99 bottles of ROOTBEER on the wall
Wow, we are down to double digits now with the days Mike has left. So we'll be counting them down anxiously.
In the mean time, here is some outtakes from his letter this week:
Its been a good week out here. We spent the fist half of the week in Hendersonville, NC on an exchange with the Zone Leaders of the Asheville Zone, Elder Newton and Elder Gandy. Then did their Zone Conference on Wednesday. Drove home wednesday evening and taught a sweet lesson to one of our investigators in a members home. Thursday morning we had to unload the trailer full of the Hendersonville Elders apartment furnishings (they just moved into a members home) into the mission storage shed, then had to get ready for our exchange with the Zone Leaders in Hickory. We then drove up to Hickory, NC and began our Exchange with the ZL's up there, Elder Hyde and Elder Casselman. We did their Zone Conference on Friday, worked with them that night, studied with them saturday morning and then left and came back here to Charlotte. We then had a slew of things to get done, from recoding Confirmations in the Computer, to creating an even newer program to record the missions key indicators. Then today, we are here before church to get this program done before we take the stats from the ZL's tomorrow morning. We may start working on Transfers again tomorrow, but mainly i think we're going to just work on the new program and tailoring it to meet President Hobbs' needs. So, its been a fun week. I love weeks like this, the only bad thing is that we've hardly been able to work in our own area the past couple weeks with all the traveling and the exchanges and Zone Conferences and Emergency Transfers.
I made big old boo boo up in Asheville. Hahaha, we have the big old mission van and a trailer for all the stuff we have to do, and we took it all up to Hendersonville to pick up all the ZL's furniture. That all went good, but when we hitched up Wednesday morning to go to Zone Conference apparently i forgot to put the lock back in the hitch, and i set it on the bumper of the van, well the keys to the trailer and the mission storage sheds and a whole bunch of other things were still in the lock. When we took off it must have fallen off the bumper. When we got out of Zone Conference we went to get something out of the trailer and couldn't find the keys... I then came to a remembrance of the morning hitching and knew what happened... We thought it would be alright and went back to look for the lock and keys, but could not find them. We were under pressure for time as well since we had to back back in Charlotte, 130 miles away in time for an appointment. At first i knew we had spare keys back here at the office and thought it would be ok and we could just get copies, but then i remembered that we just barely got a new shed and both keys to that were on the key chain i lost. The other shed is totally full and we couldn't unload in that, and we had to have it all done by Thursday when we left to go to Hickory. So then i thought i was going to have to pay a locksmith 150 bucks to come and monkey the lock, so i was pretty bummed out. The bad thing was, it all would have been ok if i would have just put the second key to the lock in the office. I had even had several Promptings over the last couple weeks to do that, but because of what i thought were time restraints, i didn't. Thursday morning the Lord was too kind to me, the maintenance man at the storage place ground off the lock for 15 buck and the place gave me a new lock for free and then i just had to pay for a new hitch lock and copies of all the keys... So all in all, it cost me about $30. Much cheaper than a locksmith. So i am a blessed little guy. so anyway, thats my adventure story of the week. It all worked out, and we got to our appointment and had an amazing lesson and the trailer was unloaded in time and we got to go on the exchange.
In the mean time, here is some outtakes from his letter this week:
Its been a good week out here. We spent the fist half of the week in Hendersonville, NC on an exchange with the Zone Leaders of the Asheville Zone, Elder Newton and Elder Gandy. Then did their Zone Conference on Wednesday. Drove home wednesday evening and taught a sweet lesson to one of our investigators in a members home. Thursday morning we had to unload the trailer full of the Hendersonville Elders apartment furnishings (they just moved into a members home) into the mission storage shed, then had to get ready for our exchange with the Zone Leaders in Hickory. We then drove up to Hickory, NC and began our Exchange with the ZL's up there, Elder Hyde and Elder Casselman. We did their Zone Conference on Friday, worked with them that night, studied with them saturday morning and then left and came back here to Charlotte. We then had a slew of things to get done, from recoding Confirmations in the Computer, to creating an even newer program to record the missions key indicators. Then today, we are here before church to get this program done before we take the stats from the ZL's tomorrow morning. We may start working on Transfers again tomorrow, but mainly i think we're going to just work on the new program and tailoring it to meet President Hobbs' needs. So, its been a fun week. I love weeks like this, the only bad thing is that we've hardly been able to work in our own area the past couple weeks with all the traveling and the exchanges and Zone Conferences and Emergency Transfers.
I made big old boo boo up in Asheville. Hahaha, we have the big old mission van and a trailer for all the stuff we have to do, and we took it all up to Hendersonville to pick up all the ZL's furniture. That all went good, but when we hitched up Wednesday morning to go to Zone Conference apparently i forgot to put the lock back in the hitch, and i set it on the bumper of the van, well the keys to the trailer and the mission storage sheds and a whole bunch of other things were still in the lock. When we took off it must have fallen off the bumper. When we got out of Zone Conference we went to get something out of the trailer and couldn't find the keys... I then came to a remembrance of the morning hitching and knew what happened... We thought it would be alright and went back to look for the lock and keys, but could not find them. We were under pressure for time as well since we had to back back in Charlotte, 130 miles away in time for an appointment. At first i knew we had spare keys back here at the office and thought it would be ok and we could just get copies, but then i remembered that we just barely got a new shed and both keys to that were on the key chain i lost. The other shed is totally full and we couldn't unload in that, and we had to have it all done by Thursday when we left to go to Hickory. So then i thought i was going to have to pay a locksmith 150 bucks to come and monkey the lock, so i was pretty bummed out. The bad thing was, it all would have been ok if i would have just put the second key to the lock in the office. I had even had several Promptings over the last couple weeks to do that, but because of what i thought were time restraints, i didn't. Thursday morning the Lord was too kind to me, the maintenance man at the storage place ground off the lock for 15 buck and the place gave me a new lock for free and then i just had to pay for a new hitch lock and copies of all the keys... So all in all, it cost me about $30. Much cheaper than a locksmith. So i am a blessed little guy. so anyway, thats my adventure story of the week. It all worked out, and we got to our appointment and had an amazing lesson and the trailer was unloaded in time and we got to go on the exchange.
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