We have been living in the other elders apartment for a week now which is okay but I’m glad I’m not getting bit anymore. We move back in on Tuesday so I’m excited so sleep in my own bed.
Tuesday
Today was straight garbage. We woke up at 6 to get the apartment ready for the pest control to come at 8 and heat the apartment up to 140 degrees to kill all the bugs. We took all our clothes from the house and went to the laundry mat and we were there for 2 hours washing and drying clothes. We had zone conference and talked about the importance of inviting others to enter the waters of baptism. We came home after the conference and saw nothing had been touched, we went to the office and they said it was happening next Tuesday!! Our housing coordinator mixed up the dates so now we are living out of our car and hopping around elders apartments so we don’t get bed bugs on our fresh clothes. Definitely has been a struggle these past two weeks with so much happening but I just have to find the joy in hard times.
Wednesday
First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD, LOVE YOU
Today we got ready for our MLC meeting ( Missionary leadership council) by planning out the details with the sisters. We finalized our goals and action steps and headed to the mission office. It was my first one so I was nervous but it was pretty chill. Our zone is not very motivated so we are trying to get them to love missionary work. We had a Q and A with the deacons and they asked us some weird questions. Some kid talked about submarines the whole time. We are still sleeping at the Spanish elders house so it’s been a party with these fools.
Thursday
Today we had to write transfer reports for all the missionaries in the zone. We pretty much talk about how they are doing and if they are dead missionaries or not. We had a lesson where I was bobbing my head because I was so tired and it was a boring lesson. We have our temple trip tomorrow so I’m super excited!
Friday
We had zone council today and it went pretty well. We had the goofiest training by some elders that did it on bike safety. One elder has a bike with an alarm on it so you can’t touch it or it goes off. Afterwards we headed over to the temple with our zone. It was a great experience and I love that I get something new out of it every time. We have exchanges tonight and I’m with Elder Wanlass who was my old companion from my first month in the mission. He’s a homie
Saturday
Exchanges with Elder Wanlass was super chill and it was nice switching it up. We made some nice fried rice together, man is a chef. We tried to contact some many people but it was hard because it’s labor day weekend and a ton of people were gone. We knocked random doors at the end and got the door slammed on us, I haven’t had that in awhile so it felt different this time.
Sunday
It was a solid Sabbath day. We had some good sacraments and I got to bear my testimony in them. It’s funny because I never ever would bear it in sacrament back home but know it’s just second nature. We had some good meetings with our stake and then had a youth devotional at night. The Spanish elders invited us to a dinner and the Chilean family gave us thr hottest pepper I’ve ever had. My mouth was numb.
Spiritual thought:
2 Nephi 27:23
For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith.
We see miracles in our life after our trials of faith. Without faith we can do nothing. God blesses our life when we have faith and trust in him.
Our area right now has been super slow and it’s been hard to find those who are willing to hear our message. In those times faith is the hardest to keep but I know if we put in that effort and have exceeding faith, we can find success even in the hardest areas.
Elder Willis