Crazy First Week In Sweetwater

This week has been sweet!!! I got transferred to Sweetwater Ward which is pretty cool because that's the ward that Peter moved to and got baptized in so I'm in the same ward with Peter Again! My new Companion is Elder Arney and he is from Oklahoma. We actually served in the San Diego Zone together so we already pretty much know each other. He is a complete opposite of me. He grew up in a town with 130 people and is a total country guy. It's all good. We get along really well.

So after transfer meeting on Wednesday we put all my stuff in our itty bitty Corolla and we sit down and Elder Arney turns to me and goes "oh yeah you are speaking on Sunday" and I was like sweet haha. But the whole ward knows me now and they are surprisingly saying LaRochelle a lot better than in the San Diego ward. One lady on the last day in San Diego ward called me Elder Laroch haha.

All packed and ready to go!

So Saturday morning when we wake up, Elder Arney gets up and and he has this HUGE bump on the side of his face like the size of a quarter. By the end of the day its like doubled in size so we go over to some members' house and the lady is a retired nurse. She pokes it with a needle and nothing happens so she told us to go to a hospital. So we call President and his wife because Sister Schmitt is an ER Doctor.  They don't answer so we go to the mission home anyway. We get there and knock on the door and Clay, President Schmitt's youngest  son opens the blinds but doesn't see us so he shuts them really quick. Then Tyler, the second oldest son opens the blinds and still doesn't see us so they turn off all the lights except one. I can see them all in the room and the oldest son David had a baseball bat so I wave to them and then David goes "Guys it's just the Elders!" haha. So they turn all the lights on and Tyler and Clay answer the door and are all like "whats up?" Elder Arney is like "did he have a baseball bat?" They were like yeah but he was just waving it around. He wasn't scared or anything haha. They tell us that their parents aren't home so we left and President and Sister Schmitt come to our apartment to check out the bump thing growing on his face.

Yesterday we were getting ready to leave and a lady texts us (we are teaching her and her kids) and tells us to come over as soon as possible. We hurry over and walk in the living room and she is there with her son and mom and they told us that house has a demon in it and that it's opening and closing doors and and turning radios on and stuff. Right after she tells us about this stuff Brother F from the ward stops by to cut her grass. We tell him what's going on and then we tell them that they should just pray for the demons to leave. They do, but then her mom pulls out some sage and a sea shell and lights it on fire and tells us to wave it around the house because the demons don't like the smell of sage. And all of us are like thinking this is little ridiculous but then Brother F was like "yeah, lets go get this demon" HAHA XD. So we're walking around the house and Brother F was like "it's OK, I told them to leave" haha XD It was so funny haha XD.

Oh yeah, last Tuesday me and Elder Fraughton got free tickets to the USS Midway!!!! It was pretty sweet!!

 

 

Love you. The church is true!

 

Elder LaRochelle

 

Note from Elder L's Dad: We'll try to find out what happened with the lump on Elder Arney's face. He sort of left us hangin'.