This week has been good. There hasn't been a whole lot going at least with our investigators. We still need to find out when we can get an interview done with Rex (it'll be done by a member of the stake presidency) so that he can get ready to be baptized. However, he'll be gone this coming week and so we'll have to wait at least a little bit until he gets baptized.
We also had a lesson with Christine's daughter, Michelle, but it wasn't for too long because she had family coming over as we were teaching and we didn't want to intrude. We're supposed to be seeing more people, but sometimes our appointments fall through or the people call right before to cancel on us, or they're gone somewhere with family. This week just happened to have a lot of people cancel out on us.
The zone leaders also came to our district last week and each of the companionships had exchanges with them. We did ours on Tuesday and we did a lot of tracting. We did almost 3 straight hours of tracting in one neighborhood, which is the most that I've ever tracted at one time on my mission (I've only gone tracting a couple times).
This week also has been a little bit of a challenge because our car (we're in a car area) was due for it's miles because it was at 46,000 and they usually take the cars in at 50,000. So Saturday morning they took our car to Salt Lake and we've been catching rides for a couple days from the other Elders that live with us. We will get a new car at the leadership training meeting that our zone is invited to in Lake Havasu (near the border of Arizona and California) tomorrow afternoon.
We went to our ward's Christmas party this week and everyone thought it was pretty clever. We had helped out that afternoon to set up lights and they had set up the gym in the style of the markets from Jerusalem times. Most of the quorums had tents for "bakery", "winery", "deli", and we were given paper coins and based on our citizen level (begger, orphan, rich ruler, soldier), we had different allowances and we had to pay for our food. We actually had a couple of investigators show up and they did the Nativity scene at the very end.
I still haven't really worked out what time we're going to call home yet, but that's good to hear that you guys don't have too much going on. We might just call in the afternoon, but I'm not exactly sure what time yet (and as far as I know, we're not allowed to Skype). The weather around here is getting a little cooler now that it's December; it usually stays around 50 or 60 degrees and usually with a little bit of wind.
That's awesome that Ben, Jared, and Philip all came home frome their missions now at around the same time. Be sure that whenever you see them, tell them hi for me. I didn't know that Danny Cortez was going on a mission, that's great! Good for him.
Oh! There's transfers this week also, and they're going to be on Monday this time (usually they're on Tuesdays) because they want all of the returned missionaries getting home before Christmas because the flights are hard to book now at this season. So this means that our P-Day this week will probably not be on Monday like it usually is. I have no idea when it's going to be and so I'm going to email on whatever day it happens to fall on. Sorry for such the short notice and the inconvenience.
Right now our area is a little slow, but hopefully we should be able to get things back and running this week. We're still trying to get Rex's baptism figured out and we also got to set Josh Furr for baptism on Jan. 1st, so hopefully that all goes well. Well, I gotta run but if I need anything, I'll let you guys know.
I love you!
Elder Meiners
P.S. I finally got some more pictures in.
#1: our zone from last transfer in the Central zone, Las Vegas
#2: our district from last transfer (same zone)
#3: our district right now as we went to the Hualapai mountains today for our P-Day activity. They said it was going to snow 18 inches there today!
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