June 17th, 2024 - 43rd Email - Everything is on fire

Hey

San bernardino is still fun

So basically to explain the title on saturday and sunday we saw a couple random clouds of smoke so fires are starting to pop up which is super cool (not really)

Highlight of the week was me getting a massive sinus infection

So basically i lost all sense of smell and taste and was pretty much hiding the fact that I was dying in pretty much every lesson

I was able to breathe mostly by saturday but I still couldnt really smell

It was nice because (funny quick story)

So on mondays after pday a member takes us out to eat to a mexican restaurant and I was a little silly and forgot to ask for no beans in my burrito (i do not like beans) but it was okay because I couldnt taste it anyway

I need to make sure to ask for no beans today

Also my mom was super nice and awesome and sent me a giant jar of peanut butter m&ms so I just sat there depressingly on my bed munching on m&ms that I couldnt enjoy because I was too impatient to wait until I could taste again

Plus i took some of the best naps of my life

It was really hard though because we ran out of toilet paper so I ended up using paper towels to blow my nose until elder watson (another missionary I live with) snagged a toilet paper roll from the local church building (good grab, those things are massive)

Uhhh some cool friends out here

We get hecka numbers there's so much work we get probably 3 or 4 referrals a day, we found like 16 new people last week (personal high) so we kinda popping off

We had some friends that need to get married to get baptized, they were supposed to get baptized sunday but we've never tried to get people married in riverside before and there were some more credentials they needed to fill in that we didnt know about because we never have people go to riverside (like we needed to have a marriage date and proof that our bishop could marry them) so we hopefully be finna do allat tomorrow theyre super cool so pray for them pls

Had another friend try to get baptized but he still needs more time to get some stuff figured out so he got his date pushed back but its ok we chillin

Also fun fact about our apartment we live on the second floor above the model apartment so we dont have downstairs neighbors which is great because I accidentally dropped some weights on the floor last night and nobody got mad at me

Uhhh what else

This week was our mission tour which means a general authority checked out our mission, it was Elder Ojidiron and this guy is from Nigeria and he was sick he gave a really cool training at zone conference (which included half the mission instead of a third, we got the whole low desert and us and redlands while the other half was rialto and fontana and the high desert)

I ended up getting to go on an exchange with my boy elder stewart because of mlc on friday (where all the leaders in the mission chill out and talk about bettering the mission and stuff) and the district leaders were invited so I was on bike with my district leader's companion and that was actually a really difficult bike area it's super hilly so we're cruising down the hill when we get out then at like 5 pm we have to bike all the way back up lol so props to them for doing that every day fr plus its hot outside not like indio hot but it's still pretty hot

Also we got new devices in our cars so basically we have this thing we call tiwi that checks our driving and stuff but we got a new one that has a camera and an annoying voice but now we have to use a qr code on our phone to log in instead of a card reader which is slightly annoying because the camera is really bad at reading our phones we need our brightness all the way up and do it a specific way its slightly goofy but it's not all bad otherwise it's basically the same thing the camera doesnt actually change a whole lot since they cant actually access the video footage unless an accident happens and they go through a "very thorough and rigorous process"

I hit 10 months out on friday so double digits that's weird

It's super cool being a missionary around here tho some of these roads are sketch fr we totally drove by an underground black market swap meet the other day, it was daytime but we saw a ton of cars driving down a random dirt road and elder mullins was like "i think I know what that is"

Its never a dull moment here and I love it

Ok bye

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