Yeah it is really really cold here! It was even snowing for a little bit on Friday which was crazy! I don't have those sweaters [you sent] yet because the mission office has to forward it to me. You can send packages/letters straight to my apartment if you want. My address is 6465 N Lynnfield Ct #621 Indianapolis, IN 46254. If you send it there they will all get to me much faster.
This week has been really rough. All week I have had the worst cold of my life and it has been awful. But on Friday we got one of our investigators set up with a baptismal date which is awesome! He is kinda flaky though so hopefully he keeps it. On Halloween we had a trunk or treat activity with the English ward and Spanish branch and it was a lot of fun.
I actually was able to watch Meet the Mormons at the mission home on my first night but sadly I fell asleep right after the candy bomber part... I get that from you Mom, I guess!
Elder Schoeneman and I are getting along great! It has been a little tough to find people to teach, but we finally found some other people who seem really interested on Friday so we'll see how that goes. Tracting is OK. We usually ride our bikes to a certain neighborhood and try to scout out the houses that would have Hispanics and knock on those doors. There are hardly ever people just walking about outside since it is so cold here.
We get up at 6:30 in the mornings and get ready until 8. Then we have personal study until 9 and then companionship study until 11. From 11-12 we have language study and then from 12-1 we have a break for lunch. So we usually don't get out of the apartment until about 1.
The bike is great! I love riding the bike except for the fact that I'm sick and it's freezing cold, but that will get better. But I am told that it may get so cold that they won't even want us going outside. It's supposed to be a pretty brutal winter this year.
The branch members take pretty good care of us up here :) We ate at this members house named Hermana Corranguez yesterday and when she saw that I was sick she was telling me all of her Hispanic remedies and such in order to help me get better and she even made me some lemon and cinnamon tea stuff to help with the cold. She gave me some Dayquil and a sweater I could use until mine come. It was really nice of her.
This week started out really hard for us. We don't really have many people to teach so we just tract most of the time. On Wednesday we rode our bikes for about 45 minutes to this apartment complex (and it's kinda scary sometimes because a lot of the roads have hardly any shoulder space) and it was FREEZING. And of course I didn't bring my coat so I was dying. We knocked on almost all the doors in the whole apartment complex for about 2 hours and only taught one lesson. And it was in English so even if they were interested we'd have to pass them off to the English missionaries. We were pretty discouraged. But then on Friday we went to another apartment complex and knocked over there for a couple hours and we ended up teaching about 8 lessons and finding a few people in an apartment to teach! And then one of our investigators called us and said that he wanted to talk to us so we went over to his house to meet with him. We talked about prayer and how he can know that this church is true. He prayed with us right there and asked the Lord if he should be baptized into this church and the spirit was so strong! He said he felt so peaceful and warm and excited. Sadly yesterday he said he's not so sure about it now, but we'll continue working with him to be ready for that date.
Daren sent him an article about the Kansas City Royals Pitcher who left the MLB for 2 years to serve a mission. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865614237/Royals-Pitcher-Jeremy-Guthrie-expresses-gratitude-for-opportunity-of-a-lifetime.html I love that article about the pitcher! I like the part where he says "I'm going to give this up, and I know whatever happens will be the best for me." As long as we are sacrificing for the Lord and obeying him, whatever happens is part of his plan for us.
I love you all and I love the work! I'm so thankful for all your support and all you do for me. You are all in my prayers and I love you all so much!
Love,
Elder Thayne
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