March 10th, 2025 - 81st Email - It's cold outside

 Hi

So uh

The week was cool but im currently exercising all my brain power to even figure out what i did

Monday evening we got a text from one of our friends Oscar who attended the baptism of that epic family last sunday asking what he needed to do to get baptized so we were like "yooooooo" and we started meeting with him like for real ath is houseand he got baptized the next Sunday. He's such a cool guy and was eating everything up and really opened up to us and told us his whole life story (which is pretty sadge) but he's already seen hecka miracles since he got baptized so yeah this guy is awesome and we'd known him barely two weeks when he got baptized so lowkey its like if you want it you can work hard and get it I mean this guy learned all the lessons in a heartbeat

Granted he's had experience with churches before but still most of the stuff we taught him was pretty knew and he was at a really low point in his life so it was nice to see someone really be humble and want to learn.

Also also also

Our friend Daniel was baptized too with oscar he's dope he's only 17 years old but he's been taught for a while and he finally got work off (bro is working like a mega ton for a 17 year old) and we had already pushed his baptism off twice but he still really wanted it and was able to get baptized so that was a great baptism full of miracles to get to this point

As for me i was lowkey sick all week i had a massive headache at the baptism but we were chillin i mostly just had a runny nose that just would not go away and im lowkey still feeling it just some kinda lingering cpld idrk what it is but we chillin it still kinda sucks tho ive been exhausted and resting a lot

It rained a ton this week it was kinda crazy after the baptism there was thunder and lightning outside and theyre saying its gonna rain even more this week it'll be nice ngl ive missed having lots of rain it rained hecka at the beginning of the transfer for like one day and since then its been pretty dry but its funny knocking on peoples doors and them being like "ayo whatchu doin here its pouring" and that usually starts a good conversation although i cant imagine the rain helped with my cold but the weather was super nice afterwards so i aint complaining considering it was like 80 degrees last week

The whole week the ward council (the leadership in the ward) was tryna plan some kinda meeting on saturday and lowkey we were in the dark basically the entire time nobody was telling us what this meeting was about and i dont think we even asked if im being honest lol so we were expecting it to be a thingy for members to come out to lessons with us but then it ended up being just a regular meeting about missionary work lol it was good and the ward hasnt done these in a while (we really should be) so its cool the ward is being proactive about getting missionary work done

We had a cool devotional in redlands on thursday a member of the area presidency (we're in the north america west area) elder wada (he's from japan) speak to us he had some way cool stories but the meeting wasnt for missionaries it was for stake and ward leaders to pull up to learn how to improve missionary work in their wards and some missionaries (including me and elder barlow) were invited to sing a musical number and it was chill but there was mega traffic cuz of the rain that day so it took twice as long as normal to actually get to redlands (like 40 minutes)

We also did a zone exchange that day where we just had everyone exchange with a random person but we kinda had to format it so we didnt have to reexchange and make everything confusing for us to go to redlands so we had me go with someone from another companionship that was also going to the redlands thing so i was with elder luna while barlow was with a housemate of ours so that later he met up with elder luna's companion so they drove to redlands and then afterwards we got popsicles which are pretty dope ngl

Also i felt like a terrible person after the devotional

So basically

They were giving out cookies for the people that attended and it was just sister missionaries giving out the cookies so i was like "can i have a cookie" and they were like "nah bruh its for the leaders of the wards and stakes" so i was like bruh and then i waited a second until the number of people started to die down a little bit and then i asked again and the other sister was like yeah sure whatever and the other one who originally said no was like aight i dont really care so i took a cookie and started eating it and then a little boy like 5 years old came up and the sisters gave him the very last cookie and i was like dang thats cool there was just enough for the boy to get a cookie but then little did i expect the boy's younger sister (probably like 2 or 3) came up and was like "i want a cookie!" and i was like crap and i felt so bad because if i hadnt taken a cookie there wouldve been enough so elder crawford (who is elder luna's companion) who was right next to me immediately covers my cookie that i had in front of my face (i mean i was eating it) with his sheet music he used and i start slowly walking off but the boy caught on and was like "he has a cookie!" but i dont think his sister heard him so we chillin and THEN i found out barlow took a cookie too so it's not entirely my fault its only like half my fault

That was mostly my week a lot of people just dont answer their doors and we spent way too long planning the baptism because our ward wants us to approve the programs and stuff through them and the printer is still being a pain but everything worked out and overall a really good week

Ok bye lol

Pictures

-snow on san gorgonio after the rain

-baptism pics (my tie was crooked on the pic with oscar )