Hey!
That is pretty crazy that Elder Bouwhuis has been home for a couple of months already! His brother should have a fun mission down in South America. I have thought a lot about being called in the states and foreign and I honestly don't know if I could have survived if I was called to south America somewhere. Haha. The more and more I think about serving here in Montana I know that this is the perfect mission for me and it is just a testimony to me that my Heavenly Father knows me!
I am sad to hear that things with your health have not really progressed! I will continue to keep you in my prayers! I hope the doctors can figure something out and get you feeling better!
Our week was pretty good! We taught a few good lessons but the best one was our 2nd new member lesson with Trisha. It went really well and she actually opened up a lot and starting asking a lot of questions which was awesome! Our lesson with Amanda fell through which was sad but her and her whole family showed up at church!! It was great to see them there and they stayed for all 3 hours!! Church was pretty good!
Some other highlights of the week were our ward BBQ, Zone Conference, and The Dirty Dash. Our ward BBQ was Wednesday night and was a blast. It was nice to have an evening to relax and play games with our ward. It also helped us make some relationships with members we don't know to well which was great! Zone Conference was awesome! It was very inspiring and gave me a lot of new ideas to incorporate into our area and missionary work in general. There was a lot of good instruction given to us. The Dirty Dash is a 5k mud race. We were volunteers for the first 45 hours and then we got to run in it. It was so much fun! Our service was standing in a huge mud hole and throwing mud and water on/at people! It was crazy! Then we ran it as a zone in white shirts and ties. Don't worry Mom, I used an old shirt and a tie I found! It was seriously so much fun though! Plus we got a couple free shirts! haha.
I hope you have a good week and start to feel better!
-Elder Ricardson
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Hey Dad,
It is great to hear that Tanner is doing well. It has been awhile since I have heard from him or Ty. It sucks to think that I will have a year after I get home to see Tanner. I am happy that he is finding joy in serving the Lord and working hard. It sounds like you had a pretty great sacrament meeting! It is crazy to think our ward has 10 missionaries out! That is a ton! Our ward here has 3 I think. Although it is a lot smaller than home. I thought we were actually going to have to open the overflow up this week though. We had a ton of random visitors. Amanda and her family also finally made it to church! It was great. They stayed for the full 3 hours and seemed to enjoy it. We have an appointment set up for Wednesday. I can't wait. We had some other sweet stuf happen this week like Zone Conference and service at the dirty dash. Which was a blast but you can read about that in Mom's email!
I am bummed I can't be there to help put the bat boxes out. With the leftover tags coming out and everything I can't lie, I have thought a lot about hunting/scouting with you this week. Nothing to really make me get homesick (I don't get homesick at his point) or not work but whenever we had down time I would think about glassing somewhere down south with you! I have also thought some more about a new pair of binos and I think the best thing would be to get you a decent pair of 10x50s or 12x50s and then a decent spotting scope rather than just a nice pair of 15x56s. Anyway. I also thought we could sell that little trailer we have since we never use it and put that towards some binos. Anyway I can't wait to find out if we got the 36b tag and start scouting!
Love ya tons!
-Jake
THE SITES OF THE COUNTRY LANDSCAPE AROUND LAUREL, MONTANA
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