Hello everyone!
I hope you all are doing well. It has gotten warmer this past
week. Almost all the snow melted away. I am glad to say that we had a very good
week. We have a brand new Investigator who is super interested. We taught her
the first lesson and she wants to meet again. Her mom and step dad are recent
converts as of September and they love having us over; they also give us hot
chocolate. Her kids love to come to church as well. My companion and I survived
transfers! We are the only set out of our zone of 26 missionaries who are
staying together. We also had zone meeting Tuesday last week. Elder Timothy and
I and another set of Elders went to lunch at Subway and we meet some people who
were interested. We placed two copies of the Book of Mormon! This past Thursday
went out with the second counselor in the Elders Quorum to see somebody and
after that he showed us his warehouse where he and his brother own an electrical
business. He showed us all the cool stuff he has in there. And to my amazement
he showed us his indoor skate park! It was so cool. We also went to the Temple
on Wednesday and it was so spiritual and wonderful.
So get this, the ward members of the Christmas party committee found out
I played the trumpet and now they might have me play in the program. Sister
Morales has a trumpet that her son used to play.
Elder Timothy and I had a great Thanksgiving. We had it at
our member’s home with her Mom and daughters. This week has been pretty crazy
because we have been moving all over the place. Sister Morales's daughters came
from Utah two weeks ago so we moved to another member’s home then we moved to
Bishops house for the majority of the week. Then Bishop and his family came
back and now we are at another member’s house right now. But we will probably
move back to Sister Morales's today. The snow has pretty much all melted. It
snowed a bit last night but that's it.
Elder Timothy and I had kind of a slow week because of the
Holidays, but we did what we could. We did a lot of service though. We helped
Sister Morales and her daughters put up Christmas lights outside her house and
then helped them decorate the inside. We also helped some ward members move
into a new house.
So Saturday night,
Elder Timothy and I planned for a good week but then Sunday morning
he started throwing up a lot. He has been really sick lately. I went on
exchanges with our district leader because his companion is sick to. I think he
will be ok in the next couple of days. So we have our Christmas social on Dec.
13th right after a baptism. There are a lot of biking opportunities in my
area. I really miss mountain biking a lot and I hope I will be using a bike
when the warmer months get here.
I miss you all,
until next time,
Love,
Elder Rodriguez
