Elder Dittmers Journey to New Mexico

Here I am in Mancos, Colorado! It's so far been pretty fun here, although I think riding bikes is going to kill me someday. 

About the missionary work in Mancos: I came in on a sour note. Elder Luke and his last companion lost four investigators within a week, and one more while I have been with Elder Luke. One of the investigators we lost was lost because he DIED. That happened.

We bike at least 10 miles per day. Me and Elder Luke biked around 16 miles on Saturday just riding back to our house. On Sunday we rode like 12 miles just to knock on one person's house, and they weren't home. I'm honestly enjoying all the biking, but sometimes it seems a little ridiculous.

The members here are mostly old people, and they are super nice. There's a member named Brother Ashkroft who makes jokes about how old he is. He says that he wishes he was 80 again, and that 80 isn't even old. He's pretty funny.

Sorry I won't be able to send pictures today, the library computers here in Mancos sometimes don't work very well with cameras and stuff like that, according to Elder Luke. I promise I took pictures, though!

Thanks for everything!

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Elder Luke is a great companion. We bike between 10-20 miles a day unless the weather is bad. We have a 2017 Toyota Tacoma here, which is super nice. The max amount of miles we can drive on it per month is 1700 right now, and people are spread out here in Mancos, so we ride bikes a lot. I get super tired pretty much every day. It brings back memories of being on the mountain biking team.

To be honest, I really do miss the rez. But that doesn't mean that I don't like Mancos! The rez is a completely different experience, and I was really enjoying it. There is probably one Navajo person in Mancos, and he is not interested. 

I ride a mountain bike that's so crappy the brakes don't work even a little! We are going to get it fixed soon, but for now I have to try to go really slow down hills. 

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There's this thing where missionaries email a lady somewhere in the world and she makes the missionaries a card that they can hand out with pictures of their choice and their information. I'm going to do that soon, but not this week because the photos aren't uploading.

I gotta go, the library computers actually time you for an hour and sign you off at the hour mark, and it says 1:30 (1 miute 30 seconds) and I don't want to lose this email. This really puts me on my toes when I'm emailing!