Hi guys!
Well this letter might be a bit shorter. It's not that nothing happened this week, quite the opposite, there's just not a lot of specifically noteworthy things to cover in great detail.
We've had a pretty great week. Only one lesson fell through, and we taught more nonmember lessons than we have in a long time. Most of them were to Ashton who is getting ready for his baptism on Saturday, but we also picked up a new investigator, Katie in the same ward. And both of them were at church yesterday too! We've been getting more referrals and really making headway with some of the members and things are really starting to come together nicely.
It is an odd feeling though that Ashton (and hopefully Quentin if his family ever gets back from vacation) will be my last baptism on my mission. Everyone new we pick up will be getting baptized after I'm gone. It's weird, and kinda sad.
In fact as the 25th approaches, it's really beginning to weigh on me. Yes it's exciting, but more and more, I'm aware of how much I'm going to miss these two years worth of places, people, and experiences. I've been feeling kinda sad about it. Not really just sad though. Sad doesn't really describe it. It's more of a subtle heavy feeling that just keeps slowly building. I can't find the right word to describe it.
As far as Khan goes, this week has been more of the same. He recently helped himself to some cookies that we had sitting on a table next to the ficus that he plays in sometimes. Honestly though, he did us a favor because we still have too many cookies and sweets. We've seen Khan a few times, and he's adorable. He really is a cute mouse (and a noticeably well fed one). Our efforts to catch him this week were lacking, partially because we were just too busy, and also partially because it's been very cold and snowy and we didn't want to cast him out into that. But we will continue trying to catch him now that the weather is a little more favorable.
And speaking of weather, it was really bad for a few days. Thursday night it snowed several inches right after a very slick ice storm. Our piece of garbage little car almost couldn't handle it. That night we got stuck in the middle of a couple intersections, we got stuck in our driveway the next morning, and during the storm, we almost had a major accident. We were coming up to an intersection, and even though we were careful to start breaking long before we got to the intersection, we still slid right through it, as someone was about to drive though the intersection perpendicular to us! Luckily, that guy was going very slow and was able to stop before he hit us, so we didn't die. But it was scary!
And that's pretty much it from my end. Other than that I'm just tired. That's good, it means I'm working hard. But wow. I just feel worn out. I guess two years will do that.
Have a great week everyone!
-Elder Oswald
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