Staying in the Same Apartment

Good morning, Jared!

Did you get into your apartment yet, or are you still with the other Elders? We enjoyed watching the video you sent of those two. That was fun. I'm guessing they went home, so two others replaced them. Tell us about them.

Austen sent in his papers. He should find out in a couple of weeks where he will be going. Fun times.

Last week I went to book club. Sister Pollock works at the library, so each month she checks out 15 copies of next months book and passes them out so we all have a copy. She tried to hand one to Sister Casper (who I think is about 95) and she rejected it. She said, "If it's not a church book, I'm not reading it. I don't have time. I have to cram for my final exam!" hahaha I thought that was so cute. Funny Sister Casper.

Steffi, Tim's girlfriend, is here from Germany. She has come to visit a couple of times. Saturday she came over and made German cheesecake for us. It was yummy! Tim will be here on Thursday. He will stay for a couple of weeks with her before they go back. We really want to go to Germany and see them and the country.  Maybe in a couple of years we can make it happen.

It has finally felt like Spring the last couple of days. I worked out in the yard on Saturday and it felt so nice. It's good to be outside after being cooped up all winter.

Dad and Taylor are still working on the garage. There is a lot of work left, but it feels good to see progress. I am so excited about the whole project.

Enjoy your week. We'll put a special mark on the calendar this Thursday for you! Keep up the good work.

Love you tons!

Mom



Hey,

Plans have changed for the apartment. We are staying in the one we're in right now. It's a lot more convinient for us since it's right next door to the church. The other elders will be taking the new apartment. They should be moving out tomorrow. The new set of missionaries living with us are Elder Thomas (from Pocatello) and Elder Wilson (from Tooele). They're both pretty cool. Elder Wilson has been to a lot of the same concerts I've been to, and he knows Mirranda.

We've had a good week. We didn't have many meals this week so a really cool family in our ward had us over for dinner twice. We had pancakes, eggs, and bacon the first night and german pancakes the second night. haha.

We didn't get many lessons this week. We're teaching two Mennonites and we've had some great lessons, but this week they weren't there when we knocked on the door. Kind of a bummer. It seems like most of our other lessons also fell through. It's alright though because we found a few great potentials to start teaching.

Sunday was a little weird. IU's Spring break plus daylight savings time made for the smallest sacrament meeting attendance I've been to on my mission. There was hardly anybody there. Sunday afternoon the weather was perfect and we were able to have a BBQ with Nikki and Josh, who we're teaching. It was a lot of fun.

Well, that's about all for this week.

Love you,

Jared