May 8, 2006

Mom,
Im glad im missing all the construction lol, you MUST send pictures!!
Sounds like youve been busy with being on-call, geeze, it must be crazy!
If you get a job at Kaiser, i think thats where Clayton's mom works!
wouldnt that be cool if you worked together?!
Yup, sunday we get to call! thatll be fun, and enjoyable! im not sure
where, and when ill call, but probably at around 12pm your time. we
have dinner every sunday with the branch presidency at 6 our time, so
im not sure what the calling time will be like... but they said they
could call from their house.
hahah send me pics of you in your new car when you get it. i lauigh
whenever i think about it. your going to be a little menice on the
road lol.
This week has been interesting...
Elder Youd is awesome, and i love him a lot, but hes soooo trunky. He
has started to kind of shuck off the rules, and it bothers me, but i
dont want to make this transfer even longer by causing contention, ya
know? is that good, or a bad attitude? its tough, but ill talk to the
Pres about it i think. Elder Fletcher and I are still going to write
our book, but itll take a long time to do the fax/revise thing. lol.
the investigators... Meg and Autumns baptizmal dates fell through. we
havnt been able to contact them for a week now... its really sad. its
all in the Lord's hands now (as it has always been). Missy has also
moved back in with her boyfriend, and doesnt come to the lessons
anymore... its sad
However, Veronika is like .000001 seconds away from being baptized!!
Sue has moved up her wedding date, and is excited to say "i can answer
yes to all the baptismal questions soon!!". We have also reactivated
Stacy Price and her kids, and her son needs to get baptized, so we
will be doing that soon i imagine!! thigns are going so well, and i
love it here!!
Here is another funny story for this week:
So, Richie and Cheryl are two blind people in our branch. this week we
visited them a few times. the first time, they taught us how to type
and read braille after we built their cd racks. However, the second
time we visited, they asked us to give Cheryl's dog a blessing... that
was interesting... "Agent, by the authority of the..." etc. Youd was
on the verge of busting up laughing, it was kinda funny, but one of
the those things we never would have thought we would have done on our
missions!
This week has been hard, but the lessons and teaching has been great!
the branch now has home teaching, and we hope to increase our numbers.
we have asbout 50 peopel come to church now, so we are almost enough
to get a building!! its so exciting! i love it here, and im loving
being in the service of the Lord. I look forward to talking to yall on
sunday. Love you and miss you!!
Elder Onken