January 15, 2024 - 21st Email - Orbeez war

 Yoooooo

So basically not a lot happened this week

We were super busy tho we had a ton of lessons

Did some service on Wednesday and went to McDonald's after

We had some friends move :( I was super sad but the missionaries in Pacoima boutta be great for them, we went to their house a bunch and even bought pizza for them I was super sad because I've known them since I got here in October so it's a little crazy

We also put our friend Sergio on date for the 17th of February, unfortunately that was the earliest day we could get because he's super busy. I guess I have to hope I don't get transferred, transfers are on the 2nd which is super soon

On Friday we had our trip to the temple! Hung out in Redlands for a minute and it was fun, it's super nice down there. It was super epic and after we were done the sun had crazy lighting and we all smoldered in the sunlight and it was pretty crazy

Also on Friday we stopped at a gas station because I was parched and I needed somethin to drink so I was boutta grab a blue raspberry icee thingy but I pull up to the cash register and the guy's like "dawg I can't sell that to you as much as I like making money" because it was just the syrup and the machine was broken. So I went and grabbed a soda in the fountain drinks and the guy was like "bro let me teach you somethin" and he told me the cup I grabbed cost 3 bucks but there were much bigger cups for $1.50 and so the guy said "you seem like you've had a long day just take it on the house" so I snagged a free Sprite

Weekend was pretty good too nothing of note

Ok here's a pretty crazy story

So on Monday after our zone activity everybody got out their orbeez guns and had an all out war with them and it was pretty funny but I did not participate

A sister got hit in the eye though lol it was pretty crazy she ended up with a black eye, she wore an eyepatch for the next couple days

So anyway what was super scary was we had President interviews on Tuesday so he was gonna see her black eye and probably ask about it. She said she'd just tell him a ball hit her eye, because she was playing with the guns too

Interviews were different this time, we also had to do roleplays with the zone leaders. And one of the zone leaders (Elder Soto) was the guy who had shot the sister in the eye

So basically what happened was we were with the zone leaders doing our roleplays when President had just finished up with that sister's interview so President walks in and asks Elder Soto if her name rang a bell and he was like "oh no" and this was basically what President said

"I had to really yank it out of her that the ball that hit her eye wasn't just any ball but a tiny ball shot from a gun"

And we were so worried the guns would get banned but he didn't say anything about that so we good

Also we asked the sister what happened and she said she was sorry but that he was listing off the names of all the elders in the zone to find out who coulda done it and then he was asking what kind of ball it was and she was begging him not to ban the orbeez stuff and he said he wouldn't so we chillin

That was our zone activity for pday today actually was just an orbeez fight

But yeah that's been my week

For my spiritual thought Alma 34 is a great chapter in the Book of Mormon go read it we used it in a lesson and it's just so good

K love yall peace

Ok now pics

-me in redlands

-us at the temple

-elder pittman smoldering in the sun

-volkswagen beetle