Fourscore and Seven Emails Ago

Hi This week has been a lot of getting to know the area and getting to know the people.

We had a ton of cool meetings, and stuff like that.

Zone Conference is Tomorrow.

I made more good bread. this time with zero kneading it was gone instantly because I also made cinnamon honey butter to go with it..

That's it for now!

Rose: lots of good families in the area.

Thorn no time to email right now.

-Elder Darcey

It's time to EEE EE EEEE EE-Email

Hi! I am in Rigby now.

My address is not what I told you last week. It's 3894 E 200 N, Rigby, ID 83442 We are in Apartment #2 My "Overview of Elder Darcey" page has been updated accordingly. 

This transfer has started off with a bang. To get everyone on the same page, I am in a Trio right now. With Elder Pope (quiet) And Elder Cluff (who I have previously been with.)

Saturday was the real crazy day the rest of the week was packing and unpacking and meetings and doing stuff like that. But Saturday we were able to help out at a city fair in Iona. Called Iona days. We were able to help with the dunk tank. There was this one girl that would get to the front of the line, nail the target in one throw, then walk off like it was nothing. over and over and over.

I am driving again. After nine months. I don't like it.

umm.

Rose: Teaching people I taught a year ago.

Thorn: Not being in Ashton

Helllloooo Email Transfers

It's time to send another Email!

This week it's Transfer News! Transfers happen on Thursday and I am going to Rigby again!

Mom notes:  So the week after Aidan is called to Rigby, Dave (dad) is going up to the Tetons to hike and wants to drop off a box of goodies to Elder Darcey.  He and Uncle Mark and Jim Huskinson go to the area and Jim goes to the door, wakes up Elder Darcey in his pjs and gives him the package while Dad waits outside.  Funny, Weird and funny.    

Dave says the apartment is, "missionary worthy."  In other words, kind of a dump." 

I'll be in a slightly different area! Instead of south east of the city. I am just south. The area is called Rigby South.

Do you want to know who I am with there? Well, I am in a trio with an Elder Pope (don't know) and Elder Cluff. That's Right. Apparently one transfer with him wasn't enough and I need another one with him. Very weird. I am fairly sure that we are the first missionaries in the history of this mission to be put back together. 

If you are looking at a map of Rigby I will be covering a square. The top of the square is "1st street" The bottom of the square is "County Line Road". The east of the square is slightly past the Highway. The west border is west.

Anyway that's the big news this week. 

Other news includes lots of sadness happened on Friday as our appointments canceled one by one, and as some Ice cream that was purchased on Monday was found sad and melted in the car.

umm. 

Rose: good homemade Ice Cream

Thorn: Leaving Ashton or melted Ice cream

Email, email, email.

Hi Family and everyone! I am going to actually write an Email this week because there is so much to talk about.

Anyway better start at the start with 

TUESDAY.

We went to Rexburg in the morning to go to the "meet the mission president" meeting that our new mission president, President Hurley was holding. We were able to meet his family and meet him and get some history about him and where he was from. He is a auctioneer from Pennsylvania, he has 6 kids one is on a mission another is in college after serving a mission and the rest are in between Pennsylvania and Idaho, as they needed to attend the state fair at home before they could come. His family is big on getting things done. His son has sold Strawberries for the last several years, His kids are all in charge of their own animals, and stuff like that. His youngest was there with him and his oldest came in a little bit later. My companion got a lesson in auctioneer-ing and everyone thought it was hilarious when he said "two-duh-duh-duh" I have a recording of him getting the lesson so I will be passing that along at the end of this Email. Anyway we had lunch and then everyone ducked out. 

On our way back to Ashton we got a call from some Debbie and Richard (people we are teaching) and it turns out that Richard had double pneumonia and was headed to the hospital in IF. We quickly got a hold of some Elders down there to give him a blessing and they said they would stop by. 

After that we found out what we were going to be doing to help the fourth of July celebrations. We were going to be helping the parade (a parade so nice, they show it twice) by keeping people from going too far into the street. The rest of that story will wait til Thursday when it actually happened. Anyway on to,

WEDNESDAY

Where we had District Council and everyone was real excited about President Hurley and the Fourth of July celebrations. The rest of the day wasn't too crazy. We went to dinner and they basically gave us another dinner to take home with us. It was a crazy amount of food. Also I don't think I have mentioned it yet, but during this whole week the person that we live with has had children and grandchildren over the whole time. There were so many of them.

THURSDAY

Started early with a trip into Ashton to help people setup for the farmers market. While we were there. someone called us over told us to go to Trails Inn across the street and get her a cinnamon roll. And then told us to grab some for ourselves. After that we got our orange vests, and ate our rolls, and went to the parade to help. We would walk up and down the street to collect candy and throw it behind the slowly creeping line of kids. Everyone would slowly slide out further into the street, and then I would come by and abruptly ruin all their fun by asking them to please move back so you don't die. But the kids were having none of that. Anyway during the parade I ran into a family that I knew back in Ucon... Forever ago... anyway they were there for the parade but just so happened to run into me. And then for the rest of the parade, if I walked in front of them they would cheer like I was in the parade. Twas silly. We had a great time doing that. When that was over we went to several other places in town and talked to a billion people and got snow-cones, and lunch at the city BBQ and then we helped Richard and Debbie, by letting their dogs out for just a bit, then we finished off the day by jumping from party to party. In the Evening we picked up our District Leader so that we could go on exchanges on,

FRIDAY

We had our District leader with us the whole day, and we spent the day in West Yellowstone! We did service at a cabin at Henry's lake, then tried several people in Island Park, not home, then went to west and tried a ton more people, then went to dinner and then taught a new person, and all sorts of cool stuff. We grabbed some Ice Cream and then headed back down to Ashton to end our Exchange. The next day was

SATURDAY

Where not a lot happened, because we had to walk around a lot because we used a lot of miles on Friday. We drove around more on

SUNDAY

Where we went up to West again to attend their Sacrament Meeting. There were probably half a thousand people there. They had two sacrament tables, each table had 12 water trays. It was bonkers. We were able to help with a youth class after that, then headed back down to Ashton. On our way down we tried to find someone's house, but instead we drove by it three times and wasted 13 miles. rip.

And that was basically the week!

Elder VanOrman had steak thrown on his shirt but it cleaned right off.

I found a pen in the wash with my cloths, but some rubbing alcohol later, that is coming out.

Anyway

Rose: All the fun on the Fourth

Thorn: Being 300 miles over our car mileage limit right now

-Elder Darcey

LTPS

Email TIES (creating them!)

Hello All, 

Hi as of today our mission now has Blackfoot and we haven't met our new mission president yet but we are meeting him and his family tomorrow.

I haven't taken many pictures this week, but it has been really hot recently. Ashton has been getting crazy busy with all the visitors. The 4th is getting closer, and everything is going crazy!

I thought I would have time to finish this but never mind, instead, have a voice recording! 

Elder Darcey

Hello

It is 2:45 and it's looking like I won't have time to email, but mainly because we are teaching other Elders how to make ties today.  When we get back to Ashton it will be after 5 and then service at 6 and a ton of other stuff.  So not a typed, I started one, so here we are.

Anyway,

Lets cover all the important stuff

Rose:  Dang good hamburgers we had on Saturday!  Reallll good.  Dinner was awkward, but the food was great so, oh well.  

Thorn: The fact that my pedometer went missing and I'm very sad about it.  I don't know where it is.

As far as cool stuff, we got to serve the Powells and we got to help them take branches to the dump and teach them the plan of Salvation video.  And as soon as it finished, Sister Powell said she didn't know there was anything after this life.  I thought, "Wow, you are just going to accept it, just like that."  

They are loving the ward and the first time they came, they said they have never seen so much love when they walked into the room.  We helped with some yard stuff and taught them.

We didn't go to West this week because of mileage.. and we have none.  It is a new month, so we have more.

We have a new mission pres and I've not met him yet.  I don't know anything about him except he's an auctioneer, and has a family.  We are meeting him tomorrow in Rexburg to a meet the President meeting in the morning.  I'm sure he's going to be awesome.

As of today, the mission boundaries no longer end at Firth and the mission now covers Blackfoot.  Yeah, all the changes are out there and done. . Yup.

We got to speak in one of our wards this Sunday.  I tried to keep mine short because I knew with four speakers it would be tight and I kept it to ten minutes, probably too long, but my comp. did 12 and the last speaker did 2 and he is the ward mission leader.  The youth speaker is headed out really soon.  

It's been a good week and fun stuff going on.  

So, cool, and BYE.