Thug Life

Yeehaa y'all. So. I got a haircut today. It was by a super dope black guy. But now. I look like a thug. Hahahah. Jk. Except he totally gave me a hard line on the side of my head. I didn't ask for it. But I got it. So now I look like vanilla ice. Alrighty then. Goodbye everyone I'll remember you all in therapy!

A big ol panorama of lake serene

 Jk so uh. This week felt like 3 in 1. I already wrote about going down to slidell. But uhh. Yeah. We has district council and such. Theres a pretty lit restaurant called cookout. It's good. Anyways after that we went and visited a whole bunch of people with not much success. But we got to see diane again and go over bishops storehouse with her and talked about the restoration. Shes progressing super well. So yeah. Then we had a very awkward encounter with a less active fam. Cuz like they know they're less active and we know...but they act like they're active and it's just weird. But anyways we invited them to the baton rouge temple open house. We have been doing that a ton this week. We've given out over 80 cards. Which is like. Half of the zone total. Yeehaa. And then after that we went back to the church and did a missionary board question thing. Where the young men asked questions and we answered and stuff. Like why are we out here and what did we do to prepare. That kind of thing. But pretty cool thing I met a sister from uncle Dave's mission in London. I sadly cannot remember her name. Shhh dont tell nobody. But it was cool how she talked about dave and debbie and how awesome they are. Low key jealous. But it's all good. Thursday we visited a whole bunch more people and then went out with bro Duff. He is wild man. Super eccentric. And one of the scariest drivers. We got to teach A guy named Johnny and also a lady named Brenda. Idk if I've talked about them before. They are both super legit though. Just need to get them to church. Johnny was really interested in the priesthood authority and where to find it so it was cool to talk about that. After teaching them we had dinner with the Newman's haha. We helped them move in a while back and they are super awesome. Bro newman really likes star wars so that's sweet. We invited them to give out some temple invites and bro Newman said he wanted to come teach with us so that's cool. 

a peacock

Then we drove around and visited some other members and gave them some temple cards. And finally we went to the yuviencos and talked to them about it too. Sis yuvienco gave us some lemongrass tea. It's like. Just boiled lemongrass. But its pretty good. We had bishops storehouse and stuff. Visited a ton haha. I dont remember friday too well. Saturday we went and cleaned up Amber's yard and stuff and invited her to the open house. She seemed really excited about it so that was cool. Then we got to go help Ron again at his store hahaha. Hes still crazy as ever. I got a wooden bear though. Super cool. I'll take a picture later. Apparently his Pentecostal church really liked us and wants us to go back. So uh. Guess we'll have to do that. But after that we biked so much I'm surprised I made it. Jk. But it was about 30 miles in all so it was pretty rough. Made it though. Church was good on Sunday. We had a few people come which was good. Also a bunch of less actives came which was super awesome. After church we went our with some youth and visited some people. And then we went to venture church later hahah. It was basically a Christian gospel concert. With a sermon afterward. They had some interesting insight but still. It's hard to beat the true church haha. 

venture churches stage

But uh so how this happened was on saturday when we were visiting we ended up meeting the pastor for venture church. It's supposed to be a super hip new fangled fun church. And it is. Its just... not church. It's like a concert. With a preacher after. So it was cool and I get why people go. But it seems more like an activity instead of an actual church service. But yeah. Now today. We got groceries. I got some new kicks. Uhh. We played some football and basketball. And a few board games. So then we went and ate with the van akins and after that... we went to Jeremy's. And hes an investigator. Who cuts hair. So if you bring this around to the beginning of my email. You will see that jeremy is the dope black guy that gave me the haircut. So now I have a black person haircut. It's pretty sweet. I'm not gonna show any pictures though. Maybe later. But yeah. That's this week. Gotta blast.  

 

Elder Checketts 

Ps scripture time: Luke 24: 36-39

36 ¶ And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Jesus has a body of perfected flesh and bone. Just like we will be able to someday. Super cool stuff.