April 21st, 2025 - 86th. Email - There's a crowd

 Hey

So something interesting about being a trio and covering two areas is that means we have two area books to manage and that means some of the reporting we do is on the other area which i do not have access to so regrettably the archives are incomplete for what we did last monday because we were entirely in the other area

The weeks are flying by and honestly its hard to keep up with everything we do but i'll do my best I have to please my fans

Ive only got like 14 more weeks as a missionary lol

Also this weather is wild beginning of last week was in the 90252s then it rained and it was in the 60s i think earth is confused or something

Tuesday we tracted and went to english class and then tried to get volleyball night to happen but nobody showed up lol

Wednesday we went on an exchange with the zone leader elder blad and what happened was luna swapped with him to go to his area and blad came here with me and strong

That was a WEIRD day

So we start by contacting in front of an el super (its a grocery store that only mexicans shop at) and literally everybody we talked to was intelligent and knew a lot about churches and history and were all really not wanting to learn anything about our church (which lemme tell ya that never happens) i had no idea it was possible to bash with a catholic guy but he made it possible

(Actual conversation)

-hey wanna hear a message about Christ?

-what if i told you the message instead?

So you can probably imagine how that conversation went we were lowkey destroying him but he wasnt having it so we just dipped and bro had even said he needed to get to work but then he kept following us trying to argue and we were like dintcha say u needed to work or smth and we just left because we were tired of all these people

Then we tried to knock on this dudes door but he wasnt home and on the way back to the car cuz we had to park in a parking lot lol we ran into this guy carrying a ton of boxes of pizzas and he had questions about our church and he invited us inside his office turns out bro is an accountant and we sat there in the entrance of his office for a solid twenty minutes and he was interested but it was hard to get information thru to him cuz every time we asked him a question bro was like "depends on what u mean by that" like i could ask him "eho is God 2 u" and hed b like "whatchu mean by that" and i was just left absolutely flabbergasted we just have him a book of mormon and then he got distracted because someone delivered something to his office and we sat there for another ten minutes waiting but we had a lesson so we were like aight we gotta dip so we just did lol we let him know first but idk if that dude is finna progress

Then we went tracting in a trailer park in elder lunas area but the problem was we dont have access to his area (remember hes not in there with us) so we dont really know the boundaries we're just guessing and we actually ended up tracting just outside of the willow branch area and we tract in rialto 3rd's area which is nice for rialto 3rd but not what we were going for and this guy freddy lets us in almost immediately and we tell him all about baptism and church and the book of mormon and we dip and we're like lets goooo baby like moistkritical type beat but then on saturday we had a return appt and we realized because elder luna was like "lol this isnt my area" we were like aight lol and just passed his information off to the hermanas in r3 hope hes doing ok

Then we go tracting again in another trailer park with our recent converts bryan and oscar they were pretty cool to tract with and the first dude we knocked on was a "reformed baptist" (very insistent on the "reformed" part) but he didnt actually bash us he was pretty chill and was like just keep working hard and we dipped lol

Also ran into another intelligent catholic guy that did not bash

We also ran into a lady that had actually attended our church a lot as a kid in mexico but for some reason wasnt interested in coming back and being baptized in the united states since she attended a different church since moving but she still has a book of mormon and a testimony i really dont understand people anymore

Thursday we had zone council idk what happens in zone councils anymore they all blend together

Had a good lesson with our friend ana working really hard with her but she and her dude william arent wanting to get married for some reason argghhhhh (read that in a mr krabs voice to understand my pain) so we are tryna get members to come with us to force- i mean convince- them to get married

Met this chick who also wanted to come to church with a bunch of kids but then last minute she said she wasnt feeling good to come to church even though she told us the night before everything was good for church

I dont understand people

Friday we did more temple cleaning so that was really fun

Elder strong and i were told to go outside and what we did was sand and smoothen a fountain

So we were working with this other guy named dallin (shoutout) and he had this epic machine that easily smoothened the granite of the fountain but the problem was the fountain had little curved indents where the epic machine couldnt reach so we had to do those by hand with sandpaper, a chisel, and a wet towel

Apparently they used some kind of acid to get rid of bacteria so the chisel was for wearing away that layer of dirt and acid that had since hardened and then we sanded off the rest and wiped it off with the wet towel

There was another layer of fountain on top of the fountain (fountain inception) so we had to hop up top to get to those curved indents and then as i hopped off i jumped off in a weird position where i think i pulled both my pecs and it hurt like really bad for a solid two minutes i just sat down and after massaging my pecs (this is really embarrassing) the pain went away so we are chilling

Then my arms were sore for the next couppe days cuz that was hard work we were at it for like two hours and we didnt even finish

Then we were late to a return appt after so we drove straight there in regular clothes to see if we could do at least something because it would be a hecka detour to go home but they didnt answer so it was ok

Then we helped out the samoan ward bishop with preparing for an activity honestly i cant even begin to describe what we did so first they gave us fried chicken which you can never complain about fried chicken and then we got these fake vines with fake leaves (i mean itd be weird if fake vines had real leaves) and we had to clip the leaves on the ends vertically in half and then use the scissors in a way that made the leaves curve and we did that for like 30 of these things and it might not be the weirdest thing ive ever done but its up there it was chill tho

Also my brother's daughter was born on the 17th that was pretty cool congratulations

Saturday i honestly dont remember what we did but we confirmed a lot of friends for church and had a meeting with our ward leaders about missionary work that went on for over an hour lo

Sunday was easter that was pretty cool our friend Sara actually came to church for once so we're gonna talk to her about finally getting baptized since she can now that she came to church she just needs to come one more time

Really good service overall the primary sang a song that was pretty cute but we were stressing because the rialto 3rd elders needed elder strong to go play piano for their sacrament meeting so as soon as our meeting was over for the rialto 4th ward he got picked up by them and luna and i just chilled since church was only 1 hour for easter and then we went to luna's branch's service and everyone was asking what happened to elder strong thinking there was another emergency transfer so we messed with them a little bit but not too much they knew he was coming back next time but it was funny

Easter is cool   i was honestly surprised at how many people i met that dont celebrate easter because theyre all like "why celebrate it bruh" and have no idea that its about Christ's resurrection like its funny but yeah easter is arguably more important than christmas for its actual meaning and i loved talking to our friends all about it so hope you guys enjoyed your easter and that you have an awesome week

Aight peace

Lol i dont have any pictures oops