Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot YUCK!


This week was so HOT! Luckily this week was car week, but we didn't get to use the car that much because the previous elders used most of the miles in one week. I have never sweated as much as I have this week my whole life. Temperatures were in the nineties all week long with humidity usually in the eighties, pretty miserable. We biked a couple miles last night and when we stopped and got off, I literally was dripping sweat. I could feel it running down my back, it kept getting in my eyes, and whenever I would try to wipe my hands off on my pants or shirt, nothing happened, because my clothes were soaked as well. 
Well, enough with all the heat, this week has seemed to go by pretty quick. I can't believe there is less than a week until my birthday. I don't want to be nineteen! That's too old for meπŸ˜…. My sister's gonna be a teenager too! 😱Lauren is too young to be a teenager! Time is starting to go by pretty quickly here on the mission. When writing these emails, I have to refer back to my journal to remember what we did each week. Luckily I write in my journal every night, but sometimes I can't even remember what we did that day. Maybe my mind is just goingπŸ€“. 
So Tuesday wasn't too crazy, we did service at the Corner Cafe (a soup kitchen in downtown Newton) and that was fun. There are a lot of crazy people that go there, but it is a fun way to do service in the community. 
We met a Hmong family that goes to our Ward and they gave us a loaf of bread, a box of microwaveable burgers (they actually were really goodπŸ˜‹), and a bunch of Hmong candy, just for stopping by their house! I don't know much about the Hmong culture, but I really like it so far!πŸ˜† Our Ward has a very high concentration of Hmong people, it's pretty neat. 
That night, the Spanish Elders came and spent the night, Elder Najera and Elder Johnson. They are over the whole Hickory Stake, so they cover all over tarnation. Elder Najera is a district leader (not ours), so they come over and spend the night before each district meeting, so he can be close to the stake center (which is conveniently our Ward building😊). So that's a fun little tradition we have. It's kinda cool to see how Elder Johnson has changed. He came out with me.  I really enjoy spending time with him, he's pretty cool now. 
On Wednesday morning, a man in the Ward, Brother Short, came and picked us up and he took us out to breakfast. He took us to a little cafe, it was pretty good, then he dropped us off at the church for district meeting. We had a good district meeting, and then we went on exchange. I went over to Lincolnton with Elder Piutau and Elder Washburn went with Elder Garrett to Newton. Elder Piutau and I biked a good bit and talked with a crazy guy for a while, who was just talking about philosophy and stuff like that, then we had Ward correlation for the Lincolnton Ward and I just sat there. After that, while we were waiting for our ride, we played around the world, and I won...of course. 
The next morning we visited a less active, then went and exchanged back. I really like Elder Piutau, he's a fun guy. On Friday we did some surprise service for a sort of less active lady. We were biking around and she called us and asked us to mow her lawn, so we went in our white shirts and ties and mowed her lawn. I drove the riding lawnmower, Elder Garrett used the push mower and Sister Buff used the weed-whacker. I got pretty good with that riding lawn mower, it was a bunch of fun. I was thinking Elder Garrett and I should start a lawn mowing company called, "The Guys in White Shirts and Ties." We got pretty filthy though so we went home and showered. 
That night Brother Hurley took us out to a place called Western Steer. It is a buffet that focuses on meat. Man that place was good! I stuffed myself with so many delicious meats as well as other things. We got home and we were so full. The next morning we were still feeling some effects from the night before. But we were fine. 
On Saturday we had a Pioneer Day event at the church, at the pavilion outside. We had food and pioneer games, and we were able to get to know the Ward a little better. A bunch of these people are crazy! It's a good crazy though I guess. They make me laugh. The farther away from the big cities you get, the less western transplants there are, and the more southern people there are. 
We were able to find some new investigators this week. We got a referral from the Conover Sisters and we went by and shared a quick message and asked if we could come back. She said we could, so we went back and taught the whole family. Nina is the mom, Chris is the husband, and Elijah is the rambunctious little boy. We had a good lesson with them and they want us back! Hopefully we'll be able to do so! We'll have to see. 
Yesterday was pretty good. Elder Garrett and I did a musical number in sacrament meeting. We performed Choose the Right. I played the piano and he sang. It was pretty good, considering we put it together the day before and practiced just a wee bit. We worked they rest of the day after lunch, and we went to the more ghetto side of town. I played pickup basketball with a bunch of little black kids, it was so fun. 
Well, what is up with this whole Pokemon Go thing? Is it a big thing out west, cause it sho is here. Everywhere you go you see people walking around playing that game, it's crazy. Maybe I'll have to get is when I get back homeπŸ˜‰
Well, looking forward to another scorching, sweaty, full-bike week. Stay cool y'all! Love ya!
Elders Huff & Johnson

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