Chapter 12 - Its Tough

Hey Everybody!

This week has been hard!! its not all sunshine and warm breezes. Its only sunny with cold breezes out here and no snow haha (at least early in the week!)

Monday (1/7). I got to see some huge tractors!!!! Like 2.5-3 million worth in tractors!!! They are huge out here. I'm like 6'1" and I walked under one of the tractors!! 

 

We've been blessed with good weather and we went golfing in the cow pasture in front of our house it was so much fun!! 

Tuesday (1/8) So I ripped off a panel under our car, so we had to go into a body shop and get it looked at. Thankfully its all okay, and everything will be good.  One of the guys we had set for baptism decided that this isn't for him and dropped us, so that was really sad.

Wednesday (1/9). We had district council and exchanges today, plus we had interviews with President Ence in the morning. Then, as usual, went to Taco Bell.

Thursday (1/10) So, when you do exchanges, you either have elders sleep over or you sleep over at their place. We had our zone leader and his companion stay at our house. They found a spot in our house to sleep, and we did service, which was fun. Then we had to change and go to an early late dinner (everyone out here calls lunch dinner and dinner supper and lunch sometimes lunch) so we went over to a members house. MY DREAM PROPERTY!! it was on a pond with like 50 acres of land with some barns and a huge deck and the house was just amazing. They also had an observatory and it was soooo cool!

Friday (1/11) Our other person we had set on date for baptism dropped us as well!!! What the heck man!.  It started to snow later that night like 4 inches. The Bishop come to put one of his tractors away, and as he was leaving we threw snowballs at his car, and he and his daughter came out, and we had a huge snowball fight. It was so much fun!! 

Saturday (1/12) So we woke up to about 5 inches of snow and we knew we couldn't get out of our driveway, so we stayed in. We grabbed a bin went outside and 5 hours later we had a huge igloo!!  It was so much work!!

 

 We couldn't make it to the adult session of stake conference which was lame, but oh well. Later that night, we slept in the igloo and it was so cold!! At about 1:40am I was like, its too chilly and uncomfortable, lets go inside, so we did. 

Sunday (1/13) We got out to Stake Conference with Bishop's family and then got to have lunch with Elder and Sister Thomas and about 6 other elders.  After that, we did some studies and had supper at the Bishop's house and then studied the new Church Come Follow Me program with them. 

I love all you guys! Being out here is great! I hope everyone at home is doing great!!

Love,

Elder Roylance

Chapter 11 - Obedience

Hi All,

 

This week the blessings have been here! My companion and I have been striving to be exactly obedient for our New Years resolution. So from that, we have seen the blessings come this week! We've had a few lessons and set 2 people on date to be baptized!! We have 4 people coming to church next week! But its Stake Conference... what!?!?!?! how could we forget?? So , now we have to go back to everyone and tell them about Stake Conference or church the week after!! 

Monday (12/31). I got a hair trimming set for Christmas and so i had to try and cut my own hair! Its a little short, but not too bad. I think it looks pretty good!

 

Tuesday (1/1). i got a little sick from something i had eaten the night before and threw up, felt fine after so went out and did work. It was like 10 degrees out, the whole day so cold!

Wednesday(1/2). We had district council today and as usual we went to tacooo...nope, Fazoli's this time.  Its this Italian fast food place and it was sooo good! We got unlimited bread sticks. 8 elders and we just pounded them!

Thursday (1/3) We did our usual service at the Storehouse and I finally got a shirt and a sweater haha.  

I made a tie... out of jeans!! I'll wear it when i give my homecoming talk. it has a pocket on the back and I keep pictures of Jesus in it! 

Friday(1/4). We planned all day! But i checked off something from my bucket list!! whoot whoot!! I went to an old time sit down Pizza Hut! and had pizza, wings and root beer!

Saturday(1/5). We set a lady named Erin for baptism today!! I think the hardest part was talking to her about her other baptisms. She was baptized as a baby, but didn't feel like it was her choice, so she got baptized as an adult. Now we just told her she had to be baptized again, and her other ones didn't count! It was so hard to tell her that her previous baptisms didn't have the proper authority, but this one would.

Sunday(1/6) NEW TOY!!!!!! just kidding NEW CHURCH schedule!!! With the new church format, it was different and I'm glad my companion understood where to go, because i didn't. Then we studied and went to go visit some less active members, then we had dinner with a family. After that is was late, and we where just so tired that we went to bed at 9:45!

Sorry its a little shorter, but that is most of what happened in the week i hope you guys like it hahaha

Love ya all.

Elder Roylance

Chapter 10 - New Year's Eve

Hey!

This week has been crazy, slow and fun! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Monday(Christmas Eve): We always clean the house on preparation days, so it was lookin good!!! We went around giving cookies that we made to families in our ward. We went caroling with Bishop's family, parents and in-laws and that was super fun! Then, we had dinner at their house and had some French dip sandwiches which where so good! The Bishop's family got us pj's that where super comfy, we played a balloon game where we keep it in the air and I fell over into the Christmas tree trying to save a balloon.

Tuesday: Merry Christmas!!! We opened some presents then went over to Bishop's house and had breakfast and opened presents with them. Then we got to video chat with our families, and it was so much fun! I'm so glad that i got to talk with them. It was so nice!!

Wednesday: We went to District Council and as usual, went to Taco Bell. We stayed like 45 min because we bet an elder he couldn't eat 12 tacos!
Thursday: Elder Casteel wasn't feeling good, but we had service to go do, so we went and did that.  After that, Elder Casteel needed to rest, so I spent time talking with Bishop Hansen.
Friday: We went around knocking
Saturday:  We teamed up with a member in our ward, but the people we went to visit all bailed on us which, was was a bummer, but brother Davis bought us hot chocolate, so that was good.

Sunday: Last 3 hour block!  I think the new church length will be super cool I wanna know how you all feel about it!

Have a great week, and Happy New Year!

Elder Roylance