May 26, 2009 Happy Memorial Day!

Hello Everyone!
I hope you all had a great memorial day and that everyone is doing good. Ours was pretty good except the fact that we couldn't email because everything was closed! But it was fun. Its transfers week so we're getting all sorts of missionaries coming through town, which is always neat. I'm staying another transfer(at least) in Rapid City and I'll still be with Elder Davis. It's going to be a shorter transfer though, because President Cannon is gonna do one more transfer right before he goes home so the new mission president isn't overwhelmed the first day he gets here. So this transfer ends at the end of June, pretty crazy. But it'll be good.
The works been going well and we have another baptism coming up on Saturday for a boy named Ronald, I think I've talked about him before. Anyway, he's 14 or so and is excited to be baptized. His mom is a member but never had him baptized, though he's came to church for the past few years. So we're pretty excited about that.
Crazy story. The other night Elder Clark(a missionary in our apartment) was coming back inside the apartment complex when a guy who was obviously a little 'high' approached him. He had a ferret in his hands and said he had just found it in the parking lot, and he gave it to Elder Clark because he didn't know what to do with it. So he let it loose in the apartment and we had some fun. It was pretty funny too because we didn't know what to do with it at first, so we kept it in the bathroom, then the neighborhood stray cat stopped at our apartment(we named it Princess, haha, she stops by every week or so) and browsed around. She started smelling the ferret and camped outside the bathroom door for about 30 minutes. But eventually we kicked her out and put the ferret in a box for the night. The next day we gave it to a member who has 5 other ferrets. Well that was probably a boring story but it was pretty exciting for a missionary.
But ya, we're getting 2 new missionaries in our apartment, so it'll be an interesting transfer, hopefully we all get along well, probably will. The weather here has been really nice. Had a massive thunderstorm 2 nights ago and parts of the town got flooded, it was awesome. Elder Davis and I got some nice photos of the lightning. Its neat seeing actual lightning bolts, because back in California you rarely see them, they usually just light up the sky.
Another neat story. So Elder Davis and I were running really low on funds this money(I miscalculated the next time we received money for groceries) so yesterday I only had 10 dollars and I was low on everything so it wouldn't have been enough to live on for the next week, especially since we have only 2 dinners lined up. But we were in a store and there happened to be a member of the church there just passing through. He pulled us aside and introduced himself. Told us he has a son on a mission in South Africa and that since he wants his son to be fed out there, he has to do his part here. So he gave us 20 dollars for lunch! It was a great blessing, we were able to get all our groceries we needed and lunch with it too! So there's a testimony that going out on a mission will bless people's lives that you aren't even serving, even another missionary's live in a different mission. So that was really neat.
Well I love you all and hope everything is going well!
Love,
Elder Fitt