Apologies for the lack of recent updates. Elder Wood is still in Bakersfield, focusing hard on the work, but his family has been away out of town without much computer access the past few weeks.
I'll try to give an overview of what we've learned over the past month or so. Elder Wood is enjoying the Brimhall Ward. There are wonderful families that he's gotten to know, and a couple of families that I believe he especially enjoys. The members of the ward treat the missionary well and invite them to dinner.
The missionary work proceeds a little slowly in Brimhall, since they don't have a lot of friends who are actively meeting with them. But they are working to get to know them and build their connections, both with those friends and with members of the ward.
A kind member of the ward, who is also an eye doctor, invited the missionaries to come in for reduced price eye exams and glasses. Elder Wood was happy to have some updated glasses, since he's been wearing the same ones for nearly two years now. They even came with clip-on sunglass lenses, which he kindly demonstrated for us in the photos. And speaking of photos, since it's been so long since the last update, I had to pull our four bird photos instead of two, since there were so many more options available.
The Brimhall area is technically a missionary bike area. However, given the onerous heat in Bakersfield recently (I believe the high was 116 this week, and it's triple digits pretty much all the time), they often do more walking than biking. The other elders in their apartment also share the car with them regularly, so they're sometimes able to get places via driving.
Overall Elder Wood seems happy and grateful to be able to be in the Bakersfield Mission and have the opportunity to serve there. I look forward to doing more regular blog posts for him going forward!
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| With his new glasses |
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| Showing off the sunglasses option |
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| Bird photo #1: A brown bird blending in |
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| Bird photo #2: A white bird on a fence |
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| Bird photo #3: A blue bird in a tree |
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| Bird photo #4: Multiple birds on the lawn! |
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