August 26, 2024 - 53rd Email - Was last pday really just a week ago

Hi lol

It's been a while (a week to be exact) and here I am with another email

And lemme tell ya this week was lowkey long lol

So i got a haircut on tuesday and it feels like that was two years ago fr (an entire mission in a week) it was pretty funny so the week before I had called our ward mission leader just like "hey does anyone in the ward give haircuts" and he was like uh hermana corvera has a friend that does and so we saw her thursday and i was like ayo i heard you have a friend that cuts hair and she was like yeah i do lol and so we set that up for tuesday and she asked me "who told you i had a friend that cuts hair" (all dis is in spainsh btw) and i was like oh yeah it was hermano arroyo he ratted you out and she was like "oh i figured it was him"

It was a good haircut it looks pretty epic i think at least

Oh yeah also tuesdays we have these meetings as leaders in the zone (one of our stl's started doing it which is weird cuz we already have our meeting before zone council on thursdays but whatever) and we were out visiting people and then this guy told us to come back later so we were like "well we have time rn lets go get a car wash" so we go to get a car wash but then theyre all like "hey turn your camera on" (it was a facebook messenger call) and i was like heck i dont want to turn on my camera we at da car wash and so i just played like it was totally normal but then obviously in the car wash the soap they put on the car is like super colorful and one of the stl's goes "whoa whats happening in elder hansons car it looks like a big o party" (it literally looked like there was a disco ball or something with all the colors) and so i showed that we were in the car wash and everybody just about died of laughter so that was fun it probably wouldve been easier if i just left my camera off

The weather these last couple days has been super nice btw like obviously its still hot but its no longer triple digits so thats good

Nights are actually like pristine quality weather fr theres been good breezes and its been hecka fun we went up to the mountains on friday at about 7 pm and it was like 61 degrees it was awesome

Still waiting patiently for it to rain (i havent seen rain since march)

Wednesday we did a fun exchange with some epic missionaries it was good but its always fun exchanging with english missionaries and staying in the spanish area because you really just teach all the lessons yourself and he was talking about how every time we had a lesson he would just think about the most random things (he said he forgot what things tho) because he cant understand spanish so like basically he just daydreamed the whole day (he is a goofy guy)

Also also theres a limited time gatorade flavor at the gas stations so you know i had to try that its called midnight ice and lowkey it just tastes the same as the grape gatorade but i had to buy it because its limited time i couldnt live with myself if i never tried it i mean it was good but i dont really get why its limited time

Our friend Alex is progressing nicely, word of wisdom problems are still there but he's actually reading what we tell him to in the book of mormon so thats super cool (and he's actually remembering it too) so he definitely has a good commitments

We talked a bit about 1 Nephi 4:6 about following the Spirit and not knowing beforehand what we doin and we explained about how we can trust the Lord and everything will be aight which is good because bro really needs it rn def read that chapter it's cool

He even read chapter 8 on his own about the lehi's vision and he actually like understood it pretty well we talked about that too

Oh yeah friday was a goofy day

We did like no studies that day so we wake up in the morning and we go to a lesson thats on the western side of our area (we live in the eastern side its like a 15 minute drive) and then we go back home to study and then i call our member dinner and she tells us to go see her right then we had literally been home ten minutes and elder bryan was cooking up some chicken, she had a second to meet us before she met with a client for work but she gave us an address that had two problems

1. The address didnt exist

2. It was outside of our zone if it did (the closest address number)

So we call her and she's like "yeah so i was confused by that too" and then she said give me a minute and then hung up and so we waited like ten minutes and called her again but she kept being super confusing and cryptic on the phone i couldnt really understand her so we had no idea what we were doin but she eventually told us to go to the home depot and we said ok we'll go to home depot and then she was like yeah but not at the home depot its at the stater bros (californian grocery store like smiths if you know utah) so idk why she didnt just say meet at stater bros the first time and so we go over and we pick up subway cards but she also gives us the cards for the hermanas in the ward so we've already spent like an hour trying to get our subway cards and its like 1 pm and we just went home and told the hermanas we'd get them their cards in like an hour because we needed to eat lunch and then the zone leaders came home and reminded us it was deep cleaning day!!!!! (Yay) so we went over to the hermanas apartment real fast and gave the hermanas their subway cards and then went back home and cleaned the apartment for two hours and finally got to subway about 5 pm but the line took FOREVER so we didnt get our food until about 5:30.

That was a fun day lol

Oh yeah also during deep cleaning so basically for the last two transfers (since before i got here) our toilet has been broken it basically didnt fill itself with water and we had to manually do it (not like dumping water or anything but there was a valve we had to turn to run the water) but there was a weird thing with the valve where if you turned it slowly it would fill up super fast so we just dealt with it but last week it stopped filling up fast so we were like oh yeah this a problem and we actually got a phone call from the housing coordinators in this area on thursday and they were trying to call another companionship but they called us by accident so before they hung up i was like "ayo we actually need help with something fix our toilet" (not exactly what i said but basically) and they were like ok and we got our toilet fixed on friday so we now have a functioning toilet (but the lid still keeps falling off )

Also on tuesday we got "dinner" from a member (she gave us $30 which sounds fine but she handed us an envelope with a $20, a $5, 3 $1s, and 8 quarters in it)

Saturday and sunday were suuuuper long because we had like no planned lessons so we just contacted all day those two days

But it was ok we found 7 new people to teach by wednesday which is our standard as a mission so we were pretty chillin on numbers this week

We also got 4 people to church but they were all different people from last week! And last week we got 4 too, imagine we get all 8 it'd be so cool

Ok thats pretty much it we got a new ward mission leader on sunday so thats weird

Also transfers are this week ive been in san bernardino for nearly 3 months already lol i want to stay so bad i have a lot of people i really want to see progress and a lot of people i care about so i want to stay for just one more transfer

Thisll also be my tenth transfer counting the mtc which is nuts

Aight bye lol

Pictures:

-converting yoda on exchanges

-cool sunset

-lake arrowhead church building chapel (we hung out in the mountains for pday)

-the zone (last pday yknow)