Greetings,
Well today has been
an interesting day, my e-mail is coming a little later than usual, in
fact I am typing as fast as I can because p-day ends for us in about a
half hour. But this is because this morning Elder Jensen got the flu or
something. Yes, he was puking and everything. Luckily, it was p-day so it
was very convenient. After all, today there was a district "fun-day"
where everyone in the district went to the church and played games but
hey, I would rather stay home and get things done and apparently
that was able to happen. So now the apartment is clean and we are ready
for our week. Elder Jensen even feels better now as p-day is ending.
Well lots of stuff happening this last week. We had
Chelsea's baptism on Tuesday which was the best baptism ever mainly
because she bore her testimony right after the baptism and it was so
spiritual that many were in tears. It was elder Prettyman's last baptism
so he was bawling. Since Chelsea has decided to get baptized her best
friends who are a less active family have returned to reactivation in
the church which has been awesome to witness.
Anyways like I said Elder Prettyman is gone, or in
mission terms he is "dead" which means my experienced, seasoned, take
the lead companion is gone. This week has been very educational as we,
Elder Jensen and I, have had to do all of the teaching by ourselves and
we have been learning very fast from our experiences. There is so much
to learn! One of the hardest things now is finding a third male to come
with us to an investigators house where there are no males. I don't know
if you knew it but we always have to have 3 guys when teaching. So yes
lots of responsibility now thrust upon us but we are handling it fairly
well. In fact we still had a pretty successful week. We did a lot of
time tracting this week and a lot of it was in the ghetto area of town
which Elder Jensen was really nervous about. So Xenia is kind of split
in half there is the east side of town and the west side. Whatever you
do, do not go into the east side after dark. It is way sketchy. The west
side is the nicer middle-class part of town.
Oh by the way we were biking one day and we saw this
guy that we stopped to talk to and he seemed really distracted. Then
this car pulled up and a bunch of people hopped out and I got this bad
feeling and Elder Jensen was like "Elder Beutler lets go." According to
Elder Jensen we witnessed a drug deal. So yeah the real world is not
nearly as hunky-dory as Hurricane. I only love Utah more now that I know
what a safe haven it is.
Yes dad, I love your self portrait, and your song reference.
So
I got an e-mail from Uncle David today and it was really awesome to hear
from him. It is great to see their family coming closer to Christ. One
thing I have learned on my mission is the ability the Gospel has to
change lives. Uncle David is just stellar! Man I love that guy!
Well, as dad would say, I'm gonna "Keep on Lovin' You."
Hope you have a great week. Happy B-Day Elise. There should be something
in the mail for you soon.
Love
Elder Beutler
