Biking . . . What is That?

Hey guys! :)

How goes it back home? How was everyone's week and adventures had? This week was an interesting and very rewarding week (physically and spiritually).

So on Tuesday, we did service in the morning for good ol' Brother Hartman, and he needed us to clean out one of the rooms in his house to put a bed in there. So we spent the morning cleaning and I checked and double checked to make sure the room was 100% MCEWAN clean :). We visited a lady named Alice Vitiello who was baptized a year ago, and we got to pet her horse and visit with her. We then went up to Kirtland to spend the night with the other elders for district council.

Wednesday, we had district council in the morning and then the new "greenie" from Herriman, Utah bought us pizza and it was so so good. Me and Elder Henshaw went back to Chardon to the church and took Fall pictures by the trees and updated our facebooks. We knocked a street later that night and were able to talk with a guy who seemed interested and even took a restoration pamphlet from us, so we will just have to hope and pray for it.

Thursday we were supposed to do a district leader mtg with President and the other DL's in the mission, but  . . . We forgot, so we didn't do it . . . We did service for a nonmember guy in Chardon who is pretty old, and his wife passed away last year. It was a pretty slow day today.

Friday we helped the Hartmans in the morning with burning about 5 tons of leaves . . . Well okay it probably wasn't 5 tons, but wow it was a lot :). It took us 2 hrs to put them all on fire and burn them and mow them down. Then we got up on the roof of his house and put insulated calk on his chimney so it wouldn't leak this winter. We had a new member lesson with Bethany and Sarah, watched the Book of Mormon lesson, and ate subway for dinner.

Friday we also had Elder Allison (Housing Coordinator) come in the morning and did an inspection and we passed:). He also said if President okays it, we could very well be moving to Burton or Chardon soon. I'll let you know though. We also had the cleaning specialist come and help us shampoo our carpets and deep deep clean everything. President made this a trip assignment this transfer. So instead of proselytizing, 3 elders go to every apt in the mission and clean it this transfer.

Too bad we weren't on these bikes :)

Saturday: This was a great day on many things. First off, we had a great phone call lesson with Mitch, who is in South Carolina now for the next month. We are short on miles til Thursday this week so we had to either walk or bike this day, I chose bike ;). But it just so happened that this day was rainy and windy and wet and rainy and cold all rolled into one. While we were riding our bikes, I truly felt like I was on Mona road back home because it was long and plain, and cars were like 3 inches from us, and it felt like my tire was flat and it felt like 50 miles! We decided to ride 25 min to Burton to Carol Bradshaw at the assisted living. We made it there in 30 min (it was uphill . . . Both ways !) and she is in the hospital so we had no one to meet with. We rode back to Middlefield and stopped at the ATV store for Henshaw to look at four wheelers and side by sides. He did that before his mission. We made it back to the apt and I said, "Wow, what a great 2nd workout of the day". And Elder Henshaw said, "No, that was not fun. I'm cold, I'm wet, and my legs hurt." But it was pretty good. We had dinner at the Wheelers too that night and they served us BUFFET style food with chicken, stuffing, cake, and salad :).


Sunday morning came and we weren't ready. We were both pretty tired as we had a 7:15 a.m. mtg to get to 25 min away. We went out with Brother Hartman and Maryana Walter who are both the branch missionaries. We were at the Shepherd family house and all of a sudden Brother Hartman stops talking, we waited and just thought he was having a flashback of his time in the military. He said he was having trouble breathing and his head was spinning. We watched and very gradually he got back to normal. He said he was having a pre-heart attack (I forget the correct term. Mrs. Grant would not be happy with me.) Me and Henshaw and Brother Shepherd gave him a blessing and the next 30 min he regained his vision and was back to normal. He turned to me and told me he was sorry he had scared me and everyone. I laughed a little bit and said, "Brother Hartman, don't you remember I am going to be a doctor and needing to do this stuff everyday for my career?" It was a good conversation with him.

We have zone conference in Talmage on Tuesday this week. We are driving the Malibu and going to get either a Rav4 or Rogue that they have there for us. We are pretty excited to get a new car!! We will have to be inside by 6 pm on Thursday night because of trick or treaters.

What are your guys plans for Halloween? Costume ideas?

Letter from my little Lola made my day!!!!

Challenge time: I challenge us all to pick a General Conference talk from the past, and really read and ponder it, study it out in our hearts. Highlight, and mark it up. Learn and grow from it. I promise we will learn more from our church leaders than we ever thought possible.

I love and miss and pray for you all everyday. I'm so grateful for all your prayers and support for me. Keep being great and amazing, the Lord needs us all to be on His team with faith unwavering.

I am so very excited to talk to everyone today!

I love you forever and always,
Elder Dylan :)