What's up my friends and fam!? another week in absolute paradise here. :) hah okay so that's not entirely true.. it's been an up and down kind of week. let me tell ya about it!
so first of all.. the heat has been setting records here. it's been 104, 102, etc. the past week or so. and we haven't had AC !!!! the room that we bunk in has 5 windows and 2 sliding glass doors.. two of the windows and 1 sliding door face south and then 2 windows and a sliding door face west.. anyways the sun just roasts our little home! i took a picture of this for you so i'll send it in a second but when we got home thursday-saturday night the temperature INSIDE our house was 96 degrees. that's not a joke... real life! we tin foiled the windows and that lowered the temperature inside by the end of the day to 94 degrees. we have 3 fans.. a ceiling fan, a desk fan/swamp cooler wanna be (that doesn't make the air cool) and then some inactive members gave us an ocsilating fan. with all three going all day and the windows foiled it still got to 94 degrees. so anyways, we got really small AC window unit from some other members and we got that installed last night. i say installed but it was pretty jerry-rigged... it is strung up from a nail in the roof and we have cardboard duct taped around it. after the night, we woke up this morning and it was 76 degrees and we were super stoked about that. so that's just one aspect of this week.. t'was haaawt!
next item of biz... :( we found out that Amy got a pretty scary health diagnosis. she is 40 and .. wait here's some background. her father passed away last year from a brain tumor. he got diagnosed in december and was on the other side by march i believe she said. she has the very same symptoms he had the year prior and his another appointment this week i guess to really figure out what's going on. we're praying hard for her but she's so scared! and she hasn't wanted to sit down with us in a while. we're hoping we can still teach her.. but more importantly we're hoping she gets good news this week. oh man. pray for her!
okay so the next item of business.. on a more positive note.. S and M are moving right along! hey they aren't perfect.. and we've worked with them pretty closely.. but they are making progress! we had a sentimental moment after a lesson with them on thursday i think it was. they had been working with missionaries in the last area that they were in and weren't making any progress at all.. and they told us they truly think the Lord influenced their move to Fallon so that we could help them get back on track. i Loved it! just smiled.. this is the Lords work and i've said it before but i feel like all i've got to do is show up! :) i'm so grateful to be working with them. they are awesome and makin progress.
we have found a few more investigators this week as well. one of which is "golden" as they say. she already had a friend in our ward give her a book of mormon/d&c/pearl of great price and a conference ensign just a week or so ago and she read the ensign already, and is in yellowstone on a vacation now intending to read the whole triple combo in a week. she's a history buff and a kindergarten teacher and already enjoys the way the book of mormon is written. she will be back from vacay next week and we'll be teaching her for sure. we instructed her on how to pray this week and helped her to understand (a little) of how to recognize the spirit. we have high hopes for her!
other investigators are still progressing, nobody has a baptismal date yet but we'll keep you posted on that.
okay, so here's some news for everybody!
Elder Osborn is headed to spring creek! he's transferring out of this area. Though you all know it was a tough transfer between us, i'm glad i had the time to spend with him. I learned a lot in the scriptures and he learned a lot about loving people. I don't want to be publicly negative but haha just so everyone understands what this transfer was like. I tried pretty hard to keep the peace between us but it didn't matter. he told people he didn't like me because i didn't give him a reason to like me. i couldn't believe it! he was talking poorly about me while i was playing basketball to a bunch of the missionaries that weren't playing and they all stuck up for me and kinda put him in his place that it wasn't cool to talk bad about people. since that time we haven't really talked that much. anyway! hope nobody get's upset that im tellin you all this. i learned a lot from him and he claims to have learned a lot from me, but we are both looking forward to the next chapter in our missionary service...
for me, I've been assigned to train a new missionary! at first i felt a little bit overwhelmed having just finished my training but i understand that this was an inspired decision. If the Lord trusts me with a new missionary, I will put my trust in him to guide me as a trainer. :) i'll find out tomorrow who i'm training and all that good stuff. i'm excited and i hope that i'm ready for the task ahead.!
okay so i think that's all for this week. here's something ya'll might like. my companion just told every missionary in our district that i have a bad sense of humor. we all email on laptops at the library at the same table and hah i don't even know how it came up but he was like.. "elder sykes isn't mean.. he just has a bad sense of humor..." for his sake i'm glad he is being transferred so that he can find a companion with a good sense of humor.
okay so i'll just tell y'all, i've never been happier in my life! even though this transfer was kind of brutal, it was a learning experience for the road ahead. the church is true and this is the Lord's work! i'm so grateful to be a part of it. :) thanks for the love this week family! got the care package, letters from don and steph and nick and grandma and grandpa. love you all and i think about you often! i've been out of stamps so i'm going to get some more today so i can write you all back. i hope you all have a fantastic week. love and miss,
-Elder Sykes
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