January 22, 2024 - 22nd Email - We decked out our house and I went to Barstow

 Hey

So basically this week was super busy

Not a whole lot of weird stuff happened we just had a ton of lessons, we haven't had this full a week in a while it was actually kinda refreshing to finally have stuff to do and not just go to contacts all day

But our garage is absolutely amazing now we got led lights and a couch and new flooring Elder Taylor put in and now we're vibing like crazy

We got all the furniture from an apartment the Hermanas used to live in but now they moved out and we emptied out their apartment so we got all their stuff

I went to Barstow on Tuesday for my first away overnight exchange (somehow I went over 2 transfers without one) and it was super fun up there, I was with Elder Middledorf who actually got his visa to go to Brazil so he's in Rio rn

Barstow is so weird because it's just a lonely city way out there that we know basically nothing about

Honestly tho we have a lot of crazy stuff going on with the personal lives of our friends that makes it really tough sometimes (like financial problems and other stuff) so it's really weird to keep track of it all especially since it's not our job as missionaries to deal with all that so we've had a few phone calls to Obispo throwing our friends' problems that we can't deal with to him and I honestly feel kinda bad but he's a really amazing bishop so it's going alright for now

A guy in our ward got set apart as a missionary yesterday and we took him out with us all day, it was so much fun

Also our gas card straight up doesn't work anymore we have it but we still have been needing to borrow the cards from the other companionships lol

Met some new people yesterday who are super promising

But overall it was actually a really good week I had a lot of fun Elder Pittman and I work well together

Oh yeah also the Brentwood B Elders had a ton of donuts

So basically the story is

They pull up to a donut shop and there was a truck coming in with a huge canceled order

There was a lady who asked if they wanted free donuts cuz they were giving them all away, a whole truckload and then she said they had even more but they didn't want that many

There were easily like 800 donuts maybe even more

So they gave us a whole bag and it was super goofy

The work has been hard sometimes because sometimes getting people to understand is tough but we have so much fun anyway, I love teaching the gospel that i know is true!

K peace love you all

Fotos

-DJ Pitty

-our garage (that's Elder Taylor the ZL)

-all the donuts (that's Elder Bowen from our zone)

-us and Elder Ortiz

-our recent convert's younger brother drew this