Tuesday, September 19, 2017

I'M STILL ALIVE . . . WEEK 2

August 15, 2017

Hello family. I'm still alive. Things are good here. The days are longgggg, especially cuz we get up so early and are going going going for so long each day. But its a good time. I'm loving it here, for the most part. My testimony has grown a lot. This past Sunday, Elder Ballard came and spoke to everyone, and his message was broadcast to all the other MTCs. His topic was kind of surprising. He talked about locking our hearts and not allowing anyone to enter them. This means like don't get into relationships with Sisters or any girls in the mission. He also said "Thou shalt not flirt," and that was kind of the topic of his address. He also talked about true conversion, and shared his powerful testimony. Another thing he talked about was that our loyalty is to the Lord, then to the mission president. We should tell the president if things aren't quite in order, and our loyalty is not to our companion if they're not choosing the right. It's been really cool to hear the apostles though, and I think another one is coming for the devotional tonight

Back Row: L-R Elder Yang, Elder Wayment, Elder Giddings, Elder Miller (district leader) Elder Hinckley (roomate) Elder Rich, Elder Tayler (my comp). Front Row: L -R Elder Seims, Elder Vang (He's Hmong), Elder Tarone, Elder Lamb , Elder Israelson 

Anyway, here's some more specifics I haven't covered yet. The food here is decent. Like some meals are really good, but some meals are reallllly not good haha. It's basically like cruise ship style food, but nothing is even close to that good. Except the chocolate milk. That's delicious and the ice cream. I try not to eat too much of either though, because we literally sit down all day and I don't want to gain very much weight in fat. 

On Saturday, we had a crazy kickball game between the Hmong district and the Thai/Vietnamese district. In our zone, there are 5 sisters, and they were all on the other team. The weather was kind of crazy, and we were playing from 7:30-8:30 at night. It wasn't raining, but there was some lightning like further away in the city. I was out in outfield, and some crazy old lady came walking up. Like we were in the middle of this field, nothing was even close to us, and she just yells to me "you have to call it right now!!!" I kinda just looked at her and was like what? and she just repeated it. Then she said "if you stay out here any longer, someone's gonna get struck by lightning!" which i mean could have been a valid concern, but the lightning was like nowhere near us. So I said well, you want me to like tell the people in charge? and she, in a little fit of rage, storms off and yells "I'll see you on the news!" It was crazy, haha. Super weird. But don't worry, I worked at the RV Park, I understand old people, haha. 

The investigator we have been teaching, Phiab, revealed himself to be our teacher on Thursday. His name is Brother Lee, and he's actually an awesome teacher. He speaks more English than brother Gardiner, which is great. Now Brother Gardiner is pretending to be the investigator, and we're teaching him.

Dall and Kason left this past week. It made me kinda sad, I miss my bros. We're really bonding as a district though. We do story time every night, its pretty funny. Everyone is really crazy though. They also gave everyone spirit animals, and I'm Agent P, so that's cool! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA!!!!!




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