Week 55 in Sherman, Texas (12-1)

No update today :(  Did receive some fun pictures!

Stylin' glasses

Christmas Texas Style

Thanksgiving package

Elder Ramsdell and Elder Jorgensen

Week 54 in Sherman, Texas (11-24)

Happy thanksgiving y'all. hope yours was great. I had a great thanksgiving. i ate with a family named Peck. they had a lot of family over and it was just like a normal thanksgiving. i would have to say 1000's of times better than my last one.

we also did a lot of service this week. we helped a guy in our ward paint his house. he is kind of crippled at the moment. he got off of two knee surgeries. so we helped him out. 

my favorite time of the year is comming up and i cant wait for it. i will make it my best christmas yet. hope you all had a great week. love you.

Thanksgiving dinner at the Peck Home

 Letter to Jesse from the Peck Family:

We were so glad you joined us for thanksgiving! We had family that were non members and also inactive members. Thank you for your good conversation, positive attitude and example, we think your awesome! Love, the Pecks

Week 53 in Sherman, Texas

This thanksgiving we are eating with a family in the ward.  They own over 100 acers and a plane with a runway in their yard.  Can't wait to eat with them.  We got the x-box from a resale shop we do service at. It had the red ring of death so they had to throw it away. So we took it home ripped it apart and gutted it and then stuck it on our wall.

YOU HAVE A TREE DOWNSTAIRS!!???!!!  

well now that you are counting down the days you dont have to be with your class i will start counting down my days. i have 7 months and 28 days left. 

the kitchen looks great. 

hope you have a fun thanks giving. love you.

Week 52 in Sherman, TX

Transfer News. I am staying here in Sherman. My new companion is named Elder G. He is originally from Mexico, but he moved to San Antonio and has lived there for the past 13 years. He has 22 months on his mission and only has one more transfer after this one.

This past week has been kind of slow, mainly because of the cold. We woke up to snow today. We have been visiting a lot of members this week. Having them get to know the new elder. 

Christmas is coming up. We did a deep clean of the apartment and we found a 6 foot Christmas tree and so we pulled it out and decorated it. It is the most wonderful time of the year! 

Love you all and have a great week.

 

 

Week 51 in Sherman, TX

Don't know what to really say about this last week. It was long and short at the same time. It kept me thinking of what I am going to do my last week. My companion went and said goodbye to everyone. He has everything packed up and today will be full of visiting people and saying goodbye. I have enjoyed my time with elder W and I have leaned lots from him.

We found a board game called Mormon-opoly (monopoly Mormon style) and we have played it with the other Sherman elders who lived just down the street. It gets pretty competitive. 

President is doing something different this time with transfers. we wont find out if we are getting transferred until Monday night and we have to be at the church in Dallas to meet on Tuesday morning and there we will find out who we will get. It is a bit different. 

Can't wait to find out who I will get next.

Week 50 in Sherman, Texas

OK, so the Halloween party was kind of a bummer. first off it was in McKinney which is about 45 minutes away from here. then we get there and there and the zone leaders forgot to tell is that we needed to provide our own pumpkins. So no one was able to do the contest. We had to have a spiritual thought, which was good, but half of the zone decided that they had other plans and just didn't come. So there was only like 8 of us there and we just played volleyball. Earlier that day we had all of our planed appointments fall through and Sherman didn't have school that day so people started trick or treating really early this year and that means we couldn't go tracting. It was a good thing that the other elders in our area had the same thing happen to them. They live about a mile away from our apartment. My companion got a pinata for his birthday and never got the opportunity to break it. So we bought some candy and busted it up at the church. That had to have been the highlight of my week. He demolished that thing and candy went everywhere. We did it inside the church. We hung it up on the basketball hoop with a bunch of old ties from my companion. When the candy went flying some of it got stuck in the lights and up on the walls.

As for my investigators, not much has happened with them. They have all been really busy and we have had troubles getting an appointment with them. 

My companion has started his packing. He has a ton of boxes that he is sending home. So far he has only packed his books and he has 4 and a half large flat rate boxes full. There is still more stuff he has to send home. It is getting me a bit trunky. 

So i got my new camera. It is so awesome.  I love it. I am starting to think about Christmas and i have started shopping for you guys. Could you refill my account this week. There are already some items that i have picked out for you.

It is exciting to hear about Emilee coming home. Next week that will be my companion. I also want to take him out to dinner if i can. Just one last thing before he goes next week. 

Send me some pictures of your pumpkins. 

I love the costumes this year. No offense to Taylor, but the nacho one was my favorite one. 

I hope that you all had a great Halloween this year and hope that you will have a great week.

Week 49 in Sherman, TX

This week our ward did its fall festival. It was really fun. There is a member that owns a bunch of land and we went down there. He also has his pilots licence and a plane and a hanger in his property and a runway. He had a great idea, inspired by the Meet the Mormons movie he decided to do a candy bombing. It was really neat. Then there was a bonfire where the wood was stacked like ten feet tall. The ward had a good time and they invited a lot of their friends. We got to talk to them all. Nothing came from it but at least their friends got to see that we are not as weird and some would believe.

My area is huge. If you look on a map go to McKinney and right above their city limits we start our area. Then go through Van Austing up to Sherman go through Denison and keep on going through the Oklahoma border and go through Durrant and that is our area. We don't bike at all. 

 

There is going to be a pumpkin carving contest for the mission during Halloween because we are not aloud to go out that night, the mission will be having a big party instead. Wish me luck. 

Not much else is new. 

Thank you for all the support and have a great week.