Monday
We gave our truck a deep-clean this morning at the fire station with permission from Brother Begay. The sprayer we used was super powerful! It rained pretty much the whole time we were cleaning the truck. The weather has turned cold in the past week or so, and it has been raining off and on almost every day. After cleaning the truck, we drove out to Ganado and helped them clean their truck in the rain, too! That was pretty much our P-day.
Tuesday
We had zone conference today in Gallup! Elder Wadsworth talked a lot about truck maintenance and some of the rules associated with driving the truck. We got a free flu shot and free lunch provided by some members down in Gallup. Some of the bigger missionaries had to use a huge needle when they got their flu shot, it looked pretty scary! After lunch, Elder Wadsworth announced the winners for the truck competition. If you don't know what that is, it's a a competition previously set up by President Adams and is being continued by President Ackerman where the missionaries with the cleanest truck win an award. We got 2nd place out of the zone, and the Ganado missionaries got first! After zone conference, I picked up my blue suit (I hadn't had my blue suit in over a transfer because I accidentally left it in Farmington) and we went to Walmart to buy some food and stuff, then we drove back to Steamboat and turned in for the night.
Wednesday
We had interviews with President and Sister Ackerman in Steamboat this morning. They brought a bunch of snacks and candy for us to have, which was super nice of them! After the interviews, we drove out to Ganado to meet the Window Rock missionaries and exchange with them. I, Elder Asher and Elder Vea would be together in Window Rock for the day, and Elder Benson (Elder Vea's companion and the district leader) would be with the Ganado missionaries. Elder Vea showed us around Window Rock, introducing us to some nice people along the way. Elder Asher was the driver today. After the day was over, we went over to the Zone Leader's house (Elder Black and Elder Hunt) and we played the card game "Scum" with them for the rest of the night. It was way fun!
Thursday
We drove to Ganado this morning and dropped off Elder Asher so that he can get back to Steamboat on an exchange with Elder Benson, then I drove back to Window Rock with Elder Vea. I was the driver today, so that's fun. We chopped wood in the morning for an old lady and pulled up dead vegetable plants in some people's garden. Our last visit today was really weird because we, totally unprovoked, got this drunk guy really upset and he went and told his girlfriend (She was drunk, too) and she came out and started complaining about how inhumane people are and how we are terrible people and stuff like that. We just sat there until she cooled off a little bit, then we offered to share a message with her and she said okay, so we shared a quick scripture (Quick because we wanted to get out of there) but she wanted to share some messages with us from her little book of scriptural references. After talking for maybe another half-hour (She is still upset, somehow) we were finally able to get out of there with the help of a nice member who had been sitting there during the whole exchange. I had no idea what to think about that appointment after we left. To brighten up the mood a little, me and Elder Vea returned to the Window Rock missionary trailer and played some card games.
Friday
I and Elder Vea drove down to Ganado to exchange back into our normal companionship, and Elder Asher and I drove back to our trailer in Steamboat and did a lot of studies and planning. Honestly, not the most exciting day of the mission.
Saturday
We chopped a lot of wood today. In the morning we chopped wood for Sister Bowman, a super old lady with a funny personality, and she gave us some Sprite, bologna sandwiches, chocolate chip cookies and vienna sausages for helping her. We also helped Sister Lincoln chop some wood, and she gave us some delicious pears and apples from her fruit trees. After that, we visited President Yazzie and ended up helping him chop some wood as well, and he gave us a bunch of chips, gatorade, cereal, and pie. We were definitely blessed for all the service we did today!
Sunday
In sacrament meeting today I played the piano, prepared and passed the sacrament, gave a short talk about the new changes announced in general conference and did the Sunday school lesson with Elder Asher. President Yazzie made a comment while I was playing "How Great Thou Art" for the prelude about Elvis Presley singing this song. After church hours ended, we participated in a linger-longer and had some good food made by the members. When we were able to go out and start visiting people, we walked across the street to the NHA housing and we were finally able to talk to Irene again! She is going through some back and shoulder pain, so she will be gone for about a week. The last visit we made today was with Robert and his wife. We found out that his wife Liona has been wanting to go to a Relief Society meeting on Wednesday, but has either been too busy or too tired to go. Hopefully we can minister to them until they decide to come back to church. After that visit, we returned to the trailer and did some language studies, then turned in for the night.
RECENT CHANGES TO MISSIONARY WORK
-We need to read the Book of Mormon as a companionship for 30 minutes every day.
-We now need to learn our testimonies in the Navajo language, so we are allotted at least 30 minutes of language study every day.
-We are to find a scripture for each section in chapter 3 of "Preach My Gospel" and memorize it. There must be at least 50 sections in chapter 3 of the "Preach My Gospel", so this is going to take a very long time.
I am excited for the new changes, especially for learning more of the Navajo language! We are allowed to use the app "Duolingo" in order to learn languages. Hopefully I can progress in the language enough to be able to do as President Ackerman directs.
Hagooneh!
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Yeah, it's getting pretty cold here. It's quite wet! We need to be careful about which roads we drive on.
On my weekly email to the mission president, I usually just tell him how I have improved physically, spiritually and mentally. I also tell him a miracle that happened over the past week and how my family is doing.
Dang, I miss grandpa's apples. I didn't realize how spoiled I was about apples until I came on the mission. We bought apples from a lady a couple of weeks ago, and they tasted really good, but weren't very big and they had a lot of blemishes on them. Now they are wrinkling in the fridge because we bought too many! 
President Yazzie's sheep are absolutely COVERED in those spiky burrs from that one weed!
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