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What an awesome letter! AND WE TOOK STATE IN BASKETBALL WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!! That hasn't happened forever!!!!!!!!!!!! EXCITING! So to answer some of your questions, sister Craypo sees me at transfers and randomly asked me what mom's phone number was so I gave it to her. :) My new companion is elder Homer from Sandy, Utah. I am actually a transfer ahead of him so I'm senior companion and I drive and whatnot but he just got made the district leader so its been fun to see him already start to grow from that. :) Man I feel so ancient I've been out for almost eight months!!! Indianola is almost exactly like Waverly! Like same size, same feel, everything I love it already! Oh and we live in a member's house and its really nice! The member actually just got put in a nursing home but she still lets us live here. :) The branch is awesome we have probably about 40-50 active members and they are all spiritual powerhouses!! The district is awesome we've got a bunch of great guys! There is us, the Knoxville elders, the Centerville elders (their branch is so small that they meet in a barn for church! Awesome!), and the Oskaloosa zone leaders!
Haha so on Monday our entire complex's heat went out so that was freezing! We were able to meet with William and answer a lot of his basic questions which he has been wondering about forever and that was really good to be able to do that. That evening, we were visiting Madison when the phone started ringing and I look at it and it says "AP Elder Cleverly." Elder Deeds and I just looked at each other and we were both like, "Ohhhhhh boyyyyy." So I answered it and then he told us that Deeds was staying and I was getting transferred. :( But the good news is that night the heat came back on in our apartment! :D Tuesday, we went and said goodbye to Curtis. It was kinda sad and the poor guy started crying. :( I'm gonna miss him he is so awesome! Two random stories real fast! So, we were doing some tracting and at one door this big black lady answers the door and says, "I don't care who you are or what u sellin'! So you can just take yoself outta here!" And then she slammed the door! Oh the people you meet on your mission! :) Later, we were knocking and we met this guy whose name was....Ant! He was a super chill guy and REALLY into nature! Hahahaha that was one of the most interesting conversations I've ever had in my life trying to tell him about Jesus Christ while he tried to tell us about how nature is better. :) On Wednesday, Brother Vaughn took us to The Latin King, which is a reeeeally nice Italian place, and gave me a going away lunch! He also gave me a really cool painting that had the letter L made out of flowers and all this other cool stuff. Man I'm gonna miss brother vaughn too! He is just awesome. At the church, it was p-day, we were all signing each other's little books and whatnot and it was just a blast but sad seeing everyone in my zone for the last time. :) THURSDAY WAS TRANSFERS!
Brother Huermann (an older guy in our ward) took us down to Iowa City and fed us IHOP for breakfast! And at transfers I saw elder Hollan and elder Curless! Elder Hollan is in Quincy, Illinois and elder Curless got made district leader in Dubuque! :D I got put with elder Homer and we went to Indianola! We went and had dinner at the Johnson's home and they fed us amazing fried chicken! They are legit and I love them already! Friday, we went to go see a potential investigator named Sam (a nice Asian lady) but we ended up talking to her (American) husband Dustin instead. He let us right in and we just answered A LOT of questions that he had about "Mormonism" and it went really well. We just simply bore testimony at the end and invited him to read the pamphlet and pray about it. He said he would do that and he'd call us if he wanted to meet again so fingers crossed! We then went and met with Christian Whipple (an inactive member) and his girlfriend and we were able to just have a simple discussion with him and try to see if we could help them come back to church. Oh and randomly half the power in Indianola went out for a couple of hours because someone crashed into a power transformer! Hahaha what the dump Iowa?! On Saturday we had a get-to-know you district meeting in Knoxville (about 30 minutes away) and that was hilarious! Our district is just fun! When we got back we went and saw Nathan, a potential, and that was pretty much just a bash. He didn't believe in the Priesthood and his perspective on it was kinda weird and we tried to make it not a debate. It was good though and I hope we answered his questions alright. We then went and tried by john Weir ( a former) and that was just plain weird! We tried talking to him but he would just sit there and give us one word answers and stare at us. Awkward.........it was really weird. Then we were able to go teach the Plan of Salvation to Gerald Conklin ("Conk") and that was really good. He is about 90 years old and a really nice guy. When we reached the part about the spirit world, he just broke down and started crying because he lost his wife about a month ago. It was really sad. On Sunday we had an AWESOME fast and testimony meeting! There are a bunch of members that are spiritual powerhouses in Indianola!!! And then inSunday School we talked about The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 and it was awesome! Hahaha in Elder's Quorum the lesson was on strengthening your marriage so elder Homer and I didn't really contribute much. :) Later that day we were knocking and on one of the houses this big college-age guy opens the door and then says "Come on in!" So we did! His name is Joey and he lives with his parents Dawn and Chris. They were extremely nice and we talked to them for a while. :) They even gave us sugar cookie bars which were amazing! They politely declined our invitation, they are devout Catholics they said, but it was just so nice to be able to talk to some really good, humble people! :) And that was the week!
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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