May 13th, 2024 - 38th Email - Not a whole lot actually happened this week

 Hi

So

For like the first time in forever

I had a pretty uneventful and normal week

Sometimes it's nice to have a week where we don't have run-ins with dogs or nearly get in an accident or have a flat tire

So this is pretty chillin I must say

Just a lot of good lessons and stuff

I guess we did have zone conference up in Palm Springs on Wednesday so that was super cool to see missionaries I've served with that are in the yucaipa or yucca valley zones (the "low desert" zones)

Oh yeah also elder taylor in my zone and I have the same birthday, same day same year so that's pretty crazy '04 on top fr

Anyway

Yesterday went crazy cuz it was mother's day so happy mother's day to all the epic moms out there because yall are awesome at what you do if there's any moms reading my emails besides mine I forget or I guess you all have mothers so happy mother's day to your mom if anything

I was able to call so that was fun

It's weird how like

Before

You could only call home on mother's day and Christmas so like 8 years ago or smth the missionaries would be counting the days to mother's day (not to say I wasn't) but like to us it was just like "oh dang it's mother's day cool" rather than the huge thing it was before which is kinda funny

Oh dang there's a loud ambulance outside

They actually finished some construction on the roads around here they were doing smth for like a month with giant open trenches and now we can drive kinda but then they started construction near the church building so I guess they'll never finish

Anyway idk what it was about yesterday, we had church, went home to call family, we had dinner at bishop's house, then helped them move their piano, and for some reason after that I was feeling so energetic and junk and ready to work, elder jones and I were just talking about random junk all evening and laughing and our spanish was popping off and we were connecting really well with the people we ran into (bro talked for like 40 minutes with a 13 year old about random stuff, mostly soccer)

What else

Went on a couple cool exchanges, one was because elder fuller needed a haircut from elder pittman so we just exchanged for the evening after zone conference so he could get it after 9 pm (that's like a saying cuz we do everything "after 9" since that's when we go home)

The second one was also fun we just exchanged as a house on saturday

But it was like

Not a real exchange

Since we did service for this one lady in the morning moving some giant cabinets to her garage and then we went home for studies and then at 1:30 we went to a different member's house to take apart a shed (that thing had so many nails and screws in it) and then we ate dinner with them so we didn't leave that member's house till like 5 and then we went home and showered so the exchange didn't really start till like 5:30ish but it was still fun

We're also decking out our apartment with hype posters that cost 5 bucks at a gas station in coachella so that's cool

We also got a super hype referral

Idk I feel like the work's boutta go crazy so we just gotta keep praying it does cuz things last week were a tad slow but that's okay it happens sometimes

We got free pizza from a member on friday that was fun

The hermanas locked themselves out of the church building on thursday and we had to save them

Oh yeah saturday while on the exchange with elder arvidson we ran into this probably inactive dude that knows a ton about the church bro was totally high but telling us how much he loves what we do and then we invited him to come back to church but he lives in st george so hopefully that happens he was here on business selling solar lol

Then there was a lady sitting in front of the house listening to him so she was like "hey, so you guys talk about God?" And we were like "yeah" and then we taught her stuff but she speaks english so hopefully the english elders get back to her but that was an epic miracle

Ok that's pretty much how my week went I was kinda dead tired most of it except for sunday where we went crazy for no reason I mean with the Holy Ghost we chillin right

I've learned to love tracting though knocking doors used to be so scary now it's so hype cuz we just talk while we're walking between doors and stuff and I love it

Also tomorrow I reach 9 months

Also we have a goal for baptisms in May to get 150 baptisms so now everyone is going crazy for Ford F-150s

Ok love you guys bye talk next week

Photos:

-E TPAAP SEH P (probably happy easter in may)

-cool flowers (probably gonna end up on a facebook story)

-goofy porch