every day. I can't wait to see what great
things God has in store for me. I love being a representative of Jesus Christ!
And, I love you and appreciate your support!
To those
who wrote me emails today, we literally have NO time to email today so if I
can't email you back today, I will email you next week! I'm sorry but it's the
#mission-life.
I love you! 1
down 1 to go!
BYE Y'ALL
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