Monday, December 5, 2016

Chugach Stake, North Anchorage (YSA)



I have been called to serve in the North Anchorage Chugach Stake, in the YSA ward.

My companion and I (Elder Brock) are white washing the area.  Which
means, the missionaries basically know nothing about the area. So it's super hard and its not a super common thing, but its so much fun.  We go OYMing all the time (open your mouth) and that is basically our version of street contacting...but so much better.

Our first morning in our apartment we got  a call from the APs saying that we are going to host missionaries for our zone conference, which was on Friday. These elders were coming from Bethel, Elders Hansen and Contrarez. They are amazing. We got to spend two days with them before we dropped them back off at the airport.

Strangely, President LaVoie assigned me as the designated driver....but that's because my companion never got his license. But that's ok, because there is a ton of snow... and they don't really plow the roads in our area...so its kinda sketchy.  We drive a Subaru Legacy and its really nice....and my area is like twice the size of Cache Valley...so we drive all over the place. There is about 750k people in Alaska total and 300k of them are from Anchorage.

Also, another cool thing you may want to know...is I'm learning Samoan. I honestly don't know why, but President asked me to learn Samoan. There is huge population of Samoans here...but few to none of the english speaking missionaries learn it. So I'm super excited to learn...I can already introduce myself and pray in Samoan...but I'm no where near ready to teach.

Anyway that has kind of been my week.

Many are called, and few are frozen.

I love you all.


-Elder Poppleton








Additional information from other emails -  



So I met one of Jake's companions yesterday and that was way cool.  He
got home like a month ago. That was cool. 

...but, I need a ton of stuff. Mainly for survival like a coat!

So if I could get like $300 on my card that would be awesome! Because
stuff here is so stinking expensive

...And I need to get all of that stuff today or I'm going to die this

week. Wind chills of negative 25 right now. And its only getting
colder

I have a few videos that he sent that are fun.  Email me or comment if you want me to forward them to you!



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