Two Days of Walking and One Tired Me

It's been a long week. We walked about 64257 steps last week, or 24.34 miles. It was a while. And it's been pretty cold. But I've been having fun.

The Short of Things:
We walked two days and got really tired and sore from it. But it was good. We did a lot of Less-Active work, which was fun. It's great to bring people closer to Christ. Also, on Sunday I ate loads of the best food I have ever had on my mission. I had some Cafe Rio style stuff and I indulged way too much. It was worth it. Overall, good week, if a bit cold.

The Long of Things:
Monday 13- We just hung out with the North Elders all day. We didn't do much.

Tuesday 14- We went to transfer meeting. It was fun to be there. We had to say bye to Elder Sale but we got Elder Schenk. He's a visa waiter too. Then we had Cici's for lunch (delicious). We saw Emilee and taught her about enduring to the end.

Wednesday 15- We had district meeting. That was pretty fun. You've heard the analogy of the Bible and Book of Mormon being two points that make a single line? I added a third point for personal revelation to make a single plane. It was pretty funny. Then we saw Sister Tate and Toni C. Both are less-actives. Sister Tate doesn't have transportation to church and Toni just hasn't been in a long time. We had great lessons with both of them about the importance of reading the scriptures. Then we had splits at the church. I went with Bishop to see Sister Lamb.

Thursday 16- This was our fist walking day. We had two appointments cancel on us so we tried to find other people to see. We saw Robert (Emilee's brother) and chatted for a while. Then we saw Sister Buboltz. Then we ate dinner at Sister Kerr's and walked home.

Friday 17- Second walking day. We had weekly planning then we walked to the church for our media hour and walked home. That was our entire day. In hindsight, it seems like a terrible idea... Elder Schenk got his visa though... So he'll be in this area for about 8 days total.

Saturday 18- We had an appointment cancel on us so that made us sad. We saw the Barnes. It's crazy at their house, there's always stuff going on. We tried to contact two referrals that we had made appointments with. Neither of them were home. We saw the McGills and Kimmie instead. Then we went teaching with Brother Myers. We saw Todd and had an extremely spiritual lesson about "being OK". It was good.

Sunday 19- Church was great. The talks were on setting and achieving goals. Elder Betts taught a lesson in Primary, which was pretty fun. Then we had lunch with the Myers. It was delicious. She made pot roast and homemade crescent rolls. I ate a lot. Right after that we had dinner at the Bishop's house. They had Cafe Rio style food. Complete with Dr. Pepper pork. It was also extremely delicious. I ate way too much at both houses. It was just too good. We did have a good lesson with Bishop and his family about setting family goals. One goal they had that I thought was cool was to have a family scripture. That kind of defines their family. I thought maybe we could do that. Then we had missionary correlation at the Burnettes'. We got good stuff done.

Love you all a ton!!!

-Elder Michael Carlson