Wed. July 17,
2013
Hello there,
So I want to start off with saying
that I am sorry for not sending out a message last week. There is a funny
story behind that too. So we were told by our Mission President to start
emailing in the family history centers during P'day. He told us to do this so
that we could be next to our companions and protect them while they are online.
So we got the keys so that we could go do it and everything was going good
until we locked the keys inside the church right before we started emailing.
We were unable to get back into the church until after P'day ended at 6:00.
To make up for my lack of an email
last week, I will be talking this week about stuff from both weeks. To
start off with I want to talk about my companion a little more. So I
haven't talked much about him yet so far because I was worried that he was just
going to be transferred because of my recent record of keeping companions no longer
than a transfer. So his name for a quick recap is Elder G.... Elder G... is super funny and I say this
mostly because he is a huge nerd. I don't feel bad saying this though
because he is very proud of his nerdiness and it has come in handy on a couple
of occasions. An example of this was this week when we went with a member
to help an older woman "fix" her computer. I say
"fix" because the main problem was that it was not plugged in.
Well after we pretty much rearranged her entire living room trying to get
the computer to an outlet we hit another problem. There was a password on
the account. We asked her if she knew what the password was and she said
"A what?" We took that as a “no” and Elder G... turned to me and asked "Do
you think it is alright if I hack into this account?" Well we fixed
her computer and everyone lived happily ever after. We had a good laugh
about it later. I am glad to say that Elder G... will
be staying for at least another transfer, so there will probably be more
stories to match this one.
While I am talking about cool stuff
that we have done, I think I mentioned last week that we have been fixing cars
as part of our service. Well it has mostly been one car in particular and
it is a car that belongs to one of our members, Brother B.... So I wanted to talk
about this because it is a miracle that we have worked on his car as many times
as we have and it still functions. Better than that, it is actually
improving with each of our visits. Now usually he just YouTubes what we
should need to fix the problem and he tells us what to do. We have been
able to successfully fix Brother B...'s AC system, brake system,
replaced the spark plugs in his engine, changed his battery, and have of course
changed his oil and filter. I remember that we gave up one of our P'days to finish working on his car
and after about 4 hours we stepped back and noticed that we had taken out at
least a third of the engine. Then we rushed to get it back in when it
started raining. My companion and I believe that Brother B...'s car
is like missionary cars, they all run on faith.
I also wanted to talk a little
about T.... Now it has been a while since I last talked about T... so
I will refresh everyone's memory. T... is the less-active
member who called us up out of the blue one day and asked us if he could buy us
something to eat. Well T... then had to go to New Jersey because he had to serve his
time for being in the reserves for the marines. Well we saw him recently
while we were hanging out with his family for the 4th of July. Now a
little something about T..., he is one of those people that is super social and
makes anything funny. We got to talking with him and then we decided that
we should go golfing with him on P'day. Now I don't know much about golfing but after that
P'day I learned something about it.
You don't need to be good at golfing to have a fun time golfing. So
we went and T... brought a non-member friend named M... and it was a blast.
T... was the only good one out of the four of us. T... for some
reason could not grip his club very well and so it would always go flying out
of his hand whenever he hit it. And I had a hard time making contact with
the ball. Most of the time you could see a huge mound of dirt go flying
after I hit. To help M... get out her anger from not doing very well we
would drive crazy all over the golf course collecting all of the balls that we
hit the wrong way. Elder G... and I determined that to be the
best P'day of all time.
Well before my email gets too long,
I'm going to stop. I will probably talk about some other things we did
these past two weeks next week. Thank you for your letters and packages
and I hope that you all had a great 4th of July.
Elder Erb
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