June 30th, 2025 - 96th Email - Pluck plums

 Hey

Ok so this email is for the week of june 23-june 29th so ok now that that is cleared up we can go back to our regularly scheduled email

Monday pday was cool we had a watermelon carving competition as a zone and we had stuff from an elephant to a basket to a pina colada type beat thing it was fun we made a caged bird it was lowkey pretty dope and then i just slept the rest of the day

In the evening we had some missed contacts and like one lesson we didnt report on so i couldnt tell you what we talked about if i wanted to

Tuesday morning we went to a recent converts house and shoveled rocks

Literally these two massive bags in this ladys truck bed that each weighed like 1500 pounds and we had to shovel the rocks out the truck and wheelbarrow them to around back to dump em all next to a shed (it was all for asthetic purposes)

She also let us harvest her plums from her tree and they tasted very good i liked em ngl that single event is where the name of the email comes from so yeah

Something about being on bike is we spend a lot of time at the church building because of getting rides from the other missionaries since sometimes they leave before we do and so they just drop us off there so we can chill for a bit longer and not have to bike over the bridges and stuff that are lowkey dangerous

But dude it has been getting hot lately so biking has been fun but hard but we surviving so its ok im actually wearing sunscreen

Had a sad lesson on tuesday where a progressing guy told us he didnt want us to pressure him about baptism so we backed off a bit so pray for roberto hes going through a lot of health problems and we tryna help him understand getting baptized will bless him in all things but its aight we chillin at least i dont think im pressuring him too hard (i aint dat kinda guy)

Had a miracle lesson later tho where this family thats been taught for forever finally let us give the kids a baptism date the oldest julio is super down its just the younger ones that are kinda scared its chill tho

Also idk if i mentioned our homeless friends the week before but we had some homeless friends our member was taking care of and they just chill at the church a lot so we get to go over to the church and say hey all the time and get some free member presents out of it too which is pretty chill but we need to find some legal stuff in order for them to get married so pray for em pls

We went over to that members house early thursday morning and did a scripture study with em so that was fun

Then we had zone council and did a quick exchange with one of the zone leaders and i went with elder hawk in the willow branch area and left ploeger on bike lol

Was a fun exchange but nobody answered us lol

Reexchanged at like 7 pm after dinner because elder flores (the zone leader) had to be at a lesson or something but it was fun

Oh yeah

Kinda a big deal

We switched mission presidents on tuesday

So just

One day pinnock was gone

And the next

We got president oligschlaeger

I love this guy already lol hes really nice and loves to hang out with us and we had a meeting with him on friday together with the fontana zone where he and his wife talked to each companionship to get to know us and its kinda sad ill only be here for a little bit with them but i know theyll do great things here

Then we had a fathers day activity that evening at our building and our friends were lowkey kinda bored lol but we talked to em and got em food so it was chill the dads all went up and did goofy stuff

(The activity was delayed a lot for some reason)

Sunday was cool the english missionaries had a couple baptisms in the colton ward and i took a nap after church and got to know the members a lot better and we also ran into the rialto 4th bishop (from my last area) because he actually lives well within the rialto 3rd (my current ward) boundaries and he was eating dinner with the hermanas in that ward outside so he invited us to eat some tacos so naturally we obliged but then we got a SECOND dinner from a member

Wait actually

Scratch that

All the food stuff happened on saturday and im too lazy to fix it

But i did actually take a fat nap on sunday it was nice

Also cool news! A friend of mine from rialto 4th is getting baptized this next sunday and because im in the same stake ill be able to go! Im purdy eggcited

But yeah that was basically my week there was probably other goofy stuff that went on

I guess we went to el super because elder ploeger was tryna buy some football cards (walmart ran out) and then turned out bro accidentally bought stickers so that was really funny

Not too much crazy happened this week but it was just fun so yeah 4 weeks left

Pictures!

-ploeger and dog

-baptism from when i got here because i didnt have the picture last week

-elder walker (who i live with) and me

-joom (its supposed to say woof)