Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
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This week was awesome! :) It was a pretty slow week as far as lessons go, but such is the life of a Cloudcroft, NM Missionary! :) But we were able to do a lot of service, and we were able to talk with a whole bunch of people! :) Speaking of people, last night we were looking over the valley from a lookout, and we were able to take this group of people's photos! :) And it turned out they were visiting from Ireland, and they were visiting one of their friends in Texas!
Speaking of Texas, it was fabulous! Everything truly is bigger in Texas! :) It was also exceedingly hot in El Paso--the thermostat read and maintained 115 degree :p bleh! #Cloudcroft's85isn'
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Zone conference was pretty good too! :) Still no iPads.... but yeppers we were actually in Elder Roylance's last area, and so he was a tour guide for us! :) And we also got a compliment from the Regional Car Manager on how clean our car was! #firsttimeforeverything.
And last but not least we had the cattle brand
this Saturday! :) So the story goes as thus:
It was early in the morning when we headed off to Brother Bell's house. As we got there, we packed and went to the missile range (where he leases land from the military to graze his cattle). And once we got there, we were searching for cattle and saw some wild Oryx (which is basically a beefy version of an African gazelle! :) When we got to his coral, we met up with his daughter and about 5 other rough and tough cowboys on horseback. They told us that we had to get out of there so they could test some missiles.... :) and so we had an extra long lunch-break with the cow pokes, and we watched/heard them explode stuff off in the distance! #lifecomplete
And then we got to brand cattle! It was very barbaric! So we basically draw 'n quartered the cattle, and they were screaming as we did it! And then we wrestled them to the ground, castrated them, tagged them, vaccinated them, and branded them! :) It was awesome! There's nothing like man-handling whiny calves to the ground and causing them copious amounts of pain! :)
So yep, lifes good! :) (as always!)
2Sam 12:7
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