Already To Harvest: Week 034 - Train Town Has Officially Been Shut Down

I’m glad you guys liked my letters. For reals though, there is one heading for Emma too.

The first week of school is always great, especially because you know you’ve got straight A´s. it’s such a relief that first week!

That’s an awesome project the church puts together, and it’s super cool that dad and others from the ward were able to go and help those effected by the flooding in Louisiana.

[Editors Note: I've underlined what I believe are SpongeBob references from Holden. See if you can find more.]

Alright... A one, a two, a sciddly-diddly-doo!

Hey all you people, Hey all you people.

Won’t you listen to me?

I just had a sandwich, no ordinary sandwich,

Filled with jelly fish jelly.

Hey you man, you’ve got to try this sandwich.

It’s no ordinary sandwich,

It’s the best sandwich in all the sea.

Elder Mckell and I were walking to a new part of Galvez when we found our newest sandwich shop. We get the best sandwiches at a place called "Sandwich"... Bueno. Also every time we called the pizza place, asking for "pizza palace", they would just reply with, "No this is Patrick."

So train town has officially been shut down. The new paint job couldn’t keep train town going. Sad in fact… the train station owner showed up and everyone went hiding under the rocks. Too bad their eyes were showing, so the inspector dropped everything he had, yelling "WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE!"

I totally found a pigeon and it was the first time one didn’t fly away when I grabbed for it. I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s a giraffe pigeon, and I got a picture. I think I’ll name it Mystery... or Debbie.

We are still killing it with the door-to-door strategy. But you can tell everyone has been contacted before, when you show up at their house and they already have a Book of Mormon sitting on top of their mantel. We were out in the middle of nowhere, because we were following the map, and we were supposed to go east, but we thought it meant west. So we got lost. When all of a sudden, we found a wanderer… He asked what we’ve been doing out here? We told him about our magic Book of Mormon. He replied saying "YOU MEAN LIKE THIS!" pulling out his magic Book of Mormon.

We still get the usually slammed door in the face. For example, we went to find an old investigator, Catalina. She was blasting music when we rang the doorbell. She has one of those windows that you can’t see through, but can still see the figure of the person. So we saw her look through the peep hole, wave her hand up like "toma te la," and walk away to turn off the music. I guess she thought if she did that we wouldn’t think anyone was home. So we waited in front of the house, thinking of what we were going to do next. After about 5 minutes, I guess she thought we had left and she opened the door screeching, "Oh whoa uh... what do you want?" Apparently she had people over and we should come back in a couple months. She closes the door, and we laughed over what happened. Then she opens the door again 1 minute later, once again thinking we were gone, and says… "Oh uh my gosh... which one of you is Dirty Dan?"

So we’ve been trying to figure out what we can do better while contacting, and Elder Mckell suggested we Wombo. And I didn’t know what that was, and he was a little surprised like, "Wombology? The study of Wombo?... This is first grade Elder Greene!" We concluded that it was Elder Mckell’s appearance that was distracting, and we were fed up with that. So I grabbed Elder Mckell, showing him to everyone saying "LOOK AT IT... LOOK AT IT…LOOK AT IT!" Everyone then left running. We stopped, and I said, "Look Elder Mckell, you’ve got to get this thing off your chest." And so he took the squid off his chest.

After, Elder Mckell said he had the Meet the Mormons movie, and suggested having a family home evening. I told him "Elder Mckell your genius is showing!" A couple families came, and we had popcorn, and it was sick! Sure there was some disputes over one of the member’s "Big Meaty Claws.” And "someone leaving the lights on in the white sedan." But it was a great activity.

The way people live here is crazy, especially the kids. On the weekends we can’t find anyone, but I can see they are probably at Glove World or something. But during the day kids run everywhere, throughout the week. It’s like they don’t have school. Playing hooky every day. I finally had to say, “Look… if they catch you, they’ll turn you into mayonnaise.”

We went over to Ebelia´s house and Sonia, our newest member was there, they have become the best of friends, they say it’s because they are practically the same age. One is 80 and the other is 55, so yeah… practically. It was crazy scripture time with Ebelia and Sonia. Sonia kept going off about her husband who goes to work every day with a suitcase of doughnuts, while she’s at home taking care of the clan. But in reality, he’s not even going to work, but going to watch t.v.

We now have the newest and coolest investigator; Dario Boreto. I really feel he’s like Donato, except younger. We taught him three times this week and he came to our bible class and church. The bible class kind of became his class, because he would answer everything and anything event though he didn’t know the answer, he would say, "oh yeah, I don’t know the answer to that, yup no answer." But he’s a tan 50 year old, who is always killing it with the Canadian tuxedo. Man he’s cool. We are trying to live our days living like Dario. "Living like Dario"

Here’s a super happy birthday for Dad; who´s birthday is this week. You’re super awesome… for reals. It’s also Elder Mckell’s birthday, so we kind of celebrated Elder Mckell, Dad, and an early birthday for me. Cool! I’ll make sure to send you a Spot Master 6000...WITH A LASER! I love you Dad. And have a super great birthday, especially after that crazy work you and the others were doing in Louisiana! In reality Dad, the inner machinations of your mind are an enigma. I love you!

Finally, for the most sophisticated minded, and the real SpongeBob fans…

Anyways it’s time to "Rev up those fryers cause I sure am hungry!"

Closing Song

The winner takes all,

It's the thrill of one more kill,

The last one to fall,

Will never sacrifice their will,

Don't ever look back,

On the world closing in,

Be in attack,

With your wings in the wind,

Oh the games will begin,