Week # 93 ~ cReEpy.

Hey my Family,

I have a confirmation for me leaving on August 6.

We had this crazy rainstorm that knocked down a couple of trees and flooded all of the streets in town. 

I am completely fine now and everything is ok.  I am being transferred to Mahoney area in Lincoln Nebraska or something like that. 

Wahoo is closed for 6 weeks because Pres. said so!

This is the creepy old abandoned school that is by our house.  I love you and will get you my new address as I get it.  See you in Lincoln,

Love Elder Vance

 

Week # 92 ~ Leaving Wahoooooo

Week # 92

May 27

Family,

So it was a very full week.  Tuesday we burnt Elder Lopez’s tie and to celebrate his 6 month mark out on the mission. We used the rest of the fire to make hot dogs and smores.  We did not have all the right ingredience for the smores were just marshmallows and gram-cracker. We needed some chocolate and so we got chocolate syrup and we mixed everything in our mouths.  

Then on Tuesday night (the following week) something happened that I would tell you about when I get home.   Because of that I had stayed up for 48 hours and got 1 hour of sleep the first day and 2 hours of sleep the second day.   Don’t worry because it is all right now!!

I am leaving wahoo and going to be transferred to another area. President is closing Wahoo for about 6 weeks then reopened that is what Pres. Weston said.  No one knows why, nothing happened to make this closure it happens all the time!   Since wahoo is getting closed we have to get everything out of the apartment that is ours or any other missionaries things.  The transfer is tomorrow and I have to pack up everything of mine AGAIN!! I have been unpacked for about 7 weeks so far and now packing time again!!  uggg!  

Other than that we were doing service for a man who is an investigator. We had to move a lot of his junk and we found a ton of snakes under the stuff.   They hissed at us and slithered away and the guy (he is in a motor scooter thing but he keeps jumping out of it and I don’t think that he really needs it!) So the snakes shot everywhere and the guy told us to catch them so we did.   One of the ones I caught bit my gloved thumb and started to try to strangle my wrist.  So I threw it over the fence and got back to work.  That was the highlights of my week 

Love,

Elder Vance

Week # 91 ~ Amazing baptism Day!

Hi guys,

 

This week was great…. I kind of walked into the baptisms. I don’t know that much about them yet but was able to help out. 

It has been raining A LOT!!!  The mud is thick and there is lots of it.  Most roads around here are dirt.   Right after the wedding we got stuck in the mud.   We had to get a guy to call we know and he called his “redneck father” to help us.   He brought his big truck to pull us out and he got a bunch of chains and hocked them to the back of our car and pulls us out.  It took about a half hour. They had to pull out a road sign so our car wouldn’t hit it.  It was awesomely funny!

I just got a packet of paper work that I need to dill out to get ready for my release.  I need to put a date on my paper work about release date.   I need to send in to the mission office.  What date should I put down?

We had two baptisms and I will send the pictures

I have not herd anything from Pres. Weston yet.  I could email him next week and ask if he has gotten your email and letter.

Love you lots, 

Elder Vance

Week # 90 ~ Wedding Bells

May 11

Hello Family,

Thank you so much!!! I love you a ton!!

I think an early release would be the best

Recently we went to serve at a member’s house.  This is that guy that is a hoarder.  We helped him clean up and pack things up.  It was a lot of really gross work.  But we are here to serve.

So I loved, loved Skyping you yesterday it was super fun and really inspiring!!!!

This week we went to a wedding of two people who are getting married in order to get baptized.  It is a good thing; they really love each other and will be able to support each other in the Gospel.  The wedding was very fun in our building where we have church in the opthomaligist building.  It was very nice.

Sorry got to go, short on time,

Love Elder Vance

Week # 89 ~ Cannot Wait to see you all!

May 4, 2015

I got the package and it was great! I love all of the food in it.

I am so ready to Skype next week I can hardly wait!!!

Could you send me that movie about Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley life?  

It is a T.C. Christensen film.  It is an approved film that we can share with others an it’s awesome!

My companion is a challenge, to say the least.  All he wants to do is play and not work.  But in my Patriarchal blessing it says that I am here to put his life course back in order.  I have a lot of work to do.

So yesterday after church, a little girl spit on my face and everyone laughed. I was very angry and held and left right away, it was very strange and discusting.  She was like 6 or 7.  No explanation except some areas and people do not take care of their kids and do not have manners.  Other than that I love being senior companion.

I cannot wait to Skype with you.  We are going to do it at a member’s house somewhere after 1. Nebraska time I will talk to you then!

I love you also!

Week #88 ~This Branch needs us!

Hello All,

I am feeling great here in WAHOO.  The area is very small and the branch is even smaller.  So this week we went to visit some people at an old folks home. We met a man named Osar there.  He is a little crazy, he thinks that two other woman put a spell on him.  He feels the spell makes him shaking a lot. He is starting on a lot of medicine so he will be “kind of “normal soon. We are trying to teach and visit with the people in the home and maybe teach a few lessons.

I am finding out more about my companion Elder Lopez,  He thinks that the Lunar mission by NASA was a fake and he isn’t joking either.  He is 18 and still kind of a "teenager" if you know what I mean.  But very kind and we are getting along great.

Yesterday in church, while someone was giving a talk a little girl in the front row decided to help with the lesson.  So she held up a picture of Jesus and stood on her chair and showed it to everyone. It was kind of funny.   

Wahoo is nice and the branch likes us a lot because they kind of need us to help them.  They need help with everything because they are so small.  This week we are going to do service chopping wood, it will be great to get out and start working again. 

Today for p-day activity, we are going to be playing basket ball today, after our laundry and shopping. 

Love you all,

Elder Vance

Week # 87 ~ Eye Doctor Branch.

Hello Mom & Family,

Things are good in Wahoo.  We haven't taught a lot of lessons here, the town is small and kind of quirky.   We are in a branch that is very small, barely a branch.  Our church services are held in the basement of an eye doctors building.  We are teaching mission prep every Sunday evening. Which is great fun!

Our apartment is super dirty, we are going to deep clean it today. My companion is going great.  Elder Lopez  is 18 and has been out for 6 months.  This town does not have a lot of people that we can see. We have to drive everywhere because everything is so spread out.  I love to bike and we do it when we can, but unfortunately we do not have opportunity here to ride.  We did get to go to the Omaha Temple last week with our zone.  It was so great.  I have sent a picture for you.  I love you tons,

Love,

Elder Vance