August 5, 2024 - 50th Email - Goofy week

Hey

Zone conference was this week and it was cool

Saw a bunch of other goofy goober missionaries I havent seen in a while so that was cool

Some really cool talks and trainings especially an awesome one by elder jensen (who i lived with in victorville) on repentance

Elder Gonzalez (my dad [my trainer]) gave his farewell talk and I think that's pretty cool I was in one of the zones at the zone conference where he gave it

Also elder mullins did too

So theres a big group of missionaries that leaves this thursday (halfway through da transfer) bucuz they need to go to school in the fall on time or something (excuses)

And elder mullins and also elder gonzalez are part o that group so they be dippin here soon

Elder bryan and i boutta be a regular companionship after thursday which is wild ive enjoyed being in a trio but we have to do everything now lol

It's like a half transfer, itll just be for three weeks so we'll survive

It was honestly like the slowest week of all time its probably competing for slowest week of my mission which is weird because we also had some really fun days

We didnt find too many new people for most of the week because literally everybody proceeded to not open the door but its ok we survive because on sunday we ended up finding 3 people (well one of them mightve been a stretch but we still work it out)

Also we have a member that takes us to a mexican restaurant all the time and i decided to branch out this week and had some bomb tacos they were crazy good

We had this friend who we went over every single day of the week he was super cool and then on saturday we determined we wouldnt have time to visit him (we were having dinner with some awesome members that day) and then sunday he pulled up to church on an electric scooter an hour late which was a miracle and we were worried he was upset that we didnt go over the night before and then he proceeded to ask us "hey you didnt come by the house yesterday did you because i was dead asleep like all day" so we were like "phew" and also like "yes lets go" because bro actually came to church for the first time

Oh yeah we had a lesson with some friends that live up in the mountains but i havent actually met them yet because every time we have lessons with them we go on exchanges and when he came to church last week i went to a baptism in a different building and i still havent actually met them even though theyve been taught for weeks because we had elder mullins pop over with the tech elders that day and they just went to the lesson because they were gonna be in the mountains anyway so they hit him up

Also about the car that i got in an accident last week the car senior missionary told me i was chillin and i wont get my driving revoked so ya boy is still allowed to drive and that makes me happy so yay i guess

Visited a member yesterday to eat food and then got bible bashed outside his door in one of the courtyards of the apartment complex by some high guy and he was trying to tell us we dont know the bible by giving us random verses he expects us to have memorized and im just like well dawg the discussions aint just reciting bible verses we dont have the whole thing memorized so elder mullins just pulls it right back at him with random bible verses saying how we can pull up verses that we know and he doesnt it depends on how you study the bible and then he pulls up his phone and elder mullins says "hey but you should have these memorized" and then the guy didnt get like aggressive (i mean he was high and prob didnt pick up the sarcasm) but he started following us and yelling at us sp we just walked away and around the building the back way to get to the members apartment ive ran into this guy before but hes a dum dum fr like all bible bashers that expect us to just know everything

We went hiking this morning for our pday activity up in crestline voy a mandar fotos ot was really purdy up there with trees and stuff and the drives are sick between the cities in the mountains its called the "rim of the world highway" how fire does that sound

Also at zone conference our second counselor in the mission presidency talked about david and goliath and that story is super cool  and its also found in 1 samuel 17 which i didnt know before i probably shouldve but i do now so go read it its good

Ok anyway that was my week pray for elder bryan and i that we wont burn the area to the ground once elder mullins leaves

And remember how i smashed my finger bad it's starting to heal which is great ill post some progression pics of that too

Pics!

-My finger two weeks ago (right) vs an hour ago (left)

-hike pics

-sunset

-rim of the world view