July 14th, 2025 - 98th Email - "It's not just a boulder, it's a rock"

 Hey

So

Doing some math

There are 102 weeks in a 6-week mtc mission for guys

And i only have 2 more emails to write

So i think that means im at 100 emails? Idk but if anything that i cause for celebration by kool and the gang (good song) because that means im like

Almost done or something

Whether im trunky or not is up to reader interpretation

But its ok because we did some good work this week found some good people and also we found a guy from equatorial guinea he was pretty cool and he was black but bro spoke spanish like he was from spain ive never heard anyone unironically say como estais before but in spanish speaking africa they do

So monday was just visiting people in the heat bro it was like 104 a couple of these days (but i got good news)

Monday (july 7) we chillin and we visit this family thats tryna get the kids 'tized but the mom needs to push them more and the daughter was gon go to girls camp this week and she enjoyed it but bro there was some drama lowkey and i think it was kinda our fault but basically they didnt get baptized because the mom wasnt pushing them enough and they got scared but its ok we are thinking of switching gears to make the mom more comfortable with her kids getting baptized and we have a solid plan its just unfortunate that i wont be here for a lot of it to go through

It was funny tho because we still hadnt fixed my bike tire so we ended up just walking around on monday evening which was pretty fun ran into a ton of random people we walked probably like 

Uh

A lot of miles that evening

Tuesday we finally got my bike fixed and had a hecka long lesson with a referral (and now there's drama with this lady) but she was really wanting to get baptized and learn more she was also coming from el salvador and she went to church down there and it seems like she gets offended really easily... more on that l8er but we were at the church for an hour and a half for this lesson

And then 1 person came to english class  but it was chill

Wednesday we met a guy named Dutch he was cool never met a guy with that name before but yeah we had to hop over some crazy hurdles that day to not have to ride our bikes over the bridges next to our apartment but we were able to do it by borrowing our apartment mates' truck for a bit and then hitching a ride with them later because our dinner was next to our apartment on the other side of the bridges

Thursday we had zone council like normal but they surprised us with a zone wide exchange and i went with elder baldwin in his area and did tons of good work and fun stuff and took a nice nap that i really needed during dinner hour

The funny thing was i slept like

All the way through dinner hour

So i didnt have time to actually eat anything since we had an appointment

But then we got saved by a kid that came tracting with us because he brought a bag of pizza slices so thanks to that kid hes going to serve in the indianapolis mission here soon

Also it was nice to not be on bike lol

But! Good news! Friday we got a call from the ap's in the morning and usually that isnt a good thing but this time they let us know we were getting a car! So we picked up a toyota tacoma truck at like 11 am at the church building from them and now we're cruising and i feel just like spongebob when he saw that big rock in the middle of nowhere singing "we're saved" at the top of his lungs because i was getting tired of all my bike problems for realsies

So now we're traveling in style except our truck is over 8000 miles overdue for an oil change we just found out so we gon have to fix that

I dont think anything crazy happened on saturday lowkey we were just happy to be in car and we were playing a prank on the other missionaries so they didnt figure out we had a car yet (not even the zone leaders knew)

So sunday we were chillin at the church waiting for our meeting to start but one of our friends texted us saying she wouldnt be able to make it (this is important for later) and overall it was a really good church and we had lots of ppl there and former presidente luna from the old mission presidency spoke with his wife and all our friends loved what they talked about i kinda zoned out not gonna lie but im gonna assume it was really good

Ok so bruh the friend that told us she couldnt come to church wouldnt respond to why she couldnt so we decided that evening we were gonna stop by her house to check up on her and see if everything is ok and she wasnt there so we talked to her husband who seemed slightly miffed and then the next morning (monday morning) we get a text from her saying she didnt understand why we had to go by and she didnt know because she didnt go to church that we would just come looking for her so we have no idea what to do cuz shes overreacting as heck when we just went over because we cared about her so thisll be interesting

Aight thats basically everything have a great day u guys

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-elder walker took my phone while i was sleeping