May 26th, 2025- 91st. Email - Funny fun times

 Hey

So this is kinda goofy but the last email I sent was actually for the week of May 12 and not the week of may 2 because may 2 was not only not a monday but it was also before transfers so im just hecka trippin (i was probably looking at a june calendar because june 2 is a monday)

So to clear things up

This email is for the week of may 19

Ok no confusion

Great

(i still need to write an email for the week of may 26 so im writing this email with tons of hindsight but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it)

We started off the week strong with our friends telling us they wanted to postpone their baptism and i had spamming keyboard sound effects going off in my head but it was ok because they were super solid and are getting baptized only one week later than initially planned and it was actually better for them they were able to understand a lot better what they were doin so we soups excited for them

Tuesday was a crazy day

So we start off in the morning by going to redlands for a doctor's appointment for elder strong because he has some... uh... medical stuff that i dont want to get into but we kept forgetting to go to the doctor because the lady he wanted to see was only there on tuesdays so we finally just went and we got interesting news which meant elder strong is actually going to have to go home to get surgery and as of the time i am writing this email i know when hes going home but for like over a week we had no idea when it would be and the mission nurse guy freaked us out saying he would probably go home within the week (and obviously that did not happen) but president was adamant about keeping strong out as long as possible before his surgery

Then we wanted to exchange with one of the zone leaders but they took absolutely forever to get done with whatever he and his companion were doing so the other zone leader and his companion came over and we went and got pollo loco because we have like $200 in pollo loco gift cards in our car but we exchanged at like 6 and it was good and chill i went to the english area with elder baldwin (not the zone leader) and we tracted a bit

Wednesday we met a guy that was from mexico but lived in hawaii for like 10 years before the fires and stuff so that was interesting

Rest of the day was just contacting like nobody answered us

Thursday was zone conference, it was a good one, it was President Pinnock's last one as our mission president as he will be dipping formally on june 24th and being replaced by president oligschlaeger and you better believe i spelled that correctly

Learned a lot about following the Spirit and testifying of what we know

Friday was weird we did a whole zone wide exchange where they picked us to go with random people but for some reason elder luna made it a whole slideshow where he used ai to make us all look like an anime intro it was funny as heck though

I went with elder flores who is the other zone leader but hes on bike which sucks for him because as zone leader he needs to stop to answer lots of calls and texts and also for me apparently because i got the crappy bike it wasnt like really bad at first but by the end of the day the seat was so hard and it like stuck out a bit upwards and it hurt like crazy and we were boutta bike uphill and i was like bruh i cant do this anymore and elder flores was like ok we'll trade but he got on the bike himself and was like ok i can see why you hate this bike so we just called someone to pick us up lol

Luckily they got a new bike because that bike actually broke the next day and the new bike they got is wayyyy better

Theres also been like hecka drama for whatever reason in the zone but i wont bore you guys with all that

Saturday we had a kid from redlands come out with us to do missionary work, it was really fun actually hes a good guy his name was Craig and hes hispanic so he kept up a little bit with our spanish hes planning on serving a mission, we mostly just tracted but at the end we had a really good lesson and he enjoyed it a lot so if u want to serve a mission def go out with missionaries its pretty fun

But he left at like 4 so the rest of the day it was back to just us lol

Then we went to a friends house at like 6 to attend her sons birthday party it was pretty sick had some fire quesadillas

Sunday we had church

(We forgot to report the evening but dont worry we're getting better at that)

Ok so thats pretty much my week, i think by like thursday or friday we realized strong wasnt actually gonna go home the next monday, but the entire time it was like well uh whens it gonna be type beat and i was lowkey stressin because if he left then id have to lead out the area and idk who my companion would be but rest assured u guys that everything is fine now

So uh

Picksha time

-flower

-pig

-birb

-us at church

Luv u guys bye