Random Questions #7

Note: Mom makes a list of questions in her letters and Elder Brenchley answers them:

1.  Are you flossing your teeth?  Yes, I am flossing, brushing, and mouth-washing, but I will need to get more of that at the store.

2.  How much longer does the A.P. [fellow Viewmont Viking, Elder Hewlett] have on his mission?  I believe he has about 1-2 transfers as the AP, and then gets to go back out into the field before going home around February (so about 4-5 months).  He really enjoys the fact that me and Elder Numbers  are Viking,s too!

3.  Are you going to start teaching Civi's new boyfriend, now?  Not sure about Nick.  It's been really hard to even teach Civi lately.  We go over to their house (trailer) and Civi isn't there or she's not feeling well, so she doesn't come out when we're there.  So, we just talk with her mother, Kay, who was baptized a long time ago.  Civi is no longer on date for baptism since you have to come 3 times to church first, and she needed to come yesterday and the next 2 Sundays to be baptized on her date - and she didn't.  So, we are at the point that we need to determine if she is still interested, or not.

4.  Are car break-ins/stealing common in your area?  Not really.  Have the other elders been robbed before?  No other elders have ever been robbed.

5.  Isn’t Elder Carter the junior companion of that other companionship?  Yes, Elder Carter is the Junior Companion.

  So, when you did your exchanges, the two seniors went together and the two juniors went together?   Temporary exchanges happen quite a lot if they have two dinner appointments and such.

6.  What happened to your investigators coming to watch Conference with you at the church?  The ones who were going to come don't have a car and we've been trying to get someone over there to meet them and give them rides to church, but it's been to no avail. 

7.  Is your companion's family members of the church/supportive of him serving a mission? Elder Johnson's family is very supportive of his mission.  His oldest brother also served a mission.

8.  Did you get the idea of escorting people out to their cars from the grocery store, while holding your umbrellas over them in the rain, from that one time we saw the employees doing it at Chick-Fil-A right before you left?  I actually might have.  I didn't think about that experience 'til now.  But that was way fun!

9.  How did you get the info/quotes for your sacrament meeting talk?  The particular quote I wrote in your letter is from a talk from Elder Bednar, which was given to us to read in preparation for Elder Dale G. Renlund, of the Seventy, to come speak to us on October 31 (Halloween)  Do you have access to lds.org?  We do have an hour a week of Mormon.org study.  We are allowed to go to any church site and study.  We are also allowed to check our email, but not respond to it at that time.  So, I could see an email, say on Thursday, during my 1-hour of Mormon.org study, but I'd have to wait 'til Monday to write back.

10.  Are you finding you need to share scriptures from the Bible so that the people out there can relate?  (That’s what they know, not the Book of Mormon, yet.)  It's definitely more relevant to share Bible scriptures to people out here because they are basically all Christian, and they tend to relate better.  Luckily, most people are heart and soul about the KJV (or King James Version) of the Bible, so when we are studying, we look for those scriptures first, then Book of Mormon and D & C.