Do you
tweet links to my blog too?
She
probably won’t read this but.... @GriswoldPatelcaper: @SarahBelton I'll be back
soon...ish with even funnier tweets! It’s the new Gristal Ball now with more Mexican!
and Connor, if you read this, know that I am still thinking about you and will get a letter
to you soon! Good luck in Montana, you'll be a stud out there, I know it!
Freaaaakkkkkk
I just
read your letters and I'd like to have 20 hours to write back to all of you but
I can’t. I feel so bad to everyone that has written me such great letters that
I haven’t responded to. :( ugh! sorry!
I
literally have like no time this week and sooo much happened.
First
things first. I have a new phrase (well I have a bunch but this is one that I
will share now): 'When I grow up I want to be a Mexican!" Of course I don’t
mean in the way of citizenship. I just love the Hispanic people. I don’t know
if I have said that before, but I really do. It makes me so happy to be able to
interact with them each day. From the little things they say, to the way they
laugh and joke and greet. I am always so happy and always have a reason to
smile. That is
the other thing. I love serving a mission, and I love life. I (for some reason,
far beyond me) have been blessed with happiness. Every day. I just am always so
happy. It's like I'm on drugs or something. (ps. I stopped taking them and feel
better than ever.) I don’t really know how to describe this so I'll just say it
again. I love life.
Anyyyy
way. So this week was a week of many crazy things. I left my planner at home
because we had to bike literally 5 miles to get to these computers and there is
no way I'm going back to get it. No time! Anyway(again) Monday was pday and not
too much happened. We chilled a bunch with the zone leaders which was cool. I
like them a lot. Good guys and we have a bunch of fun getting all our shopping
and our pday things done together. But Monday we had 2 pretty good lessons, one
with the Familia Roman about 1NE7 [1 Nephi chapter 7 from The Book of Mormon]. It was a pretty good lesson. The family is pretty
cool, Carlos is 18 and was baptized in January but isn’t too active and his mom
is interested in the church but is still holding strong to
her Catholicism. She says she believes the LDM [Libro De Mormon] is true and all the things that come with that but
she won’t be baptized I guess until being Catholic is wrong or something like
that. It’s kind of weird but we still have good lessons with them. We had
another lesson that night with a less active family and it was okay but the
highlight was when one of the kids turned to me and asked "Are all the
mammoths still dead?" He's 18.
Tuesday
was a busy day. Elders Reynoso and Kerr (Zone leaders from the North Zone) came
over to chill with us for lunch. They brought us a pizza and I made them drink
some green smoothie. But we had a good time talking with them and hitting the
beach volleyball around. After we finished lunch, Elder Campbell and Elder Sherwood
showed up for exchanges and Elder Sherwood and I had a dopeeee day. We
contacted 18 people in the street (sharing a message and leaving a commitment)
and got 5 return appointments. It was action packed. One was a family that lost
contact with the missionaries when they moved a couple years ago, and guess
what? Now they are back in contact and they were excited! Yay! We had dinner at
Juana’s. She is sooo good at making rice. I could eat her rice all day. And
then she also made us tuna fish tacos which made me laugh because that's what I
make for lunch sometimes hahaha. But they were good. Only problem was that she
gave me 8 and I was about dying when I finished them all. I could have not
finished them but, so you all know, that is pretty disrespectful if you don’t
finish. Remind me when I get home to show you what people do if you don’t
finish everything on your plate. Elder Sherwood and I went to visit a few
families and we stopped by Antonia's house to have a short lesson with her
and her housemates but when we walked in she made us eat. Like made us
two bowls and put them on the table and told us to sit down and eat before she
got mad. It was so delicious (passole btw) but we were still full from dinner!
Antonia is so nice. She is such a wonderful person and is always looking and
asking for ways to serve others. By the time we had eaten enough for her to let
us go it was 9 o’clock and we got a call that a girl was really sick so Elder Sherwood
and I biked 4 miles to give her a blessing. We walked in just as the people on
telemundo said that Obama had for sure won which was cool. We gave her a
blessing and the parents gave us a bunch of candy hahaha (the girl came to
church on Sunday and her mom talked to me for like 10 minutes thanking me. I
finally had to say it wasn’t me it was Heavenly Father and run off to get to
gospel principles [class]. She was nice so I felt horrible being rude, but she
liked to talk a lot.)
Wednesday
we had a Zone meeting (both the districts of our zone got together to have
training and discuss problems or successes and goals, etc.). We talked about
investigators and stuff like that. At
Zone meeting Elder Sherwood and I ended our exchange and I immediately started
one with Elder Johnson! (I loveeeee exchanges :) ) E' Johnson had like 4 lessons
cancel on him so we biked all over the place and got 26 contacts! So many that
we had to run home really quick because both of us ran out of cards and things
to give out! My highest up to this time was 22. So that was super exciting.
Elder Johnson and I were trying all day to be as excited as we could the whole
time so the day went by so fast and we felt sooo good at the end of the day. (ps.
if you all couldn’t tell, I’m a firm believer that being happy is easy. Nothing
gets me down!)
Thursday
I ended my exchange with Elder Johnson and started an exchange with Elder Nonu (zone
leader)! 3 exchanges in a row is I guess unheard of and I know why. I was beat
at this point, exhausted from all the biking and changes and that stuff. But! Elder
Nonu had a flat so we had Elder Bennett and Taetakua to drive us to Target to
find a tube for his bike. After that Elder Nonu and I biked around my area
visiting people and having a few short lessons. We were talking to everyone and
we met a lot of really cool people and got a bunch of referrals for the English
elders. We met a guy named Daril who asked a lot of crazy deep doctrine
questions like Kolob and the name of God's wife and stuff. Elder Nonu got a
little impatient because I’m sure he has had to deal with that stuff a lot from
people who are attacking the church, but the guy was super sincere, open, and
curious so we talked to him and told him that none of those things are in the
scriptures or taught by the prophet or his apostles. But we did share
scriptures and other things with him which was cool. We had dinner at the chef
of the Belagio's house which was sooo good. It was a roast that had been
marinated he said for 3 days! It was super good but it was all so rich and
delicious (and I drank 3 water bottles) then I got a really bad stomach ache
and had to lie down on his floor for 5 minutes which was embarrassing but made
him laugh. Then after dinner Elder Nonu's other tire got a flat and we were
super far from home so we had to walk home. By the end of the night we had 37
contacts! 37 different groups of people we talked to and taught and left
commitments, it was sweet. It felt so awesome to talk to so many people and hear
so many stories and things.
Friday
was freezing! I don’t know exactly how cold it was but it was dang cold.
A member that we met on the street said 50 degrees and everyone asked me
where my jacket was. We called someone for a lesson and they said that they'd
have a lesson and then we biked up the hill to get there and she cancelled
which was a bummer because it was so cold hahaa. But on the way down I talked
to a group of kids and I got one of them to talk about Jesus with me while
contacting a random person on the street. It’s hard to explain the whole
situation but I almost peed my pants I was laughing so hard after it. Some
little Catholic boy talking about Jesus (and even referring to him and the Son
of God) and trying to get someone on the street to visit mormon.org. He even
gave them the card. Then I gave him and all his friends stickers and they were
all super happy which made ME super happy. Kids love stickers. Thanks for
sending me them! Then we had 2 lessons that night, one with Antonia and the
other with the Familia Roman.
Saturday
was a pretty uneventful day. It was soooo cold. And we didn’t really see anyone
on the street and all our visits fell through. Our ward mission leader took us
to Cicis pizza for dinner which made me feel like poop. I wouldn’t recommend it
to anyone unless you only eat the mac and cheese pizza. I love mac and
cheese.
Ahhh!
Never enough time sorry!
Sunday
was pretty normal. Lots of meetings and church things to do ya know, the use.
(you-je)
Monday
was zone conference with a couple of the nearby zones when Elder Ellis of the
Seventy spoke. It was a sweet day of training. I saw Elder Yockey [from
the MTC] and talked to him which was sweet! We talked a lot about him and how
he's doing. I like Elder Yockey. He's the man. Monday night a woman asked me to
bless her 3 year-old so I got to do that. The little girl was like bouncing
around the whole time which almost made me laugh during the blessing.
Aight
peeps. That's all. I'll try to write some answers to the things you sent and
send them off. Sorry there is never enough itmetioewtnaobg;AOEBGapgha
:)
I love
you all. I hope everything is going well.
Eat
some bumpy cake ice cream for me.
movie
quote here!
Love,
Sam
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