The Deadly Frost

Well it's that time again!

TRANSFERS!

Here's the verdict: I'm staying in Sanford training a new missionary. YIKES. In mission history, this will be the second missionary trained here. So I'll try not to mess up. Elder Hakes is going up to an area of Colorado Springs, to which John commented: "Wow....Get a gun". (He works up there as a cop part time). I guess they have lots of firefights and stuff up there. And his companion is narcoleptic, and falls asleep while riding his bike. So he's going to have a great time!

And in other mission news, they made Elder Schmidt (my last district leader and in my room at the MTC) an AP!! Now this is insane news because mission tradition, and "the way it's always been" is that you go District leader, then Zone Leader, then you go AP. But mid training a missionary and still a district leader, he jumped right up there. It's so crazy! Basically it's a great idea because it's destroying the old traditions and placing less emphasis on leadership etc. Getting rid of the Hierarchy. So it's a great inspired decision.

In other news we had a pretty decent week. Found new people to teach in La Sauses, but they've been kind of sketchy so we'll see what happens there. They have been going to church in a different branch for about 4 years and then moved and lost contact so that was pretty awesome! Our investigator John is still solid for his date on October 22. We're going to do family history work with him this week to get names ready for when he goes to the temple a week after his baptism! He's also planning a church history tour. Just waiting for his wife to get off vacation. He's giving a thought in Elders Quorum too! So it's been a huge blessing to us, and we love teaching him.

(CUE CHEESY THEME SONG MUSIC)
wait? what's going on? why it....it must be time to play

ELDER GIBB'S DUMB DECISION OF THE WEEK!

do do do do dododo de do

Bob Barker:So Elder Gibb, thanks for coming out!
Elder Gibb: No problem
BB: So tell us what you did
EG: Well, there were some yippy dogs behind a fence, and I thought it would be a good idea too...
(audience groans)
BB: Do what?
EG: well, I wanted to pet the dog, and I reached down and it bit me.

awwwww. Yep. Probably not the smartest decision. It was right after we'd rounded up some cattle with an old farmer. And now I can add Cowboy to my list of skills. They sure were ornery. But I digress, afterwards the farmer was showing us his dogs and I reached down to pet one (I mean, he was standing right there, I figured that would help) and got pretty nipped. But he put this really old antiseptic stuff from the 80's on it and it worked great. It was last Tuesday and I'm still here right?

On a side note, I also got licked by a cow this week. What an odd experience.

And had a great moment this week of being able to follow the spirit. So we were working on a barbed wire fence, doing some service for some people who really needed it. A less active and recent convert. We were stringing it up and me and Elder Hakes were clipping the wire to the poles. Now, at one point I felt "hey, maybe I should go from the back of the pole, so i'm at the back and E Hakes is at the front, instead of my being to the left of right of Elder Hakes. Well about 2 poles later the wire snapped. I was standing behind the pole so nothing happened to me, and Hakes was right in front so nothing happened to him, so if I had been to the left or right there could have been a bit of a painful experience. But when you get that impression, you do it.

We had a non-member kid at church which was sweet, the youth have really been getting energized about missionary work, and we're going to start going to BYC to help even more, which is only going to get the ball rolling even more!

And there was FROST on the ground Sunday morning. Which means the end of the growing season. So now anyone with Alfalfa hay down has to get it raked and turned and bale it up, and luckily you need a good frost to kill the vines on the potato plants, so now people with potato farms are going to start harvesting those. Exciting! I'm learning about farming!

Well I have to go and do some transfers! Here's hoping my boy is not from Quebec!

That was a joke. I'm not prejudiced and I will love him no matter what. Actually it would be great if he was so I could learn French

Elder Gibb