It's cold in Tennessee!

Mon: Today we did another zone Pday. So we headed up to Maryville and Maryville took us up to Farragut.  We had breakfast with about 20 other missionaries in the zone leaders’ apartment, so that was cool. Then we went to the Stake center and played basketball and volleyball and guitar.  I really like the zone P days because there's a few other guys that are pretty good at the guitar so we like to play with each other. So it was a solid day. We were in charge of bringing eggs to the breakfast, so I bought the bulk pack with 60 in there so we could take the rest home. But I forgot them so that kinda blew.

Not sure...

Tue: Today was so cold. It got down to 5 degrees at like noon and plus the humidity was super bad. But the work presses on. We were able to set up a few appointments with potential investigators so that was a success.

Wed: Wednesday was district meeting then we did exchanges with Maryville again. This time I was with Elder Heninger, my good buddy from the MTC, working Maryville, while our comps went up to Sevierville. It was so awesome. We got to work together all day then we ordered a pizza and hung out together the rest of the night. We are really good buddies so it was nice to go and work with him.

Elders Heninger and Roden on P day

Thu/Fri: The cold weather continues. Tracting is not super fun in the cold humidity, but it needs to be done. That's what we did mostly for these couple days, that and we were visiting members about the ward mission plan and helping them out with missionary work in their homes.

Sat: Today started out weird. We had done our daily planning and stuff after our morning routine, and were about to leave, when I just felt like we shouldn't leave, like the place we were going wasn't right. So we re-planned, and the same thing happened. This happened 3-4 times. We must have been daily planning for almost 2 hours, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to leave the apartment. Then we got a call from a ward member, a single woman that raises her daughter and her two grandsons whose mom lost custody of them. Turns out she had been in and out of the hospital with an injured back, and her daughter was very sick and they needed help. They were supposed to go pick up a big dresser to put in their trailer but couldn't, as well as their pipes had frozen so they had no water. So we loaded up all the jugs and bottles we could with water, went and helped get the dresser, and dropped it all off at their humble home. Then we gave the mom and daughter blessings as well. The spirit knows far better than we do what needs to be done!

Sun: Pretty normal Sunday. Had a good fast and testimony meeting then contacted some less actives.

Another week down. Everything is going really good down here. Cold, but good. We have started to get more investigators, which is great, and also more referrals, which is greater! Being able to teach and talk with people is so great because that's one of the things I feel I am fairly strong at doing, so things are going very well. We are also going to get our bikes down here so we can start having some biking days, which I'm excited for, just maybe when it warms up a little bit.