Whip it!

Cool outdoor pic

Howdy! This week was pretty good. So some big junk happened and I'm in a trio instead of the normal 2 companionship. So now it's me, Elder Ladle, and Elder Torsak. It's been really fun haha. Except people seem really intimidated by the fact that there's a lot of us. Like one dude we knocked into said we looked like the mafia. Because we were all dressed up and stuff haha. Well here we go

Monday: umm I think I already told y'all about Monday but I did give another blessing. I'm handing them out like candy. Jk. But they've been happening really fast. I've given like uhh. Umm. 3 or 4 now. But man its crazy.

Tuesday: we dug up flowers and took them to a members house which we were gonna plant later. We talked to this young couple who the wife is inactive and the husband isn't a member. We gave them a family proclamation and taught about eternal families and stuff it was cool. We laminated it and were gonna build a frame for it haha. We talked to Sxxxx again. And man we talked to his cousin who's a member and she thought he was an atheist. And we had no idea because he seems super legit. Like he had a prayer answered and stuff since we have talked to him. So pretty neat huh?

Whip mark. Sorry I'm frowning hahaha

Wednesday: In the morning when we work out I've started sprinting kind of. We go outside the apartment and I walked through the parking lot and did the math. It's only about 50 meters but still. I'll be super fast by the time I get home. Maybe. Or super fat. I've gained 10 pounds since I got here. I think I might die before I actually come home hahaha. So Wednesday we planted those flowers and then pulled some weeds. The Bxxx's have an 18 year old son and hes dope. He showed us this whip he has haha and we all tried it out. I want one they're freakin awesome. Except. I whipped myself in the face hahaha. I took a picture of the mark. If you didn't know it was from a whip you would think it was dumb. But since it's from a whip... it's super cool. We had Hawaiian pork at the Etes and man that stuff is good. All they did was put salt on it but its was like the best pork ever. Crazy stuff. ALSO! Not to brag or nothing but my companions pointed out I'm really good at promising blessings. Like specific to people for their problems. I had no idea haha. But we were talking to this inactive member. Who is this older woman that (no offense) has an awful memory. Like we told her the churches address like 5 times and everytime we said "so we'll see you at church right?" And she would say "oh yeah...where is it again?" And it's like ahhhh. But I promised her that if she would read the BOM and pray for a stronger memory every day then she would be able to remember things a lot better and stuff. So that was neat. Also we met a dude who was a member and did baptisms for the dead! His mom thought that was weird so he hasn't come to our church since he was like 13. Crazy stuff. He said he remembered liking it and we told him about the BOM and stuff. 

Thursday: COACH GREEN! That guy is dope hahaha. I taught the restoration and gave the most powerful first vision ever. At least for me. Like I've never felt the spirit as strong as I did then while telling it. So cool stuff haha. We ate a ton today though. Gosh dang members always feeding us. It rained quite a bit but we were studying while it rained so it was alright. We went and taught Stephen and he said he wanted to come to church so that was awesome. We talked to a family where the dad was a bishop but has been inactive for a long time. I can't remember what we taught but he seemed really appreciative of my testimony in particular. We saw him at church which was a low key miracle by the way so that was way cool. Perhaps I changed him hahahah. Wild. 

Flat Tire

Friday: We planted flowers at another members house and had spaghetti which was sick. Then we biked a million miles to a new convert and taught about the temple and such. Pretty sweet. Also my bike tire popped. Which was awful. We were on the side of a highway so I had to walk for like a mile. Not too bad. But still. A member came and saved us and we ate at his house so that was super cool hah. We later found a lady who seemed really interested and stuff so we're gonna talk to her again soon. 

Saturday: we went to another members and painted some rooms for them. They gave us pizza so definitely worth it hah. We went later over to Stephens cousins house who's a member. And we talked about him with them. They seemed way surprised so it was cool. FINALLY we saw brother Joe. He has been in the hospital for like 2 weeks apparently. He still talks a ton though hahaha. He is way interested in joining the church even though he has been Methodist all his life. And finally we met a guy named Heath who was pretty interested. We gave him a BOM and stuff so we will talk to him again soon. 

These ducks are outside every morning and
I befriended one. It followed me
around for a while.

Sunday: church goes by way fast. It's weird how back home it took forever to get through. But now it's like Oh it's over. We did a lot of training and junk which sucks. But it's good. I guess haha. We taught Mxxx again and she is hardcore catholic. But were gonna answer the question where do people who haven't heard of God or the gospel go. And also children who aren't baptized. So that'll be good when that happens. 

I wear my sunglasses at night

Well uhhh. Yeah. A ton of people should be coming to church next week. I hope. But there's a lot more people than I expected who are willing to learn and stuff. So hopefully we will be able to baptize some peeps and junk. But we'll see. Alrighty then. Gotta blast.

Elder Checketts