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Logan with his new tie from Guatemala!

Hello Everyone! 

This week was crazy, and seemed to last forever!! Monday was pretty calm, but Tuesday it really picked up. We started off the week with exchanges with the Guilford Elders. Elder Hulet came over to Summerfield with me! Beforehand all four of us and the Sagers went to a big food warehouse and did some service. We put together bags of food for less fortunate kids. Basically, this place takes all the leftover foods from places like Panera Bread and Little Caesars that they would've just thrown away and packages them for kids. You'd be amazed at how much food these places just toss away! There were HUGE garbage bags of assorted Panera Bread items!  And a ton of them, too. And also stacks upon stacks of Little Caesars Pizza! It's amazing how much food in this country just goes to waste. 

The exchange with Elder Hulet was good (especially because I got to drive the car😉), we were able to get in contact with a part member family! The next day we went to district meeting (I gave a training on our calling as missionaries, I thought it went pretty well) and it went well, and at the end of the meeting the Assistants show up! They were going on exchange with the zone leaders, but since there are three of them, one decided to come with us for a day!😬 Yikes! So Elder Clarke came back home with us...He's a super nice guy and he has a crazy life story, but we still were on edge the whole time. Not that we had anything to hide, but we aren't really proud of the area we are working with. We had planned to go tracting that day, but he shot that down, 'cause tracting is just a waste of time. So we just wandered around all day talking to people. We also played a game of pick-up basketball with a kid on the street. It was fun. That night we took our beds into the study room and put them on the floor, and Elder Clarke slept on the couch. We stayed up till about 12:30 just talking, which is something I don't do very much because I fall asleep so fast. That's something I've gotten really good at on my mission, sleeping, anytime, anyplace. Now, I could fall asleep in a less than two minutes. It's good for short power naps😀. He then had weekly planning with us and he set our goals really high for this week. Too high. Oh well, trying isn't gonna hurt. We then gave back Elder Clarke🖖🖖 and had a pretty good Thursday. 

We then did a bike switch-a-roo. So Sister Brown's bike (She's new. She got emergency transferred here because in her last area someone got murdered in a room just next door to them. Needless to say, there are no more sisters in Salisbury😬) broke, and they asked the Guilford Sisters to borrow a bike from them. The Guilford Sisters said yes, but they said that the Summit Sisters had to find a way to come and get it, which wasn't very fair to the Summit Sisters, because they were on bikes, and the Guilford sisters had a car and they have plenty of miles to do things like that because they are STL's. So we (we don't get any extra miles by the way, even though Elder Murray is a district leader) had to drive all the way to the Guilford Sisters' apartment to pick up a bike, then drive all the way across Guilford and Summerfield to get to Summit to drop off the bike😡, wasting a ton of miles. I just love those Guilford Sisters... We took Sister Brown's bike with us (the derailer had some problems) to take it to a shop we knew of. While we were driving around, we drove on a freeway (I don't know if it should be called a freeway if the speed limit is only 55😴) onramp, and while we were on the onramp, one of the tires on Sister Brown's bike just fell off!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Nooooooo!!!!! We didn't see where it went so we never found it. Needless to say, we felt really bad. We took it to the shop the next morning and we had to buy a part for it to re-fasten the derailer, then buy a new wheel, tube, and tread for the bike. Yikes! It cost a good chunk of money, so I have $14 for the rest of the month! Yay! Oh goodie! It'll be fine. We have a lot of backup food in the apartment. We then dropped off the fixed bike, then had to drive back to Guilford to drop off the other bike. 

Well, we were able to meet a lot of new people this week. Mostly part member families, and we started to teach one. He is a less active member and he had three girls, two of which are baptism age and have not been baptized. We'll see what we can do. So we finally have things to do, which is good, we'll see if it lasts🎉. 

So this week was good, but long, and now we have no money. I think it was a great week! We accomplished a lot! Hopefully this next week is even better! Love y'all!

Our district, from left to right, top to bottom: Elder Sagers, Sister
Sagers, Elder Hulet, Elder Randall, Elder Murray, studMcmuffin, Sister
Goodrich, Sister Krummenacher, Elder Wilde, Sister Sherwood, SisterGodfrey, Sister Brown.



If you're interested in Elder Huff's missionary bag, here's a video: