the dream that you wish will come true!

May 18, 2009

As the subject line suggests, I'm finally getting transferred! I'm heading off to Moberly on Wednesday so I'm going from the most southeast areas to one of the most northwest areas! I guess it could be kinda different, but I hear it's basically the same as Sikeston. I guess I'll find out pretty quick here. My new comp is going to be Elder Turner. I don't know anything about him and neither does Elder Gordon so I guess I'll just have to find out for myself.

A couple more things that I have thought of that I could use are some arch supports, cuz my back has been hurting sometimes. So those would be nice. And maybe a couple pairs of shorts for when I have to do service on hot summer days. So maybe (and I know I said I wouldn't wear them) but maybe a couple pair like the ones that Kyle wears . . . like the plaid or whatever (don't know how to spell that).

Last thing I just thought was interesting is that there are armadillo out here. I didn't know that. I didn't think I would see any out here. I guess I haven't really seen any, except dead ones on the highway, but there are quite a few dead ones. So that's pretty crazy.

Well, we got the 11 year old baptized on Saturday and confirmed on Sunday so that was good. Friday and Saturday we did some service with the Elders Quorum. We were reroofing a lady's house. We had to strip off all the shingles, get all the nails out, put down tar paper, and start the shingles. It doesn't sound like that much work, but it really is. It takes a long time and we both have some good blisters from the shovels. But I'm a professional roofer now! Unfortunately (or fortunately) we don't do our roofs like that at home so I can't/won't have to use that skill! lol

Well, that's all for this week. I love you all and will talk to you next week!
-Elder Eagar

Mosquitoes and bees and wasps . . . OH MY!

April 27, 2009

Tomorrow is Zone Conference. We will be going up to Cape Girardeau sometime in the morning because we aren't aloud to have zone pday anymore for some reason. Otherwise we would go up today, hang out with other missionaries 'tll 6:00, go work and then stay the night at the zone leaders' apartment. But we can't do that now. So the Poplar Bluff Elders are gonna come to Sikeston today and stay at our apartment and we will go up tomorrow.

I don't know what you should cook for the missionaries there, but I know that you shouldn't make lasagna! That is what everyone makes! I don't know if it is the same back home, but that's how it is out here.

It's getting warmer out here, and with the warmth comes bugs. Mosquitoes and mosquito hawks, flies and gnats, bees and wasps . . . and I don't really like bees and wasps. When they get into the house or something I go outside.

So we are on this doorstep talking to this guy and I feel something on my neck. Naturally, I reach up to brush it off. Well this thing on my neck didn't like that so it stung me . . . so I swatted it. It didn't get hurt, but it fell down my collar and stung me in the neck again. I'm kinda freaking out trying to swat the thing, and it falls down my shirt some more, but it doesn't sting again. I explain what just happened to Gordon and this guy, and he was like, "Untuck your shirt!" I'm thinking, "Duh! Why didn't I think of that?" So I untucked my shirt and shook it out a little bit and this wasp fell out and flew away.

So now I have officially been stung! But Gordon pointed out that it didn't sting me anywhere where I had my garments on and it was still alive down there. So that was kinda cool.

Well I think that is all I have this week. You even got a story out of it too! I'll talk to you next week!

Love you all!
-Elder Eagar