Hey!!! This week was awesome! We had a training meeting on Monday down in Enid, so that was a long drive! But, for pday it was super awesome! We went to the Gloss Mountains on the way to Enid and hiked them! Ah, it was so great to hike and go up in elevation. :) (It was probably only about 600 feet higher, but that's a lot in Oklahoma) We did what normal people did and threw gigantic rocks off the cliffs and watched them bounce! It was crazy! I could see all of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas! (not really, but that's how flat Oklahoma is) I'll send some pictures next week! We slept over at the Zone Leaders apartment in Enid, and that was super fun! Some missionaries made some yeast root beer, and it was terrible! It smelled like sewer and root beer! And you'd take off the cap and it would sound like a gun went off and smoke would come off the bottle! Anyways! Tuesday we drove back to Alva and my companions both packed up while I cleaned up the apartment! Then we had a lesson with S___ real quick (more of a goodbye) and then we left for OKC for transfers on Wednesday! We slept at some missionaries apartment in OKC and I knew both the elders, and so it was great to see them again! Wednesday I got my new companions! In the meeting where I got my greenie, you could just see the shock in his eyes, and then his eyes kinda glazed over because of the shock! His name is Elder Hoyle! Then my other
companion is Elder Morgan! He's also pretty awesome! He's been out for 3 months! Ya, poor Elder Hoyle! The whole day Wednesday he was just in shock! We were at transfers and about ready to go, then I saw some other missionaries that we're going home that I've served around my whole mission, so naturally I had to say goodbye! And I kept getting distracted talking to other missionaries I knew. Anyways! We went and got Little Caesars and realized we needed a park to go eat it at! So we drove to Mustang where I knew a park was and ate there! Then the drive back to Alva!! Yay! Elder Hoyle was so tired! He knocked out an hour into the drive, head leaned all the way back against the window, mouth open and nothing could wake him up! It was pretty funny! We dropped off some other missionaries in Watonga, then stopped in Carmen! It was way fun there! Super small town! Got Elder Morgan and Elder Hoyle unpacked and Elder Hoyle I think went back into shock when we went shopping for food and he realized he needed to cook for himself and that it cost money for food! It was fun! Helping him along though :) At Walmart a member stopped us, and asked if we wanted Pizza Hut, so we met him there! That was a blessing! Thursday it rained a lot! Then we decided to go see this Inactive family in the middle of nowhere, and so we were driving and we missed the turnoff and it was a dirt road, but I wasn't sure if we were still going the right way! Dirt+water=mud...Mud+truck =a lot of Fun! I didn't intentionally go mudding, and we tried to be nice to the truck, but man, we were sliding everywhere and got a lot of mud on our truck! We got to the Less actives house finally and super nice big house and we knocked on the door (I had never met them) and it opens up and a full blooded German Shepherd ran out and barked, and looked like it was going to bite my face off! Luckily, it was nice, but instead of Elder Hoyle in shock, it was me, and I stood there for a second frozen! I really don't like dogs on the mission! At the persons house
I shared a scripture talked about church, made a few comments, and then we left! She fed us dinner though! Grilled chicken and stuffing! We had some amazing lessons though! But here I am out of time! Next week :) I love y'all! This work is the Lords, and he seems to be doing it all :)! Miracles happen everyday! We committed quite a few people to baptism! Elder Brandon Wheelwright
