Monday, November 20, 2017

Ninety Eight Weeks

Hello Everyone!

This has been a pretty occupied week - we have been balancing a lot of different things in our area but perhaps the most exciting has been the radio program that we started. It is pretty fun because we have to go writing the programs quickly, but they also have to come out well. The really entertaining part though is the lack of a computer to help us out. We have been going writing everything by hand and then getting photocopies but on Sunday for example when we couldn't pay to get copies I had to type out the portion of the program that my comp had written on the typewriter in the pench in order to have my own copy. Our program also includes music, but the music that we use I have on a really small memory card in our really simplistic phone, and so using the phone I had to go organizing folders of the music and renaming files, and then copy them over afterwards to the computer in the radio station using a memory card adapter.

All in all though, it turned out quite well though (or so it would seem). The first night I finished the program a little earlier than time, and so after a brief snippet of Shakira, we got a violin piece to fill out the last couple of minutes. The second one then there was a few minutes of silence there at the beginning because I had forgotten to turn on the microphones... Thus my comp and I were doing a program for ourselves haha. Last night though, the third night it all seemed to come out a little smoother.

In other fun news, this coming Saturday we are going to have an event know as an open chapel, where there is going to be a nice presentation of some of the basic teachings of the church inside, with visual displays, and then the whole ward goes out trying to invite friends and just whoever else they can find to come and learn a little more. It ought to be fun, and I have been using the Radio to announce it as well so hopefully there will be a decent turn out.

Other than that, there hasn't been a whole lot too terribly new. We've been out in our area a lot, but we have been in the phase of trying to find more new people to teach once again so there isn't too much to tell there, though there are some people that seem to be coming along nicely in their progress.

I love you all though and hope you have a great week!
Love,
Elder McCollum

Photos:
2493 - A cool old car seen while out working (It was a chevy; normally cars of this age that are still around tend to be Ford)
2495 - The same car
2497 - First night on the Radio
2507 - The train that takes us through our area (or the tracks at least). We use it a lot.
2509 - The Radio station. Notice the red "On Air" light. (We were a couple minutes from starting here).
2510 - Better view of the radio setup we use.
2515 - The command center; the captain's seat
2519 - One completely written program, complete with handwritten pages, typewritten pages, and music organized with the phone shown.









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