Week 50

Welcome back to Sunny Selma News,

As some of you might have noticed, I took a brief, unannounced hiatus last week to go on vacation.  I hope you weren't disappointed.  It's been a blast of a week and I've been enjoying the adventures each day brings.  Well, that's what I might be saying if I wasn't stuck inside.  We have a new car, back to a Malibu, I call him Dark and Handsome.  Last Monday we went to Sequoia National Park, which was cool, and saw some big trees.  It was good to go for a drive again, it took us a few hours and was worth the better part of our preparation day.  Oh, we also have a new President, he's pretty cool, we haven't heard from him much.  Some Sisters borrowed a guitar from one of their members and I have been playing it some, it only took one day to remember some good tunes, and then to learn some Hymns of course.  Elder Grant and I made a video for Facebook again, this time he testified about the scriptures in front of a park, we'll see if it goes anywhere.   It was Independence day this weekend, I'm sure the personal artillery rounds across the neighborhood were a pleasant reminder.  We drove out to a church in another small town nearby to have some hot dogs with our fellow missionaries, and we played some basketball, but we weren't allowed to drive back because of rules or something, so we biked the 10 miles back to our apartment before sundown.  What a ride!  (Worth it!)  We visited some other friends of ours earlier in the day, we had pizza with a member and played foosball with a new friend of the Spanish Elders.  It was a good time and a good weekend.  Transfers are tomorrow, I will be staying in Selma.  Elder Grant and I are swapping companions with some Elders in Atwater, which is also small and can smell pretty bad depending on the season, so good luck to Elder Grant, it's been a fun ride.  Pray that the world gets healed soon, I don't know how much longer our AC is going to last.  Write me something uplifting you saw this week, I could use it.

That's All Folks!

Elder Gneiting

Pictures of the good-times