Rats in the backyard

First off, my thanks to Sister Toone and the Parkway 2nd Ward Primary for the pictures and package. I appreciated the support from the home ward.

So this week´s the Ute game, huh? I´ll keep it in my prayers. If Utah wins and gets a BCS bowl game, I dunno what I´ll do...

The weather continues to be quite weird around here. We were roasting all last week on the roads and especially in our house. The bedroom is the most poorly ventilated part of the house, and I wanted to move the mattresses outside and sleep in our backyard. (not a yard really, just a concrete area.) Elder O... didn´t want to as he says he says that there are rats living out back as our trash always gets moved around at night. One day we´ll have our sleep under the stars... but, today is a nice overcast day and actually quite cool.

We found some good people this week. One house that we found always had about 3 or 4 new people there each time we made a return visit, so we ended up teaching the first lesson three times at the same house to bring everybody up to speed. Unfortunately, none of them went to church yesterday, which was quite a big disappointment. We´ll see if they can do better this week.

Still a lot of finding and searching. Funny enough, there´s a neighborhood that is part of our area called “Los Angeles.” We worked in there a bit this week as it´s an area that hasn´t been touched yet. It´s one of the poorer parts of the town, and my comp says it´s not good to be around there after dark, so we´ve mostly been doing some daylight work there. We´ve got one family that´s pretty solid in the praying and reading department, but unfortunately the mom and dad both work all day every day with one day off a week. Their day off doesn´t land on a Sunday until the end of the month, so they said that they´d go to church then. They´re a really cool family, and when we showed up for our second visit, they were all in the front yard playing volleyball. They really like the emphasis that we place on families in the church, so we´ll see what we can do to help them.

Other than that, Christmas is coming up so I´m starting to see the trees and lights come up. It´s funny, but people still use the icicle Christmas light even though I doubt that any ones even seen an icicle around here. Also, being dressed in the Santa suit in this weather seems like a tough gig. As the Mall isn´t too far from our area, maybe I´ll get to sit on Santa´s lap and tell him what I want. Heh heh.

Sáll from me.

´till next week.

P.S.-Last week I ate Subway. I´m happy.

-me