Thursday, February 28, 2019

Missionary training meeting (week #9)

Elder Flynn


I am pretty tired today. My letter may not be very long, but I will try to remember things as I write. I am not being transferred. I am staying in Ava and so is my companion. This week, we will be driving down to Bentonville for a meeting.

In Bentonville, they say sometimes that the milk costs only sixty or forty cents a gallon depending on where you go. The walmarts are everywhere there, and there are huge warehouses for walmart too.

I am happy to hear that everything back home is doing well. It will probably be awhile before it warms up here in Missouri but the weather has been bearable more or less lately. The sun has finally come out for a while. 

There are lots of deer around here. My companion and I were biking back to our apartment one night and we spooked at least half a dozen of them. Sometimes we have seen them in small herds out in the open on both sides of the road while riding in the car. Just as long as they don't hit the car or us while riding our bikes.

Because of the more pleasant weather, Ava has livened up a bit more. We have talked to more people when not tracting now. Hopefully that continues to increase. I know that I have still not taken pictures of the area, but it's just been kind of hard to find good locations to snap good pics. All in all though, the terrain is nice to look at and fun to drive on. In the town square, they have an arts and craft shop, a few salons, some small eateries(like specialty sandwich shops), and a movie theater. The movie theater plays free Christian films like I Believe, and I Can Only Imagine. I haven't seen any of them but I know this because we talked to the manager of the theater who recently bought it from someone else. She says that she really isn't in it for the money. For her it's more of a community service; thus free Christian movies. She said that we were welcome to share our beliefs anytime at a certain social that she holds. I thought that was intetesting.

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