Rodge and Stodge #60

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGHHHGGHGHGHGHGHG! welcome back to the semi-half-monthly email of the elder who is, (and im finna gloat JUST a little bit here) the KING of cleaning out all the random crap missionaries have never cleaned in ages. asbestos? bring it on. dead flies on the windowsill decaying for who knows how long? challenge accepted! kitchen cabinets that look like they'd make a hoarder faint? y'all ready KNOW i'm on it. nah but fr i literally just vacuumed out our actual swamp cooler. (videographic evidence in photos link). thank you for making me this way, mom! (i'll leave it up to y'all to decide if there's any sarcasm in that sentence or not;))

today's unconsecrated song is saturday sun by vance joy! heard in qdoba.

other honorable mentions from chillin in supercuts:

got rickrolled

beat it, michael jackson

take on me, aha

FOOTLOOSE ahhhh i love and miss it. that's my song right there.

we didn't start the fire! y'all know i LOVE billy joel

i'm still standing by i forgot mission veil been on too long


🌴This week's summary!🌴 (for my TLDR folks)

 tortilla runs to the district

☆ accidentally trespassed

☆ listened to two drunk guys GUSH about how much they loved each other. went to bed, and they were STILL doing it at like 4am.

☆ taxidermy

☆ got to chop wood with an axe, is that allowed?

☆ dapped up a cat

☆ more lit service

☆ four BABY baby kittens

☆ therapized an 11 year old with NO premonition

☆ pray for Justin, please

☆ thrifting, twinning with Hna Holt, apples to apples, (i am odd, curved, and bright ðŸ‘€), and mafia!

☆ found a spotlight and MANY secret rooms in this dope really old church building

🌈Stories🤌

- so, i don't really have a whole lot of time, these stories gon have to be pretty short. most of em are self explanatory tho hahaha

- took tortillas to the district! fun time, got to know em all better, and where they all live. let the pranks begin >:)

- walked into what we thought was the backyard of someone we're teaching, it.... was not. we got out of there, went back to the other side, and found a BUNCH of no trespassing signs. only thing is, that their back fence... was demolished. completely open. idek why they have those signs there's nothing stopping anyone. other than the.... signs.... i guess....

- drunk guy story is pretty self explanatory. no homo, just bros.

- got showed MANY taxidermy animals. and held some skulls. it was so much fun

- chopped wood with an axe! it's not a power tool, so therefore, is it allowed? hmmmmmm

- we walked into our lesson with the m's, and the mom literally just showed us to her bawling 11 year old son and had us deal with him. we did tho! he's a legend for reallllll

- our boy justin... not vibing. got some people telling him awful things, leading him to be in much pain. please please pray for him

- lit district activity! found some dope shoes that fit, ended up twinning with hna holt which was epic, played mafia and i was the moderator or narrator or whatever and i came up with some awesome stories, usually involving poisonous bread. super fun.

- secret rooms in the church? theatre spotlights????? say less! gotta love it

♥️Teaching Updates♥️

 - Miner! seeing him change has been AMAZING. he has gone from no baptism, no church, nothing. to wanting to start to come to church, to talk to his wife about baptism, and to do what he needs to. crazy. so crazy. not only that, but we brought our recent convert paul to share his conversion story with him and it was AMAZING. Miner now believes in heaven, so that's at least best case!

- NOBODY STILL CAME TO CHURCH. WHAT THE HECK. hmnrg. AND all our other lessons fell through. ah man. you have good weeks, and bad weeks. but hey, this is all best case still. Elder Gustafson and i worked out BOOTIES off and we feel very satisfied. it was still amazing

- Stans. poor guy. we had a super long phone call with this guy, we invited him to read the Book of Mormon, just like 1 verse a day. and every time he said no. excuse after excuse after excuse. poor homie just can't commit. we've had to drop a lot of old people this past week, he may be next. God has timing for everyone tho, right?

- this cool legend the climber literally took us around to ALL of his neighbors to introduce us. so fun. too many people speak spanish tho. and i, do not. hm.

☀️Spotlight☀️

-Elder Jardman. you are one of my most favorite human beans on this planet. holy moly bro, i watched you in elder puppets video and i got so excited. lets heccin go.

- Elder McLelland! happy birthday bro!

- Sister Kate Barker! also happy birthday!

- Elder Adam Mcmullin! also, take a guess, happy birthday!

🔥My challenges for you🔥

- i've seen QUITE a bit of unkindness here recently. towards myself and others. please, find a way to be kind to those around. even when you may not want to. choose to do that, please.

- from my little brother: don't flunk your classes

- from my other little brother: get swole

⚓Every minute, every moment...there was Jesus.⚓

- reflect not only on the character of Christ, but reflect Christ!

Alma 5:14 ~
"And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?"

there's this really cool thing that you do with silver. now i heard this in a talk once, so i'll proooooooobably butcher it but hey here goes! basically, when you cook silver, you cook out allllll the impurities until you can see your reflection in it. that's what God does for us!! but, we need to get cookin. we need to get the impurities all removed. trials do this pretty good, but we can try ourselves too!

📖 Foundation of Faith in Christ scriptures ðŸ“–

1 Nephi 13:12 ~ God inspired people to colonize America, through His spirit. how cool is that??

- 1 Nephi 13:18&19 ~ God was on America's side. delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all nations

- 1 Nephi 13:20-25 ~ the Bible is true. it was ALL the way true when it first proceeded forth tho

- 1 Nephi 13:29 ~  plainness which is in the Lamb of God, which has been taken away...

- 1 Nephi 13:32 ~  God will not leave us in blindness, especially when others persuade us to continue forward with our eyes closed

- 1 Nephi 13:34 ~ He will be merciful to us in these days, (rn), and He will bring forth His own plain and precious parts of the gospel (BoM):)

- 1 Nephi 13:35&36 ~ BoM shall be written, and in it shall be written His gospel, His rock, and His salvation

- 1 Nephi 13:37 ~ blessed are they that SEEK to bring forth zion (missionaries? ðŸ‘€) they have the gift and power of the Holy Ghost. those who publish peace and tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be


                    Hymn #191

Behold the great Redeemer die,

A broken law to satisfy.

He dies a sacrifice for sin,He dies a sacrifice for sin,

That man may live and glory win.

While guilty men his pains deride,

They pierced his hands and feet and side;

And with insulting scoffs and scorns,

And with insulting scoffs and scorns,

They crown his head with plaited thorns.

Although in agony he hung,

No murmuring word escaped his tongue.

His high commission to fulfill,

His high commission to fulfill,

He magnified his Father’s will.

“Father, from me remove this cup.

Yet, if thou wilt, I’ll drink it up.

I’ve done the work thou gavest me,

I’ve done the work thou gavest me;

Receive my spirit unto thee.”


rodge and stodge are me and my comps gangster names, btw. go check out his new video on fb! it's lit, you won't be disappointed. 


Ci Vediamo! mucho love to u all! ðŸ¤Ÿ♥️

- elder kobert


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