10/24/11

So I'm doing great way over here, some cool things are happening. I spoke in church on Sunday about temples. The branch president asked me to prepare a twenty minute talk on Pres.
Monson's talk last April on Temples. So I worked on it Sunday morning
and felt pretty good about it. There are only three speakers usually,
so I didn't think there was much chance of me cutting anything, and I
was actually trying to think of some more stories. The youth speaker
ended up talking for over ten minutes though, and then by the time the
other sister was done there were five minutes left. They also were
given the exact same talk to work with, so I was relieved when I had
decided not to use the same stories in the article. All I really
ended up doing was bearing my testimony of temples, talking about my
Kirtland experience and how cool it was standing in the Twin Falls
temple with everybody. I let slip the story about me leading, so in
priesthood opening exercises I was volunteered again.

Ok, so I am in a car area. I have only been on my bike once, and that
was the other day. We do have a pretty big area to cover, but I'm
pretty sure we could use our bikes more. As far as the weather goes,
it's just like being home. Sunday was close to freezing but today is
up in the 60's. Not much wind yet though. So far everyone has been
pretty good to me and I haven't eaten anything weird or even bad.
I've had a lot of Italian sausage sandwiches, so I'm happy. It's bad,
they keep piling food on my plate. Actually its great, but somehow
I'm still hungry at night.  
   Therewas a deacon just ordained last week. We've been working with his
family and know him pretty well. He was a little late, and came
running up to me. He asked where to go and I pointed across the
chapel and he was off again. He plopped down on the chair with a huge
smile. President L  sent one of his counselors to get him a tie,
but as soon as the counselor stepped out of the chapel the deacon
pulled a clip on out of his pocket, still beaming. It was cool to
watch as he passed, and he told his grandpa he knows he was doing ok
because I was making sure he was doing it right. I hope Reid has the
same excitement, it is a great thing that he gets to be a part of.
 Love you all,

Elder Newey