October 22,2018

MON:
Last Pday was pretty fun, the whole district met up at some pickle ball courts and got to play that for a while. We also had some Spike ball going on too, so it was pretty fun. Then we went back to the church and played basketball and stuff for the rest of the day.

TUES:
Tuesday was a pretty fun day. It started with a good district meeting which I didn’t have to run or do really anything, so it was a nice breather haha.  When the district got the 3 other elders a couple weeks ago, one of them was the district leader where they came from, so he offered to take over for this meeting.  After the meeting we all went to grab lunch, then went back to the church for interviews with President Pickett, which are always good. I really enjoyed this one in particular because he gave me some very specific counsel not only for my mission but for the future with marriage and kids and that stuff, it was really cool.
After interviews we went on Exchanges with the Zone leaders.  I was able to go with Elder Urry and we get along very well. We were in the same district up in Kingsport as well.  Since we have a monster district, interviews took forever so we only had time to tract a trailer park in the rain for an hour then go to dinner.  Then we headed up to the ZLs apartment to stay the night there.
WED, THURS, FRI:
Tracting a bunch.
SAT:
Saturday we went on exchanges with the other Brainerd Elders. I took Elder Woll down to Ringgold for the day.  We had an unexpected day of service so it was fun.  We first went to give a lady a blessing. She was very nice but it was officially the nastiest house I’ve ever been in, haha. Woll is fresh out of the MTC and is from California and, needless to say, his eyes were widened, haha. Just a lot of clutter, roaches, termites, cats, cat pee, trash, and so on.  Then we went and did some yard work for a member, then another inactive member needed some furniture moved so we went ahead and did that as well.
SUN:
Nothing beats getting asked to give a 15 minute talk 5 minutes before church starts, haha.  So that was a fun way to start off the day, I think it went well.  Also I found out that while the 2nd counselor in the bishopric was serving as a Branch president in some small part of Alabama, my cousin Emma was serving a mission and served in the same branch.  He was pretty excited about it so it was cool!  Me and Jeppesen also got to sit in with a class during sharing time and that was super fun. I hadn’t been in primary since I left it when I was 12, so it was really fun.
Not much else going on other than the weather and season changing. It has been absolutely perfect weather here and it makes it so nice to be outside! It has been 50's and 60's with no wind or humidity all week. Hopefully that keeps up.
Have a good week!