Labor day alright!

So much for a break! haha just kidding!

 

Happy Labor day! We got so lucky to find the SVU library open today! It's pretty great.

 

Things are going great! Michaela Wheeler is gearing up for Baptism on the 16th, and all we hav eto do is finish teaching a couple more things. We're going to go over to her family's place tonight for Family Home Evening and just get to know everyong a little bit better. Nothing better than playing a game of Life!

 

We went to a little Labor day parade before coming here. It was really little like maybe 20 minutes long. But that's ok. They had a swing bagpipe marching band from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. They also fit a good 90% of the SVU student population into a long section of the parade where students just cheered and stuff. We went to just make a presence, and not to really do anything. The SVU kids saw us, and started yelling Elders! And before you know it, everyone and their mother was looking at us. Haha! It was funny, a little awkward, but funny.

 

Today is purge day, so we have to go spend essentially our entire pday cleaing the apartment, which we did on Transfer day. woot. That includes shampooing the carpet and throwing out a ton of stuff that's been collected by missionaries for years. Fortunately, did most of it two weeks ago, now today, we just have to clean the floors and the bathroom.

 

Everything else that's been happening has essentially been the same. Not a whole lot of exciting stuff going on. I'm still rockin my studies. I've memorized about 85 scriptures in the last 3 months or so, and I'm hoping to get to 100 by the time I come home. It shouldn't be too hard. It's just one scripture every other day, and when I'm trying to do one a day, it gets pretty easy to do. I'm hopefully going to finish the Book of Mormon for the 5th time on my mission as well before I return home. I'm marking all the scriptures that talk about Faith. Next I'm going to do knowledge. Then I'm going to do the rest of the Christ-like attributes.

 

Well sweet, Love ya fam!

 

~Elder Wiederholt