March 3rd, 2025 - 80th Email - There's still ants in our bathroom

Hey

Dont worry the ants arent nearly as bad as they were last week theyve definitely dwindled in numbers but every once in a while youll find one on the toilet seat or the sink so we just gotta remain constantly on the alert

Anyway

This last week definitely happened it really just blew by lowkey

We had a baptism on sunday that was really cool so basically this fam (dad, mom, and two kids but the younger daughter is too young to get baptized) has been taught for a while and the missionaries kinda pushed them to get baptized but they were like "nah we tryna get baptized when we feel ready" and yknow usually that means theyre never getting baptized but last week they walked up to us and were like "ayo wassup we tryna get baptized at the end of this month" and we interpreted "end of this month" to mean March 2nd because february 28th was a friday and thats kinda awkward and then halfway through the week they called us up and were like "ey our son is 9 years old that means he can get baptized too right" and we were like "yeah" and so we had the three baptisms on sunday

So we met with the guy that provides the baptism suits (he lives in colton) on tuesday and then we got the call that the son wanted to get baptized too like that evening and on friday we had to meet with the guy again to get the extra suit lol this week was full of sidequests

Even tho the whole thing felt like it was kinda falling apart last minute cuz our other friend daniel was supposed to get baptized too but his boss was being an opp and wouldnt let him get off work to get baptized so he couldnt and then we had to change the program and the lady who we asked to give the talk on baptism and the holy ghost was out sick on sunday so we had to get somebody else to do it

The program was a whole other thing the printer in the church building like doesnt work or something so we were stuck in the church building on thursday dealing with it for like an hour and then it finally printed only to find out on sunday we needed to change everything but we just used a different building's printer since the guy with the keys to that one was with us at the time but the program literally printed upside down on the inside so we just gave up and said yeah they can flip it over themselves lol

Then we left the programs at home (idk why we took them out of the car in the first place lol) so we had to call our housemates to bring them to us (we are geniuses)

The baptism ended up being really interesting because at church the program said the baptism was at 5 pm when it was actually at 6 pm so we had to go early to fill the baptismal font (it takes like an hour) and we had people coming in at 5 and they had to just wait

(The funniest thing was when a family walked in at 5:30 asking if the baptism was at 5)

And we might have filled the font with blazing hot water that the room started filling with steam slightly and the son who was supposed to get baptized wouldnt get in the water because it was too hot so we had to take like 5 minutes and use the cold handle to fill the font and elder barlow baptized them and he said when he was changing his clothes that the water was so hot hit legs were pink

When the kid got baptized it was funny cuz afterwards he said it made him less afraid of swimming pools lol

I confirmed the mom and the kid (my first time doing it) and our bishop confirmed the dad and i played the piano as always

But yeah that was a very chaotic baptism

What else happened this week

My uncle took us to texas roadhouse on monday that was fun

Also now that its march i only have 5 more months left on the mission which is crazy

We played volleyball with some friends tuesday night was chill they were all venezuelan and theyre crazy bruh venezuelans are hilarious

We also had zone conference on thursday i forgot about that thats pretty important it was honestly nice to see everyone as always but also it was a good change of pace because usually we get thrown in breakout rooms just to get trainings by the aps or president and stuff but this time pres just invited a few of his friends (his own mission buddies and people living around here) to just talk to us in the breakout rooms and it was super chill they were really down to earth and just focused on us growing our testimony so i liked it a lot

Wednesday night we also exchanged with the elders in colton and boy that city has absolutely terrible roads theyre all windy around the mountains the freeway makes no sense at all im surprised people dont get in accidents all the time and theres just so many roads too its all cramped, I mean bruh the church building is on a 6-way intersection and i mean my area has a 6 way intersection too and its pretty bad but that one is next level because the diagonal road isnt even straight it curves a little bit mid intersection like what were these city planners thinking who thought this was a good idea

It was a good exchange tho elder fuhriman is a cool guy from west virginia and its his first transfer

While stopped at an intersection the other day we saw some guys that were totally high messing around at the corner in front of a 7/11 and this sprinkler was broken so one of them was stomping on the sprinkler to get it to stop or something idk what goes through these guys brains but then he gave up and walks over to the sign that tells you all the gas prices and turns it off so the numbers all disappear and then bro just walks away and that wouldve been pretty funny on its own but then the next guy pulls up and turns it back on but the numbers didnt come back it literally looked like someone banged their head on a keyboard all sorts of random characters appeared on this sign like letters numbers and punctuation i wonder how they fixed it lol

Saturday morning we did a cool service helping out presidente luna from the mission presidency to remove grass from their branch president's front yard because theyre planning on making it a garden we didnt finish but we did a lot it was fun and it took all morning lol

Anyway that was my week we have a friend named oscar whos looking super solid too so we're excited to see him progress he came to the baptism and stuff so he cool

Alright pictures

-Ladybugs

-we should start our own lawncare business

-baptizm pics