Fletcher's First Car Accident

Hello,

This past week has just rushed by. I guess we've been busy, but most days are much of the same so I don't know if it's cause we are always just all over the place or cause I forget a lot of the monotony. The missionary work is going pretty good, we have two investigators with baptismal dates and then a few other people who we're working with.

The area I live near is called Niles, it's part of Fremont and the downtown part of it is pretty cool. Apparantly it was made notable by Charlie Chaplin. He chose Niles as a the spot to film a few of his films. I heard all this from some old-timers on the street we stopped and talked to. But they said that he filmed some cowboy type film in the hills that surround Fremont and stayed at an inn or cafe or some store in town while on site. So there are lots of paintings and signs depicting Charlie Chaplin in town. My first week here they had a "Hot August Niles" car show. My companion and I walked through it and checked out the sweet rides, and talked to a few people, one car contestant even gave us a doughnut. Then just yesterday they had an Antique Fair in the street, vendors all over the place the road blocked off. And at the same time, the community organizes it so that everyone has garage sales on the same weekend. So about every other house has items out to sell and there are people walking all over the place, so many people it's crazy.

I am getting to know certain families in my ward better and they are awesome people. Our mission President recently gave us a new thing to do after dinner appointments instead of just sharing a spiritual thought. Now we give the family an index card and challenge them to ask a stranger if they like to read and if so they tell them that they can get them book all about Jesus for free if they just write down their name and address. Sort of sounds like a bad scam but it's an attempt to get the members on board with the work so it kind of is a scam.

Today my companion and two other companionships got up early and hiked a place called Mission Peak. It was cold and windy at the top but fun. We attempted to make our own path back down the mountain but it resulted in a number of sticky situations and a couple of Elders getting stung by a bunch of bees. So after that we stuck to the prescribed path.

At Zone conference on Friday my companion put a lot of effort into sucking up to our vehicle coordinator in order to trade up our corolla for a malibu. He succeeded eventually mentioning that he's never been in an accident. Ten minutes after hopping into the malibu we traded the sister missionaries our corolla for we got rear ended when stalled in traffic. It was crazy. That was the first accident I've ever been in. No one was injured but the impact crunched up one of the back corner panels so the frame is out of whack, we drove it until today when we traded it in for a worse corolla than the one we had. Sad times.

Well that is my news from Fremont. Write you all in another week.

From, Elder Miller