crispy duck for the win #70
dumelang batho! welcome back to the semi-half-monthly email of a man who now feels the effect of doing wayyyyy too much service. i am. dead.
unconsecrated songs for the week: heard toxic by brittney spears, AND the one song about the devil and johnny and the fiddles and i forgot what it's called. house of the rising sun? maybe? lit times.
This week's summary! (for my TLDR folks)
☆ sing america song for become live. miracles!
☆ so. much service. so much. big ded.
☆ met President and Sister Floyd in person!
☆ got our trucc bacc
☆ exchanges!
☆ moved someone for 6 hours straight. see what i mean by so much service???
☆ super frikin fun p-day
☆ get crispy duck. then people ask you for Book of Mormons. trust me dude.
Stories
- we did the weekly become live! performed some america hymns and songs, and it went pretty well. although whilst prepping, we forgot the frikin paper that had all my chords and notes on it, so had to go back to the apt. with that, and how we set up so much, we only got to practice for like 15 minutes, which was.... fun! my voice was marginally dead, and i messed up on some of the guitar, but we pulled it off and had a great time!
- after the live, we went to the store to bring flowers and an american flag to brother gustafson since he doesn't really have any family. he loved it! we put the other flag in our window and it was very fun. i just kept screaming america. our neighbor man jeff loved it haha
- channeled my inner monkey. did service for the madsens and took down their entire big white boat cover thingy. frikin lit. swung around on one arm so i could unscrew some stuff, got my hands SUPER white and chalky. their daughter, roxie helped a bunch too, and pips, their dog who previously did NOT like us, liked us! he let us pet him!! cute lil husky. well, not little. but yeah. broke a bunch of poles because i had to rip them out of the ground. ended up just jumping on them from the top of the boat and swinging on them to the ground to where they would snap off. they were just throwing it away so it didn't matter too much, and it was fun! then right at the end, dripping with sweat, it started to rain goooooooood. big lightning too. love it. got soaked. we booshed home, and i literally cleaned the whole apartment, organized all these pamphlets we had all over the stairs. it was frikin epic
- installed a bunch of doorknobs and locks n stuff. it was way frikin fun. just your friendly neighborhood handyman missionary!
- did some service for this awesome member family! shoveled a frik ton of gravel over two different days. and something with a trampoline. stretched all them springs. twas fun tho! ate watermelon and otter pops. good stuff.
- had a mutual activity where we raced and built puzzles. took so long. some other elders walking by even came and joined us. it was pretty fun, just roasting each other the whole time. bishop lined up all the green pieces like army men. frikin hilarious
- ohhh man. got to meet President and Sister Floyd in person! amazing people. we asked them lot's of questions, they asked us some, and i found out their favorite pasta sauces. they dated a very short time before getting married. they're super funny, and insanely loving. just the best.
- went and got PACO BACK WOOHOOOOOOOO i MISSED him. oh man. the shop people unplugged the TIWI so.... uh.... let's just say i'll be plugging it back in probably sometime tonight. heh. hehehe. heheheheheheheheheheheheh don't worry we aren't doing anything illegal
- did some service for this family getting evicted with the stevensons, our senior missionary couple in the ward.
- exchanges with e DeLange! funny thing happened at night, we talked for a min, i forgot like everything he said tho hahahah. remember him sleep talking and me waking up thinking i had forgotten to respond as if we were in a convo. i might've even responded, cuz i sleeptalk sometimes.
- helped lou and dou a bunch tho. elder stevenson and his grandkiddos were there, so was this dude named michael. he was frikin dope. we booshed tho. got SO much frikin stuff done. it was elder delange and i, challenger, the smoker guy, lou, who's 64 and has health issues, and elder stevenson, who's 71. that one speaks for itself. holy moley bro. we filled an ENTIRE full sized moving van ourselves in like,,, 2 hours. challenger was cool, definitely has had a rough life. he's pretty humble now tho. i see good things happening with him.
we loaded up everything, i was the tetris master, well.... we all were. i didn't actually tetris that much, a good amount tho. this lady was there cleaning and she was cool too. dou kept throwing up, poor thing. love them muchomuchomuchooooo. lou kept calling me koby, and is just one of my most favorite human beans i've ever met. love diana too, but man i really connect with louis. dang.
anyway, finished packing the whole truck in 2 hours with basically just 3-4 of us most of the time. no clue how we did it. seriously. no clue. drove over to orchard mesa, just,,, booshin. love not having TIWI. got there and vibed with swoggs and adams for a min cuz the moving trucc got lost.
entered into the new house, there were elm bugs EVERYWHERE. i went vacuum cleaner tracting, first door i knocked on opened up luckily tho. a guy who identified himself as "Healthy Bub" opened the door. wooden cross necklace, open hawaiian shirt, potbelly, oxygen tank. not exactly the ideal definition of "healthy" that we generally picture. but he told me that God told him to call himself that until he became it. the Spirit touched my heart and i felt so much love for this man from God. it was pretty sick! got his number too after talking un piquito about religion:) i then vacuumed up every single elm bug in that house. yuck. i HATE bugs. one of the doors had so many i had to open it in like 5 different waves. they just kept pouring out, literally like in a horror movie. holy moley bro. felt like i was playing a game of zombies. ah man it was frikin rough. fun tho! kinda.... i hate bugs.
loaded everything into the house, went very fast with swoggs, adams, and two other random guys who showed up to help.
so hot. so much work. we finished moving everything, everyone left, and Delange and i just chilled and talked to the sisters for a hot min and ate countless otter pops.
- onto p-day! hiked garfield with the other elders in the district. it was SO HOT. had a good time with those beautiful elders tho. talked, vibed, we all kinda died. way fun!
the elders needed to take some weeds to the desert to dump them legally, so we helped! on the way tho, they got a call from some members who's elderly mother had fallen. so we went and helped hey out, and then booshed to the desert. then it all went down. we flew out there, it was mad fun, then when we were parked and unloading we heard a hissssssssssss. not a snake, but the pear park elders truck's tire frikin leaking air. big time. well, luckily they have a truck, so they had a fairly large spare tire. we then spent the NEXT HOUR trying to figure it out. i've changed plenty of tires before but this one was CONFUSING as FRIK. put our tacoma's tiny jack under their truck, which later fell off of it. man i wasn't with it today. we eventually got it all figured out, and even tho it was hard, hot, and long, it was way fun. we went off-roading and slightly drifting in paco with the not working TIWI to celebrate hehe. very fun. i then decided to be obedient and plugged it back in. the end. sorry these were so long lol
Teaching Updates
- read BoM with bro shed. he was amazed that Joseph Smith was murdered. we read when Nephi yoinks labans head, so that was fun. and when we were moving lou and doo, we couldn't stop by but the fellowship came in CLUTCH and visited with him alone. they became besties. love it!
- tried to stop by this one bromies. he was.... not happy nor interested. just wanted to drop off some lil Jesus pics bro
- this guy, challenger, who helped us move Lou and Doo! got his number and his facebook during the move!!
- got crispy duck. this server lady was there again, she asked for a BoM?? guess we gotta go back and get more sushi.... oh nooooooooooo... miracles tho! we didn't even say anything to her!
Spotlight
- landad! happy birthday:)
- Elders Durrent and Hanks. love u bois so much. best district.
- my lebanon home girl chloe!! been a minute dood:))
- Elder Gustafson!!! also happy birthday:) i love ya:))))
My challenges for you
- not enough time. i'm so sorry this happens so often. kiss someone on the forehead.
Every minute, every moment...there was Jesus.
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