Hello again. It is p day and we are in kalispell playing basketball and writing email here in the family history center. (its a part of the stake center up here.
wow there is too much to talk about. first off.. zone conference is next wednesday. our zone has been learning the haka with a little twist on it and is doing IT for zone conference. Elder Unga (tongan) from mesa and elder Quiocho (samoan) from nevada are leading us. cant wait for president fisher to see that.
Once again I dont know where to start. I just got the package with the program and your letter in it today. awesome, but, nice highland? my address has been changed though. The same lady who was housing the sister missionaries before we got here has been getting the mail because thats where we originally were going to stay. But, we got swithched to brother Heskiels house. We both live in a 15 by 10 foot room with a desk and a closet. its not bad. we just go out into the family room to study etc. Brother Heskiel is a single Iraqi/Assyrian man in his 50s. I will send a picture. He is very funny. he speaks Aramic, Arabic and English. He reminds me of an Iraqi George Castanza/Danny Devito/Uncle fester(I hope you can get the picture). his address is:
#9 Regatta Lane #41
Polson, MT 59860
(exactly like that)
well so far here in Polson it has been slow. We got "doubled in" which means that two new missionaries were transferred to this area instead of one new one to an existing elder/sister. So... We are still trying to find our way around, getting to meet people, etc. It is very very slow and we do a lot of planning and tracting. Its tough but we are starting to see resullts from our diligence and obedience from our own efforts. sidenote: I completely understood elder perrys talk sunday about ward missionaries and how they should be doing the work and letting the missionaries do the teaching. That way is so much more effective. I think that our family should seriously consider making some goals of finding some families etc. and refer them to the missionaries or have them over for dinner. something like that. just being out here for a week i was thinking to myself about how many opportunities I had to do missionary work in high shcool. it is sad and even depressing. Our family has been blessed with some really good friendships through school sports etc. I just think that you guys should take advantage of it and use the missionaries as a resource. Re read Elder Perry's talk
Other than that, Polson right now has a population of about 5,000 and in the summer was told that it gets up to a whopping 9,000. We are right on the lake and it is awesome. The high today is around 65 i think and is beautiful.
Me and my companion only have one ward but the area is huge. we cover Polson, Pablo and almost all the way up to Lakeside and Bigfork on either side of the Flathead Lake. Youshould see how big this lake is and how beautiful it is. I have big plans to come here and get out on a boat after i am done with the mission. Like jenny lake times 10. beauty and size wise.
There are too many good stories to tell about dinner with the members and tracting and potential investigators and talking so I will just tell a few. just some background. Everyone here is either really poor, really wealthy, redneck, indian, or just straight up hick. I thought the town was pretty normal my first day until we actually "got out". Oh my, there are some very weird people. We went to a dinner appt with the Allens who were pretty normal. Just a nice small family. We started asking about people in the ward and some investigators etc. We asked about this one man and the wife started Laughing. what we didnt know was that Bro allen is a city prosecutor and had sent half of the people to jail that we had talked of. He said, "ya... you might not get to get to him these days. He hasnt been around town too much anymore." it was quite humorous.
We went to another dinner appt and that family had self painted cougars and bears on their walls. They had over 43 pets including dogs, cats, rabbits, lizards, gerbils, doves, other misc. birds, guinea pigs, and were deciding whether or not to feed us bear meat for dinner. we ended up having chili. I walked out of that house with hair all over.
welp... gotta go. lots more to tell but no time.
love y'all
Elder P. Heywood
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