Halloween Letter

Last week the letter was rather short and so was my time, so a blog update did not happen.  So here come two letters last week ( the short one) and this week.

Letter From 10/17/11

 I am doing great over here in this wonderful great Ohio Columbus Mission. It is so great to hear all of the things that are going on at home and to know that everything is going well. I am excited to hear that things went well with Dad's weekend at work.  Also please send me Elder Meade's and Elder Reed's e-mail addresses. I am doing great and am loving the work. We did service this week at a less active members home who is working on remodeling his new house before he moves into it and we helped him  move trusses for his roof up onto the second floor of his house. It was wet, raining, and I enjoyed every moment of it. also, we got a steak dinner out of it. I am loving all the work that I am able to do out here and look forward to this next week. Love you all and will talk with you all next week.

 

Love, Elder Rawlings

 

now for 10/31/11

 

Happy Halloween Everyone

 

I apologize for the short letter last week, my letter to the president did not send for some reason and I had to retype it and that took up a lot of my time. Halloween is really weird out here in Ohio. each different city or township has a different day and a two hour time that they do trick-or-treating in and they need to be on there porch or there driveway or the kids don't come to the door. I am loving it out here in my area and most of the time we are in the car, but at least once a week, we get out on our bike and go visit people on those.

 

Mom asked if I have had an doors slammed in my face. The answer to that is yes, on multiple occasions. the fist time the guy answered the door and asked if we went around banging on every ones door and shut it in our faces, and the second one the lady answered the door, screamed "I believe in the devil" and slammed the door. I have not let it affect me and I can tell when an area has been tracted recently by Jehovah's Witnesses because we get nobody that is even willing to give us a chance and when we have referrals in that area it makes it hard. We will give it a few weeks and try the area again though.

 

The people are great and I am becoming good at talking with people. I can even talk with the cute girls that my companion shies away from, it helps that most of my friends back at home are cute girls. In lessons, I am able to get the message across clearly, but I need to learn not to throw too much information at them at once. Also I have learned the value of helping those in need. On an exchange with the zone leaders, we went to go get shakes at a gas station at the end of the day and a lady came up to us and asked if she could have five dollars for gas and she also thought that my companion looked familiar. it turns out that they live in the same apartment complex. I gave her the money and she was so thankful she gave me a hug and asked if she repay us. We told her that she did not need to repay us, but we got her information and she seemed interested in learning more. I am not sure what has happened with her yet, but I will ask as soon as I get a chance.

 

I love all of you and am looking forward to another great fun filled week of missionary life.