Season 8 Episode 6, July 11, 2016

To start things off, we had a killer week. We got our transfer news. I am going to be training a new missionary. It is going to be really fun. Kinda overwhelming at first! I am staying in an area that I haven't been in for very long. This transfer is nuts I am now going to be a district leader, and training -- that is really crazy.
Monday was the Fourth of July. We got to stay out and watch fireworks. We were invited to 2 BBQS. It was really cool. We ate, then were able to stay out and watch fireworks. Camas goes crazy!!! It is like a battle zone.

Basketball playing fun...notice the position of the tie...So funny!

Tuesday-
We did service for a little old lady that broke both her arms. She is a really good gardener and since the injury she hasn't been able to weed. We did it and it looks great. Then we had a good lesson with a less active. She is going through some hard times right now.
Wednesday-
We had our last district meeting. Then we ran into the problem of everyone being out of town. Seriously, since people have some money here they all leave for the summer!
Thursday-
About the same as Wednesday... nothing really crazy happened. We just went
out and worked hard.
Friday-
This was maybe the weirdest thing that has ever happened. I thought I was done with the weirdos because I was here in Camas. But no, they find us! We started off talking to this lady. She was a really nice lady. So we started talking about prayer and it was really good. She then told us that she was a psychic and a Christian. So I thought, what in the world is that? We were actually having a good lesson and out of nowhere there was another lady who looks like Professor Trelawney from Harry Potter.

Professor Trelawney

These ladies greeted each other and the greeting they gave each other was really weird. Then Trelawney starts talking and totally takes control of the conversation. She starts talking to us about this church that’s a psychic church. The she turns to Elder Merkley and says,  “You have such
a sweet spirit.”  And turns to me and says,”You too.”  She then talked for a while and came really close to us and said, " You are going to have a dramatic experience, you will see the face of the Lord. You will see it and he wants you to know he loves you, he LOVES YOU!" Very weird!!!!!  After that we were trying to get out of there! We said a prayer and the she said a prayer with a lot of weird stuff and dancing. So now I have officially received a psychic vision.
Saturday-
We did some really cool service for a guy. We were driving down after our dinner appointment a few days earlier. And this guy waved us down and asked if we could help. So we helped him with putting some stuff on all the wood in the house because it is getting painted. So as we did that, we were looking for opportunities to teach him during the service, but it wasn't there at first.  So we finally were able to share a cool message with him. We were stoked.
Sunday-
So our usual Sunday is church which lasts from 8-5.  Yesterday it was from
6:30-5! It was nuts! It was a very good meeting though.
Love,
Elder Astle

Love,
Elder Astle

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