Whats happening?!?! So dad i guess after all these years planned surgery just gets boring? so you have decided to spice things up and just go in for unexpected surgery every now and then? geez. You gotta take it easy on yourself! But i am glad to hear that you are ok though. I will be praying for ya! So i am way excited for this area! We actually live in Deer Park but we just cover the Clayton ward. Clayton is a town just north of Deer Park. We also go up to like Loon lake and Deer Lake if you want to look it up on a map or something. Its pretty dang cool though to be out in the sticks! I would say there are more dirt roads than asphalt in our area and for sure in the neighboring Deer park area.. Its way fun. There isn't even a stop light in Deer Park. I guess they tried to put one in a few years back but everyone just kept running it so they took it out and put stop signs back in :D People are way cool up here though. Everyone loves to hunt and they are just some down to earth red necks.. I love it! So the craziest thing yesterday. Church was cancelled due to no power at the building.. I guess its something underground and they are going to have to tear up some of the parking lot to fix it.. and we were supposed to have Zone Conference there on Wednesday but i guess not... But since church was cancelled we went to the baptist church that is across the street from our house :D By the way we have a very sweet apartment! We dont live with members.. Members own our apartment and its underneath their house but its a separate apartment still.. But its nice to have our own washer and dryer and dishwasher.. Ya we are spoiled! woot! and a car! full time! lol! what a great place to die! oh but ya the baptist church was pretty dang funny! Somehow his sermon took a turn and out of no where some of the things were directed at us... lol! like for instance right before they did the sacrament He prefaced it with "If you are here and you believe the way that we do in the fact that we believe that Jesus is God and part of the Tri-une God and that His word is the bible which is the ONLY word of God and so on and so forth for like 10 minutes and then he said if you believe this then we invite you to partake of this bread and wine with us.. LOL! tell me what pastor would begin the sacrament on a regular basis like that? NOPE! it was just funny.. but we just smiled and didn't take the sacrament... oh and right before he said we do invite all to stay but if any would like to leave they may.. LOL! his sermon was on the requirements of a deacon because they were going to appoint some deacons or something but somehow took a twist to the requirements of an Elder.. and he even said we have 4 elders here from another church and in fact today we are going to take about the requirements of an Elder.. which was pointless because they don't even have elders in their church.... lol.. so it was just funny the way he directed some things towards us... but we enjoyed it.. The people were really nice and old.. there were 4 kids there.. the rest were old.. and some guy came up to us and said are you guys looking for a church body or are you just visiting? I wanted to tell him you know we were just visiting but today has helped me realize that my year and a half ministry for the LDS church has been bogus and i want to be a pastor for your church! lol.. maybe its just me but i think i could make a really good baptist preacher! like southern baptist preacher! AMEN! lol! but no it was pretty good. We are teaching a family of 4 named the Basset family. and they are awesome! We are looking forward to working with them. We have a bunch of people we are working with but i haven't had a chance to meet them all yet. My comps name is Elder Tueller. He is pretty dang cool! He is 21 like me. he has only been out a few months.. this is his 3rd transfer. But his trainer was a lazy piece of crap and yet he never slept in or anything.. even though his trainer was a horrible example he hung in there and tried to do his best.. But he told me when i got here that he wanted to learn how to plan and be effective because his TRAINER never taught him! How lame is that.. that pisses me off! as a trainer myself i think it is lame that other trainers don't try to give these missionaries the best start that they can.. but what do ya do.. But elder tueller is from San Diego Cali! but don't worry he isn't a liberal. he broke his neck in a mountain biking accident a while ago and he is lucky to be in the position he is in right now.. but he cant ride a bike anymore so we drive everywhere or walk! ITS SWEET! its the way to go I'm telling ya! :D but i am very impressed with how good of a missionary he is with the trainer that he had.. Well i love you guys! Thanks for everything that you do! Thanks for your prayers! take care of yourself!
Elder Penman
Oh and a shout out to Bro. & Sis. Erickson if they are blogging me! keep it pimpin in post falls! :D
