Awsome news for sam! as far as i can remember sam did not like spanish class in high school, so good ol classic irony we tend to see all the time with mission calls.
i got the same email you got about the mission office, surprising news to me this is out of nowhere.
I think g-man writing different answers on his test is hilarious and something that i am fairly confident i did many times in tests, there was once or twice in which i drew a random picture after every single answer in the test (dragon, wolf, muscle arm, etc.) once you're in high school the teachers tend to find these things slightly more funny.
I'm glad my mention of glebe brought good conversation, i didnt notice any weird words this week though.
that is really sweet about the vaughns, i feintly remember them. that is something i have definitely learned on my mission about everyone having a story. we will stop and talk to random people on the street all the time and they have some ridiculous, crazy story that has made some significant aspect of the gospel permanently imprinted on their minds whether they recognize it or not. there is a quote in preach my gospel that mentions something along those lines, saying that essentially anything anyone says will have some semblance to a truth of the gospel that the spirit has brought them to know is true for themselves. all sorts of members and nonmembers alike have a reason they are the way they are.
The bears have themselves just one more year to stink it up, then they should be good. apparently yesterday was the NHL all star game as well just in case anyone was wondering.
Did you get a package this week?? big yellow envelope??
I did not! i bet i will probably get it later today though, i dont think the mail had shown up yet before we left this morning.
I really thought I sent that ATM card!! I THINK I sent it in a funny pterodactyl card...why can't you hear the pterodactyl go to the batheroom? Did you get that card? Was there nothing inside that card....no bank card???? remember..... THe card was in a large card size envelope, like 6 x 8 inch.
I dont remember that card, that still doesnt mean i didnt get it though, i will have to check harder, maybe i quickly put it away somewhere when i was busy without even recognizing it.
interesting news having to do with cards this week though. So before when i got that gps map, for some reason the map wouldnt load on to the gps and i didnt have the time to fiddle with it until it worked, so we put it off for a while. this week we had the chance to work on it again. went, looked at it, couldnt figure it out, very annoying. finally i gave up and called the support service lady. she was very good and very nice. apparently the "map" i had gotten was just a one time update and not a map. she then told me that she would refund the money back on the card i bought it with (my credit card) and she showed me the right one to buy actually that would really help. surprisingly it was only 10 more dollars. when i went to get it. very good glad to have it taken care of. for some reason when i went to buy it, the credit card would not go through! kinda weird, i havnt had the chance to try to buy something with it to see if it's actually active or not, so thats a little weird, maybe something happened again where they stopped it because they didnt believe i was actually in canada or something.
Talk about your weather this week!
not too cold actually, its been pretty nice. it started out monday and tuesday really cold then slowly warmed up until it went to positive degrees on saturday. its probably about -5 today.
Talk about you making moccasins last week!! were you able to buy more hide?
the store was closed so no hide for me last week :( but yesterday the lady told me that through the week her son had gone out and bought some for me! when i asked her how much it was so i could pay her back, she said she didnt know and it didnt really matter any way. very nice.
Do you use the term First Nation instead of Indian? Are they the same thing? Did I just use some terrible slur when I said Indian?
thats probably the worst thing you can say to a first nation person... just kidding not really. a lot of people call em indians and no one would get offended, i pretty much just say first nation instead because it sounds sweet.
what items do they sell in a First Nation store??
didnt get to see it, it is closed on mondays :( we did go to some other store though that had a little bit of stuff. they had some super expensive moccasins and lots of cigarettes and other assorted things for drugs.
Any good food stories this week?
hmm this week we ate at a family and made sure to be perfectly on time because last time we got there about 5 minutes late and they had already started eating. they told us (not mad or offended or anything) last time that they did not wait for missionaries in their home.
What are you doing today?
moccasins for real!
How is the family you are teaching doing?
last week we couldn't meet with them :( on monday they had to reschedule because the husband was at a concert kinda last second deal and then the day we rescheduled to (thursday) the wife and son got the stomach flu! so we will meet this week.
Candice told me that in her ward, they help the missionaries by marking the Books of Mormon - marking all the scripture mastery. When you give out Books of Mormon, are they previously marked? Just wondering.
i did it once in the beginning of my mission, not too much productive seen from it though with how much time it took.
Remember to wash your hands with soap. Touch anything you'd like, just wash later and don't touch your face in the mean time.
soap is overrated
Stay warm.
Have a good joke on hand when needed:
Why couldn't the pirate recite the alphabet?
because he always got lost at C.
OH! Griffin will be giving a report on you NEXT Sunday, February 8th!! Think of things you would like him to tell for next week's letter.
cool thing that happened this week. we knocked on a door and a husband and wife answered. they very quickly let us in and told us that they were sorry she had not been baking so they didnt have any cookies for us, but they did have something else for us. apparently the husband is a magician and so he showed us lots of different card tricks that were really cool. She has been singing and doing music about 40 years and she talked a little about all the plays and things she had done. very cool. very good people. he actually taught me a fun, easy little trick in which i can snuff a rubber band up my nose, with magic. We gave them a book of mormon and a plan of salvation pamphlet, sadly at this time they didnt really want to hear the missionary lessons though. Thats ok, planting seeds with them.
Also really quick, kinda gross. this week for the first time in my life i got a stye in my eye! apparently the best way to make it go away is just putting a warm cloth up against it as often as possible and just pretty much waiting until its gone.
alright thats about it, i love you!
Quinn
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