Dear Friends & Family,
This week was very slow for missionary work. Monday we had a Zone Conference, Tuesday was our P-day, Thursday we had a 2-zone temple trip to the Manti Temple, Saturday night was halloween (celebrated on saturday instead of sunday in Utah) so we had to be in by 5pm, and Sunday we had 4 hours of ward correlation meetings, plus church.
Halloween in Utah is a bit unique for missionaries. Apparently many people dress up as missionaries and then without thinking are doing things that missionaries are not allowed to do. In the past the mission president has received many phone calls from members about inappropriate behavior. So the mission president ordered all missionaries in by 5pm, so he can be confident that no true missionaries are doing the alleged things. We gathered our district here at the Ephraim Institute building and played basketball, sardines, boardgames, pool, pingpong, fooseball (in spanish we call it futbolito, or little soccer). It was a blast.
We taught a sheep herder who lives on his boss's ranch. He lives in a little trailer up in the hills. His boss owns an old schoolbus that is all decked-out with electricity, an oven, sinks, water, sewer, etc. It's like a mobile home--the seats are removed. We taught him in the school bus. It was rather interesting, kind of fun.
We are teaching a highschool foreign exchange student from Brazil. He goes to the English ward with his host family, but he prefers the lessons we teach in Spanish. Spanish and Portugese are close enough for him to understand. He is really a great person. We are also teaching another exchange student from Colombia in spanish, but she isn't too interested because there was nobody her age in the Spanish Branch. We'll see if we can get her some fellowshippers from the English wards who speak spanish.
Other than that, I don't have much news to report. It is still going well here. The Lord is kind and provides well for those who seek to declare his word--of that I can testify (free groceries always helps!).
I love you all, Stay close to the Lord!
Elder Bunker
