2024-2-6 Family Email

tuesday
todayyyy during personal study i listened to a podcast thingy while I sorted through our Tupperware cupboard. you see missionaries end up having a lot of tupperware because when members give us for we forget to give it back to them... so that was a fun project. after that we went and helped out at the food bank again. dude it was crazy. theres so much drama with foodbank people and the guy that was directing traffic got mad and just up and left. so I got to be the traffic director person all day after that we had lunch and then drove up to Mayo to visit some peeps. we actually got in contact with a lot of people who havent been talked to for forever so that was shweet. then we booked it home for dinner.


wensday
for breakfast today I tried to cook up some hashbrowns that I grated yesterday and put in the freezer. sadly I blundered and didnt bake them or wash them before I grated them so my hashbrowns were covered in dirt. they looked pretty nasty so I just had pb on some toast instead. we had district council today and I ended up learning a lot and feeling the spirt a bunch. Elder Bolanders training was on how we can extend invitations better and help people keep commitments. theres a lot of things I learned i can improve on. after the council of district we had lunch and I made french toast. we had a cool miricle today while we were finding. we were driving past this one house that we drive past all the time and its just sitting all alone in the middle of the field. Elder Larkin was like lets knock that house. so we did and ended up finding someone who wants to come to church on sunday! we got his number and were hopefully going to do a church tour with him the saturday before. im hyped. for dinner we went to sis newmans and had chili. for the youth activity tonight we watched the youth thing from Elder Stevensen. then I helped Conner with his piano song that hes learning (hes learning the inception song). when we got home I just played the piano all night then went to bed.


thursday.


for breakfast I finished my leftover french toast from yesterday then we went to the church to help clean. the plug for the big vacuum for the halls wasnt working so we had to take it appart and fix it. then went to the park to weekly plan because it was so insanely nice outside today. we just hung out on the bleachers for four hours planning our week. after that we had a bunch of confirmed lessons with people so we were hopping from lesson to lesson all day. it went really well though. had to pee so insanely bad after that so when we got to the road our house is on Elder Larkin thought it would be funny to drive 2 miles an hour. so I just got outta the car and ran. as soon as I got out Larkin floored it, but I still beat him having a full bladder is a great motivator. for dinner I chopped up some butternut squash and an onion and air fried it.


friday
breakfast was a smoothie then we went over to Johnnies to help him move the tile off his deck. im so sick of tile lol. for lunch I had some tilapia and ramen but I found out that if you mix ginger soy sauce and honey and only use half the seasoning packet for the ramen its bussin. then Elder Larkin and I had a bit of a debate about a hypothetical senario. we talked about it for like 3 hours okay so you have 2 cars going 60 miles an hour and they hit head on. so wouldent that be the same as a car going 120 mph hitting a brick wall? Larkin said that it would be the same damage if the car hit another car going 60, or if it hit a brick wall. we dont have google so it was just us going back and forth without a way to prove who is right. oh yeah, also. something else that happened today: we went to the park to finish our planning becsuse we didnt finish it yesterday. there were some kids playing basketball and I was like you know we should go play with them. so Larkin was like yeah we should. but then we both chickened out and just walked to the car. when we got to the car we both felt the spirit telling us that we should go play with them so we went back and did just that. we definitely got clobbered, but the dudes were pretty cool. they were all freshman and we didnt really talk to them about church stuff; but maybe it planted a seed for the future after that we just knocked a whole bunch of doors and found like 4 people. we came up with a new door approch the other day and its been working really well. ill have to tell you about it on monday


Saturdaayy
for breakfast I had some bacon and eggs... and golly that bacon was good. today we did a bunch of finding. there was this one lady that we ran into that was a super cool experience. we knocked on her door and we started talking but she said that she only speaks spannish. luckily my one year of Spanish came in clutch(kinda) and I say, como te llamas? she said her name was Miranda so I was like me llamo Will, mucho gusto. after that I had nothing left so we pulled up alma 7 11 in spanish and had her read that. she ended up finishing the whole chapter and by the end she was on the verge of tears. even though there was a language barrier we could all feel the spirit. were going to go by on tuesday and give her a spanish BOM. for lunch we went to a pizza restaurant that we have a ton of gift cards for. pizza is still sub par after working at a pizza place for 2 years. after that we did a bunch more finding. there was this one lady that we talked to and she said we could help pick up sticks in her yard so that was a nice unexpected opportunity. then we texted a bunch of people to invite them to church tommorow. for dinner, well we didnt have dinner because we started our fast after lunch... but my magic cards came!!! i pretty much just looked at those and wrote this all night till bedtime

sunday
I didnt eat breakfast, studied, and headed to church. we had 4 people at church today! I bore my testimony during testimony meeting and I was shaking the whole time but it was fine. after church we broke our fast and had butternut squash then we went to go make some contacts. during that it just started pouring rain out of nowhere. it was awesome. at our dinner appointment it seemed was mad except the dad. they were fighting the whole time and the dad just looked over at us and was like this is what its like when you're a girl dad. it was soooo funny. we lost track of time and stayed at their house for an hour and a half so we were exceptionally late to our lesson with Alex. it was a bit of a miricle though because we invited one of our other friends(who was more punctual) and he just got to talk to alex and get to know him for awhile. so it was actually really good.