Wello, (went to type well hello and that’s what my fingers typed instead so that’s what you get)
Scripture of the week: Alma 26:35-37
I must admit.... we were talking with the Polls last night and I could not take the suspense anymore, so I made them look up the outcome of the state game for me. Kind of a bummer that they weren’t able to pull it off, but it sounds like it was really a hard fought battle.
It’s officially cold here in Vermont. We got our first snow that actually stuck and today its 16 degrees out. I’m working really hard at being positive about how I feel about cold weather, but you all know how much I just hate it, so it’s a battle trying to be positive about it.
Twas a fantastic week though. I had the privilege of being here in Essex on exchange with elder jessee, you met his parents at the wilkeys homecoming. It’s kind of interesting, he and I have never served close to each other and we weren’t even in the same district in the MTC but he is probably one of my best friends in the mission, we pretty much just had a party the whole time we were on exchange. While we were together we hit our 11 month mark so it just gave us even more of a reason the celebrate. It was really nice being on an exchange that I could just kind of relax. Most the time on exchanges I am spending the whole time correcting elders and doing training, so this was a really nice break.
Hmmm what else happened this week?.... well it is officially really really cold here in Vermont. It’s pretty bad, the whole mission has caught on to the elder zilles being stuck in Vermont jokes. Every time I call president or the assistants they have to make some crack about me being stuck here for life. I’ve decided I’m good with it though. I will for sure be here for my first year. Found out this week that I could totally apply for in state tuition and stuff for the state of Vermont cause I haven’t left the state in a year.
I spoke in sacrament yesterday. It was just me and the high councilor so I had to take half the time. It went really well though. My topic was "teaching the gospel" At first I thought I would totally just teach about missionary work, but as I was preparing my talk I got the feeling I needed to direct my talk to parenting. So I titled it "teaching the gospel, parenting and missionary work". I will send my notes to you and you can check them out. Sounds like nacho did a great job speaking as well. GO LOU! I based most of my talk off of the story of the stripling warriors!
So for thanksgiving we are eating with our bishop and his family. Up till late this week we didn’t have an appointment, cause most people are going out of town, so we had decided that we were just going to take ourselves to the Chinese buffet. But we lucked out and don’t have to do it. The ward is having a turkey bowl but unless something changes we won’t be playing in it cause president stoker doesn’t want anyone getting hurt, kind of a bummer but important to be obedient.
I hope dad’s surgery goes well this week. Always scary to know that kind of stuff is going on when I’m not around, but all will be well. I won’t have any time to hand written any letters today. We are going bowling with our district, and then we are going on a tour of the Ben and Jerries Ice cream factory, then I am going on exchange to Montpelier, so it’s a pretty crazy day and a start to a really wild crazy week. Gotta love it though.
Hopefully I covered everything, sure love you guys.
Love ya
Elder Zilles
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