Week 29 (Lone Pine)

Elder Wood reports that this was a good week, although I didn't get a lot of details beyond that they were able to teach some lessons that went well. I think one friend, Holly, has come to church a couple times but had surgery recently so hasn't been able to. Hopefully she'll be feeling better soon!

In interesting mainly to missionaries news, transfers are changing from Tuesdays to Fridays. But the next one still isn't for several weeks, and it doesn't (at least for now) have any impact on his Preparation Day when we talk to him. Just the day that new missionaries get sent to their mission from the MTC, and therefore the day that they change up companionships during transfers.

They had a fair amount of driving this week, as they do most weeks. They spent two days in Ridgecrest, where their zone leaders live, since there was a Zone Conference this week. I enjoy those, since we get pictures from the mission Facebook page, so I get some nice shots to include. And they had to drive up to Bishop to get their car an oil change. They were able to do that in conjunction with their regular weekly trip to Bishop for some service that they do, so I guess that wasn't any extra driving.

For Pday this week, they met the other companionship in Big Pine, which is roughly halfway between their area in Lone Pine, and the other one in Bishop. They did some outdoor games, including some basketball, and Kubb (a yard game that Elder Wood had us send him the pieces for back in Mojave). He and his companion drove out a little west of Lone Pine into the mountains to do some filming of the companion for his Facebook intro; I was able to get this nice still shot of him below with the rocks in the background.

A photo of everyone at Zone Conference. Elder Wood is back row, 6th from the right 

Candid shot from the lunch after Zone Conference. I'm not sure who the other missionaries are.

This is from their golf P-Day last Monday, but the picture didn't come through in time. Elders Wolfley, Wood, Wright, and I think Davis.

His companion Elder Wright

Bird photo: I was able to spot 4 birds in the tree, but there are probably more than that.