The one where Elder Smith got a buzz cut..../The Cars movie universe is the world Satan wanted #19

July 21, 2021

Hello dhaoine!

Okay, okay, before you scroll down immediately to see the pictures, hear me out. Free haircut from another elder in the district, all he had was buzzers. There's still about an inch on top! Haha.......... okay, now you can scroll and see the pictures, BUT you have to promise to come read the rest of the email after!!

Heres a funny sentence my predictive just typed out: Satan will get you. But ain't that the TRUTH! Don't get discouraged, friends! I love you all, and so does Jesus :))

I recently heard that the name for this apartment we stay in is called "The Bunker". Which makes total sense

It was built in like the 80's, set a little bit below ground level, has a door that is literally just duct taped up because somebody removed all the screws from the hinges, there's a window that's not attached at all, just leaned up against the frame, (so many ways to break in!) and a swamp cooler that brings the temperature down about 25ish degrees tops. With weeks out here that everything is over 100⁰, this is,,,,,, not very fun. And we can't forget the couch that's somehow always just slightly damp. We actually just locked ourselves out about 5 minutes ago, and I went in through the window to grab the keys. It was a little too easy. Hm. Anyways,

So this week we had combined Zone Conference. For all my people who have served/are currently serving missions, this may sound a little weird. Basically, Zone Conference was 3 days long, each day was 2 hours of the actual meeting, and each day was focused on a training for something else. Like facebook for one day, working with members for another, and then training on straight up teaching and how to do it best. It was super fun, because each day a different area of the mission had a bunch of zones combined together. So we had 3 zones of missionaries all together, it was so fun! I saw so many good friends, it was honestly a blast.

You guys know the movie cars, right? What happens to the cars when thwh die?? Do the cars dead bodies get driven to their burial place in a hearse? Aka another "living" car???? DO THEY JUST PUT DEAD BODIES INSIDE OF THEM?????????? How big are their coffins??? Are they big boxes, or shaped like cars? Do they go to a car junkyard for burial? Do they compress the bodies into little cubes?? Is that their version of cremating?? Or do they actually cremate?? Can metal even burn like that? Do viking cars have viking funerals, where they shoot a flaming arrow towards a body on a boat and light the whole thing on fire?? BUT WOULDNT THE BOAT BE ALIVE TOO??????? I need answers. I'm not even gonna start on the fact that since cars have to specifically be built for certain things, that nobody has any freedom. Your destiny is set before you. You have no choice. Unless you had a lot of money, I guess. Cars is the world Satan wanted, change my mind.

Got some sad news. The Fruita building, the one that got burned down? We found out last night that it is not going to be rebuilt. I guess we'll keep driving 20 minutes multiple times a day to the other church.

Not much else to report! Goodbye

~Elder Smitty

Pictures!

1. Metal mailbox man

2. Also metal mailbox man, throwback when I had long hair 🥲🥲

3. The coolest picture I think I've ever taken. The amount of pure swag in this photo is staggering

4. Phrog

5. Also Phrog

6. A good picture.

7. some nerds

8. Smitty and Jorgy reunited