May 19th, 2025 - 90th Email - Hot Pockets and Firetrucks

 So uh

My bad lol

I forgot to send this email last week

but

I still wrote it

So dw ur still getting both emails this week

But to clear up confusion this email is for the week of May 12-18

Alright back to our regularly scheduled email

Hey

This week was fun

10 weeks left babey

Uhhh

What even happened

Oh yeah

So munday after pdaying like we normally do we decided to be cool and knock doors for the first time in forever (frozen reference) and we took our epic recent convert oscar with us (i talk about this guy too much) and we knocked some doors and lowkey nobody was interested except this one honduran guy who was actually really dope and chill and reminded me of our recent convert fam from honduras literally the same people and talk the exact same bruh im not racist i swear

2sday we didnt do very much in the morning but we did cool stuff in the afternoon where we went to a familys apartment and watched a video about ammon from the book of mormon and it was lowkey sick and talked about being humble servants of God and stuff was chill then we went to english class and chilled some more and had some canceled lessons and uh idk what else lol

Whensday we had a good lesson with this lady named veronica who loved having us over and told us shes learned more from us in the two weeks of having us over than her entire time in her church which is lowkey kinda wild but like at the same time kinda sadge but then the next day she told us she felt bad for even thinking about changing churches so we made her feel a bit better because she was goin thru some rough thingies and people staying at her house (they ended up moving out but thats an entirely separate thingy and we lowkey have no idea where they live now even though they were hecka interested too but its chillin) but yeah life goes on

Thrusday [sic] mornin i got lowkey sick and got out of going to zone council so Uhhhh

Yeah i just laid in bed all morning but my stomach was better by the afternoon

Our friends marco and susana are super ready to learn to get baptized and are dope and they loved their first lesson on the restoration and we gon get them bap tized pretty dang fast i think so pray for them

Oh and the english sisters gave us a referral (common occurence) who never answered the door but a really weird lady did and she was weird like telling us he wasnt home rn so we were like aight we can pass by another time and she was like yeah but he aint home rn and we were like yeah we know but when do u think bros coming back and the lady was like yeah but hes not here right now like she was a literal NPC with a set response text you might as well have put a speech bubble above her head and said i was pressing A to interact with her she would not change her answer and we were left so confused

Friday morning was funny lol so we were about to eat lunch and elder carwin (who i live with) is looking for some grub in the fridge and he finds a pack of hot pockets so he looks at me and goes can i have one and im like sure they aint mine lol and he asks me ok do you know whos these are and im like nah but they aint mine so idc if u eat 1 so he goes over to elder strong and mind you we're all talking to each other in the goofiest voice of all time so carwin goes "hey elder strong" (so imagine like a very sarcastic voice mixed with a baymax voice and thats pretty much the gist of this conversation) and he goes "what" so carwin responds "are these hot pockets yours" and strong goes "yeah" and carwin asks him "can i have one" and strong goes "why" and carwin goes "because im hungry" and strong just kinda shrugs and says sure whatevs so carwin is like in lets go mode rn and he tears the packaging on that hot pocket to shreds hes so excited to eat this hot pocket but obviously it was in the fridge so he has to heat it up first so he goes and opens the microwave just to find that there was already a hot pocket sitting in the microwave no packaging no plate just sitting on the turn table in the microwave elder strong left it there for a solid 4 hours because he forgot to eat breakfast so elder carwin and i start dying laughing like i havent laughed that hard in at least a week so i was pretty tuckered out hope you enjoyed that really random story

Oh yeah also on friday we went to our friends house and literally everything wrong that could possibly happen went wrong so first of all she had a bruise on her eye so we were like "uh what happened" and she said she fell in the shower and hit her eye on something idk what but yeah she had a black eye and then we were like dang that sucks and also they had their car stolen because they left the keys in it and then also her boyfriend had a fricking stroke

Like not even capping bro was recovering and stuck at home all week and hes pretty young too i wouldnt give him more than 35 so that was wild

Also her brother like broke both his arms or something

And we had a service missionary stay over at our place on thursday it was super cool he hung out with us and came to lessons for a day and hes starting his mission soon gonna come back out as a proselyting missionary super excited for him

Saturday morning was cool in the morning we went on a parade down in the town of grand terrace at the edge of our zone and it was so fun we were representing the church and met cool people and handed out bracelets and stuff

So we reach the end which was a park filled with overpriced souvenirs at kiosks as an end to the parade but everyone (meaning the missionaries) was taking forever to leave and i was starving and we all planned on going to in n out and the member lady we were walking with told us there was a faster way to get back to our cars than the actual parade route so me strong and this other guy named elder baldwin decided to dip and lemme tell ya the conversation we had on this walk was so weird and in depth i could write a whole email about that conversation cuz we walked for like 20 minutes and we realized 1 we took the long way by accident and 2 baldwin was going to lend the sisters his car and he had the keys so they couldnt leave until we got there so we're like freaking out but also chillin trying to find out where the heck we're going its a nice hilly walk with really nice houses but we get to the cars and we're expecting everyone to be waiting for us since we took the extra long way but we were actually the first ones there even the sisters who were supposed to get a ride from the member lady to the car werent there and so we waited a solid 10 minutes and we heard a firetruck go by and another 10 minutes later all the missionaries (so besides us 3 this is like 7 other missionaries) are walking together and they tell us they helped a lady whos house caught on fire they got all her important stuff out because at first it was just the garage that was cooked but yeah we missed out and they were the ones to call 911 because the lady was frantic and then we went to in n out where hold up ima make a new paragraph for this

So at in n out we learn from the colton ward missionaries they had to get moved out of their apartment (like emergency apartment switch type beat) because their apartment had a cockroach infestation that was so bad they were finding them everywhere and the apartment complex was refusing to fix it so now they live outside the zone with elder barlow actually (i was his companion) and yeah that was pretty wild

Then we had stake conference saturday night it was really good a seventy came named elder mortenson which is funny cuz our stake president is also named president mortenson but apparently my parents know the guy which now im sad i didnt go talk to him but its chill then we also had stake conference sunday morning it was really good and everyone gave great talks in both sessions the mission president was there too in the saturday evening sesh and i got lots of epic insights on how to help my friends and stuff

Well that was my week so yeah hope u enjoyed the email

Pictures!

-ducks

-all missions are possible

-duck 2

-mountain

-parade but one of the signs covers my whole body so im basically not in this picture