God works through Jersey Mike's #78
Hallo minsken! hah. shoutout elder miskin i guess, thank you frisian language
welcome back to the semi-half-monthly email of the man who has officially completed a sisters mission 
18 month mark babeyyyyy!!
This week's summary! (for my TLDR folks)
☆ sis hachtel has left the chat 
☆ a really weird heccin day.... but! we found "the girlfriend" at the end of it so that's sweet 
(i want to clarify for my mom and any dating potentials that that is our new friends nickname, not... well, you get what i mean)
☆ yet another young men's activity but the young men is silent once more
☆ GOD WORKS THROUGH JERSEY MIKES CHANGE MY MIND. JERSEY MIKES IS INSPIRED
☆ exchanges with daddy hanks himself
☆ did a become page takeover. that was pretty fun
☆ hiked mount garfield again... yikes. why do i do this to myself
Stories
- our old mission travel coordinator, who's frikin awesome, left the mission. rip. all my peeps from the CDSM, press f to pay respects
- weird. day. weird frikin day bro. started out good, did some service for this one lady. she loves to talk, very interesting lady. extremely sweet tho! we got to work pulling a bunch of weeds n stuff, then we started smelling this weird sulfur smell. like fireworks. after that i got a very uneasy feeling, that we needed to leave immediately. so, we finished up, said goodbye, and got out of there. went to the apt and felt a little safer but still marginally uneasy. we just chilled until we had to go to city market to pick something up for a lesson, where the big uncomfy and uneasy feeling remained still. we got back to the apt, and after talking about it elder owens said we needed to leave, and he didn't feel safe in the apt. so, we went to the church. we both felt a lot safer there, reached out to our mission president and mission nurse about what was going on. presidents advice was to go get mcdonalds, so not much to do there 
the mission nurse couldn't stop laughing after we told her about presidents advice so also not much there either lmao. we just chilled at the church for a bit, eventually did go get mcdonalds, then hit up some visits. by the time we got back to the apt, we had called the pear park elders so they could hear if anything went wrong. it was completely fine tho. we were chillin, i cleared every room with a big hammer. so weird
- did our bible study live again, went well! did mucho backwards writing. i'm getting quite good at it actually! good stuff
- met with bishop, bro johnson, and bro vincent. no youth showed up, i feel bad. they did all that preparation... but! we played tic tac toe spelling bee bible/BoM/D&C stuff. it was mad fun. i uh,,, kinda aced it. poor bishop and my companion vs. me, and uh yeah they got rekt. oh well tho hehe
- cdc was lit, the institute director brother redd showed up and gave an AWESOME training. it was straight gas. he pulled me up and had me read out every. single. plan. ohhh man. the whole zone got to hear about "cereal", "disassociate", and "leggo my eggo". n whatnot. heh.... anyway, it was a great training about how our plans should reflect our genuine values. pretty cool! we also destroyed at the game, got john back in the district again hahaha. i'll let you decide what that might mean.
- JERSEY MIKES. where, i got a good sandwich. then the man who was checking us out asked where our church was at. daaaaaaaang bro! he said he wanted to look into it, we told him the time, gave him a pass along card with our number. told him to call or text us, to which he replied "bet". so, that was cool. HIS NAME IS HERSHEY
- then ate goooood jersey mike. love mike. God works through Jersey Mike's.
- exchanges with elder hanks! one of my favorite people ever. we've become BEST friends. went up to collbran, beautiful drive! man. we had marginally lame times tho. not much success. we eventually went and checked out this lake during our dinner time, since we had nothing better to do. the grossest lake i've ever been to, easily. it was fun tho. slipping in SO much much, trying to avoid the water that was somehow both neon green and neon turquoise at the same time?? gross. there were fish tho i guess... never going there again hahahah. came home, changed, went to boydstuns for service! painted a camping trailer, helped dig a ditch. hanks went sicko mode, never seen a man use a pickaxe more dope-ly (is that a word that makes sense?) in my life. frik yeah
- did a takeover of the story on our mission page Become. it was fun! we even got a few nonmembers on it!! it was awesome:)
- last but not least, we hiked mount garfield again haha. i think this is my fourth time? either way, i was dead. i was so shaky by the bottom. man, it was rough today. still had fun tho, met up with the district afterwards to eat the best peach ice cream i've ever had. mmmmmm
Teaching Updates
- stopped by rhoda's, she said it was perfect timing. her grandson just passed away four days ago, and she wanted missionaries to reach out to her son. AND we shared the scripture in alma 40:23 about the body being perfectly restored, not a hair on it's head lost, etc. which she loved! invited her to read the whole chapter! she's an inactive member, but we only stopped by cuz i made a wrong turn. the Spirit booshes bros. booshes.
- in other events, later that one crazy day, we went and saw dabecc that night. as we were talking and sharing a scripture, a car pulled up and two peeps got out and walked down the driveway holding hands. dabecc said that was her son and his girlfriend. (hence the "the girlfriend" nickname... man that could get weird. oh well) dabecc told us she wasn't letting them inside until they prayed with us haha, but the son was NOT having it. he didn't even look at us and just went inside even tho beckie blocked the door lol. she then however, sat the GIRLFRIEND down and told her to listen to us??? she was very uncomfy at first, but we got to know her and her religious background, and then taught her the whole restoration. gave her a Book of Mormon, for which she was TOTALLY down to read, and then i played them a song on my guitar. it was a good time. God works in very weird ways, once more!
- only other news is that we started teaching the child of Sal n Co. he was very participating for only being 12. it was awesome! this is also the first time we've been able to meet with them consistently. it was awesome! played them another song, which was awesome.
Spotlight
- elder hanks. i frikin love you bro. stay frosty lad
- i will shoutout those who always respond to my emails, since nobody asked for a shoutout last time haha
- my aunt abby:)) i frikin love you. thank you for telling me what's going on in the lives of those who won't hahahaha. looking at you, tyler -.-
- my great-aunt nancy!! i love you so much:) thank you for always loving me and giving me amazing advice!
- my self proclaimed aunt megan! man, lot of aunts today huh? anywho, thanks for supporting me:) love ya!
- my familia. love you all!!!!
- to those i know who read these but don't respond: don't feel bad!!! i love you all!!!!! i know you love me!!! stay fresh, cheese bags:))
My challenges for you
- i've been learning a lot about following the Spirit recently. i've been listening to this AMAZING talk called the "bing talk" (shoutout elder hassard even tho i heard that talk before your email hahah)
the point of it is to follow the first good thought you recieve, and don't let yourself be taken down by logic. God doesn't need logic. He's God!
challenge is to treat every good thought as a spiritual prompting, until proven otherwise:))) if you want the talk let me know!!!!
Every minute, every moment...there was Jesus.
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