Hello Fam,
Tell Rachael and the crew hello for me. I am sending this from Lenox, IA. Never heard of it? Neither had i. It's even smaller than Story City. It's in the very southwest corner of the mission. It's pretty close to the border of Missouri. We also cover two kind of bigger cities called Corning and Creston. My companion is Elder Huston. He is from Boise, ID. We have fun together. I can tell this is going to be a good transfer. We meet for church in a house. It was converted into a church building which is pretty cool. I've already met most of the branch members that come regularly. I feel like it's easier to get to know people when you are no longer a "greenie". They are all pretty Iowan. I've seen a lot of overalls and cowboy boots at church haha. The people that we are teaching are pretty close to baptism so i should be having some of those coming along pretty quick. Probably in this month even. Mostly older people. Yesterday, and every sunday, we go around with the ward mission leader and teach people. The members are really into missionary work here which is fantastic. One of the ward missionaries names is Clark and he just got back from his mission to Honduras in August so he comes with us to teach people on sundays, or sometimes his dad. We had dinner with Peggy and Amos Barnhouse yesterday. Amos is close to baptism... just has to kick smoking. We also ate with Murl Jackson and his wife. He is a character. I just thought the name represented the midwest really well. The apartment we live in is actually a small one floor house. It's smaller than my last apartment but we don't have to worry about neighbors getting mad at us for being too loud which is nice. We also still have a car and we have it full time now because we are pretty secluded from the rest of the missionaries in our district/zone.
That is good that Braden is doing well. Has he thought more about serving a mission? It's fantastic! I love my mission more and more every day. The drive from Iowa City (where transfer meetings was) to Lenox was over 4 hours. The Branch President drove us so i already know him pretty well and i was able to catch up on some z's. the extra hour of sleep was nice too. but now it's dark by 5:30! the sunsets are beautiful as usual. There isn't a whole lot you can do after dark if you don't have teaching appointment so we might have to get creative to keep oursevles busy. The weather has been great too! I wore a short sleeve shirt yesterday and it was just fine. today is also proving to be a good day weather wise. If only it could stay like this through winter too.
In 3rd Nephi 27 i believe it says that as Christ was lifted up on the cross by man so shall man be lifted up by the father to be judged according to Jesus Christ. I have thought about what it means to really be lifted up by the Father. In one sense it just means that every single person will be resurrected and judged. But it can also mean that as we are IN our sins we are lifted up out of our sins when we repent to be judged. We aren't going to be saved in our sins, but from them. In order to get out of our sins we have to be lifted up out of them and brought to a higher plane of spirituality. So in the end, just keep doing all of the primary answers. The basics are what we first must master. I love you all and hope you have a great week!
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