McMinnville

so i went to go get my haircut yesterday, and we walked in and it was totally a Mexican salon. who would of thought. so when it comes my turn i tell her what i want and point to a picture of what i want my hair to look like, and then next thing i know she grabbed the electric cutters and took off some hair on the side, turned me around. and said "like this? You want it shorter?".. and to my surprise basically that side of my head was super short.. and so i just said "yep, that length is just fine but no shorter".. but i don't really think it mattered.. needless to say, it didn't go so good. my hair looks like the typical teenage Mexican boy with uneven spots and so on. and doesn't look anything like the picture...oh well.. im so glad that hair grows out after awhile.. also we are going golfing next week so we thought we might as well have a theme. retro golfing. i got these nasty brown plaid bell bottoms with this seventies pink button up shirt. and one of those old school hats. it is going to be so awesome. also. elder Adams grandma worked with Dad up in Ogden. unless there was another Jay Garlock up there 10 or so years ago when we lived in Layton.. talk about a small world eh. she said that he was very nice guy.

the work

the work is good, there are a lot of really nice members and we have a great branch. at the same time we have a lot of less actives and a lot of fixing up to do.. Alot.. as of right now we are trying to gain the trust of the members because we all know that without that we can't do anything. they love us but they just don't know why we are here frankly and what their role as members are.. they need to understand that the branch is not going to grow or improve if they can't even keep the commandments within their home. can you see the process.. because they aren't keeping the commandments the branch isn't doing so hot. and they need to realize that.. and it is soooo hard because as missionaries you just want to be bold and tell it how it is but you just cant because it WILL offend them. this is exactly what happened not too long ago.. so we have to be bold but kind of in a loving different way.. we have some work to do here, I'm still excited.

Love to see change

so many things happened this past week, straight to the good stuff..ok so we had weekly planning. long story short we pray to see how many people we can prepare to be baptized six weeks from that day. we got six for an answer. so we followed it. we were on exchanges with another missionary that didn't really believe that we could do it, and had doubt. so the next day we visit this family and get 5 baptismal dates for the date that we planed. they still have one more child that could be baptized.. it was so awesome to see the numbers become names. we also got another baptismal date for the week right before the first one. it was a fantastic week. and yes i did get transferred and it was very hard to leave because i love all of our investigators and ward members. we were starting to get a lot of success, but i must say that i already love my new area and companion. I'm serving in McMinnville,(in our area we have this huge airplane museum, and i about wet my pants when i saw it, so awesome) and my companion is elder Adams. i am super excited. we have a lot of work ahead of us. but i am excited to see the change that we are going to make.. its always.. ALWAYS so satisfying to see the results of your hard work whether it being cooking, cleaning, fixing cars, creating something. the change within and in the changing of other people. i love being able to see the change in things.

love you guys much.