World Wide Training, Two Dinners....and a "Scary Female Cop"

This week was pretty good. Monday we went and played ball at the church and I dunked on the rim and broke it, so that was pretty bad. We went back later that week and fixed it, but man, I am either getting fat or dunked it too hard hahah. And I am finally loosing my fat. I am about 166 now, so yea, I have a goal to get down to 160 before I come home. We also had dinner with "A" and he is a Star Wars fanatic so that was cool. 

Tuesday I was on an exchange with Elder Elliot and that was good. It rained all day and some of the streets flooded pretty good. It was an okay day, but I was happy to go back to my little comp (he's taller than Elder Routledge haha), he is my friend haha. We're so weird, it is not even funny. He is like how Scott and I act mixed with the oddness of me and Brando hahaha. 

Wednesday we had a WORLD WIDE MISSIONARY TRAINING from the Quorum of the 12 and a few other General Authorities. It was crazy, nothing new, but they got all 75 000 missionaries excited to work harder. It was pretty cool. I doubt you will be able to see it, but it was so amazing and it also made me sad because they told us how great we are and I am running out of time. I have not done enough yet, it kills me time is going by way too fast. I really am not excited about coming home mom (NOT what this mom wanted to hear). I am not stressing out, but it is just crazy. 
We also had to get our trunk fixed. We slammed it too hard and almost broke it, but it's all good now though. 

Thursday was a cool day. We applied a lot of what we learned in our weekly planning form training. It was sooo cool, it was a good planning session. We also had a fun experience. We drove past this one girl 5 times on purpose because she was driving up and down the street, 20 feet back and forth. It was weird so we were watching her. It was so funny, but she was like, who are these guys and we were the crazy ones with going up and down the street. 

Elder Routledge and his District

Friday we had a pretty good district meeting. We applied a lot of what we learned and just got a spiritual uplifting, so it was a good meeting. We also had 2 dinners by mistake. We went to the Bishop's and he fed us because we thought we had no dinner, then our real dinner called us at 7:30 and said, "hey, where are you?" so we rushed over there and ate. The husband is a military cop, and what he told, the army sounds horrible ! He said some of his training was insane and at any time he could be called to Iraq and work for 6 months away from his wife (they are a young couple). So, yeah, I think I can officially cross that off for now...for now!! (Yeah !! Mom didn't want him to enlist!)

Always with food in his mouth....

Saturday was cool. We had a few good lessons this morning, then were called to do last minute service moving some guy...the craziest move ever!! 
So we got there and started putting stuff in the truck. It was husband getting his stuff out of soon to be ex-wive's garage...yea, you see where it's going...well, wife shows up and she is made because he is taking THEIR stuff. They start yelling, swearing and going nuts and we're standing there with two other members, like uuuuhhhh, then get this, the police show up and start getting into it! This lady cop was freaking scary! She got them calmed down and she was like, "Who are you two?" and told her we were just helping and she said okay, that's fine, then she almost took the one guy down and I was in her way and I jumped the freak out of the way fast hahah. It was just crazy! Then to end the night, we had an awesome dinner with the guy that burned my shirt hahaha. Don't worry, mom, it was a bad shirt hahaha. 

Sending emails home

Sunday was cool. We had a nice church meeting. This girl, Zoe, gave her farewell talk. She is going to Chile this week, a different mission though, but that was cool because of Austyn. Then we had two nice visits tonight. 

Well mom, Dad, Shell, Scotty...I love all of you so much and I sent letters to you all, so enjoy. 
Muah
I'll talk to you all soon. Love you lots!!!

** There is a member in Elder Routledge's area that has been fantastic with sending photos she takes of the missionaries.  

As a small way of showing how much their parents appreciate all the photos, 

E. Routledge and E. Huston gave her this: