Oakville

Its been another great week in Oakville!

We've been running around all week. Our area was split in two, so there are four of us in the ward, and we've been trying to find them places to live, and get them all situated. But after a full weekend we were able to settle down. On Friday, we had our last Zone Leader Council with Pres. Briggs. It was really good and we were able to discuss a lot of things going on. Then when we got home we started to do our zone planning. About half way through it though, we got a call from Pres. Briggs. He said that there was a big scouting thing going on at Forest Park (I think its the biggest park in the country, even bigger than the one in NY) and that he needed all the Elders in the zone to be there to volunteer. You can imagine the pain that caused. Everyone having to cancel appointments and so on. After a lot of stressing and worrying about it though it went really well and everyone got there.

So Oakville is a lot like Chesterfield. We live with the Bankheads. They have three sons, Christian (18), and Samuel and Spencer (15, twins). Bro. Bankhead is an Orthodontist and has 6+ offices. Needless to say, we live in a really nice place. Christian is really neat though, he comes down and hangs with us when we're home.

Since the area got split, all of the people that were being taught in the ward are on the other side of our line. So we are going to be doing a lot of finding, luckily I've been doing that for 13 months. You'd think that by now I'd be good at it or something, guess not. The other two elders in our ward are great though. Elder Ipsen has been a Zone Leader for about a year before he came here and his companion, Elder Hendricks, is fresh from the MTC. They're both great though and fun to serve around.

Dad-there are ten companionships in the Zone, so a little smaller than Columbia. Geography wise, we are really small. most of the areas are 20ish minutes away so not too much driving.

Josh-sounds like a lot of fun and a good way to end the year.

Anyway love you lots,
Elder Egan