I am doing awesome here! I don't even know where to start! I live on the outskirts of Dolores, Colorado inside of a warehouse. Its awesome! My companion and I get along great, hes a BSU fan and his favorite number is 13 and his favorite scripture is D&C 122, so its like a twin of me! He has only been out 6 months but he knows a lot about the bible and the scriptures its amazing to see him whip out scriptures out of nowhere and and answer peoples questions. He is helping me mark important scriptures and whatnot so I'm very grateful because I would get destroyed out here if it wasn't for him. He is from Camas, Washington, which is right next to Portland. When it snows here it SNOWS! there is probably a good foot outside right now, i love it. We drive around in our Chevy Colorado and tear up the roads its way fun. I have 2 dogs that live with us at our warehouse. Roxie and Daisy a Boxer and a Weiner dog. They make me very happy whenever we come back home from being in Cortez all day, makes me want to be with my Hunter.
Okay now for the crazy stuff. To start off we were coming back at around 9pm after a lesson and we were just talking and a deer just busted out of nowhere and within about a quarter of a second Elder Dobson decided to swerve towards it and smash into it so we wouldn't fly off the other edge of the road, I agreed with this tactic ha ha. Then he decided to swerve the other way and the deer grazed us just barely, so basically he pulled off some James Bond driving which I am very proud of. But it was fun! we laughed for like 15 minutes.
Now here's the really crazy stuff, hopefully I can get all the info on our investigators in here.
So we have a less active member in our area, his name is Leroy Mariner (good last name). and out of all the places in the world to be from and live in a backwoods town in southern Colorado....hes from Samoa. Hes one of this really strong skinny Samoans not the big huge guys. anyways hes 26 i think and he served his mission in the Philippines. He is way awesome and extremely respectful towards the missionaries. We came into his house and he has no furniture, so we all sat down on this floor made out of a certain tree bark that is all painted up and stuff. He fed us pizza and we sat and talked for like 2 hours, it was my favorite day so far. His wife is half Navajo and half Ute and she isn't a member. He has been taking her to church in Shiprock, New Mexico so she will feel more comfortable with more Navajo there. He wants us to teach her so this week we will be doing so and I am very nervous because I already care about Leroy so much I don't want to mess it up. Here is the other crazy part about this. Leroy is Samoan royalty!!!!! He had to give up his royalty rights in order to join the church when he was younger, hes like the Kings nephew or something. His job here is to work for the Samoan delegation or something and in March they will be having a huge get together/party/ceremony/fundraiser for the victims of a typhoon that hit Samoa really hard this year. $500 a plate! The governor of New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona are coming to it. As also is the President of Samoa and so is our mission President. And guess who else is going?????? Tha'ts right my companion and I! Oh did I mention that we are saying the opening and closing prayers!!??? In front of about 2000 people! no pressure huh.....Leroys father works for the Samoan embassy and is also a member and told Leroy to get the elders in his area to say the prayers. Lucky me....not. Pretty excited though. Many people from around the world and of many faiths will be there. Gonna need some help on that one. geez.
Other awesome news. As of right now, we have 5 investigators on date for baptism in March. Ralanda and her mother on march 2nd. We are learning many new Navajo words every time we go over there, so I'm learning slowly. and on March 9th 3 boys, Riley who is 11, Andrew (Rileys brother) 13, and there friend Kailen who is 12. They are some of the most inspiring kids I've ever met. There mother is a less active and there father doesn't want anything to do with us. Kailens dad is out of the picture he doesn't know him, and his mother was going to get baptized a long time ago but then she didn't. So we will work on them. But I remember being 11,12,13 i didn't care about church. I just wanted to get home as fast as possible. I didn't have a testimony of anything at all. These 3 kids though....wow. I was blown away I almost started to cry during our lesson with them cause of how guilty i felt form being there age and not caring at all. Its amazing to see kids care so much at such a young age. So right now we have 5 on date.....but Elder Dobson and I are expecting to have 11 by next week. Its going to happen you watch. We are being blessed left and right with finding people. Some other investigators we have...Colby, hes 36 and he lives with his girlfriend Katy who has been less active most of her life. They both have had 2 other marriages so they are kinda hesitant to get married. Katy has 2 children from the 2 other marriages, but they are really cool and fun to be around. We have become very close friends with Colby and Keana, who is the only child in the house. Colby has a very strong drinking problem but since we have been seeing him he has been getting off of it slowly and we haven't even talked about the word of wisdom yet. Which is the topic of this week. Big step but he has lots of faith i can tell, I know he can do it. His daughter wants to get baptized as well so yep lots of stuff going on.
Other news. The members that we live with have a long time friend that they work with and they have been planning on telling us about her. Well apparently the Lord had other plans. My very FIRST door I ever knock on.....its her. And she asked if the micklesons sent us there, and we are sitting there like....how do you know the mickelsons??? So we have an appointment with her on Thursday. Cant wait. Travis Mickleson says that they gave her a book of mormon and have talked to her and everything, so i guess its her time to hear the truth!!
One other investigator, there is an older man named Myron that we go over and teach. Hes very learned in the bible and is one of the kindest people I've ever met. He loves the missionaries but I feel like he just wants some company. He lives alone. but we have had some very goo discussions with him and we will invite him to be baptized this week. So ya, I think that's everything!!!!! my fingers are raw. Lots of good stuff here.
I'm glad you got my package safely! We get fed practically every night by members so im good there. Oh tell brother gregory that I met not just 1 Russian...but 4!! so I exceeded his calling. OH YA!! so there's this one guy here...brother Balfour. Hes an older guy, and he and his wife are huge hunters and gun collectors. He shoots prairie dogs for a living. Hes counted every one hes shot, over 30,000 or soemthing. Anyways he has a humongous gun collection, its bigger then the gun library at Cabelas. Hopefully I will figure out the picture thing here....but there is a very special gun that he has that is the exact same gun that is used in a certain movie that we watch a lot at home.....here's the hint dad. "ROY! Lady my name ain't Roy!" or here's another one...this one will give it away but I'm being tempted to type it cause its so much fun. "We already ran the misfits out of our country....sent em back to England" okay one more. "Hes been sitting up there all day waiting for 2 idiots like them to line up like that" ya....that gun. I got to hold it and I took a pic of it. Its soooo heavy.
anyways i got to go have lunch with Leroy, his wife is making us some fry bread! WOOOOO!
Oh
and tell my boys at borah that I miss them a ton. Give sam and miles
and connor and casey a big hug for me. They better beat rocky and eagle
and timberline...or my wrath will come down upon them.
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