Week update.
This has
been my first week in New Paltz, it's been great and I love it. It is
definitely the backwater part of the state of New York. It's pretty fun though!
Everything is super green and there is a state park in the area which is pretty
neat! Everything is super spread out though and that is the only weird part.
There will just been corn fields or forest for a couple of miles and then all
of a sudden there will just be three random houses and then back to corn fields
I’m having a great time though! There are deer that live in our back yard but
anyways I will get to the week
Week Highlight #1
There is
a Cracker Barrel in the zone we hit it on the way back from a meeting on
Thursday and it was a treat! A ton of food for a small price and its way good.
A chicken fried steak is always a treat.
Week Highlight #2
I met
pretty much all of the investigators this week and they all seem to be classic
car enthusiasts which Is rad! Kenny our investigator is a retired tennis big
shot and used to have a ton of nice cars back in the day, He had a baptismal
date for a couple of weeks ago but he lost a ton of money in a sketchy bet and
he told us he almost got his legs broken! I didn't know the mafia was in the
boonies. So he didn't get baptized that day so we are thinking now about a date
in early August. I met another one of
our investigators named Jack Klix, He is a old Volvo gear head. And has a ton
of old Volvos. But we were chatting with him. He's a very no nonsense guy He
told me he doesn't believe in the word of wisdom or the law of tithing. So we
will have fun with that. All in all he is a great guy though!
Week Highlight #3
The
Branch is definitely a branch. I met with the branch mission leader on Friday
and he was telling us to focus mostly on less active work, so I figured ok, we
will have a list of 30 people and most of them will have probably moved. Fast
Forward to Sunday and we cruise into church and there is like 30 people and the
records have like 150 so we have some work to do. There is a lot of recently
less active and part family less actives as well so it will be fun!
Week Highlight #4
One of
the less actives lives in a Rest Home so we were able to go visit him and he
was telling us a ton of stories about when he was a US Marshal and it was
pretty neat. There are a lot of really cool people that are out in the sticks
here who have cool stories and are now just hanging low. But anyways he was
telling us about when he was in Vietnam and about his trip to Gettysburg, then
about some of the people he arrested when he was working for the government.
Week Highlight #5
This
area is one where the elders give a lot of service which is pretty fun. We chop
a lot of wood and move a lot of stuff for people.
In the upcoming week we are digging up a stream bed. It's
fun though to be able to do some physical service.
Week Highlight #6
I found
out that it's not safe to drink the water here! So I've been drinking bottled
water! I feel like I'm in Alaska! I want to take some samples and send them
home to see if the rumors are fact or fiction!
That is pretty much all the highlights of the week I can
think of right now! It's been great! Have a great week everybody.
Elder Richards
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