Hey family,
So this week instead of a scripture i decided i would have you all look up one of my new favorite hymns. We sang this in the choir yesterday and it is just a cool song, not a very popular one in the meetings but it teaches such simple true doctrines of the restored gospel Hymn 11! Speaking of singing in sacrament, on October 20 which is the last day of this transfer elder V and i along with two young men from the branch will be singing in sacrament, we are singing abide with me hymn 165 we are pretty excited.
Well sounds like all is going quite well on the home front. This was an interesting week, but things are good here too.
I recieved some pretty hard to swallow news this week. I got a text from the lydon elders that they had just been to see sister Cameron at the nursing home and she was not doing good at all. She had another stroke and was continuing to have mini ones on and off through the day. She requested that the elders tell me she wanted to see me very soon. (I hope you all remember who sister cameron is i used to talk about her all the time, one of my favorite people ever). Well i wasnt quite sure what to do about getting down to see her because i cant just drive to my old area when ever i want but i felt very strongly i needed to get to see her the next day. So i called lyndon and told them i would be moving our exchange to the next day (it was originally scheduled for this wednesday and thursday). So thursday afternoon i got to go down and tell my dear sister cameron good bye one last time. By the time i got there she could no longer talk, but she knew i was there. It was really hard to see her in that condition. She passed away friday at 1230 and is now in a better place, i will always remember her she was so amazing. I wish you guys could have met her i truly believe she was one of the reasons i was in lyndon so long and also one of the reasons i wasnt transfered too far away when i did get trasferred.
Hmmm what else happened this week... we helped a family build a shed so that was fun its always nice to get into work clothes and do real hard physical labor. Its really neat elder V and i finally feel like we have total complete trust of the members so they are starting to really get more involved in the work.
We start our 40 day fast tomorrow! We didnt get near as many people signed up yesterday as we had hoped for but i think more will fill in as the time goes on.
We picked up a new investigator yesterday, and she has learned in the past. I was thinking yesterday how no one can really understand missionary work in new england until they have experienced it for themselves. This place is just different than anything i ever imagined before i was out here. We have to work so hard to get a new investigator. I have said before that we have as much joy over someone new to teach as most missionaries have over a baptism. But dont get me wrong i love my new england and now that i am here i wouldnt want to do missionary work anywhere else in the world.
Baby Ashton is the cutest baby in the whole world she is so happy in all of her pictures. Everytime i see a picture of her i just fall more and more in love with her. Im so happy mom and lou got to spend some time with them this weekend. Moscow is an interesting place for sure i am glad sis is starting to adjust to life there as a vandal. So cool she got a job and her calling is awesome as well i wish her and landon were ward missionaries for me.
That is so cool we got another heifer calf. Congrats nacho. We are really being blessed as far as the cows go this year it makes me so happy. Zadee has turned into quite the nurse cos what a good old girl. Dad thank you for the pictures of the cows and stuff. Auds looks like she is coming along ok. Mom thanks for the other pictures this week. I have always known that i would have to beat the boys away from lou when i get home, but it wasnt till i saw those pictures that i realized how tough of a task it was going to be. When did she grow up so much and get so beautiful??
Well i cant think of anything else to tell ya so i guess i will wrap it up for this week!
Sure do love you guys and thanks so much for all of your support and love!
Hold to the rod
Elder Zilles
PS we are finally getting the door on our car fixed yay we wont look like fools anymore it only took them two transfers goodness
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