WOOOO!!
Hey family
and friends! I am still alive and well. I wasn't sure if I would even be able
to email in my area. My P-day is on Mondays and the library here is closed on
Mondays. So I am currently using a store computer that is usually used for a
register...but gotta do what you gotta do! So where to start....The day of
transfers I was in the car for about 5 hours. I am in a small town called
Sheridan, Montana. It's Southwest of Helena and Butte and there is a grand
total of approximately 800 people here! :) Haha super rural and open country. I
was lucky enough to go to a pretty area surrounded by mountains for my first
area. I see deer every day and it snows on and off every other day! I'm lovin
it. Elder Villejo is my first trainer. He was born and raised in the
Phillipines, lived in Hawaii for 2 years and English is his third language! So
I tease him from time to time haha but he teases me back. He is the ONLY
missionary in Montana permitted to have a guitar, so we sing to member and
non-member families. Pretty sweet. There is SO much work to do here. After
going through the ward list there are more in-actives than actives.
68 inactive member families to be exact. It's tough to teach here because there
are 13 different churches JUST in Sheridan that I'm aware
of. Prominently Lutheran and Jehovah Witness. BUT we are both so
pumped and ready to go. Also, the average age here is 70 years old. Lots of
widows. It's tough to teach someone who has been part of another church for 70
years but we're working at it.
Let's
see...within my first week I have:
1. Placed
a Book of Mormon within 4 houses of tracting which was sweet.
2. Found 3
new investigators.
3.
Dedicated my first home
4. Visited
4 inactive members
5.
And committed one of them ^ to sacrament meeting again.
The spirit
has helped us so much! None of that would have happened without the spirit. The
people here are either REALLY kind or REALLY mean haha. Everyone knows
everyone's business and the Mormons dont have a good reputation here. But we
aren't worried about it :) OH! I forgot to mention that our stake is in BUTTE
and our WARD covers 6 towns over 35 miles of land. Oh and we're on FOOT. With
ice. and mud. Pretty awesome. Tell Torie I've worn here beanie quite a few
times!
The
members here feed us well but I've been staying in shape. I had Elk roast for
sunday dinner and that was AMAZING. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE is a hunter.
Never seen so much taxodermy haha pretty awesome.
One last
story. We were walking back to our awesome apartment and a lady stopped us
named Angel. Probably the freakiest lady I've ever met. HUGE EYES with dilated
pupils. Her brain had to have been cooked by crack. She only had bottom teeth
and they were ready to fall out any second. She wanted me and Elder Villejo to
go to court and defend one of her friends....yeah. Hahah anyways thats all for
this week! I'm loving it and staying warm for the most part! I'll try and
attach a few pictures! Love you and miss you all!
My address
for the next 4 weeks (at least unless I stay through next transfer) is:
Elder
Jacob Inman
305
boundary street apt #3
Sheridan,
MT 59749
OH. Tell
mom I NEED my other suit. We are and ALL suit mission and have to wear it ALL
THE TIME with no dry cleaning. Tell her to send it asap if we can afford it.
Sending it to the mission home would be best and it would get here quickest
through the post office...but might be pricier. Love you!