Letter #18

Joshua's 18th Letter HEY GUYS! so holy cow so much has happened this week!!!! to start off I'll give a brief synopsis: Wrestled a cow, buried a goat, laughed at mossbrucker, worried about an injured mossbrucker, gave a church tour and Natalie set a date for baptism! NOW for the long part! Okay, we did a lot of service for Sister Sisk and whilst being up here, (she's kinda a regular, she's stuck in a wheel chair so we often go by), she fed us lunch as she does everytime and well... it varies. She made tuna melts and those were.... great! I can remember mossbrucker trying to eat cream of mushroom soup because he HATES it but unlike me he doesn't let people know. He just kinda toughs stuff out... I on the other hand either avoid it or try and eat it... in which case I can only take a couple of nibbles. I need to work on this. I remember pulling off all the toppings off a deluxe pizza and getting looks because of it. Moss and Sister Sisk just stared at me as if I was strange. I looked at them like, "What?!" Anyway! back to this particular service project! So we were picking cherries for her in her tree for starters, I had gone to the other side of the electric fence. This fence was the same one elder mossbrucker had zapped himself on weeks before which was funny but not as funny as this time. We had been testing the electric fence to see which wires were live or not and he decided to try and HOP over the fence from the ladder onto the other side to try and save time. Well he fell short and ended up hitting the ground while his legs were all tangled in the fence! So he's squirm'n around yelping: OW! and I was laughing everytime he got zapped! THEN we went to go chase down a bull! There are about three houses two on either side of sister sisk that have ALOT of cattle. SHE only has two heifers and a HUGE FAT bull who got out, we chased off the heifers and the two calves so THEY wouldn't get out too. These other bulls were having hissy fits with the bull on the other side of the fence. One bull took a little more yelling at to go away whilst the fatty was a pansy and left pretty quick. We chased this bull and the entire herd of heifers down at least half a mile, the frigg'n punk knew EXACTLY why we were there. BUT he didn't wanna leave his 20 new girlfriends so he would dodge around into the middle of them. At one point we almost had him but he bucked and trotted back around, it was then that Mossbrucker said it was time to give in.. I got mad at the bull and yelled at him. 'YOU TWO TON PIECE A CRAP!' at which the bull ignored me. that's my BIG story for this week! Spiritual time! NATALIE suddenly wants to be baptized! we had a bishops meeting on Wednesday... I think that's why we were there, BUT mutual was going on and Natalie came up to us and said she wanted to be baptized. Now, NORMALLY we'd be pretty excited, but we KNOW Natalie and she is kinda an over complex individual, so afterwards we met with Natalie and her mom and sat down and had a chat. We don't know how legit she's being but we have decided to give her the benefit of the doubt, we're very hopeful and we are trying to teach all the lessons to her. Pray for her sweet crazy head! well folks that's all for now! I gots ta go!