6/4/2024

 Sorry this is a little late. Just had a busy day. This week has been pretty good. We had Zone P-Day, Zone Conference, and 7 people come to church! It was a good week! 

Sorry I didn't get any pictures up last week, I was still waiting for some to be sent to me from other Elders. 

The week started out great with Zone P-Day which was kinda basic. We had the pickle ball courts set up and then games on the stage. However the evening was super epic. We had dinner with a member who made us Touchdown Burgers! Instead of a normal hamburger bun, you use a doughnut. He usually uses glazed doughnuts for it. Then he makes a turkey patty with tomatoes and onions in it with a slice of pepper jack cheese on it. It was super good and I will have to bring this food home with me to share with y'all. We continued to have some lessons with friends. On Tuesday we had a lesson and then invited them to English class just 30 minutes later and she came! We also had Helana and Junior in English class too! They really enjoyed it and want to go back. After all that we got haircuts in preparation for Zone Conference.

On Wednesday we didn’t have district council because of ZoCo so we had a bike day. It felt super nice outside because it just rained. As we were going back to the apartment it started to get super hot. Once we were in for the afternoon to do more studies it down-poured for 2-3 hours. Then we decided to not continue bike day. We had dinner with Lorenzo who you might remember from my time in Sunnyside. He came to our area and we went to a Chinese Buffet for dinner. What a great way to spend Zone Conference Eve.

Wow this zone conference was special. It was the last Zone Conference we had with the Richards as they are leaving this next transfer and we will have the Garns come in. It is super sad yet also super exciting. I get almost half and half with each mission president. The main theme of this conference was the theme that the Richards have had their whole time here. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. It was also so fitting that Come Thou Fount just got released on the Sacred Music app. At the very end we had Elder Madsen on the organ going all in as we sang this wonderful hymn with the Richards one last time. It almost got me crying.

The next day was not very eventful. We didn’t really have any lessons planned so we thought we would clean up the map a bit. We went to an apartment complex nearby and tried to contact every gray dot there that we could. Many of them no longer lived there and we know that because the apartment door is screwed shut. There were about 45 households that no longer live there, it was crazy. However the next day was very eventful.

It was the start of a new month and that just felt amazing. We had new miles to use on the car. The first 2 lessons we had canceled on us so that was unfortunate. Then we had an amazing lesson. It started to pour rain and the sisters were with a member and asked if we could stop by and give a blessing. We went by and did so then she asked if we could bless the apartment and we were all for it. I knew that you can bless houses and apartments but I had just never done it before so that was a neat experience. After that we had lunch at Hawaiian Bros while Elder Stone had a ZLC call. We went by our recent convert Joseph Garcia and the cat that hangs out around his apartment just had kittens that morning so that was adorable to see. We went with the Winsors to meet a media referral we got. He is a Muslim guy who just wants to learn as much as he can about Christianity just for academic reasons. However, part of that is wanting to go to church. Maybe he will be learning and then the Spirit will strike a chord in his heart that will help him see it all in more of a spiritual way. We went by the Massangas for dinner and continued to help aand serve them. After that we went by Clercin and Clarcin to share some more and teach more of the after Baptism Principles to Clercin. It was a packed day for us.

Finally on Sunday it all paid off as we had 7 people come to church. We had been pulling some low numbers for a while so this was super nice to get. There were some great testimonies shared too which makes having all those friends there even better. Now we get to start the last full week of the transfer. YEEE HAWWW.