March 2, 2015

Hey Family,

So transfers happened and Me and Elder Gardner are both staying in Cherry Hills! Haha I've been here for a whopping 6 months and I love it!! That's sweet that Ann can try out for Vykelles this year, I heard Riss is trying out for SYTYCD this next week! Crazy! I remember playing golf for Viewmont in Junior High, it was the best!! This week was good we did get a ton of snow and it was awesome!! I usually don't like snow but I miss it and I've always dreamed of doing missionary work in the snow so that was awesome! We taught more lessons than usual which is always great, we didn't get any new investigators which was kind of a bummer. We are still teaching Sarah Loy whose baptism date is on the 14th! She is only 13 and she just went through a concussion so she has a tough time comprehending a lot of the stuff we teach, so this week Elder Gardner and I got a bunch of props together and got some of the young women in the ward to come with us and acted out 1Nephi 3 and 4 where Nephi and his brothers have to go back and get the plates from Laban! Haha it was goofy but it helped her understand it so that was good! And Sarah's mom Cheryl is actually thinking about baptism too so that's good, we are hoping to set a bap date with her soon! We also started teaching this less active guy who wants to start taking the discussions because he has problems with alcohol and smoking and some other stuff, so we went over there on Saturday to teach him and he was drunk out of his mind! He answered the door and he thought it was 2 in the morning but it was 8 at night... So we went in and just talked to him for a while and his house was a complete wreck, there were probably 50 cigarettes on the ground no kidding, and there was trash everywhere and it reeked like smoke in there, so we just decided to save the lesson for another time and just talked to him! Raina came to church this week which we were pumped about, and we have an appointment scheduled with Rudd for next week so that should go well! But that's about it for my week! I love you all and I am loving it out here!! Keep doing the right things, and keep reading that Book of Mormon! Talk to you next week!

Love Elder Summerhays

                                We got snow, reminds me of home