February 15, 2011 - Staying in South Ogden

so this morning we found out what was going on with transfers. Im going to be "white washing" the area that im currently in with elder witby. unfortunately elder smith got called else where to serve in layton. even though ive been in the area for a little over a week i still haven't met all of our investigators or met any of our ward mission leaders. elder witby and i have our hands full this week, it'll be a little easier because he's required to have a car for his back i think. so we do have the opportunity to make it to the gym every morning. pretty overwhelming task we have. after thinking about it for a little bit a scripture came to mind that sorta gave me encouragement. its in D&C 112:10: "Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers." even though it seems like a really big task it's accomplish able. after talking to my zL he said "two men can do anything as long as one of them is god. be unified with your new companion and the lord and everything will work out" i get to meet elder Witby at the Ogden Tabernacle tomorrow at lunch time, so the majority of today is going to be sitting around letting the other two pack. but i did have a pretty nice birthday, even though they kinda suck on ur mission because you dont get to spend them with the ones you love. but we had breakfast over at the Shaws, played some games there and then everyone decided to go to the nickelcade to have some fun. one way super addicting game we played over at the Shaws was a dice game where if you roll double you get a pen and as fast as you can you start writing from one to one hundred meanwhile while your trying to do that others are passing and rolling the dice until someone gets doubles and then they steal the pen away from you and start writing down one to one hundred. its a ton of fun with a lot of people around a table. a bunch of way funny stuff happened this weekend though. first not so funny elder leon wasn't keeping up with elder smith and I and didnt make the light and almost got ran over by a dodge diesel truck. the other thing funny that happened is elder smith and I stayed up till one talking in the living room and when we started heading in the room to go to bed elder leon was making alot of crazy noises sorta like he was mumbling and I asked him if he was ok, and at the top of his lungs he yelled maaaeeehhhhh!!!!! it was pretty stinking funny and through the night he was sleep walking and "sleep eating" cause he doesnt know how he made it in the living room or where the pan of now empty brownies went sitting beside him. im gonna miss Elder Smith & Leon but im sure Elder Witby and I will have fun and work hard and be able to teach a lot of people. Actually this weekend we have two separate baptisms this weekend, ill send those pictures home next weekend -- Elder Tyler Herring2133 Washington Blvd.Ogden, Utah 84401