Hello Everybody!
K well its super cold today. 2 days ago they were saying this storm would be here saturday night and we would get 4-8 inches of snow during the night. So naturally every church in the area cancelled, except ours of course! But then that morning I looked outside and there wasnt any snow and it was raining. Lame sauce. Oh and side note, we have been with Elder Stohle since thursday cuz his companion, Elder Evans, is the new assistant to the President. So we have been at his appartment and we've had a car for the past 4 days! Its been awesome! Oh and I am not being transferred. Elder Crook is going to Berea Kentucky. I will be getting my new companion tomorrow! President Woodbury said he is putting me with a good young missionary and we will get along great. So Im pretty excited about that. So Im here for at least another 6 weeks. Maybe longer! Anyways so back to the storm. Sunday it was just raining all day. We had 1 appoinment and the rest of the day we drove around to our investigators and members because Elder Crook wanted to say bye to them. Then last night the real storm hit. As soon as it started snowing and blowing all of the schools cancelled for today. We were eating at Steve and Coleens house and they had the news on and every school in the area was closed. Its so funny. They get an inch of snow and schools close. But its not the snow thats the bad part of this storm, its the cold and the wind. The high is 1 and the wind chill in supposed to be -30. So yeah I guess the schools had a pretty good reason to cancel. President Woodbury told all the missionaries to just stay inside all day today and tonight. So we are just hanging out at the club house all day today Emailing, playing pool, and working out. Gonna be a great day haha.
K so The best thing that happened this week was that we set a Baptism date with Steve! Coleen still doesn't want to be Baptized yet but she will support Steve. He gave up coffee and tea, which is awesome and amazing, and he will be Baptized on the 18th! Gonna be sooooo awesome!
I have honestly gotten to the point where I LOVE being on a mission. Being a part of this great work has brought such great joy to me. I've just gotten to the point where I'm just....Happy. All the time. I don't have to wait to be happy until we have an awesome lesson or find a new invesstigator, I can just be happy all the time. Im happy that I get to serve the Lord. Im happy that I get to work every day. Im happy that I can bring the gosple to people. Im happy that I have a family back home supporting me. I'm just happy. My Dad always told me, you choose to be happy, no one else can make you happy but you can choose to be happy. And that is so true. We expect the things around us in the world to make us happy. But its our families that bring happiness and the Gosple. True happiness comes from those things and serving the lord. You want to be happy? Serve others and the Lord.
So don't be too worried about me, Im doing great! I love being a missionary. And I don't get enough time to do this but Ill work my hardest with the time I have!
I love and Miss you all!
Elder Eastin
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