Monday, February 19, 2024

February 19th, 2024 - 26th Email - Biking is hard

Hey


So I wanted to start with a little funny story
When I got here we didn't actually have a door to our bedroom
And so there was a door sitting against the wall right outside our bedroom so naturally I just said "okay we're putting this thing back on" so I found 6 screws in the closet and I put it in
But lucky me I put it in upside down
And also lucky me I put in the wrong door, it was too small and when I tried to close it it wouldn't reach the other end. It was meant for the closet in the other bedroom but they removed that door too.
We found our bedroom door lying down behind the living room couch, so I took out the other door and put in the right one.
So that was funny lol

Ok lookin through my schedule to see what stuff we did
On Monday there's a block that says "getting lost and stuff" and I'm pretty sure that was when Elder Allen and I got separated for a hot minute
It was really late and dark so we were biking and Elder Allen turned into a neighborhood and I didn't see him do that because I was a little behind, so I kept going because there was a shadow in front of me that I thought was him but turns out it was some lady so i kept going until I reached the entrance to some apartment complex and I just sat there for like 15 minutes until I turned around and Elder Allen was pulling up on his bike
Turns out he fell pretty bad when he noticed I wasn't behind him, he turned around and hit a speed bump really hard on his bike, so he called President (since that's what you're supposed to do when we get separated) and because of that they did a training on what to do if you get separated in the missionwide zoom meeting on Wednesday lol

Tuesday we had our soccer night where a lot more people actually showed up and it was fun
I fell off my bike though, we were riding like normal but then we were going to hop on the sidewalk to cross the street and there was a little tiny bump between the bike lane and the sidewalk that'd be light work no reaction but I tried to get on from the side and so I just fell over, luckily I stopped myself with my hands and got back up on my feet pretty quick
Some lady opened the window of her car and asked if I was okay lol

Wednesday was Zone Conference, it was in the Bermuda Dunes building down here (idk why they didn't just go to the stake center in Palm Desert, that building is huge and the Bermuda Dunes building is tiny) but it was really cool to see a bunch of people I recognize and realizing I've been around a while lol
They kicked off a new facebook work thing where we get points for doing specific things and the zone that gets the most points gets socks with President's face on them
And we all got heart glasses for Valentine's Day so that was funny
Our friend Richard is on date to be baptized on the 3rd of March so that's pretty epic
On Thursday we went to the young men's activity and there were a ton of nonmembers there so that was cool plus we got hamburgers and we kinda want to go to all the young men's activities if there's nonmembers there plus to excite them about missionary work
On Friday we blitzed up in Palm Desert (aka we tracted for two hours) and turned up nothing but it's okay we had a really funny cat follow us the entire time
On Saturday we exchanged with the Zone Leaders so that was fun, I was with Elder Morgan down here on bike
It was actually super chill I was scared to lead for a second but I ended up being fine
Except for when I fell down again
There was a really dumb part of the sidewalk where we were biking and I had to go out on the road in order to get back on the sidewalk but then I hit a ledge again between the sidewalk and the road and my bike ended up falling over and I fell on my back and got bruised up on my leg so that was fun
We were heading to a contact but we just went home after that lol to eat lunch
But on Saturday I got to watch my niece get baptized over phone so that was great
And we also just went ham basically and tracted a ton and found four new people to teach
Elder Morgan is a Spanish missionary too up in palm desert so he was able to work fine in the ward which was epic that I wasn't alone for once on an exchange (because we were the only Spanish Elders in Victorville except Elder Gannon in Barstow)
Yesterday was good too we struggle getting people to church but we had a great member dinner (he had to drive us though lol he lived a 40 minute bike ride away and the car elders had a different dinner)

Yeah that's my week slowly getting used to bike work and it's very quickly warming up
Ok love yall bye and Jesus loves you too
Elder Hanson

Pickchers
-outside
-yearly fair going on right now
-the park we went to for our zone activity
-a ladybug on my pants
-me and elder Morgan
-chillin with Elder Allen






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