Not because Eric hasn't written any letters, but because I've been lazy. So here's the latest:
Hey everyone,
This has been an interesting week, My companion has one more week in
Dodge City, and then he goes back to Montana, so i guess the city got
interesting for him so that he would never forget it.
First, we got chased by what we think was a rabid dog. We were
tracting down in a culdasac in the southern end of town, and
everything was going great, we had found someone that wanted to listen
to more of the Gospel, so we went to the next door and a dog started
barking and getting really angry with us, now this isn't irregular for
us, we get barked at by little chiuahuas every day, but this was a
larger german shepherd, and he wasn't happy, so my companion didn't
notice, and kept knocking the door, so i had to tell him that i felt
that the dog would attack us and that we should leave, he looked at
the dog for the first time, and then agreed that we needed to leave.
Our car was a block or 2 away so we started walking, and the dog
followed us all the way back to the car, circling us with 2 of his dog
friends following watching the show. we took off our backbacks and
used them to keep the mean dog away, because he was coming in close
enough to bite us. and shortly before getting into the car, we
started to see foamy saliva dripping out of the dog's mouth. It was
an exciting adventure for the morning.
Later that day we had another interesting thing happened. We were
driving to an appointment and it started to rain really hard, like
really really hard, so we put on our jackets and went up to the house,
Elder Groesbeck had seen some greenish clouds out in the distance, but
i just thought that it was some sky poking through the storm. It
turns out that that greenish area was actually a hail storm, and that
day during our lesson a tornado touched down about a quarter of a mile
away from the casino out on the edge of town, we didn't even hear the
sirens go off because we were in a basement apartment and were
teaching a lesson at that time.
Another cool thing that happened this week is that it was Elder
Groesbeck's Birthday, so the branch president the other elder's in
town and the branch president's family all came over and woke up Elder
Groesbeck by singing very loudly Happy Birthday to him right before
his alarm went off. We had planned it out and i had unlocked the door
just a little bit earlier, he was way shocked to find Elder Guzman and
Elder Chaparro singing to him in his room that early int he morning,
then we had a nice breakfast that the Arkell family prepared for us,
Elder Groesbeck had a good Birthday overall.
The last thing that i'll share with you all today is about a miracle
that we saw this week. Brother Molina, who we taught and baptized
last transfer wanted to share the gospel with his Grandkids, so he
invited us over to have classes with them and share the gospel. so we
went over and taught 6 of his Grandkids, it was great, we showed them
the restoration video, and then answered their questions (which
quickly deteriorated from the gospel to "why does my cat bite me?" )
. then we got a call on Elder Groesbeck's birthday (saturday) and
found out that one of the kids wanted to get baptized and that his dad
said that it was ok with him, it was a fantastic day. We went over to
his house and taught the rest of the lessons to him and his younger
sister and he got baptized the next day.
well i've shared with you the exciting stuff from my week, If you have
any questions send them to jeanine, or Dear Elder them to me ,and i'll
answer them the next chance i get, (at this point, please send all
Dear Edlers to the mission office, i probably won't be in teh Avenue P
Address much longer becasue when Elder Groesbeck leaves at the end fo
the week i'll be moved into a different appartement to have a new
companion.
I love all of you and want you to remember where you came from, and
where you have the potential to go. (the presence of God). Know that
i love you, but that its not even a fraction of how much God Loves
you.
I'll be waiting to hear from you.
Elder Eyre
p.s. the second picture is of the view from our window in the morning,
the first is the Ruanos (older couple) and the Molina Family (in the
middle) then,of course me,and elder Groesbeck (on the end)
This has been an interesting week, My companion has one more week in
Dodge City, and then he goes back to Montana, so i guess the city got
interesting for him so that he would never forget it.
First, we got chased by what we think was a rabid dog. We were
tracting down in a culdasac in the southern end of town, and
everything was going great, we had found someone that wanted to listen
to more of the Gospel, so we went to the next door and a dog started
barking and getting really angry with us, now this isn't irregular for
us, we get barked at by little chiuahuas every day, but this was a
larger german shepherd, and he wasn't happy, so my companion didn't
notice, and kept knocking the door, so i had to tell him that i felt
that the dog would attack us and that we should leave, he looked at
the dog for the first time, and then agreed that we needed to leave.
Our car was a block or 2 away so we started walking, and the dog
followed us all the way back to the car, circling us with 2 of his dog
friends following watching the show. we took off our backbacks and
used them to keep the mean dog away, because he was coming in close
enough to bite us. and shortly before getting into the car, we
started to see foamy saliva dripping out of the dog's mouth. It was
an exciting adventure for the morning.
Later that day we had another interesting thing happened. We were
driving to an appointment and it started to rain really hard, like
really really hard, so we put on our jackets and went up to the house,
Elder Groesbeck had seen some greenish clouds out in the distance, but
i just thought that it was some sky poking through the storm. It
turns out that that greenish area was actually a hail storm, and that
day during our lesson a tornado touched down about a quarter of a mile
away from the casino out on the edge of town, we didn't even hear the
sirens go off because we were in a basement apartment and were
teaching a lesson at that time.
Another cool thing that happened this week is that it was Elder
Groesbeck's Birthday, so the branch president the other elder's in
town and the branch president's family all came over and woke up Elder
Groesbeck by singing very loudly Happy Birthday to him right before
his alarm went off. We had planned it out and i had unlocked the door
just a little bit earlier, he was way shocked to find Elder Guzman and
Elder Chaparro singing to him in his room that early int he morning,
then we had a nice breakfast that the Arkell family prepared for us,
Elder Groesbeck had a good Birthday overall.
The last thing that i'll share with you all today is about a miracle
that we saw this week. Brother Molina, who we taught and baptized
last transfer wanted to share the gospel with his Grandkids, so he
invited us over to have classes with them and share the gospel. so we
went over and taught 6 of his Grandkids, it was great, we showed them
the restoration video, and then answered their questions (which
quickly deteriorated from the gospel to "why does my cat bite me?" )
. then we got a call on Elder Groesbeck's birthday (saturday) and
found out that one of the kids wanted to get baptized and that his dad
said that it was ok with him, it was a fantastic day. We went over to
his house and taught the rest of the lessons to him and his younger
sister and he got baptized the next day.
well i've shared with you the exciting stuff from my week, If you have
any questions send them to jeanine, or Dear Elder them to me ,and i'll
answer them the next chance i get, (at this point, please send all
Dear Edlers to the mission office, i probably won't be in teh Avenue P
Address much longer becasue when Elder Groesbeck leaves at the end fo
the week i'll be moved into a different appartement to have a new
companion.
I love all of you and want you to remember where you came from, and
where you have the potential to go. (the presence of God). Know that
i love you, but that its not even a fraction of how much God Loves
you.
I'll be waiting to hear from you.
Elder Eyre
p.s. the second picture is of the view from our window in the morning,
the first is the Ruanos (older couple) and the Molina Family (in the
middle) then,of course me,and elder Groesbeck (on the end)
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