May 5th, 2025 - 88th Email - Did I do that

 Hey

Another week in the books

Another week as a trio

(The last one)

Bro we got a call from the housing coordinator saying our apartment is gonna be changed to a 4 man so thisll be interesting

And we ALSO heard from the guys in the apartment 2 minutes away thay their apartment will also be a 4 man so we were slightly confused dw by next week ill explain all the deets next time but theyre gonna add another companionship to this complex making it a glorified 8 man (upgraded from 6) should be fun

So last week

Uhhh

Its kinda funny honestly we do some work in elder luna's area but its like

All in ours

Basically

Like i think luna lost a lot of work lol because we just focused so much on ours

Monday after pday we had a lesson and it was a cool new guy who wanted to hear the gospel we'll see where he goes

We went to a lesson at 11 am on tuesday at a store that sells tea and shakes (kinda small business yknow, we met with the owner) and she wanted a blessing on the store so that was interestin

Good lesson tho we chillin and we went back the next day and tried to teach the plan but she lowkey kinda bashed us and we couldnt get very far but its ok

Uhh

Did some planning for the week and stuff and then had like three good lessons back to back

First two were with cool families, third was with our friend sara that was tryna get baptized on sunday the 4th. Lol that didnt happen but ill get to that later

Rest of the night was pretty good. Had english class and then had a late night lesson with another friend at like 8:45

Wednesday we didnt report very good so we probably did stuff in luna's area besides the lesson with the drink shop lady (made lots of calls too)

Had a SOLID lesson on thursday about the restoration with some new friends. Really promising and want to come closer to God so those blessings can come in clutch

Lowkey the younger chick Veronica is kinda skeptical about everythin and compares everything to catholicism but its chill shes learning hecka and she loves it

One of our zone leaders surprised us with an exchange after zone council that day too so luna and i went with him in our area that day it was chill but he lowkey drives terribly (dont tell him i said that we all bros)

Friday morning we were freakin out because sara wasnt answering the door for her interview and she was kinda tryna make excuses but we brought elder jones (love that guy) from fontana and he kinda had to do the interview and couldnt do any later so she caved (kinda felt bad) and she passed and it was good. So things were looking up for her baptism (key word: were)

Saturday we were planning for the baptism and stuff getting the program set up and people to come do prayers and talks and it was all gonna be great and then we went to another ward's baptism of a kid that ward's missionaries were teachin cuz they needed us to lead the music lol like they always do strong and i are music powerhouses and we sang a goofy little song by idk who but its about being like book of mormon prophets and most importantly Jesus Christ so that was chill

And at 8 we go by sara to confirm ok you are getting baptized at 6 pm in the building on willow street and make sure to come to church at 9 am and she was like ok great will do

Church comes around and we get a ton of friends there we got like 11 non members to pull up just from our families so it was great and they loved it (even the teenagers believe it or not) but there was one problem

Sara didnt come to church

What happened was at like 8:30 am we call her like "hey are you ready" and she was like

"Yeah for church at 6 pm"

And we are freaking out at this point and are like "but church starts at 9 u need 2 come" and she goes

"Im in riverside with my brother"

And we're like "heck" cuz we got our member to pick her up and she was in front of her house and sara wasnt home but she needed to come to church in order to get baptized cuz she needed to come to church twice but she only came once

And she proceeded to not answer any of our calls the rest of the day

While we were waiting for luna's sacrament meeting to start we call our bishop to ask whats gonna happen and hes like "yeah if she wants to get baptized just baptize her" so we're super confused and we end up calling our mission president who is like "well i usually just want to follow the bishop if he wants a baptism to go through but she seems to have a commitment problem if shes only come to church once and shes been taught a month" but in the end he was like just do whatever your bishop says so we text sara and say well the baptism is still on for tonight i guess even though you didnt come to church and of course she doesnt respond so we finish luna's sacrament meeting and we then were told by one of his friends to visit them right after so we do and then we're starving it's like 2:30 and we havent eaten since 8 in the morning so we go home and eat some lunch and it's like 3 pm and we have no idea whether our baptism in three hours is going to happen or not so we book it to her house get there like 3:15 and knock on her door and...

...out comes her daughter.

We ask where she is and she goes "yeah... shes still in riverside" and shes like lowkey kinda chill so we start talkin and we were like "well... she was kinda supposed to get baptized today"

And she goes on to tell us how sara was never really serious about the baptism thing, she liked having us over but even her daughter noticed she had a hard time ever actually doing anything. She was surprised she came to our church on easter because they had been trying for years to get sara to go to their catholic church and she never would. She said sara felt kinda forced to go to church...

Anyway, blah blah blah sara wont get back till super late and she probably wont get baptized and never really was interested in the first place. We were kinda down the rest of the day we pretty much just had to notify everyone in the ward immediately that the baptism that was supposed to start in two hours at this point is not going to happen.

But we forgot to notify our ward mission leader... so hes kinda mad at us. Theres more lore but i dont want to bore you guys with the deets and it lowkey sucked but hey we all make mistakes and thats what the Atonement of Jesus Christ is all about.

Luckily the rest of our ward is still super chill with us and we're working to damage control everything. Dw we got this in the bag and honestly everything is already a lot better at the time of the writing of this email

So that was my week. Crazy the transfer blew by and we'll see what happens in the next one, lowkey wouldnt mind staying. I would feel bad if i just dipped after that fiasco and leavin it for another missionary to deal with lol

All in all though it was a good week. Really fun and very... uh... learn-ful. I invented a new word

Also we have well over $200 in pollo loco gift cards from our members lol

Talk to you guys next week!

Picture time:

-Tiny turtle

-They should probably remove this from the road (it's a straight up tree)

-me in elder strong's glasses