Earth. Water. Fire. Air.
Long ago; the four nations lived in harmony but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. I was going to come up with something cute for that, and kinda parody it, but I’m lazy, and typing this up on my phone, so yeah.Without further ado, let’s get the list for this week going! (Don’t forget to like and subscribe)
10: I’m finally here! Ya boi’ s in Oregon! After a nice flight we came into a nice and humid airport. It had rained the past few days and then the temp. Spiked so everything was nice and awful. Hey, it instantly ironed my clothes, so that was nice.
9: Met my companion 2nd day, this guy named Elder Willits, He’s been out here longer than he cares to remember! Super great guy, can’t wait to learn everything I can from him.
8: Our apartment is very nice, it’s got all the necessities of life, fridge, dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer, food dryer (Microwave), and a cute little balcony! The apartment is big enough so that you don’t feel cramped, but not too big.
7: The area that I’m serving in is called Gold Hill. It’s about 20 minutes away from everyone else, so it’s a little inconvenient getting from here to appointments in the regular city of Central point, but hey! It’s cool, we got a car! It’s a cute little town of about ~1.5k people, with some areas really nice, and some… not. But the ward is fantastic, we met (mostly) everyone at the BBQ they were having on the day we got here. (Coincidence? I think NOT!)
6: Because we were whitewashed in, which means both missionaries are new to the area, we get to pick up where the last missionaries left off. We have this couple named Carlos and Crystal, and they are SOOO ready to get baptized, they just need to get married and follow up with one or two commitments, but by my 3rd episode, we should have a baptism! They came to church, and paid tithing all on their own! Carlos even said that he’d pay more than 10% if “The lord is good to me, I’ll be good to the Lord”! I love these guys!
5: Tho nice, our apartment doesn’t have WI-FI, which is kinda weird, especially when we have skype appointments with some people, so we head over to a member’s office and sit outside to use theirs.
4: We have a temple in our area, but can only go twice a year, which is a bit of a bummer, but hey, I’m here to do invite others to come to the temple, so I guess that counts!
3: We have been fed dinner every night so far, our ward is so nice! We have dinner scheduled every night this week! If I don’t exercise enough I’m not going to be ya boi anymore, I’ll be YA BOI which we can’t have, so, plenty of sit-ups for me!
2:Personal study is sooo nice, I really wished that I had done this more at home, oh well, I will now! It’s such a good opportunity to just relax and read the words of God. Learn some interesting things to think about, like what the boat that Nephi built looked like, for it was not made after the manner of men, but the manner of the Lord.
1: After realizing I have never had Dairy Queen before, all the elders in our Zone demanded we go to Dairy Queen for Lunch. It was great. I got a cup with Chris Pratt on it, but threw it away because it was gross and made out of paper. I’ll cut him out next time, and frame him on the wall.
Love you all, Oregon has been great!
Ya Boi,
Elder Berky
