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Tornado damage

Tornado Damage

Tornado damage

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Ahoy y'all I'm back. Sorry I haven't written in a fat while. Life's been freakin wack for the past week to say the least. I don't remember what the last thing I wrote was so I'm just gonna kinda go backwards I guess. Sorta. Kinda. Anyways. So. Since last Thursday our apartments power has been out. And I have had a wicked cold that has been killing me slowly but surely. So if I die...I blame the rain. And also everyone else being sick. But we've been living g out of our suitcases for a whole week and I'm dying. So it's been super stressful. We first stayed in a members BnB which was super nice. And we'd go check to see if they got the power back on. Cuz problems happened and I guess the church wasn't getting the bill for our power so they cut it off. But we checked everyday and it never came back on but we had p-day and exchanges in Alexandria so that should have been more than enough time. They told us it would be back on Monday. And we had p-day to Wednesday to give them enough time. Anyways. Exchanges were cool. We met a minister lady who told me to start my own church and I was like uhhh no. But she was super cool and me and Elder Tauraa told her about what we do and what we believe and such. It was cool. I guess I'm low key buff as junk cuz people keep asking if I played football all the time. All them push-ups are finally paying off hehehe. Anyways. Later us, the Alexandria elders and the sisters all went to a food bank and like assembly lined all this food into bags and it was super fun haha. Also we ate with a member and I blew their kids mind by telling them that sand is called sand because it's in between the sea and the land. He'll never be the same. Jk. Maybe. Anyways. We had district council which is always sweet. We visited julie on the way back home and she is doing way better. Shes really interested in coming to church and the gospel and such. She prayed before we left and it was way good. But sadly the good times came to an end when we came back to find our apartment still had no power. A little bummed about that. I'm still sick and so is everyone and their dog. It's just been rough living out of my carry on bag. But I'm alive so. God is good all the time. 

Zone Conference

Anyways. Before all this we had zone conference and stuff and that was really good. We had another pure testimony type of thing like we did when I first came out. Freakin awesome. The spirit is always crazy strong during pure testimonies. It was super good. I haven't been eating as much because I've been sick and stuff but somehow I'm still rockin a solid 176 pounds of absolute manliness. The south makes you strong, either in fat or in faith. Luckily its not all fat for me. So sorry again that I haven't written an email. It's been a pretty wild few weeks. Hopefully I get better soon and everything goes back to normal. Also I hope everyone else gets better cuz literally like everyone is sick. Oh hey I hit 11 months too. 2-13. Yeeyeeyeeyeyeyeye. Almost a year. Kinda wack. Um. But yeah. Wild times. Also idk if I even told y'all about how we went to WAYSIDE LIGHTHOUSE LOVE AND HOLINESS hahahahah. We went to the bible study. Holy cow it was crazy. They spoke in tongues and everything. It was awesome. We were the only white people there. So cool. I don't thing I could honestly describe how that experience was. You'll have to ask me in person someday. It was like a black Baptist church that believed in Pentecostal beliefs but also some really random things too. The preacher lady told me she anointed her car with oil and commanded it to go in reverse cuz it wouldn't... and after 3 tries it worked I guess. These people sure are fun huh? Anyways. Thats all for now. Keep spankin with the spirit.P 

Biking

Pall Bearer

Bed and breakfast temp location

Elder Checketts 

Ps scripture time: 2 nephi 3:12-13

12 Wherefore, the fruit of thy loins shall write; and the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be written by the fruit of the loins of Judah, shall grow together, unto the confounding of false doctrines and laying down of contentions, and establishing peace among the fruit of thy loins, and bringing them to the knowledge of their fathers in the latter days, and also to the knowledge of my covenants, saith the Lord.

13 And out of weakness he shall be made strong, in that day when my work shall commence among all my people, unto the restoring thee, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.

Joseph smith. Freakin cool. Also saints 2 is out on gospel library and I'm stoked.

Pictures

So we helped a dude clean up a bunch after his house got hit with a tornado

We were pallbearers at a funeral 

Biking

Zone conference 

The BnB and poo pourri