June 25

Hello

This has been a really great week! We have really focused our efforts on being accountable for our time. Elder Osgood and I set a goal to get thirty working hours this week. We were able to get that done which is super exciting! We were so happy! We didn't have too much success but we worked super hard and did a lot of inviting. This is however a week of Super Funny Things

1) Wednesday we got to our apartment at 9:20ish and we had gotten 11 working hours that day so I was tired. We walk up the stairs I put my key in the lock and start to turn. So I turn and turn and turn and turn and turn, it took me a while to realise that the lock wasn't working. So I go to pull my key out and....... The entire middle section of the dead bolt comes out. Oops!! I had seen that the manager was in the office when we went to get the mail so we walk over and knock on the door. The first thing that I did was apologise because I know that it is almost 9:30pm but the lock to our apartment is broken. She goes ok its no big deal I can get that fixed right away. She grabs a screw driver and comes over. She sees the lock and it wasn't what she thought it was going to be. She takes my key and puts it in and starts to turn and nithing happens so she pulls it out and the middle come out again but this time it comes with all the springs in the lock and you can hear all the tumblers falling out of it. So I tell her that we can probably just go over to another missionaries apartment and we can deal with it in the morning but that we just have to call and get it approved. Well President Morby is a realtor and apartment owner so he goes it is her job to get you in there tonight. So I go back over and tell her that we need to get in. So she calls a lock smith and he says that he should be here a little before 10:30. No big deal. So Elder Osgood and I do our planning in the car and then we just sit back and wait. And wait and wait and wait. At 10:50 I get a text from President asking if we are in yet. I tell him that the lock smith isn't even here yet. He seemed to be a little concerned because he asked where we were etc. Finally after 11 the guy showes up and then starts to try to get the manager to buy a new lock and door nob before he even works on the door. I finally just say I don't even care if the door locks tonight or not I just want to go to sleep. So we finally get in and go to bed at 11:30.

2) Then on Friday after we went tracting in Dayton as a district Elder Osgood and I went over to help a less active family move their washer out and bring a new one in. We get it in. I get it all hooked up life is good. We are outside and in true Oregonion fashion they have three dogs so I start to play with them. All of the sudden the one freeks out and jumps up and bites me on the chest. He rips through my shirt and my garment top, leaves a road rash kind of mark and makes a pretty big bruise. No blood:) We leave and then the humor of the entire thing hits. They said that they would feed us lunch, they didn't. We were going to have a lesson, didn't happen. I get bit by their dog, I say sorry. It was funny. But that is a picture of my chest as of this morning. It is tender:)

3) Yesterday Sister Smith took us to Safri Sams and we played mini golf and there were six missionaries and her plus her three kids and a friend. It was a lot of fun and there were so many funny moments.

All in all this was a great week and I am so greatful for the chance that I have to be a missionary and to work and labor here in Dayton. I hope that I don't get transferred but thy will be done right. I have a feeling that I am getting transferred because I had a really quick interview with President Morby and he was wanting to make sure that I was getting along ok with Elder Osgood. 

Thanks so much for who you are. I love all of you and miss you very much!!

Love Dustin