There and Back Again - A Missionary's Tale

The GIANT Cinnamon Roll

(Feb 2, 2009 Post, Up to McCall: We than went to a place called the Pancake house. Famous for there large portions. I ordered a breakfast sandwich and was like, oh look, a "giant" cinamon roll is only like $2. I'll get that too. We wait a while for our food and the waitress brings out the most massive cinimmon roll I or any othe the other elders had ever seen. They all busted out there cameras and took pics. ITS WAS HUGE!! As Jim Gaffigan would say, 8 pounds of cake. But I did finish it and paid the price. haha.)

1st off, this computer wont let me put pics on, so sorry for two weeks without pictures. I feel bad too.

This week has actually been MAD crazy! Wednesday we went out and did a bunch of service painting someone's house. (Don't let me fool you into thinking I'm some kinda Bob Ross, I just threw down the primer coat. haha). We also met with a former who wanted us to teach her again. hey oh! Way cool.

Thursday (let the crazyness begin) after district meeting, we drove up to Elgin to visit people there and the ward wanted us to see Annie (the musical about the little orphan girl) in the Elgin opera house. So we drove up and NO ONE! I repeat, NO ONE we tried to visit was home. This makes planning very useless. Than we found out that they are not doing a showing of Annie that night so I was just like, "we should just drive up to Enterprise"...so we did! That really took up the rest of the night because its a long drive. We stayed at the bishops house and had a great time.

Friday, we tried to visit people in Enterprise. Deja vu, NO ONE was home. UGH!!!! That was frustrating. But! the end of the night made it worth it. We drove all the way back to La Grande and had dinner and watched Testaments with our investigator. After the movie,we talked for a while and committed her to baptism. She is being baptized on June 20. (Ya, its a way's out, but the person baptizing her is gonna be gone until that day). But its all awesome!

Sat, we went to play basketball with a bunch of investigators, but learned quickly that they canceled. We got a call from someone in Elgin telling us to go to the afternoon Annie show and have lunch with the cast, and since we do what we're told, we watched Annie and had lunch with the cast. haha. It was pretty awesome. We met some people that want us to come by and that we've needed to contact for a while. So good did come from it. haha.

Sun we went to church and did the regular Sunday thing. After that, we got a referral to go see this guy Derrin.We did and he is AWESOME! totally wants to hear everything we have to say and knows its true. Really cool. there was also a fireside that night from the Ogden (?) family. Guy broke his neck TWICE and he's STILL around. It was all about pushing through hard times and relying on Christ. It was REALLY cool.

Monday was p-day pt 1. (you'll see why). We were told to check email and shop. Well, no libraries are open on memorial day, so obviously one of those two things didn't happen. That night, we drove down to Ontario again (I got to stay with Forsyth again. Woo hoo!. It was way fun) because the next day, we had interviews and the spring fling. It was a TON of fun.

Everyone in the Middleton zone conference got together and just played sports and stuff. I even played a game of basketball (learned I can grab the rim and almost dunk) and played Crockett! It was super fun. That we drove all the was back to La Grande and it was like 8:30, so too late to email.

So here I am Wednesday morning emailing. haha. Its been pretty crazy but a TON of fun. Well, hope your memorial weekend was safe and fun.

Love ya all!

-Elder Woods