Weekly Reporter

Whelp, best just go for it but WE GOT ONE!!!!! My goodness its been a month since we taught an actual lesson and we actually had someone who is an actual investigator my goodness :P. And the best part of it all is that he came to us rather than us finding him.

So, his name is Orlando and he is around the age of 45.  His mother was a Latter Day Saint and within the past year she passed and apparently he was investigating the church a year ago but found no interest in it at the time. But with the coming of Mothers Day he had a super strong feeling that he needed to turn his life around so He called up another ward. They refered him to us, and he is going to be solid! We meet with him again tomorrow night which is awesome.

Lets see what else happened cause that was definitely the highlight around here :D. So lets see we got some more potential coming up.

I gave a talk on the Word of Wisdom and I must say that I always get the feeling that I don't like my talks afterwords ya know? Just didn't go as planned, feel right, or I gave the wrong idea but I guess others like it.

And I don't know I just don't feel like I can relate to the word of wisdom as well ya know, never had a drug or alcohol problem. Anyways I just hope I can get that talk one of these times that I can relate to ya know?

So lets see I also went on exchanges with the Elders in Cambridge this week Elder Smith and Elder Riggby.

I also noticed something about myself this week. It's in the air and I know what it is but the temptation is going to have to wait :3. Been thinking about Dark Canyon and how I'm going to miss that this year my goodness lol. Gonna miss that and there is nowhere to hike here to even try to subsidize it. We literally are in the middle of nowhere :/.

I'll email ya more, just gotta think of some other things, not to much happened besides the things that I already told ya. A chihuahua came charging at us yippin' and a yappin' yesterday so I charged back. Pore thing, sounds like a stuck pig as I came at it and chased it :3.

Seaford

I might actually have an investigator that I could work with on Facebook :D. I joined an LDS discussion group like my Zone Leader recommended.

Most of the page is junk and people just ramble from topic to topic and some of the ordained woman are on there putting up the strangest stuff that I'm not to particularly fond of >.<. So before I fully quit the group I placed a post asking if anyone might want to learn about the church in a more one on one situation and I got a bite :D.

I'ma hopefully talk with them a little later tonight but I guess we will see and I will have to let you know :). Really hope we can find someone this week. Getting a bit tiring every week having to say why we don't have any gators :(. Just no one is ever home and the ones we do contact say they aren't interested... This area needs a good spiritual beating with a stick lol.

So this week there isn't much going on for us. Few dinner appointments and the chance that we might go to a Pentecostal service with Hunter. Elder Whitney isn't to fond of the idea and I myself am not sure what to think of it. I'm going to ask President his thoughts but from what I've heard is that Pentecostal's can get pretty crazy, but then again I haven't ever been to one of those meetings so it could be a really cool thing to learn about.

Anyway, today I really hope we can go see some of the museums  here in Seaford since we don't have much else to do around here till the end of the month. If we have the miles I'm going to ask Whitney what his thoughts are on going up to Lewis. Go see some things there and possibly the Atlantic ocean again since its pretty close to the coast.

Trip to Bethany Beach

Philadelphia Temple & other sites

Cracks with Gold

So this week has been a ton of clean up, and when I mean a ton of clean up I mean that we won't ever do it again since we won't have such a large pool of miles to draw from with our car lol. We litterally have the use of 150 miles a day at the moment since the previous missionaries weren't able to use it, which lead to us being able to go where ever we want with no conciquences, so we are going to be shocked a bit come Thursday when we actually have to plan out our miles in the car :P.

Also last week we had a ton of service which was great, since we wanted the change up of facebook and then spending the rest of the day trying to find people. From what I can tell at the moment, this area will give us a lot of service which, I love, since for one, everyone seems to be moving different places and doing spring cleaning as well.

One of our service projects was with a member who has a lung problem, and though she lives in a trailler her front and back yard were huge! We probably baged about fifteen bags of leaves and it would have been doubled had we bagged up the back yard rather than leaf blowing them into a ditch lol. Her street was a bit lop sided more than likely do to the weight of the leaves ya know?

We also moved a family out of Laurel, which is about ten minutes from Seaford into Seaford to a tiny little house. Don't know the story but he and his wife are going through a divorce so its pretty sad to see things like that happen. He has three adopted kids from what I can tell, dont know about the fourth but I always find it cool when I see other families with adopted kids and I'm like ME TOO :D.... scept they is siblings not my kids :P

So Kelly sorry but from what we kinda saw coming is that she is debating on whether or not she is actually interested in the church. As she told us she doesn't really have the drive to do much and from what we could tell really only met with us so that she had something to do, but I don't know maybe in our possible last visit with her this week things will change.

We did however pick up another new gator named Calvin who seems pretty sweet. We were looking for someone else when we came across him and the first thing he asked us when answering the door is what literature do you guys got cause I want it lol. So I gave him a Book of Mormon and while Elder Whitney went and got a pamphlet he and I talked about what a Mormon is. I explained that we believe that a prophet has been called today just like in old times with the old and new testament which he really liked the idea of. We will have our first official lesson with him tomorrow though so details are pending on this one.

We also have quiet a few more potentials turning into gators real soon here so this area isn't as dead as we thought, but rather it hasn't been weeded and pruned for some time and there are a few flowers within the weeds trying to grow :).

One thing that is weird though about this area is that no one ever seems to be home... Like ever. Trying to do clean up is hard when no one is around so we've been trying different places at different times to see when people are most likely home. So far six to seven thirty is the sweet spot for most places. Not home anytime before and if you go after eight at all people seem to get angry for whatever reason (shrug).

So that Philly Cruiser pick I sent ya, well we found out is part of a car group known as the Misfits car group here in Seaford which is pretty dang rediculous. Cars super low, strange paint jobs, the list goes on and on. And its not just this car group that is strange, but rather Delaware has some other really strange individual stuff that I would have expected to find in other places such as Philly but nope, out here in the middle of nowhere, I'll send pictures of it all when I get em lol.

We will get things back up and running, or rather God will, we are just here to help :3.

Well today we are going to the Atlantic Ocean for kicks today, we have the miles so why not ya know. From what I've been told is that its pretty dirty and not as pretty as the pacific but when we get there and take pics I'll let ya know. Also don't worry we are going to stay as far away from the water as possible lol. Funny thing, with all the things I miss doing swimming really isn't as big for me as other missionaries, guess it probly will just take till my year mark before I really start to feel like going for a swim and then I'll just end up having to wait lol.

Happy Birthday Emree!

Last P-day in Philly with Elder Whitaker & First find in Seaford

Long Green

So for those wondering about Dela...Where? Here is the first thing that is probably the most prominent thing about it... Its very green... As is Maryland as well. Long expanses of farmland and green terrain thats flatter than all get out, driving me nuts that nothing stands taller than three stories at the most lol.

But ya, grass out here is considered a weed pretty much. Dont have to water it, take care of it besides mowing it, it litterally just grows and it is everywhere around here. Anyone whos been out here their whole life and then decided to move out west would probably be in a culture shock if they saw a sprinkling system. Be like what is this Witch Craft?

So Seaford Delaware is about an hour and a half to two hours away from Philly and is very flat with a ton of farm land. The Northern tip of Delaware is about the same in population density but once you hit Dover Delaware things just become extremely spread out and looks nothing like the rest of the East Cost.

Below Dover there are LSD problems, or in our case Lower Slower Delaware problems :3. Which means everything is way more laid back and not much happens past the Dover city limits. I can litterally say that Ive probably only seen about fifteen people outside of there houses and seven of those not in there yard, everyone else is in a car going somewhere else lol.

So transfers happened on Tuesday and I am now with Elder Whitney. Do to my personal problems things started off slow but now we are doing pretty darn well together as a companionship. He's into Games and Cars and plans on being a Mechanic when he gets back from the mission this September. I tell ya I've only known three missionaries that wont be dead within the next eight to nine months and two for a year.

We are in a car area, which I must say at the moment, I've found not to be as exciting as some missionaries like to put out there about cars lol. I would much rather be out and about on the streets talking with people who are right off my front door step, but cant get your way everytime I guess ;). Cars create to much down time and thinking time.

We were both doubled into this area so that makes it my second time and also included in that is that this is my second time being doubled into whats know as a dying area. I didn't know this before transfers but Seaford has had a reputation of not much going on down here which we found out really quick when our area books updated the second day we were here.

The area book here has also been kept terribly for forever! They had people on the progressing list that hadn't been taught in a year and everything was just a mess. Elder Whitney and I have a lot of clean up work and we haven't even dented it. Whats even more annoying is the huge list of potentials that are given. Missionaries got despret or something down here cause this is my favorite discription thus far... "Big Black Guy."... Right?

Oh well, anyways not much in terms of work has happened in the past week. Just trying to get everything cleaned up and such. We did however finally come across an eternal last night who will be baptized, but its going to take about a year since thats when he will be married to his fiance. Been taught everything, at the least seven times and knows it all, we are here to just keep him going lol.