July 4th, 2024 - 45th Email -What the heck is a kilometer

Hey guys

Happy fourth of july its a pretty epic day

Because of the constitution we now have rights

But not only that

We got the whole day off because its dangerous to go out there with all them fireworks tonight

I mean they had fireworks going off during the day too but like

Bruh

Who be doin that because you cant even see them during the daytime

We be hearin fireworks goin off at like 11 am and its like dawg you literally spent a bunch of money on a glorified sound effect you coulda searched up on youtube with less time

But I digress

Today was great we had a zone barbecue

Also there was this random dude there that was chillin at the park he was like our age and pretty cool

We all pull up and start talkin to him and he says he was waiting for someone to fix his car and that he was just stationed in sam bernardino for the navy and he chills with hs the whole activity it was dope and we gave him a book of mormon by the end

I think it's so important for our friends to just see we're regular people and to have a nice conversation with em before we get into churchy stuff (had a good miracle with a new friend with that last week too, we talked for like a half hour until finally he asked us what we're all about)

Then we chilled at the church for a while and now we at home

We had a whole week and a half straight of working which honestly was a little brutal bit at the same time it went by super fast

Like we already at Thursday

And then we boutta have pday again on monday

I need to do something crazy this weekend or i'll have nothing to write about in my next email

Uhhhh so a ton happened (i mean a week and a half is a while) so to start off the family dollar right next to our apartment almost got robbed while we were in it I mean it wasnt anything crazy a dude just picked something up and was headed for the door when the worker lady was like "lol bruh whatchu doin" (paraphrased) and she just walked up to him and took the stuff outta his hands and then the guy just walked out the door frustrated (he was probably high)

Kind of a theme for this last little bit was we've been answering some important questions our friends have been having and it's actually kinda fun I enjoy it getting a little deeper (it's not like deep doctrine or anything, they're actually the kind of questions I'm glad our friends are having because it shows they're paying attention)

Or I guess it depends on the friend

Like the good questions side comes from our friend asking really good questions regarding the book of mormon and we're really getting him to understand it now

But this other friend we got is asking questions on like the gift of tongues and why people dont go up to the pulpit and break out in japanese (the example language he gave) and that question is a bit tougher to answer because in my mind im just thinking that that doesnt matter just focus on that we have a living prophet and so my brain is a little fried

And remember this is all in spanish so my brain is already doin double da work so we out here working really hard fr

Oh yeah cool little miracle

On saturday there was a ward activity that went from 5 pm and 9 pm

Youre probably wondering what the activity was

A 2 year old's birthday party

Anyway the entire ward and their moms were there (and probably a grandma or two) so it was kinda hard to get members to come out with us BUT we pull up to the party becuz free food duh but our friend's family just randomly pulled up too

We didnt even invite them idk how they knew about the party's existence but because they came it ended up being pretty epic gamer

On sunday the hermanas in the ward had four baptisms which was awesome that was huge

On top o dat

The mission got 100 baptisms in the month of june, so that was really quite awesome and epic and hype and cool and chillin

Also miraculous too

Friend of mine in indio got baptized too on sunday we were working with him for a long time and he just had some struggles so it was great to see he finally got baptized, sad I wasnt there but it's great anyway

I feel like a lot of my baptisms have people that were taught for a long time lol (he gad been taught since december) but really it's all about their timing and it was finally his time to get baptized he had worked really hard to get ready for it and he knew exactly what he was doing so that was the important part

Also something kinda crazy I think I mentioned we dont tract like at all

But the english elders do

And they send us people they run into that speak spanish

And we've had like five times where they tract into members

Which might seem like oh ok

But these members arent in our records

It's cuz they were baptized in their home country (usually nicaragua because they be havin lots of political problems down there) and in the process of moving here they just didnt have time for church anymore

They just tracted into a former elders quorum president and bishop

It's crazy, especially since they want to keep coming to church they just cant cuz of work

Also we have a friend we're teaching who while we're pumping gas just randomly calls us and goes "hey you got some friends here" (the english elders tracted into him) which was a MASSIVE W because we didnt actually know where this friend lived (and he had been taught for a while) so like we told the elders after they left to send us his apartment number lol

Oh yeah weird news

So we did a three way exchange on tuesday because elder mullins and elder watson had their zone leader + ap exchange so I went with elder taylor

And then apparently they discussed some things cuz on thursday morning president calls and makes elder mullins not zone leader and elder taylor zone leader instead lol

So we both normal missionaries now

Basically what they said was since elder mullins finishes halfway through next transfer and elder watson finishes this transfer they would have to put in two new zone leaders next transfer which would be a lot so they just quickly made the change

Good thing it was on thursday too because on wednesday elder mullins did a couple interviews in spanish and we wouldve needed to call the second counselor in the mission presidency to do a spanish interview if he wasnt able to

Ok that's basically it love yall

Send me emails pls im lonely out here

Pics

-fire toy car

-me and elder mullins through the side mirror (i like taking these kinds of pictures its funny)

-exchange with elder taylor