LONE PINE

So I am pretty sure I am not a normal missionary anymore. In all of our emails President Wilson keeps telling me that the work here is not like anywhere else. I am starting to see what he means. Elder Walker and I don't really proselyte, the only proselyting we do is walk along the main street and talk to drunk Indians and tourists from Europe. I met a Japanese guy on Thursday though, that was pretty cool. As I said though, we don't do normal proselyting. We give service most of the day, hard labor and yard work stuff, and then we play basketball with investigators the rest of the night. It is really weird and at first I thought I was a horrible person for having fun outside of P-day but so far it is working. The town people know who we are and they have begun asking questions. It is hard to give a short and simple answer without leading into anything else but slowly and surely the work is moving forward! 

 

On the downside of things, our truck Bathsheba was taken from us. We had to drive 3 hours down to Palmdale and pick up our "new car" with is a crappy corolla that already has 50000 miles on it. So we will probably have to do the drive again, hopefully soon the mission gets the Jeeps that President Wilson keeps talking about. That would be really nice to have 4 wheel drive again. The corolla just can't do off road and so that greatly limits the things we can do. 

 

Other cool things that have happened was we went rabbit hunting with Eddy our investigator and Emma who is a member of the branch. They are both like 17 I think...I cant remember but anyways Emma shot a rabbit with a bow and Eddy skinned it. It was really cool looking, Emma almost cried while Eddy ripped all the insides out. I felt super out of place cause everybody was talking about hunting. All I could really say was "I shot a bird with an airsoft gun once.." either way it was a good day! 

Right now we are waiting for the Elders up in Bishop to come down so we can go hiking, they are taking forever. After our hike we are gonna go up to Mammoth because Elder Walker wants to see if the outlets up there have any good deals for labor day. It will be pretty crazy crowded! Love you all! Hope you have a wonderful week! 

 

Elder Carper

 

PS My hump day is Thursday and is the same day as my Dads super huge hump day! SUPER BIG shout out to him for turning 50 on Thursday! Happy Birthday Dad!