November 4th. 2024 - 63rd Email - Boo

I bet I scared you with the title

Dont lie you're quaking in your books rn

Anyway

This week was insane

I literally dont even remember what happened two weeks ago you might as well ask me what happened in halloween when I was a kindergartner like its a lost cause dont even try fr

But this week I remember a little bit better

So last monday we exchanged after pday with the elders up in palm desert we exchanged for two nights so monday after pday to wednesday morning

We had to do service at 5 (L) which was honestly fun moving furniture and because we had like no time to eat dinner we took a little bit of time after the service to go get in n out and then after we had bought the food this member was like "hey wanna come over and get food" and we're like "uh i guess but we'll take it to go" and we got there and it was this really sweet old lady and we felt so bad we couldnt stay (also because i totally wanted to watch the world series with them cuz they had it on) but we took the food home with us and didnt really get a whole lot done that evening

Then tuesday we had to help another person move it was fun and then she gave us 20 bucks (W) and we ended up later helping her move her electric piano to the churcu building so now the church building has a cool electric piano but its all the way up in palm desert so ill never be able to enjoy it being so far down in borrego

Idek what else we did that day a member was going to take us to in n out again (lol) but then she decided to take us to panera instead and i got this GAS sandwich there it was so good

Elder curtis and i really bonded over video games we had played a lot of the same games as kids lol

Uhhhhh

Wednesday was zone conference which was really good i learned a lot

But i had like no time to pack that morning we had to leave almost immediately after i got out of the shower so we ended up hanging out with the palm desert elders for a little longer until we finally left their apartment at about 5:30 (we also got mcdonalds with em) so we finally got back to our area at about 6:30 to do work and that was the first time i was in my area this week

Nothing really crazy happened wednesday evening, we tryna convince this kid to get baptized tho so pray for him hes super close he just needs to decide

Thursday we had zone council so we had to drive all the way up to indio again and then we had lunch for a little too long so we be getting back to our area at like 2:30 and we needed to be back in our house at 5 so we went tracting for a bit found some people and then we hung out with a member for halloween he got us food and we played cards with him for a bit

Then on friday we went to borrego (long drive) we had a nice dinner with a sister in the english branch and stuff it was a good day and it was honestly kinda a blur

Saturday was WILD

So we did a service in indio to help the city or something (the "indio lindo beautification project") we ended up painting a wall but as we were leaving our house in the morning we left out the back sliding door and we had a wooden stick to stop the door to lock it overnight so we lift it to leave and then after we left elder mejia forgot something so we went back and realized that the wooden stick fell back down and we locked ourselves out of our house

As luck would have it we did not have a key

So we called the ap's and were like "lol yeah we cant get into our house" and we drove up to indio and about 40 minutes in they called us saying we needed to meet up in cabazon at 10 am which was a 40 minute drive from indio and we barely did anything on the wall and we had to leave

So we get there, grab some mcdonalds, and then the aps pull up a half hour late and tell us "yeah the mission office doesnt have a copy of your keys so here's a keychain that probably has the right key on it" so we give up on making it back to the service to help some more and we just take the hour drive back home and we get home and realize not one of the keys they gave us worked on our house so we gave up and sat outside calling members frantically asking for help and eventually a brother in the english branch was coming by anyway (we were going to give another guy in the branch a blessing) so we told him our predicament and he tried to help us but we still couldnt get in and then we got to the other brother's house and he told us his plight

Bro was "careless" and burned himself pretty bad honestly i dont really remember what he said had happened but he had wrappings on his left arm and leg for the burns so thats kinda nuts

Luckily he was still able to come to church and actually drove himself all the way to the burn clinic in redlands when it happened but we helped him move some stuff and gave him a blessing and then the other brother got extra tools from his house and we were able to break back into our own house by removing the sliding door

Then on sunday it was fun because a family visiting the area invited us to watch elder bednar's devotional with them and they were super cool but it meant we had to drive back and forth to and from borrego which was a lot of driving

I took a good nap though and daylight savings extra hour of sleep was much needed

Oh also on friday we checked our mailbox for the first time in months and we found a TON of subway coupons and some were still good and that made me really happy

Okay i think thats basically it honestly i cant believe halloween was this week thats still wild to me its almost hidden in the other random junk that happened

Alright picture time

-we carved pumpkins last monday for our pday activity and i forgot to post the pictures to my email

-santa dinosaur in cabazon

-coolest costume in existence