Whats happenin?!?!?! So highland got stomped eh? that's no good. Oh well there is always next year... At least you made it to the playoffs.. So dad what is the deal with your eye? this is absolutely crazy! Let me know how it goes! You will definitely be in my prayers and thoughts! Which eye even is it? hopefully its not your shooting eye... cause we are going killing, not hunting, killing when i get home :D It just pure torture to serve in an area where everyone goes hunting and has a love for hunting and yet i cant go.. lol. but its ok. there will be plenty of elk slaughtering for me to do when i get home! Well we had an awesome week this week. I went on an exchange to Mead. And i was with Elder Johnson and his comp came up here to be with Elder Tueller for the day.. I go on about 1 exchange a week usually. But anyways i was on exchanges and a year ago when i was in River Ridge the Mead elders were in our district and so i had gone on exchanges there plenty of times before. Well we went and talked to this native American lady named penny and turns out i had taught her a year ago when i was a greenie. And here we are teaching her again and so she shows us a picture of her husbands side of the family (her husband is white) and there is a family that is in my ward right now here in Clayton.. so i was like oh hey i know them! and anyways it was pretty fun cause we taught her about how the BoM is her history and i committed her to find out where she came from.. like where Indians came from.. and so we will see what happens.. but she was telling us how her tribe doesn't have like written records of anything.. all their history gets passed down from their elders. and i was like well your history is written down right here.. and held up the BoM. lol... so i was just trying to get her out of the grove from learning about religion and about what other people believe to actually taking a personal liking to the BoM. but its just interesting how the Lord works ya know? Everything definitely happens for a reason. Elder Johnson's companion Elder Stewart is seriously just like Hammy the Squirrel off of the movie Over the Hedge.. seriously its like he is on speed all the time! he definitely wants to work hard and that's a good thing.. he is just a super spaz. Like Elder Tueller told me that they were tracting and Elder Stewart walked up to this lady and said hey how are ya? and the lady said good and he said have to ever heard of the golden plates? and she goes ya i have... does the church still have those? and he said Nope we don't know what happened to them! LOL! so he just gets so excited that he says really stupid things.. but oh well. He has only been out 2 months.. what do ya expect. At least he is talking to people.. So we had a really good turnout at church this week. A family of 4 came! Bruce and Laura and her kids Nick and Elizabeth and they are 12 and 10 years old. And the kids had friends at church that they didn't know went there and this is the parents second week in a row coming to church! I think that they are really liking it! I am hoping so anyways! But its funny cause their first to looks at the Mormon church are testimony meeting and then this week they had the primary program! so i was like hrrrrrp! I told them 3rd time would be a charm for them.. lol! But i got to teach the gospel principles class this week and it was on the Atonement! man i love teaching that class! I hope that's the calling they give me when i come home! Its a fun one to teach! Plus i wouldn't go crazy and teach a bunch of deep doctrine to peoples investigators.. anyways.. It was just fun. So i bought me another 4GB SD card for my camera this morning and so i will probably send my other one home soon.. Which will be cool cause there are a lot of videos on there that you could see. :D especially of my throwing down! woot! dunks like mad! :D Well i hope everything goes well with you guys! Take care of yourselves! I love you guys so much! Its almost thanksgiving can you believe it?!?! crazy! time is flying! but i love ya and i look forward to hearing back from ya! take care!
Elder Penman
