January 13th, 2025 - 73rd Email - We got nerfed

Hey

This week wasnt as crazy as the week before but pretty crazy

The new mission president got announced (he comes in at the beginning of July) and his name is President Oligschlaeger (it's like Dutch or something) he seems like a dope guy from Utah who likes to hike and stuff so that's pretty exciting

Oh yeah idk if yall have seen the news but LA is kinda on fire rn and we are completely okay i mean we're pretty far from LA and honestly if this place caught fire it would all be gone in a day but it seems like people are trying to start a wildfire every night we see people holding massive bonfires and the winds have been insane

Like theres a chain link fence around our house and the wind's been blowing it around and it moves so much it sounds like someones watching an action movie outside like transformers type beat

There actually have been pretty brutal power outages around the mission though (not here) for fire-related reasons or something i really dont know and some places were out for like nearly a week (redlands) so that was crazy

Another crazy thing that happened was the english elders got their truck taken away (jk)

It needed to get fixed because the english elders are goofy goobers and we drove up to palm desert on wednesday to drop it off and now we're sharing a car (the mission is running really low on cars) and considering how large our area is it has been quite the handicap so we end up just swapping it every once in a while to go contacting and tracting and we walked around one of the towns here for about four hours while the english elders took our truck and then on saturday we walked 40 minutes between lessons it's definitely been an experience and we still have no word on when we're getting the other truck back

We've also been dealing with a lot of drama with out friends and members so that's been really interesting to say the least we been doin the best we can to help but we aint licensed therapists or anything best we can do is pull up and read scriptures its just kinda funny when literal teenagers with little dating experience are giving marriage and family advice to grown adults

Also we had like 8 solid people who said they were coming to church like for sure for sure and then they all canceled on us, a member went to the hospital and her son and his wife went with her on saturday, another guy got home super late from work (he works an hour away, got home at midnight, realized he left his work keys at work and had to eat something, drive all the way back to work, get the keys to lock the building, and drive home.

But its ok theres always next week

There was this one guy who has like this really old town kinda bell in front of his house that he latee said his dad got it at someones house in palm desert they were gonna throw it away and elder harris really wanted to ring it but bro hadnt answered the door yet and i was like "thats gonna be loud dont bother em" but he did it and it was really loud and funny and the guy walks out and is like "hey wassup youre the first guys to ring that thing" this guy was so cool we chatted it up for like a good minute and he took a book of mormon was down to come to church but his mom said she doesnt like "strangers" coming to his house or something so he wont be able to progress regrettably (hes a grown adult too like why is his mom being an opp) but its ok because he specifically asked to keep the book

On sunday we also had a cool activity for recent converts that was really good we brought a friend who didnt come to church (we guilt tripped him into coming because he didnt come to church) it was all the way up in bermuda dunes and we also got a recent convert to go and some recent converts in the stake spoke about their experiences and it was honestly really good

Yeah honestly thats been my week not so much to report its been pretty repetitive all in all walking a lot and stuff

Picture time

-random lady's bird (we cleaned her driveway and weeded her garden)

-pretty flowers lol

-look at this dog