Tuesday, August 30, 2016

May The Force Be With You

I don't know why, but this week I thought a lot about Star Wars. I really miss it... Oh well! Considering right now I am sitting at my study desk and I can see 6 things that are Star Wars, I'm doing okay😄
Things this week went pretty well. Every dinner appointment this week has been out to eat! Joy! We biked a good amount this week, but mostly the very beginning of the week when it wasn't too hot. It finally got down in the 80's for a couple consecutive days this week, so that was nice, but then it warmed up later in the week. I can't wait for the weather to get to what it was like when I first came into the mission, it was perfect! It's coming pretty soon . . . pretty crazy! We served at the Corner Table again this week. I always look forward to that, it's pretty fun. We are going to be there tomorrow as well! Yes! Oh yeah! This week was transfers. We got some new people in the district, in fact, Elder Garret and I are the only companionship in the district that didn't change at all. We've got some pretty interesting missionaries in the district now. What's weird to think is that there are four Elders in the district older than me, and four that are YOUNGER!😱 It's almost as if I'm an old missionary, but I just have to pinch myself and then I realize I've only been out for a couple months...right? 
Friday we had district meeting and interviews and Elder Garrett and I helped clean the church, so we were at the church a long time. 
Saturday morning we went and helped someone move. The people we were moving weren't even there most of the time. It was just us and their older parents doing all the work, and of course, right after we had finished moving all the heavy stuff, the owners came and helped. Oh well, at least we got the opportunity to serve right. Then the dad, Brother Mullis took us to Burger King for lunch. Elder Garrett and I are both trying to stay healthy so he got a veggie burger and I got a grilled chicken sandwich. It's not very easy to eat healthy at fast food, but you can find healthy-Er options. We had dinner with the Winters that night (a family we didn't know, so we were excited to get to go to their home right?), they took us out to a Mexican restaurant! I got a taco salad, I'm doing my best😏.  Yesterday was good. A Hmong sister (we call her Momma Vue) came up to me and gave me a little gift bag. She told me she was sorry she hadn't given me a birthday gift sooner! She gave me a sweet Hmong tie! Now I have a Guatemalan tie and a Hmong tie, pretty exciting! We taught Elders' quorum. We talked about temples. It wasn't that good, but that group is pretty hard to work with. They are a bunch of single depressed guys, Hmongs, or the presidency, every other Elder is either in the young men's or primary. 
We were able to see Lizz last night. We haven't been able to meet with her this week, this week has been pretty tough for her. Her son brought home lice from day care, man she's having a real hard time getting them out of her hair. She was wearing a bag on her head when we talked to her. She hasn't read anymore of the Book of Mormon, but she has been reading out of the children's version with her son. So that's good. Hopefully she'll be able to figure out the whole lice thing. Well, that's about our week, nothing too exciting. Have a great week y'all!

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