Moments from a Missionary

Sorry we didn't email today, we were volunteering with the emergency management team, distributing water...we will likely email tomorrow. W e were distributing water from 7am to 7pm. W e will be with out water for two more days. love you it has been a great week exciting things to share -ART We have had another day of filling water, with the city, this time inside at the National Guard Armory...They must trust us to get the work done, because they just left us here with the two 7,500 gallon tankers all day  today from 7:00am to 7:00pm , I am sending this from one of the national guard computers, in a slow pitch of no people. The city water treatment plant resumed operation at  7:00pm  last night and water reached it's first consumers who live in the lower elevation areas today around 6:00am however it hasn't been officially deemed drinkable and won't be till  Wednesday  night (48 hours from when the water treatment plant resumed operation)...

​ A tough morning last week leaving Prestonsburg...I don't know if any place else will ever live up to the mark that this little town in the mountains of Kentucky left on my heart forever. Miss everyone in this great state. saying bye (for now) to my dearest Elder The BOLT! Cluff! love you man, #best tag team God ever put together.   As sad as I was to leave Prestonsburg, it was really good to see some of my old friends from Parkersburg again and our super district. (left to right; Me, Elder Myers! Elder Chevelier, Elder Thompson, Elder Numbers) I served around each of these Elders in Parkersburg and it was a blast to see and catch up with all of them again! I was also able to say bye to my favorite Zone Leader Elder Fielding, rest in peace, and may your legend live on!  (Death, in Mission speak means he went home) Elder Cheveliear was actually the missionary who found Debra L again and was ecstatic to learn that she had been baptized.   ​Elder Myers ...

Dearest All "It is time for you to treasure up your wonderful memories with Elder Cluff and to look forward with great anticipation to the marvelous experiences that are still before you." - Pops Thank you Pops for your encouraging words...I think he phrased it best, with the attitude I am trying very hard to take, with a very difficult and unexpected transfer, I am not spiritually or emotionally prepared to leave Prestonsburg Kentucky at all. I am having a harder time in the past day since I learned I was leaving, than I had in the days and weeks before I left for the MTC. So many people, places and culture I have come to love here that I did not expect to have to say goodbye too so soon. Never the less as Prestsonsburg and my superior companionship with Elder Cluff come to a close I trust that the lord has work for me to do in White Sulfur Springs West Virginia (Home of the Green Briar.) I am told even though it is in West Virginia according to Preside...

Harmonie: Elder Wheeler didn't say a whole this week. He was actually quite sick so he was a day late emailing and mostly only sent a few responses to my email. And no pics:( This is what he said: Elder Wheeler:  I am fully recovered...It was food poisoning, from a wedding reception we went to...17 other members of the ward and a number of other people from the visiting wards have the same symptoms...including the bride and groom...no fun. but after I finally vomited last night around midnight 9 times! I felt so much better...It was gnarly...and I am eating solid food again. the ward was very good at checking in on us, both sister S and T kept us from going too stir crazy and the Winns brought us all the sick supplies we needed. Harmonie:  In response to my question, How is everyone after the call home on Christmas? Elder Wheeler:  Elder Cluff and I were a little trunked out for a few hours, nothing serious, just thinking of home, but were ba...