Suit Season Strikes Again.

General conference was awesome as usual, but the downside is now all of the Missionaries in the OTM have to wear suits when it's under 75 degrees outside. Luckily, I picked up some sweet suits at Goodwill last week for ten bucks, so I should be able to make it through without tearing a hole in my other suits. In another turn of good fortune, the weather has treated us very kindly. On Friday, the temperature got up to around 90 degrees. On Saturday, the first day of suit season, the temperature did not reach above 60. I'm not a fan of cold weather, but I appreciated not having sweat soak through my coat. 

It seemed to be one of those weeks where nothing works out. If we had taught even a short lesson with every single person we attempted to see this week, we would have far surpassed the Mission's goal for excellence. Unfortunately, we feel far short of the mission president's goals, and our own. Despite this discouraging turn of events, we were blessed to teach multiple lessons with the Barland family, and they will be baptized this coming Sunday! It seems like we hardly had to do anything, they already knew most of what we had to teach, but it has been a pleasure and a testimony builder teaching such prepared people. 

Having the Sugar Creek Ward missionaries has continued to be very eventful and fun. It seems that the apartment is in a never ending state of mess and clutter, and going to bed on time has become more of a challenge, but I'll be sad when they leave. Especially because they have a car and getting groceries to fit in your backpack is not fun at all. 

I wish that this week had been more eventful, but to be honest, it has been difficult to stay busy, which is about the least fun thing as a missionary. 

I hop that you all had the opportunity to watch General Conference this week! I loved President Uchtdorf's talk during Priesthood session. He said, "Satan's purpose is to tempt us to exchange the priceless pearls of true happiness, and eternal values for a fake plastic trinket that is merely an illusion and counterfeit of happiness and joy." He always has a way of saying things that hits me so strongly. 

I hope you are all doing well! I love to hear from you, so please write as often as you can, even if it's just to tell me that the cat threw up on the carpet. 

I love you all so much, and can't wait to see you again,

Elder Christopher Drake