This week was pretty interesting.
On P day we did some normal things that we do. With the exception that President Hill, the elders quorum president invited us over to his house for sloppy Joe's and to help him sort through literally tens of thousands of sports cards that he inherited from a member of our ward that passed away recently. It was mostly baseball cards but he had stacks of football, basketball, hockey, soccer, WWE, and women's basketball and some other weird things like rowing. It was good except that a few days earlier I was harassing a cat at a member's home and it attacked my finger leaving a deep and clean wound on the end of my index finger that made thumbing through cards a little painful.
That following Wednesday we helped brother Smith at his new house in Newark VT. Half of his house didn't have a foundation so he ripped out the walls and dug a trench where he built some concrete forms for an actual foundation. So we were poring a foundation for this home that was help up mostly by 2x6 boards that were drilled into the roof and resting on the ground. Only 1 other guy showed up and we had to wait about 45 minutes for the truck to show up. Hoping it wouldn't get stuck in the snow on the way up. It was also about 15 degrees and that was pretty terrible. The good news is that it got done. I don't think we were really all that helpful though. I don't know too much about construction, but I think I know now why people generally wait to do that kind of thing until summer.
Really the rest of the week was pretty normal. Thursday we went to Littleton, Friday we taught Austin over Skype and we had to go to Montpelier for a Zone Leadership meeting. That was kinda lame.
We went on exchange with the zone leaders. That was pretty fun. It snowed quite a bit on Tuesday.
Saturday was pretty good. We did service at a thrift store in the morning, drove to Littleton to get a return appointment. Found 3 new people in the space of an hour and drove all the way back to the chapel for Austin and Justin's baptism. It was pretty great.
I had the opportunity to baptize both Austin and Justin which was pretty cool. That was the first time that I had ever baptized anybody so even better.
I know that this work is true and that the Savior loves us. We can share that love as we serve people and have patience with them and ourselves I hope that you all know that I love you lots and hope you have a great week!
Elder Connor Starr
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