Aug. 9, 2011

so anyways i am liking this new area in layton, it makes me feel more at home, to compare it back to home, our area pretty much covers an area like state street in orem and we have alot of apartments and a fairly decent neighborhood. we are on bikes so that is kind of annyoning but it is still pretty nice. but my legs are becoming HUGE!! like big hunks of meat....hahah! but i almost got hit by a car a couple of times this week so that was pretty fun. but one things that i was really disappointed with is that when i first came to the apartment, our apartment was filthy, i would use swear words to describe it but that wouldn't be good... so pretty much when i first walked into the apartment it smelt like garbage...like when the garbage truck drives by and you get that garbage smell...yeah it smelt like that, i was disgusted, but anyways pretty much this week i spent cleaning the apartment, i used up a whole bottle of 409...yes one whole bottle and also half a bottle of febreeze. and now the apartment is clean enough to where i can handle it. i have become really OCD about cleaning on my mission but some missionaries do not know how to clean. but i live in another 4 man apartment, so the aparment gets dirty quick, which i hate. but hopefully i will survive.

As to the work, this saturday we had 2 baptisms, 2 boys and they were ages 10 and 13 and it was really good to seem them get baptized. both of the baptisms were a little hectic becuase the ward mission leader is a sack, a.k.a. lazy so he wasn't able to put together anything for the baptism, which usually is the job of the ward mission leader. so we had to make the programs, fill the font and also call everybody to make sure that they could come to the baptism and so that was annoying, but the baptisms did happen so that was good. also this week we have picked up 3 new investigators which is really cool, and they all pretty much want to be baptized! also there is this girl that missionaries have taught int he past and her parents wouldn't let her get baptized until she was 18 and now that she is 18 she was sort of shying away from the whole baptism thing but we taught her a couple of lessons, and now she wants to be baptized and she is going to be baptized onthe 17th!! but anyways that was pretty much my week today. hope you have a good week and don't break too many sprinkler heads and make sure jack gets some long walks!

Love

Elder Miller