Monday, December 12, 2011

It's hard to do things. We're burning up our miles fast and our referrals are never home but we just had a baptism, that's good. That's practically it for our week, unless I'll remember something later.

We're going to plan on burning up more miles to go up to Conyers. Kind of a zone p-day, they want to do this big tie trade-off/basketball, but I'm probably just going to get back on the computers. I wrote about Zed's brother in a letter.

No snow yet. We haven't had any snow flurry’s or ice storms yet either, I'm just guessing that it's because we're south of Atlanta and it's warmer here then it was when I was in Alpharetta.

At least there's no humidity. The humidity is what makes the winters here hurt. You can layer all you want but it'll bite right through.

There's a member, I think in the Spanish branch even though he doesn't speak Spanish but his wife is Spanish, he's diabetic so is his parents and he just gave me two bottles of Novolog.  They use the pump and they were kind of chastising me about not using it...but they weren't all that serious.

I forgot to mention that we had dinner with them.  They wanted to feed all the missionaries in the Jonesboro and Flint River ward and they want to do it again, I think this week.

All on the same night? Or just through the week?

All on the same night. There's actually eight:  three of us, two English in Jonesboro, three Spanish in Jonesboro.

Sounds like you have a big feast then?!

We did, she made Tortes, it's a sandwich that's pretty good.  It doesn't help though when you've eaten a lot that day to begin with, ha ha. 

What do you do for lunch today since you're going out of town?

We're going to go to Zaxby's with the Jonesboro elders on our way to Conyers

Zaxby’s must be a southern thing. I'll have to google it and check it out. It must be good if you all want to go there.

Yeah it was pretty good.  I had like two or three of them, it was way too much.

Zaxby's is a southern thing, I like Chick-fil-A better though.  Everyone in the district is a Zaxby's person.

I just read a little about it.  So each restaurant has a theme. What did you eat that you had two or three of?

I had two or three Tortes.  At Zaxby's I got a kickin' chicken sandwich.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Do you know about what time you’ll be calling on Christmas Day yet?

I guess it'd be after 4 my time.

So Wednesday is transfers.  What have you heard?  Is your three-some changing?

We're going back to two.  It's just going to be Elder Rima and me.  Our next zone conference is in February.

We haven't been able to do much.  We're trying to save miles.  We have a baptismal commitment on Jan 7, but I don't think it's going to happen.

It should be nice, everyone is just having Sacrament meeting.  What time do you have Sacrament?  I forgot, are you covering just one ward, or do you have more?

We have Sacrament at 10:50.  We only cover one ward.

Are you going to someone's house right after Sacrament?

Yeah, we're going to a family’s house at 2:30 and then we have dinner at 6.

I'm calling around 4 my time.  A couple of us are probably heading to the mall right now.  I think we're coming back.

-Elder Garcia

Emails Dec. 5th

Monday, December 5, 2011

Yep, Johnny got his call Friday.
He's going to........Argentina Buenos Aires West!
(Tyler's cousin)

Why does Johnny have to ruin the traditions of our family? Why can't he have an English speaking mission like the rest of us? Hahaha, it's cool, I'm excited for him, but not really, I hoped he'd come to Georgia, but it's still cool.

How was your week?

I was just comparing temperatures and you are still the warmest in the 50's.

Daniel is almost up there, and we're freezing in UT!
I'm glad we didn't find a place in Centerville after all. They had winds last
Thursday up to 102 mph. A lot of trees, fences and you name it was blown
down or blown away. They were without power over 72 hours.
The big pine tree in Kaleen's back yard that was near their neighbor’s house
fell. Thank goodness it didn't fall on either house. Farmington had winds
almost as bad as Centerville. They cancelled church today (Sunday) so
everyone could prepare for the big winds they are supposed to get Sunday
night and Monday.

It's been in the 60's a lot, too. It's taking a little longer to get cooler here but I'm not complaining the weather is so nice, I'm still in short sleeves.

Wow, did everybody stock up on milk and eggs?

If he [Daniel] calls [around] 6 or 7 your time then I definitely couldn't call. We're going over to the member’s home at 2:30, I don't know when we'll eat. I'll say 7 or 8 my time for now, I'll get back to you later on that.

The week was pretty good. The Christmas Devotional was pretty cool, especially the video they showed during President Eyring's talk. We also went to Zed's [a resent convert of Tyler’s] and we taught his brother and sister-in-law. Zed wanted specifically me to teach his brother and he thought it would be cool if I baptized him as well. They're an awesome family. It was a bittersweet moment when I saw Gabriel (the baby) and how much he's grown when I last saw him. Everything just seems so different. Super nice house, the two kids gotten bigger. Same family though, they haven't changed. That was pretty much the highlight of my day.

We had a baptismal interview with one of our investigators with one of the Mission Presidents Counselors. He got here when I was in the middle of writing back. He told us he just got called to be a Mission President! He's going to serve a Spanish Mission so the first thing that came to my mind was Argentina? But he doesn't know yet.

-Elder Garcia