Getting Over the Hump

Not much has happened this week. We had a big meeting Tuesday down in Now Orleans and that was fun, but the sad thing is there is this senior couple that I am in love with and they are leaving soon. They were in my first area and I really connected with them.  They gave there final parting words and it was the best to be able to see them and talk to them again.!!!! I am really going to miss them! After the meeting we went to Panda Express ya, and then got home around 7 so it was a full day! The rest of the week was just the same as all of the other days here, so not much new to report here! My comp was sick Saturday and Sunday so that was not fun lol, but he is better now! Anyway love you all have a good week, don't hate me for the crappy letter.

Love,

 Elder Gordon

!0 more months to go!

Hey y'all, sorry about last week, I will recap for you on life down here. The weather the last two weeks has been in the mid 80's with no humidity which is the best!!!!!! But it has started to get hotter now :(  there is this thing that my comp and I do, we go to the park and play chess and read scriptures and it's really fun! We talk to people that come by and it's just fun!! He has yet to beat me!!!! (YET) Then we go see the people we see, and then tract. That is the story about my life right now. We went to umcor (united Methodist committee on relief) the last two Saturday's and will be going again this Saturday to do service work and it's really fun, I about killed myself just last Saturday we got there and they asked us to unload a truck full of 5 gallon buckets and wow that sucked but we got it done!! I spoke in church last week, that was fun I was asked the night before, but it went well!! Other then that life is good just got to keep going!!!!! One of the elders spoke just this last Sunday and he spoke on pride and how its the root of all evil!  Anyway love you all have a good week!

Love,

 Elder Gordon

Lots of Rain

OK so what a odd week for sure!!!!!! Monday we went to Homa to kick it with the other missionaries over there and wow they have a fun group for sure, we played dodge ball, and volleyball it was fun! It also rained like I have never seen before and it was scary because my companion was driving and I was just sitting in the passenger seat there peeing my pants out of fear of going into the ditch!  Tuesday was nothing new until we got a call from our mission president and he had told us that he was worried about the storm surges (a rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind associated with a storm) because our apartment sits at 2 feet above sea level and the storm surges were going to be 4 feet, so he wanted us to drive up to Baton Rouge right then and there to stay the night (better safe then sorry right) so we did and we had a fun day up there, we got to go see some members since it was one of my old wards that I served in! Then we stayed the night and left in the morning. 

Ok so there was this fair that started Friday it was the shrimp and petroleum festival so we went and passed out cards but we really just ended up walking around and talking to the venders about what they were selling and where they were from and it was really cool, there was this one guy selling fire pits made out of old propane tanks and he would cut in really cool designs into them and one of them I wanted it was the death star and it was awesome but it was also like 3 grand  so ya!!!! but it was just so cool to see all the art.  Then we got some alligator's PO-boys it was way good, Sunday we went to church where we had 13 people in total and by 3rd hour we had 4 people that includes the branch presidency, not us but ya!!!!! All in all we had a good fun week, anyway love you all have a good week.

Love Elder Gordon