Staying Put

Its been another great week in Oakville! and it will be for another six weeks!

Transfer calls came Saturday night. They were really quick this time because no one in our zone is moving! We were really suprised (me especially, because I was almost certain that I would leave. I'm glad I'm not though, especially over the holidays). So at the end of the transfer I'll have been here for seven and a half months, my longest area. The ward was excited that all four of us were staying too. The mission is really excited, with the holidays and Elder Bednar next week, there is a lot to look forward to.

We were also able to see almost all of our investigators this past week. Margret is still coming and doing great. Hopefully she will have a date soon. Steve and Shelly are also doing great. Shelly more so, she is reading and praying everynight. Steve on the other hand is letting life get in the way. We have another apointment with them tomorrow and we're bringing over someone from the ward, so hopefully that'll help out a lot. TJ is doing well too. He and his mom came to church today with a bunch of their cousins. He has a date for the 21st (sunday) but we're planning on moving it back. We still have a little bit to teach him and we want them to be more consistant coming to church.

A couple of weeks ago we got a call from the office telling us that a teacher wanted us to come to her class and talk about our beliefs. We're going tomorrow morning. The best part is that it is a private Luthern School. Missionaries do things like this all the time, but this will be my first (I've had the opportunity, but have always passed it on to other missionaries). So it'll be an experience having to "go back to high school."

Mom-sounds like everyone is pretty busy, thats good though. Oh, we'll be moving back to the other Bankheads here pretty soon. not entirely sure when, but I'll let you know. Dad-wow 11 gallons! thats a ton. I'm sure it does good though.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you about our hunting adventure. So Pres. Bankhead is a big bow hunter. He goes out most nights to try and get a deer. Well, he hasn't had any luck yet this season. He is always telling us that one of these times he's going to need our help pulling out the deer. So last monday we were eating dinner with them and pres. Bankhead was late coming in. he finally hit something and so he came and got us. Thing is, is that it was dark when he shot it, he wasnt sure where he hit it, or where it fell. So we looked all over for it for a little while and were about to head in, when Elder Hendricks found some blood. We followed the blood trail for a while longer but then went in for the night (it was heading towards someones property and we didn't want to chase it any further if it was still up). So after some meetings in the morning we came back home to help him. We looked for a while longer but we eventually lost it.

Anyway, have another great week.
Love,
Elder Egan