Hello Everyone,
I hope you all are well. We've gotten a good amount of snow here in South Dakota this week, enough to cancel church on Sunday. That was too bad, but most of the branch lives out of town so there was no way for them to make it.
Elder Wilson and I were sick for most of last week but we're both on the mend. So last week was a little slow not being able to work as much, but I'm excited for this week, especially since we have zone conference on Thursday! I'm way excited. Except for the fact that 12 missionaries will be staying the night in our apartment, say goodbye to all our food! It'll be fun though...because I'll have my own bed, haha.
I wish I had more to report on this week but not too much happened. We did some good ol' deep cleaning in our apartment, and a member that is realy close with the missionaries came over and helped a little so we offered to help him clean his apartment. Lets just say that hes a 39 year old bachelor living in an old, apartment. Ya it was crazy. We filled up our vacuum in about a 10 square foot area. It was nuts, luckily its the kind that doesn't use a bag and you just empty the container. We still aren't done at his place but we're going to keep helping him and help him be more clean. The place reminds me somewhat of Aunt Toda's...though most you won't know what that means.
Anyway, I am so grateful to be able to serve. The Lord has so many blessings in store for us but we have to want them, and we have to strive for them. Action! Action! Action! The gospel is all about action and the Lord helps those who help themselves. Some people out there aren't able to help themselves, either they're too tired, or lost, or whatever, so we must help them as well. We're all in this together. Now let us go out and be the answer to someone's prayers!
Love,
Elder Fitt
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Hello From Watertown South Dakota!
Hello Everyone,
I hope all is going well. SO we had a pretty good week here in Watertown. It was fun meeting a ton of new people and terrible having to start driving in a grid based town, I hate grids! Anyway, I got to Watertown late Tuesday night because the transfer train was about 3 hours late. Actually I had to drive the truck that was following the transfer train, which turned out to be at least another hour late. So then I had to drive from Fargo to Sisseton, SD and drop off a greenie and pick up the guy he was replacing. Then we drove down to Watertown and got there about 10pm. It was a long day.
The apartment here is nice. Its good sized, but its always hot and we're in the basement! But its good. The weather is a bit warmer here than MN, but still cold. Its 0 degrees today but it has been in the 30's. My companion is a lot of fun. We get along well. His name is Elder Wilson and he's a convert of a few years, pretty awesome. I am missing people from Detroit Lakes but I have their information and will keep in touch with them.
I'm glad everyone liked the pictures...probably because they never see any so when the finally get some its awesome! Haha. Hopefully sharing the photobucket account will be helpful for others.
Man its hard to start talking about what happened because so much did! Hmm well we helped a part member, less active family get their house in order because of some stuff that is going on with them. It was pretty interesting, I cleaned so many dishes! It was nuts. They have a totally ghetto fireplace...it's just two 57 gallon drums that are attached together with a 1 foot tube. It's sitting right in the middle of their kitchen...ya totally not safe. But it puts out ridiculous amounts of heat.
We also went out teaching with a member named Walter, he was pretty cool. We found some new investigators in the process which could turn out to be pretty good. Their names are Rod and Theresa.
What else happened...we both got sick! Elder Wilson, my new companion, has been coughing and hacking for the past 4 days or so and I recently have had a really bad sore throat and things don't seem to be getting much better. We'll see what happens, I hope it goes away soon. And if not I guess I'll have to take advantage of that new-fangled stuff called medicine... psh who uses that anyway? Oh wait I do... since I've been getting massive headaches all week. Ibuprofen is amazing. But I'm not complaining, headaches are the norm.
Back to missionary work, church on Sunday was awesome! The members here are really cool. I'm excited to start working with them. The area is really neat. Watertown is the 4th largest city in South Dakota with a whopping 21,000 or so population! Thats smaller than EDH.
Anyway, I hope all is well and that you all got to see those pictures I sent out. The church is true!
Love,
Elder Fitt
I hope all is going well. SO we had a pretty good week here in Watertown. It was fun meeting a ton of new people and terrible having to start driving in a grid based town, I hate grids! Anyway, I got to Watertown late Tuesday night because the transfer train was about 3 hours late. Actually I had to drive the truck that was following the transfer train, which turned out to be at least another hour late. So then I had to drive from Fargo to Sisseton, SD and drop off a greenie and pick up the guy he was replacing. Then we drove down to Watertown and got there about 10pm. It was a long day.
The apartment here is nice. Its good sized, but its always hot and we're in the basement! But its good. The weather is a bit warmer here than MN, but still cold. Its 0 degrees today but it has been in the 30's. My companion is a lot of fun. We get along well. His name is Elder Wilson and he's a convert of a few years, pretty awesome. I am missing people from Detroit Lakes but I have their information and will keep in touch with them.
I'm glad everyone liked the pictures...probably because they never see any so when the finally get some its awesome! Haha. Hopefully sharing the photobucket account will be helpful for others.
Man its hard to start talking about what happened because so much did! Hmm well we helped a part member, less active family get their house in order because of some stuff that is going on with them. It was pretty interesting, I cleaned so many dishes! It was nuts. They have a totally ghetto fireplace...it's just two 57 gallon drums that are attached together with a 1 foot tube. It's sitting right in the middle of their kitchen...ya totally not safe. But it puts out ridiculous amounts of heat.
We also went out teaching with a member named Walter, he was pretty cool. We found some new investigators in the process which could turn out to be pretty good. Their names are Rod and Theresa.
What else happened...we both got sick! Elder Wilson, my new companion, has been coughing and hacking for the past 4 days or so and I recently have had a really bad sore throat and things don't seem to be getting much better. We'll see what happens, I hope it goes away soon. And if not I guess I'll have to take advantage of that new-fangled stuff called medicine... psh who uses that anyway? Oh wait I do... since I've been getting massive headaches all week. Ibuprofen is amazing. But I'm not complaining, headaches are the norm.
Back to missionary work, church on Sunday was awesome! The members here are really cool. I'm excited to start working with them. The area is really neat. Watertown is the 4th largest city in South Dakota with a whopping 21,000 or so population! Thats smaller than EDH.
Anyway, I hope all is well and that you all got to see those pictures I sent out. The church is true!
Love,
Elder Fitt
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