February 12th, 2024 - 25th Email - The days are hot but the nights are cold

Well I guess the days aren't that hot, like Saturday was a little warm but last night was actually pretty cold

Anyway hey

So this week was pretty crazy, first full week on bike which is weird a ton of junk happened

So on Tuesday we were supposed to have our ward soccer night and nobody showed up lol, only two recent converts but we somehow had fun lol

Also one of them knows Elder Gonzalez cuz he served here, he's pretty chill and he's like 20 years old so he's thinking about serving a mission

On Wednesday we went to Palm Springs because Elder Allen had a doctor's appointment

I think I forgot to mention this last time but a couple weeks ago he got hit by a car on bike and injured his shoulder which it seems pretty weird they put him on bike again this transfer when it physically pains him sometimes (more when we're not riding our bikes which is weird) but he's chillin (at least he says he is)

So yeah he had a checkup type beat on Wednesday and apparently he just barely doesn't need to get surgery (which I feel like means he should get surgery anyway but whatever)

Also that night we had a lesson with a basher

Bro was a facebook find too and those are usually promising

But yeah he was talking the whole time trying to convert us to his way of thinking, he takes everything we already believe to the next level and the whole time I was wanting to say "bro it's not that deep" but idk how to say that in Spanish

Also he was asking us where we lived and stuff and saying he'd give us a ride home but I'm not boutta trust him so we left

But he wouldn't let us leave

We probably "left" like five times but he kept talking

It feels like our travel time takes forever sometimes (I mean it does) but it also takes a longer time because we talk to legit everyone we see which is something to get used to for sure

Thursday we were at this cool place called Dave's hot chicken (it sells hot chicken) it was pretty fire ngl

Also on Thursday was an epic miracle

So basically we had been teaching this dude a lot and we had only been teaching him on his porch but he finally let us inside his apartment and it's this huge group of like 10 25 year old dudes from Venezuela and we gave them all their own book of mormon

Honestly they're super promising so long as we get the first guy to church and stuff it was awesome

Also Friday was fun we barely rode our bikes at all that day

We were tryna get another lesson with the big group of guys and then also get a member there (because that's important also they kind of entertain them for us) but nobody was answering or saying they could go

We called like 7 people to come, until finally we gave up and then had dinner with a member, we just asked him "hey do you wanna come with us to a lesson right now" and he was like "sure" and then he drove us there and then drove us to our next lesson, and then the night was over and he drove us home lol. We barely rode our bikes at all that day. Just a little bit in the morning when we went to the church to attend a funeral. That member came in clutch like crazy

Saturday was hecka long

Idk it just felt like it was never gonna end I don't think I've felt that way yet about any day on the mission but sometimes it just be hard

Not for any particular reason either it just felt like time was going by at half a second per second

Then sunday was pretty chillin

Yeah that was my week

Overall bike is cool but also really hard but we gettin through it, for all I know I might only have five more weeks on bike

Or I might have eleven

I'm okay with either I guess I need the cardio

For a spiritual thought I just wanted to point out miracles are real and happen all the time especially when a car gets a little too close to us because bike lanes here are absolutely terrible and nothing happens or when we call a member 20 minutes before a lesson and he says he'll come or when someone listens to us because we ask them their opinion on the superbowl they happen all the time! You just have to be on the lookout for sure.

Ok bye

Fotos

-outside our apartment

-just pictures around Indio

-minecraft lawn fr

-lookin dapper

-grapefruit tree