"This week, after hearing about how Ohio is doing weather wise, I am very grateful as to what is going on out here in the great Evergreen State. There have been two days now where it has snowed instead of rained, and a couple of people were really going crazy. I was just thinking the whole time 'shouldn't it be sticking by now?' Apparently, they do not get a lot of snow up here, which is not really what you would expect right? Thankfully it has not rained as much as it usually does. Everyone kept telling me that it was going to rain for the next seven months straight and I was never going to see the sun again. Well, they had an extremely wet winter last year so maybe it is going to not rain nearly as much this year. I can hope at least.
I am also very glad that I have a coat that can keep me warm though. Even if it is over three years old, it still does what it is supposed to and 40 degrees has not seemed that bad to me. This last Saturday, our zone did a nine to nine, which means that we all knocked doors from nine in the morning to nine at night. It was a very interesting experience as my companion and I spent the first seven hours on one street, and we could have kept going on that street for a couple more hours except we were getting hungry so we stopped for some subway. A member had given him a gift card in his last area so that was nice. Then we knocked with the zone leaders for a little over an hour.
Elder Enosa and I found this one lady who let us in and we ended up singing some hymns with her while she played the piano. It was way fun for me because I love doing that sort of thing and it was the first time that I had been able to do that for quite some time. We then tried to introduce her to the Book of Mormon, but she wasn't really interested in that. She did share a story with us about how she found a couple Jelly Fish (she lives on the shore) and that they were the big red ones. Way cool.
Almost forgot about Halloween. It was probably the most interesting one that I will ever have. For pretty much the whole day, till four, we helped this less active member set up her wedding. They had some sort of pagan hand binding ceremony with ferries and everything after the regular legal marriage thingy with the priest. Then after that, they had a masquerade party/reception because, hey, it's Halloween, so why not? And to top it all off, it was in a Masonic Temple. Like I said, very interesting. It probably would not have been as weird if I weren't a missionary, but people did stare a little bit as we were directing traffic in the parking lot.
Later in the evening, all of the missionaries in our zone gathered at the stake center and we played some cards (I won at spoons a lot), and we then watched a movie (The Best Two Years). One of the elders brought a big bowl of candy, which we all partook of. And I was the designated media specialist, because apparently it takes one of those in order to plug in a TV and put a DVD into the machine. I am just soooooo skilled.
I think that that is about it for this week, I think........well, anyway, don't forget to wash your hands after you flush!
Love from Elder Reed
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