Once again, my mom reminded me that I haven't been sending out enough "weekly" emails. So I guess this may cover the last little bit.
About
a month or so back, we got to visit Arizona together and spend time
with our cousins out there. It was a great time, we had a baking
competition, a pool party, a belated birthday for our mom, and got to
pet emus through a strange visit with a friend of the Brinkerhof's. I
got a brief visit with grandma Battraw, where there was a nice talk of
her recent family history trip and a tour of things through the house.
The
Fourth of July around here was nice, we had a trip to Connor Prairie, a
fun smores roaster, and a nice evening at home. We thought we would be
able to see a fireworks show from a nearby park, but we couldn't see too
much of it, so fireworks weren't the most exciting part of that.
In
service, there have been some nice opportunities lately to serve
outside of the normal scheduled assignments. Most of the district got to
help a nonmember woman move things out of her house, helping an elderly
lady with gardening, and one activity that looks like it may become a
district activity. Things have been going really well with service and I
think I've been able to find greater joy in the Work.
In less
pleasant news, I found that the weird grinding noise coming from my car
as I drove it, was in fact, not a good thing. Just yesterday I started
driving, then noticed that my brakes hardly worked. I quickly tried to
return home, then tried to fill the car's brake fluid to see if that was
the problem, which it wasn't. After contacting a member of the ward, he
helped me with the car, and it looks like one of the brake pads is just
about gone. Also, the strange liquid dripping from my car wasn't water.
It was brake fluid.
Well, that's most of the news from this
end. Mom has occasionally tried to remind me that my mission may be
ending soon and that I may need to start thinking about my future,
but... uhh... been out for about twenty months, so... I'd say that I'm
almost halfway through. Plenty of time left!...right?
