Monday
Elder Asher and I finally had time to email on the Steamboat computer today, so that was exciting! After emailing, we drove out to Ganado to catch a ride with the Ganado missionaries, who took us to the field to play softball again. After that, we helped the guy who owned the field chop wood for a bit. We visited Sister Hildreth back in Steamboat after we were done, and we met Quinton there, the voice actor for some characters in "Finding Nemo" the Navajo translated version! They call him Navajo Nemo. He is very talkative and loves being around missionaries.
Thursday
Happy Thanksgiving! I haven't eaten so much in my LIFE! We went to a Thanksgiving feast at 10 in the morning to start off our free day. Then we got together with the Ganado Elders and went to another Thanksgiving feast with Roselyn in Beshbito (that's where she is from; it's a Steamboat area) around 1pm, then went to ANOTHER Thanksgiving dinner at the fire station here in Steamboat right afterwards. I was still full before we went to the 2nd feast! After the fire station we went and played softball again at the same baseball field, then went to Ganado and had another Thanksgiving feast. The member who fed us over there was Brother Wilson, and we played some fun games with cards and paper over there. We did that until we had to run to Steamboat before it got too late.
Friday
We did our weekly planning this morning, then spent a while printing stuff on the computer to give to President Yazzie. We gave the printed stuff to him, then went on to visit Lola and Edison, who we helped stuff a full sized Christmas tree into their tiny Dodge Avenger car. We later visited a returning member who hasn't been to church in a while named Nora, and she told us she would come to church this Sunday. After that, we helped chop wood for Grace again, then had to go back to the computer to print a billion other things for President Yazzie. We turned in after that. Not really the most exciting day, really. I did, however, receive news that I was to play the piano for a special Christmas-themed musical number with my district during our next zone conference. I started practicing "Away in a Manger" for that.
Saturday
I had almost as much food today as I did on Thanksgiving! In the morning, we decided we would go across the street from the church to visit some people in the NHA housing. We ran into Raymond, it's always good to see him around. After seeing him, we went and knocked on Sister Lincoln's door to ask her if she still needed any wood chopped, but when the door opened we were surprised to see another Thanksgiving meal that hadn't been touched yet along with a bunch of her family members. Sister Lincoln invited us to come in, and after a short prayer we had yet another Thanksgiving meal quite by accident. Sister Lincoln's tiny dog was locked up in another room, and it would scream instead of bark. It was kinda funny, her dog's scream sounded just like the Wilhelm scream that you often hear in movies. After stuffing ourselves, we went to a birthday party at the fire station for Jeremy and Jewel's son Jacob, who turned 5 yesterday. We tried to eat very little, because we had gotten a text previously from Roselyn asking us to come by and eat some enchiladas. The kindness of the people in Steamboat amazes me! We went over to Roselyn's home after eating more food at the party, and luckily we talked her into letting us chop her wood so that we could digest a little bit before eating. After chopping for around 45 minutes, we were invited inside to try their enchiladas, which tasted super good. They were made from leftover turkey! We had to leave that place quickly so that we could have time to visit Sister Joseph, who had asked us to come to her house out in Jeddito because she was sick and wanted a blessing from us. Well, we got fed manudo at her house. Actually, only Elder Asher ate some. He was handed a bowl before he could say anything, but I got the chance to ask for a to-go bowl so I could eat it later. After visiting her, we went back to Sister Lincoln's home to share Light the World with her, and she gave us a full pie to take home.
Sunday
Since Sister Joseph was gone and President Yazzie was the only member of the presidency who showed up at church, Elder Asher and I had to give the lesson and I passed the sacrament. We taught about Jeremiah's life and how rough it was. Despite serious threats to his life and lots of persecution and imprisonment, he stayed firm in the faith and continued to testify boldly. He is a great example of loyalty to and faith in God. Nora came to church, and it turns out that she and Gean (active member) are good friends! Hopefully we will see Nora next week. After church, we got on the computer with President Yazzie to purchase some teacher manuals online, but when the printer booted up it started printing endless amounts of papers with unusual symbols only lining the top of the page. I tried everything to get it to stop printing, but it just kept going until the entire paper cartridge was empty. I even turned it off and on again! But it didn't work, so I made an 'out of order' sign and put it on the printer. If anyone I am emailing has any ideas on how to fix this, let me know! The Steamboat branch only has one printer, so we need it fixed.
That's about it for my week. If you're wondering where Tuesday and Wednesday went, I was just too lazy to write about them and those days were pretty boring, anyway. But here's some pictures from my week!
-Elder White and Elder Asher. Elder White stacked up a bunch of Gatorade bottles really high!
-This cat is gonna get wet lol
-My strawberry plant is growing really good!
-I set up my new Christmas tree. Thanks to my family for sending that to me!
-Jamie (someone we recently met) took this picture of me and sent it to me to show my mom. Here ya go!
Have a good week! Until next Monday,
Elder Dittmer
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Yes, I chop wood a lot! I don't think it builds my muscles up too much, though. I think my accent is pretty much the same, too, but I'm not sure. Maybe I'm getting a rezzy cowboy accent without knowing it.
I can't open duolingo anymore! 
the app that prevents us from downloading anything was updated and they accidentally blocked Duolingo! So I haven't been able to get on it, either. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.
Yep, I have definitely learned a lot from serving my mission. It has really helped put into perspective the way I should be living my life. I understand way more than I did back home about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how eternally important it is to keep the commandments and live a righteous life. I am thankful to be on the Lord's errand! 
I chop wood all the time because literally everyone here using a wood-burning stove and likes to be extremely warm all the time. Like sometimes I walk into a house and it feels like 80 degrees in there.
Also, my companion and I are becoming well known for being helpful wood choppers, so we get a lot of calls asking for help.
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