July 7, 2014

hey family!

Yeah the sickness went away, but now Wenke has it...that backfired.... hope it goes away quick... I had an exchange with Elder Dorius this week, put up some pics, also, the sisters had a pig head for dinner at a member's house, and they dropped the rest of it off....we would have eaten some, I like pig head, but it was cold and half eaten, so we didn't trust it.

 I actually haven't got an email or anything from president Hudson yet, he's probably figuring out everything still. No worries. 

Wenke and I had a trip out to Cape kidnappers to take some pics, it was pretty cool, we actually didn't make it to the cape, there was a lot of walking involved and we were in our suits. The next big thing was the truck hitting us...we were coming up to a rail line, the lights were turning red, so i started slowing, and then this semi that was in front of us had slammed on his brakes to stop so then I had to stop fast too, and I didn't see that it was a two trailer truck as well,and so then....you guessed it, he had stopped over the rails, and so started backing up....probably one of the scariest moments of my life, but luckily he had a low trailer so it just dented the front of our little hatchback, bent the license plate and stuff. Nothing too bad, but I laid out on the horn, and he never even stopped, the funny thing was, we were at a members house the day after, and we found out he works for the company that hit us, so he said he would hunt the guy down...that was crack up! Not fun, and Sister Ingles in the office was mad, but it turned out okay.

 Oh yeah, happy 4th of July!! We sang the Star Spangled Banner in District Meeting on Friday to celebrate, it was awesome!! our whole District is pretty much American. We had the meanest missionary fireside yesterday too! I wish we would have had one before I left! They talked about Jeremiah 16:16, we are no longer fishers, we are hunters. The time to prepare for a mission is now! The time to decide on a mission is now! The lord doesn't have time to train in the field, we need to prepare early and be ready. It was awesome! Elder Thomson from the 70 was there too, it was great! They said to be sharp, and also, Elder Thomson told us why there are no missionaries in China. He said because there are not enough. If we had 200,000 more, then yeah we would be, but 86,000 missionaries stuck into mainland China, they would disappear. It's all about the numbers,and that's a big reason for the age change as well. Crazy!! Figuring out a few kinks in the companionship, but this week should be a lot better. New investigator family today! As long as we go there haha! Let's see how we go. Also, let's go BRAZIL!!! haha I want Germany out...and I want the World Cup to be done...It gets so annoying. anyways, all is well besides the biting wind, winter has finally set in, and it is cold!! Oh well, no snow, can't get that bad... have a great week all! Love you!

Elder Passey

pig head

Cape Kidnappers