The One With Dope Stuff

It was a good week in Elkhart. And I am anticipating an even better week this week! Exciting stuff coming!
Here is Elder Wadley's e-mail this week:

well this week has been pretty awesome for me we saw some dope stuff but other then that... jk I'll tell you.

This week our investigator Dale said he was ready to get baptized and so hes getting baptized on the 11th and confirmed on the 12th so thats awesome we also went on splits with the Spanish Elders and found some pretty awesome people! we have appointments set up for the rest of the week its awesome also we were only expecting Dale at church we had three other people show up! super awesome also a member in the ward gave us some legos!! also its snowed a ton this week!! which has been amazing

This kid does not mind cold weather. He was the idiot boy scout that never wore a coat on winter camp-outs. When he got his call to Indiana, I immediately thought about how cold it gets there- that really bitter/damp cold from the humidity. Wouldn't you know- this has been a warm year for Indiana. While we were suffering freezing temperatures in Utah, Indiana was at a balmy 65 degrees!
It looks like winter has finally come to Indiana this week.

Lego masterpieces.

He is still six years old inside.

Elder Brendan celebrates his 19th birthday on February 12th. This is the same day he will confirm their investigator, Dale as a member of the church. I thought that was kind-of an awesome birthday gift, for a Sunday birthday on a mission. I am so happy for him, and will be thinking of this happy thought while I am also missing him being away from home on the day of his birth.
Missionary birthdays are hard on a mom.
It is a day of intense missing them.

They went bowling as a p-day activity. Elder Wadley looks pretty happy! I think he just might be in his element here, a little work/family biz throwback. He usually throws an unexplained random photo in his weekly e-mails. Sometimes I ask about them, and other times I don't notice or forget to ask the story to go with it. Not sure what is going on here.

I don't know if he came in on this bus, or if he is boarding.
Probably both.
Or maybe he is the driver.