Hey Family,
Believe it or not, it’s difficult to shoot a basketball when you haven’t touched one in over a month. I think worse than going those first 11 months without touching the ball, playing every week for a month and then going a month without seeing a ball. Oh well. By the end of a little scrimmage we played with guys in our ward I was having a good time.
Life is going good, but a little cloud coverage would be nice. I got the package at district meeting last week. Thanks everyone. I’ve got most of the requests distributed. As good as it feels to be able to give people stuff; they keep annoying me to know how much the different things cost. Mom, how much did the Mr. Potato Head, RM DVD, and root beer and maple extracts cost? I might just have to start making up prices, and nobody likes that part. If you’re putting another package together peanut butter and random American candies would be greatly appreciated. Go ahead and be creative. Did you guys look for the flat postage rate boxes? You sent some flat rate envelopes to me (which I’m sure saved money) but so far I keep getting boxes from random potato products that cost more to than the various flat rate boxes of considerably larger size that other missionaries are receiving. Just a suggestion. I enjoy getting the potato boxes, but that’s no reason for you guys to pay more that you have to.
A high council member was wondering how much plain gold and silver rings cost back home. He is interested in buying a simple ring and engraving the CTR symbol in it to use as a wedding ring. He mentioned that to get a ring like that in the USA would be about half the price of doing it here. He hasn’t requested anything yet; he just wants to know the price so he can do some effective negotiating and price shopping.
Baldree got released: You’re kidding me. I was kind of hoping that we would still be the president when I got home so that I could go to his class ONCE. Who’s the new quorum president? What is Baldree doing with the young men?
The work is really coming along down here. We don’t anticipate any baptisms until the end of the month, but you never know. We are teaching an awesome couple that just needs to get married and they’re ready for the water. They’re not sure if they want to be baptized yet, which means we need to work a little more on their testimony of the Book of Mormon, but we setting the marriage/slash baptism party for August 29-30. If it doesn’t happen that weekend I’ll probably get transferred before it happens. By probably I mean that it’s around a 90% chance that I’ll be transferred September 3rd. Staying in an area 5 transfers is really rare down here. Then again, we’ve got a new president which means anything can start being normal.
It’s strange to think that football and school are starting up again. It doesn’t feel like it’s been a year since the last opening day reports. It feels like August was only 6 months ago, but it also seems like 2 years have passed since I was serving in Concordia. How is that possible? What is 2 years of summer doing to me? Next month I’ll be rooting for the Bills to beat the Colts. That would not have been possible back home in the snow.
The work continues, the world keeps spinning, and I’m fine so stop worrying about me.
Searching for shade,
Elder Haws(mo)
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