Week 29: .....humidity....

Hello my family,

"I may complain about the humidity, but it is sure beautiful here"

I was really quite anxious to get on email today to see if there was any new news about my niece, but it looks like I will still have to wait a bit to know when she is born, maybe next week??

 

Well it sounds like the Oregon trip was wicked awesome. It sounds so beautiful, and I can’t wait to visit there someday, I’m pretty sure I’ll probably live there. Not too hot and not too cold. It’s funny cause the temp would be perfect here if it wasn’t humid. The temp itself has been a high of 82 this past week, but the humidity makes it seem like its 120 degrees, the shirt and tie don’t really help either. But oh well nothing I can do about it. I have decided the lord sent me here so I will learn to appreciate the winter. It rained everyday this week. The good thing about when it rains is then it’s not humid, but soon as it stops raining its wicked humid.

It sounds like it’s been wicked hot in Weston. The lawn and garden sure look good in the pictures of the calves. All the calves look good too. Zee looks like she will be a great calf, as does Vesta, I take it Zadee is still making plenty of milk to keep her going? Action Holly looks great. I am excited to see what she develops into as she matures. What age is she again? She looks like Lou could have a good time with her in the show ring. Any updates on my Audra girl?

I got 3 post cards in the mail today, that was really fun. Elder Vanderholm and I like the one with the cows the best, but then I being who I am made the comment that the jersey doesn’t have a very good udder at all. So yup I’m still always judging cows, I’m continually looking at cows as we drive around here.

So this week I found out why it was I brought Thor home right before leaving on a mission.... So we were out contacting some people and we started talking to some people sitting at a picnic table, I don’t remember how we got on the subject, but somehow I found out he had an aussie and we talked about our aussies for 15 minutes, he couldn’t believe how much Thor man weighs.

 

Well meeting President and Sister Stoker was great. They are definitely not the Wilkeys, but they are very great people. We only got to spend two hours with them, it was just a short meet and greet with just our zone. We each got the opportunity to share our testimony with them so that was neat. The next time we see them will be July 18 for interviews, so then I will be able to get a better feel for him and what he is really like. Saturday night I felt very prompted to send my district a voicemail about the fact that the Stokers are not the Wilkeys and they never will be. So I asked the district to please take time in their personal and companionship prayers to ask Heavenly Father to help them love the stokers for who they are.

 

President Stoker is making some great changes in the mission. He is anti tracting! Which is totally fine with me I hate knocking on doors. He has asked that we use tracting as the very last resort. It’s been great elder Vanderholm and I went from tracting close to 3 hours a day to not at all.

 

This week our branch president announced that he took a job in New Mexico, so now after a month of being branch president he will be moving. So changes just never cease in my life. The branch members yesterday were giving me a hard time, they said I was going to be branch president, I assured them that would not be happening, they returned with the comment of "missionaries have been branch presidents here before".

 

Still working to get to know the area, but we are getting there. Elder Vanderholm and I are getting along great. This Wednesday I will be conducting two baptismal interviews in the Lyndon ward. One for rob, the Littleton sisters are teaching him, and the other for Tina. They are both getting baptized Saturday the 13. Brother Jablonski is baptizing rob, so that will be so cool. We are going to try to get one of our investigators to go to it with us, then we would be able to go to the double Lyndon ward baptism. I really am so glad that I still get to be a part of it, it’s so neat.

We got this pic from Sister Gregory last night on FB, This was during interviews. Quinton and his old comp. Elder Guinn:)

Whelp I do believe that is all. Hope everything this week goes well, high adventure, and dairy jeopardy. .

 

Sure love ya

Elder Toner

The Dixon Family-a Neat family visiting from Utah that have gotten to know the Elders!