Life's an Adventure!

This week was pretty lit and I was able to get in a lot of work! We went golfing on pday at "the challenge" and I was suuuper happy that Elder Stapel lost a bet to me cause he paid and that course was EXPENSIVE. Our zone conference wasn't too crazy. We all did pretty good on the Alma 7:11-13 thing, I barely got out cause I mixed up one of the “wills” with “shall”. I was suuuper bummed when president said I wasn't going to Portugal or Angola:( on top of that, our facebook admins roasted all of us for not making the content they like. Ugh some people are just getting on my nerves in this zone, but it's all good! I went on exchanges and caught a bass, a snake, and an awesome salamander! The salamander sprayed some sticky stuff on me and it turned out to be some acidic defense and it took forever to get it off my skin haha. Life’s a party. I hope that everything is going great over there and I just want to say that the work here has not stopped at all! It may seem slow because nobody wants to answer their phones, but I have had more meaningful contact in one day than I did in Brazil! I have 3 investigators progressing now with many new potentials soon to follow. I know I may seem bummed at times, but in my normal day, I do a lot. I usually get up at 6:30, say my prayers, make some breakfast, read some scripts, have a lil discussion with my comp, get in some service, teach a couple lessons w/ members or investigators over zoom, hang at the church, and end my day with 1 straight hour of gains! Life’s treating me great and I wouldn't trade it for anything else!

The Mercado

Hola! This week was pretty dang full of service! We woke up bright and early on Tuesday morning to go fishing with a family in the ward and all I caught was rain on my clothes, a tree branch, and a fl*ppin turtle that ended up busting my line and half the pole when I tried reeling it in. After that sad fishing trip we started to crack down on the jungle of a yard the Perez family had! It was really hard work and the humidity wasn't helping me at all lol. After calling a bunch of inactive members, we finally decided to put our beds back into the house haha. My back was kiiiiilling me. I decided that I should start to work out and do it while I'm studying the scriptures, so after each chapter, I did 30 sit ups. It worked pretty well, but I think I should just work out separately and just study my scriptures on my own. We got a butt load of rain and all we could do was stay inside and we not able to do any service. So we ended up cleaning the entire church (because we basically trashed the place). On Saturday, we went to the “mercado” in Mebane! We went around with some Spanish speaking missionaries and tried inviting people to watch/attend our english classes that we will be starting on facebook. We had a few good contacts with people and my Spanish wasn’t half bad haha. Something funny that happened was when I started making a contact with some Spanish speakers, and they turned out to be members. Nobody wanted to learn English apparently, but at least I got in some practice! In the end, it really put into perspective how I can go outside of the whole facebook box and talk with some people:) Adios!

Hurricane Isaias?!

Let me tell you man, I want my money back after this weak excuse for a hurricane. My phone wasn't working and I got in trouble for not having called the people in my district to make sure they didn't die. I even had President Henderson call me, so you know it was pretty serious. Ooooof. We haven't done anything too crazy this week. Let me drop some of this week's highlights. First thing would have to be when we gave a CTR ring to Andrea and she replied "this will make an awesome toe ring". Second would have to be when I tried making our district council more fun by playing some Book of Mormon hangman. Lastly, I went on exchanges with my zone leader, Elder Hullenger. We had a party and I showed him some of the cool places in Mebane. I did a butt load of service this week and it felt good helping out the members. I haven't done any Spanish classes because, well, I would need some students first. I also haven't done anything with Portuguese, so sorry about that. Good thing we have had all of this service and stuff to fill our time haha. That's about it for the week so I’ll see you guys later!