Email from February 28, 2011

Family..

So it is the last day of February and also my 16 month mark.. 2/3 of the way completed. How crazy is that. It is weird how time works. Especially on a mission. hmmm.. It still feels like I have forever left though! So this week has been interesting. Transfers came and went and nothing happened to our companionship, or so we were thinking. On Thursday afternoon we got a call from the assistants to the president informing us that we have a new companion. Elder Hendershot. So there is three of us now. I guess he got put with a companion that neither of them could drive. Long story short they switched things up and he came with us! So we will be in a three leg for the next little while now! It will be good. The elder that was put with us has been known in the past for not being the hardest worker. But so far he has expressed that wants to be a hard worker and everything is all good! So I am excited to be able to get to work.

Mom, no we didn't have a baptism last week hah, I don't know where that info came from. I think we might have been working towards that day with a family way back, but that got moved a long time ago! Sorry. We set a baptismal goal of four for the month of march. Hopefully that can go somewhere and we will reach our goals.

We got news this morning that Elder Christofferson from the quorum of the 12 is coming to our mission on march 12th, how sweet is that!!! That is two in a year! So sweet. I can't wait. That will give everyone a boost..

Our investigators are doing pretty good. Blake came to church this Sunday! Even without his mom so that is good. I don't know how much he liked it but he stayed all three hours. We had about 5 lessons set up with Blake and Stephanie but they all got cancelled. One thing after another.

We are going to try again for tomorrow. The problem is that she works when it snows and it is supposed to snow everyday this week. Good news, it is only -22 degrees today. So not that bad. We are going to play street hockey though... so we will be outside. I can't wait for the warm weather in Provo Utah! crazy.

Mom I have been meaning to ask you, we have been talking about people over 100, and I wanted to ask about Helen Cragun and how she is doing!

We should be picking up like 3 or 4 new investigators this week. All 10 year olds. hahah. It will be sweet to work with the families to get them back to church! Awesome.

I am out! gotta go play some hockey. I love you all. Miss you!

Love Elder Dastrup

PS Terrible news about Derron Williams. I was so sad when I heard that. The jazz better pick up Jimmer! Go cougs.