May 27th, 2024 - 40th Email - Third time's the charm

 Hey

This is probably coming on Tuesday again lol

I can't tell if this week went by super fast or super slow

Because it feels like everything we did last Monday was like a month ago but at the same time I think about other things we did during the week and it feels like yesterday

The other elders still haven't found their car keys so that kinda sucks I hope they find them so they don't have to spend $300

We had president interviews this week too so that was cool just a check up on how we doin

A lot of people be cancelin their lessons on us on tuesday we had a lesson planned and he confirmed in the morning "yeah for sure come by" and then at 6 pm (2 hours before the lesson) he texted us saying "we won't be home sorry" it was sad but it was ok

It's actually kinda a problem throughout the whole zone on people not keeping those kinds of commitments, especially with coming to church has been really difficult

Soccer night was super hype this week so many people came and we had a ton of fun

Also we had an actually progressing friend tell us she was going to be in Mexico all summer  so that's sad

But but but we got our buddy ol pal Richard back on date for June 9th he was a little hesitant but then we told him it would be chillin and convinced him so that was super great

We also had an english class where people actually showed up so that was soups hype

Plus plus

Our friend Ana and her son pulled up to church for the first time which was awesome cuz she had been taught since November but hasnt been able to come to church

We hadn't really been teaching the son but after church on sunday he told us he wants to join in on the lessons! So we're super hyped for that and we boutta put them on date for baptism

We went to the temple on friday that was kinda the highlight of our week it was so much fun we did nearly no work that day and got the best ice cream of our lives up in redlands for half off cuz we're missionaries (there are stores like that here which is epic)

We didnt get home until like 6:40 because of traffic and we had dinner with a member so we didn't get to work until 8 lol

We went to applebees on thursday because a member felt bad for not being able to make us dinner on wednesday so she gave us gift cards

But $10 for each missionary doesn't cut it at applebees we got the $26 deal for 2 meals, ended up costing us like $30 for whatever reason so that was fun elder jones and I split the remaining 10 bucks

It was silly tho because apparently the other elders got a text on thursday saying we had our apartment cleaning check on saturday but we didn't get anything until friday when we were on our way home from the temple so we had to clean our apartment saturday morning (that was the only day we had time) in place of some studies so that was sadge

Also the other elders in the apartment had their traveling ap exchange on saturday but because theyre a trio they split up and got twice the work done so that was pretty cool

Hype baptism miracle btw

The other elders had this friend named Luis who was on date for baptism, but then day of his baptism he was mia, no answer at the door, didn't come to church. (This was the guy who i broke his guitar if you remember that, we actually found out the reason it broke was because the wrong string was in the wrong spot so when I tuned it it got pulled too high and snapped)

Anyway

Then we (us) ran into him randomly at a gas station when we stopped to grab a quick beverage (I like my minute maid strawberry lemonades) at like 9 pm one saturday and he asked us "hey when are you coming over?" as if none of that ever happened (and it's funny cuz we weren't even teaching him) so the other elders got back in contact with him and started teaching him again and put him on date 

again! (This was like three weeks ago)

Well, he doesn't show up for his baptism again.

But then on saturday, elder arvidson was with elder pittman while elder cutler was with the traveling ap and elder arvidson just felt like they needed to go to Luis's house again, and on their way there Luis called them asking if they were coming over. Luis apparently never called them on his own before. So they stopped by right then and put him on date for the next day (yesterday) and it'd be funny if he didn't show up again but he actually did and was actually baptized! (That's where the title is from)

Ok actually kinda crazy

We were tracting with a member on tuesday and as soon as we finish and he gets in his car and drives away immediately a police officer pulls up, a lady walks out of the house where the member was parked next to, the lady walks behind the police officer and he pulled out a gun, and two other cop cars come up but they're undercover, one was a toyota camry and the other was some chevy, and then another police officer walks in from nowhere and they all raided the house, like they all walked in at once it was insane and it was funny how it was right next to where the member was parked

I took a picture of it lol but I probably won't send it here

Anyway that was my week there was probably more stuff I forgot but that's how it be sometimes

Pictures!

-kittens (the mom is the brown one)

-go

-mop of a dog (lowkey is super cute tho)