Jan 14 2013

Hey mom,

Thanks for the info on what foods I can eat. I feel like im getting old or something. So this week was pretty good. Monday we got a call from the other Elders that were shopping at Macys saying that they had a clearance table full of ties. So we went over there and they were all 91% off so we went a little crazy. At first I bought 5. Then realized that this kind of thing doesn't happen very often and went back and bought 6 more. I even got President Young one too. We rapped them and on Tuesday when we were at the mission home for a lunch after our meeting we hid them in their dryer. We were in Eugene all day Tuesday and had a great meeting. We are getting a lot of missionaries soon. So lately we have been working a lot with the young men to do a nerf blow dart activity to invite their friends to. Our young mens has 4 boys so we are trying to build it up.

So with the age change we are getting a lot more sisters so in zone training meeting we had to teach a segment on lock your heart. I'm glad we don't have sisters in our zone other than a senior couple so we could be pretty blunt and open. It was really funny to have a senior couple there too with all the input they had to offer. Sister Brown would say things like: "And don't compliment sisters on their hair because that gives them the impression that you are interested!" and things like that. 

After zone training meeting we taught one of our kinda crazy investigators that loves to talk about aliens. We had a good lesson though about the restoration. The next day we saw him at Sizzler too along with 2 other people we know. It seems like everyone here LOVES sizzler. I was not impressed at all.

So on Saturday we decided to walk to see a few people we planned on visiting and while we were walking through the downtown area this crazy drunk lady stopped us to ask what we were doing. She then invited us into the lobby of this old hotel that was now a place for low income housing and started to talk to us about the church. There was nothing in the lobby except this old fireplace  reception counter, a ping pong table and a table with a puzzle on it. we sat down around the puzzle and were talking then another crazy lady came up and started talking to me so while Elder Covey was talking to one of them i was talking to the other. Then this little old lady came in with her cane and went to the ping pong table. Pretty soon it turned into Elder Covey getting owned at a game of ping pong while I was still being talked to by this lady that I have no idea what she was talking about. It was a pretty fun adventure though. Well thats basically all that happened this week. Love you!