February 24th, 2025 - 79th Email - I went on the defense guys

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Week 2 in rialto was pretty wild, met some cool people, had a referral called "infinite videos" (turns out thats the name of bro's youtube channel) and another referal called "un dia sin inmigrantes" (one day without immigrants) who ended up being incredibly solid and came to church the next day and then came to a devotional in redlands and loved it and we goin back on friday

Uhhhh

I taught about the atonement using math so that was pretty cool

Monday was a chill pday we just did normal junk

Tuesday we were supposed to have volleyball night but nobody showed up so we played basketball with our friend on date

So this kid was supposed to get baptized on sunday but there were some problems the first being he needed permission to get baptized because bro is 17 but his cousin that lives in florida has custody over him and he lives with his brother so we have to get that and also bro works hecka and couldnt come to church plus the devotional on sunday had a choir practice before it and basically the entire ward was part of the choir and we couldnt get anyone to come so we just decided

Aight

After lots of thought we are tryna push yo baptism

And it was chillin lol so he gettin baptized this week instead

And two other friends too that have been taught for a while are also getting baptized so thats soups cool

Friday we went on an exchange it was chill with one of the zl's (theyre in different companionships) and i went to the zl's area so it was cool

Saturday we had a fun ward activity for valentines day (a week late lol) with good food and it was chillin

But we got a call saying they were takin our truck away because some bike elders in redlands were strugglin hardcore because the missionaries that picked em up had a rav4 which had like no space for bikes so we got their rav4 now we got hecka nerfed

Also we got hecka ant infestation in our bathroom and we really didnt feel like going to the store so we asked meta ai on facebook what gets rid of ants and one of the things it said was cinnamon so naturally we dumped cinnamon all over our bathroom and it smelled really good but we couldnt use the toilet in a regular fashion so that was rather cumbersome so we ended up caving and taking an emergency walmart run and bought stuff that gets rid of bugs so you can call me the exterminator and now theres significantly less ants but every once in a while one pops up again on our toilet

Sunday was cool we had a seventy visit our ward and he gave a great talk and i bailed out my bishop by playing piano in sacrament meeting cuz our regular pianist didnt pull up and bro was boutta play the hymns on a speaker so i clutched up frfr and had to play a new hymn which isnt on paper so we had to put the sheet music on my phone and a member tried to scroll through it while i was playing but it ended up being me scrolling on his phone while he was holding it lol and i was just playing with my right hand with my left hand reached over my right arm so that was hawkward and i hope it sounded good the seventy thanked me for playing the piano lol

Then that same guy went to the devotional in redlands that was for spanish congregations all over the mission so i saw and talked to members from all of my past areas and they were so happy to see me and i was happy to see them it was pretty epic gaming all around plus we got friends there so it was super cool

Yeah that was my week

Congratulations for reading

Elder Hanson

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