April 14th, 2025 - 85th. Email - Getting by

 Wazzup

So in case you missed last episode of elder hanson's mission: the series a guy i lived with was told he had to go home because he had a disease

So monday night was weird since the other companionship didnt have their car and didnt feel like riding their bikes lol so we went to a couple lessons and while we were in the lessons they went and visited people with our car

So we visited some members (one of bishop's counselors) and they gave us gas food but the problem was we had already eaten texas roadhouse earlier that day so we were like

Not that hungry

But we still ate it was good

They also said they wanted to help start up the volleyball night again because nobody had been showing up at all which had been kinda sad so they were like yeah we are gonna be there tomorrow so we were stoked

Tuesday morning we had to wake up at 4 am to take bert to the airport for his flight at 6 it was pretty sad he was sad to go but hes doing loads better at home where he can have a better controlled diet for his disease

So since that point ive been a trio with luna and strong and we were able to get strong moved back to our area to report on lessons since i usually drive so everything is back to normal kinda

But its funny cuz the airport we go to (ontario) is outside the mission because there arent any other big airports close by (besides san b but that ones newer and more for freight i think) so that was my first time leaving the mission since i first landed in the ontario airport

Didnt get much time to rest when we got back bcuz we had to leave at 8 am to go to the temple because we needed to clean it

After every general conference they have missionaries go clean the temple and its prettt sick its like cleaning a church building but they put you in white jumpsuits and you go to all the rooms and stuff and vacuum and stuff

Other missionaries went outside and moved a boiler lol and one of the guys had a sick backpack vacuum like ghostbusters type beat for the tight spots

I just vacuumed the hallways and dusted off some light bulbs in the locker rooms it was chill so we did that for three hours and we're going back later this week to do some more

So we had more lessons in both our area and elder luna's area so a lot of jumping around

We went to the church building that evening to set up for volleyball but guess what

Nobody showed up (at first) and the guy that said he was gonna be there with his whole family flipped and was like "uh im busy" so we were freaking out lol calling literally everybody we could to get them to come and we actually got like 5 people both recent converts and friends to come play with us so it was fun but kinda stressful

Wednesday we had some good lessons again in both areas and in the evening we had a member come out with us to two lessons originally it was just gonna be one but after we were like "hey u got time we gon go visit this other chick" and she was like "sure lol" (but in spanish) and she ended up being perfect for the both of em it was neat

Also wednesday night we went to a recent convert of elder luna's in his branch and bro gave elder strong a haircut but it was really funny lookin and the entire zone clowned on him for it i mean honestly you had to look closely to notice the mistakes but it was still pretty funny

Thursday we had zone conference which is always super cool to see everybody we went over to fontana to do that and i saw a bunch of my old companions so it was chill

Then afterwards we went to raising canes because fontana has one of those (bro i swear fontana has all the cool stores and restaurants) and then after we exchanged with one of the zone leaders and i went into his area in colton but i was with his non zone leader comp elder welling who is super cool so that was fun

Also unrelated but fontana baptized like 7 indian guys on sunday theyre working to start the second hindi ward in the entire united states so thats super cool

Friday was a normal day we had good lessons invited hecka people to church and to a cool activity we were gonna have on saturday for easter

Definitely one of the hardest things about being in a trio is that we have two separate dinner calendars and ours is completely full so we just have to cancel one and go to the other :( but its ok

So saturday rolls around and its pretty normal but in the morning the social media sisters had us take videos to be on church advertisements on social media so that was fun had to memorize a quick script

Before we did that tho it was at a park and the parking spaces were on a small ledge and i almost drove off it because there was no cement block but i am a pro driver so i didnt

But the sisters came in right next to us and they parked fine but then kept inching forward slowly and we were waving at them to stop but they just kept waving back lol and they drove the front wheels over the ledge and it was literally the funniest thing of all time and we were all dying laughing and they had to back up super fast to get over the ledge

The Easter activity was super dope it started at 5:30 but the way it worked is you pulled up whenever you want and it was like a self-guided tour and you could go to whatever room of the church you wanted and you saw a different part of Jesus's life through a church video and then someone sang a song about it it was so much fun

Church was cool we got a few friends there but since we also cover the willow branch we had to attend their meeting too and i was lowkey so tired and falling asleep the second sacrament meeting but we had to bless the sacrament so we had to be up but whats weird about the willow branch is they have sacrament meeting second and classes first since they combine youth with the english and so after sacrament was over we were done also an inactive recent convert came which was super fun

So we've been a trio for a week and i have to say its been insane we are just a bunch of goofballs but we're already like best friends and have so much fun with everybody so its really been pretty great

Alright thats everything u guys have a great rest of your week

Pictures:

-Bye bert

-pretty tree

-almost drove off the ledge