November 7, 2011-Email

Hey how are things going for you guys?
I'm doing good today, i'm actually up in norman at the library in ou emailing today. We have another zone pday up here so we came up early to email here and to walk around and then later on today we are going to a museum here and then playing something at the stake center when we get done. Then i believe we have a meeting after all of that for a little while. This week has been really good, well it was bad and good at the same time. It started off with some good lessons at the start of the week, then on friday we had a huge bomb of a lesson. It went horrible nothing worked right and he started asking deep questions and we tried to help answer it but it was just going downhill from there. So we hurrried and tried to end it before we do to much damage. So we left and went back to another lesson and that one fell through, but amazingly enough we ended up after dinner having a really good lesson with one of our newer investigators. That was actually a really good lesson and he said he reallly enjoyed it and learned alot. Then after that we went back home and just called it a night. The next day we went to go and help a member roof their house and that was a blast. Funny enough it was except for the last 2 hours that really wasn't to fun. We got over there about 7 in the morning started took an hour for lunch and then went back to it till about 7:30 ish and then we called it and we took off home and colapsed for the night. We took off i think about 5 or 6 layers of shingles and then put all the paper down on the roof and shingled about half of it and then i couldn't move anymore. After about 5 or 6 hours my hand had conformed to the shovels and the hammer and i could barley open it all the way. And my whole body was sore i think i carried about 20 packs of shingles up on the roof so my shoulders hurt and my back was killing so i was super sore after that. The next day i woke up and i tried to sit up and my whole body hurt it was funny but we got up and got ready and studied and went to the chruch for stake conference. Here they broadcast it to all the buildings so that you don't have to go up to norman to the stake center if you don't want to. I think its pretty cool. We got there and were suppose to have one of our investigators come but she didn't so we were disappointed but then all of a suddent he guy we bombed the lesson with showed up with his wife who is a member. Thats the first time i've seen him at church since i've been here so that was a big relief! So after that we went to dinner 45 min away in a small little town. Then we came back just in time for a lesson, which went really well and she is getting excited for baptism. We haven't set another date with her yet but it will probably be the first weekend in december. Then we went back over and had a 100% better lesson with the guy who showed up to church. We found out a lot more about him and his background and tried to listen and teach instead of just talking at him, which worked a lot better. So it kind of had a bad day but it ended up being ok in the end. They got the roof almost finished yesterday i think they have just a little bit left. Stake Conference was really good i was surprised. So thats basically who we are working with right now. We have one is pretty solid and will be baptized sometime, and then another who will probably be baptized sometime in december or january. Which is sad that i am going to miss that. The kitchen look good i didn't even recongize it at all. I'm getting excited and also not wanting to come home. Thats about all the big news for this week not much else is going on this week should be fun also. Thats to bad about the furnace. Hope you can get it fixed pretty soon. Our heater works great and we stay plenty warm. i don't have any pictures right now but i will sometime i'm sure. I'll send home some more when i can. so what kind of a couch are you going to get? Well i have to go and do some other stuff. Talk to you y'all next week!
Love you
Elder Downs