Hola!
This week felt so long but it also went by really fast which is weird
We started the week with meeting our bishop for the first time. He had been on vacation in Honduras for the last three weeks so it was cool to finally meet him lol
On Wednesday we had zone council at the church building, and we were going to dump ice water on the sister training leaders but we had left the buckets at home so we had to drive all the way back. We find two buckets in the garage and one of them was full of this liquid. I thought it was water so I went out and dumped it in the front lawn but it turns out it was brown paint and it just blended with the bucket color. Luckily our lawn is just rocks so I could flip the rocks over and you couldn't even tell. It's pretty messy though. And then after I tried cleaning it out we were told just to bring the other bucket and ignore that one.
Then that afternoon we did exchanges with bike elders who live in downtown Victorville. The guy I was with was Elder Parry. He's from New York. The bike was wayyyy too tall for me though, even with a lowered seat, so getting on it was really hard, but once I was on it it was fine. We were in a bit of a sketch area but it was still fun. Then Elder Parry's bike popped a tire and we had to go home. I made myself a hamburger and that was fun, and then we did some tracting around where he lives. That evening Brother Brad Wilcox talked to us about missionary work at our weekly missionwide zoom meeting and that was really cool.
Also while we were on exchanges Elder Gonzalez put someone we're teaching on date for baptism so that's really cool. He had an awesome experience where he received an answer to his prayer that he should get baptized.
Thursday we had house cleaning check. That was fun
Friday we had a lesson with a new guy who has been through a ton in his life and he's just really ready to get baptized, the first thing he told us when we met him was he wants to improve his life and he wanted to learn about the church and get baptized. He already knows so much and is really far in the Book of Mormon.
On Thursday and Friday I was able to give blessings and they were both really cool experiences. It's cool to see when you say exactly what somebody needed to hear.
Then Saturday was a wild day. We had a birthday party to go to. One of our guys on date has a younger brother who had a party that lasted until like 2 AM. We obviously weren't there the whole time, we only went to do missionary work anyway. We had to leave to do a lesson but we promised we'd be back later to help him with something. We went to the lesson and then quickly hopped over to a family who had two daughters that were supposed to get baptized yesterday but didn't actually end up getting baptized because of what happened when we went to their house. We usually go during the day and wait to be let in their yard but Saturday we just walked in after the sun was down and Elder Gonzalez got attacked by their two American bullies. They totally ignored me and went straight for him and they tore up one of the pant legs below the knee and gave him a few bites. He then hopped the chain-link fence and the top part of the fence punctured his legs really bad. He ended up in the neighbor's backyard and had to walk through his house to get back around. The fence was flattened and he was limping. He sat down on their bench and the family was helping wrap up his injury and where the fence had poked a hole in his leg there was blood everywhere. The bites weren't terrible. We immediately called the mission nurse after we left and she told us to go to urgent care. So we went to an urgent care (but not after making a quick stop home and missing our freeway exit) but for some reason even though we got there before the posted closing time the door was locked. We just went another 2 minutes over to the hospital. Then we realized "oh wait we promised we'd be over to the birthday party" so we did a quick exchange with the Zone Leaders so we (me and Elder Steere) could go over to that while Elder Gonzalez could stay at the hospital. We did what we needed to do and then just went home. Elder Gonzalez and Elder Jensen didn't get home until like 1 AM. I'm still surprised I didn't get attacked at all. I'm chillin.
Then we got a call from Elder Gonzalez saying that the girls couldn't get baptized. I'll keep it brief saying that some stuff happened where the kids had actually all left and were like an hour drive away. So Sunday morning was stressful. We left our house really early to make sure everything was okay and they were still going to church. Some of the kids had gotten back already and were all ready to go to church, surprisingly. But the other kids weren't, including one of the girls who was getting baptized. And we wanted them both to get baptized together. So that didn't happen because she didn't get back in time. We pushed the baptism to next week. If everything goes to plan, we'll have at least 3 baptisms next Sunday. So that'll be cool.
The problem was because we left the house so early I didn't have time to eat breakfast. I had showered and my companion was like "let's go" and because of church and we had a meeting after that lasted like an hour and a half and then we went to CVS for Elder Gonzalez's antibiotics and so I didn't end up eating anything until like 1:30 PM and I was really hungry. We stayed in the rest of the day so Elder Gonzalez could rest. We did a phone lesson and it went really well, though.
I'm not discouraged though! I'm seeing miracles constantly and hearing so many great things other companionships are doing. We've had so many people in my zone out of commission for sickness or injury and we're still getting so much work done. It's been awesome to see how much we can do when we let the Holy Ghost guide.
Also today we had a cool pumpkin carving activity
And and and I reach a 200 day duolingo streak tomorrow
Pday next week is Tuesday cuz Halloween so that's when my email will be
Okay see you guys next week!
Elder Hanson
Pictures!
-route 66 picture
-Elder Parry exchange
-the paint on the ground
-Elder Gonzalez at the hospital
-just us driving
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