Week 57

Hello hello!

So this last week was probably our best week for teaching this transfer. Also transfers happened today. I stayed in Mojave River and I got Elder Cooke as a comp. I served around him in Ontario and in VIctorville so I have known him for a while. Should be a lot of fun.

A few worth while/entertaining things happened last week while teaching which was nice. This one guy who we had stopped by before but was never home finally was present. We talked to him for a while and had a good talk about baptism and priesthood authority. His philosophy was that if he got baptized into every single religion then he would eventually hit the mark on one of them haha. We told him that there was a much easier way to do it and told him to pray about the Book of Mormon.

Crazy thing happened. A family moved in to the house across the street from Bishop and they are a part-member/less-active family. the real crazy thing is he approuached bishop and asked for us to come over! super legit. We have stopped by with our EQP and talked with them. Sadly they didnt make it to church but we will keep going over.

I heard a super awful punny joke this week.

A termite that has no teeth goes into a pub. He goes to the waiter and asks, "is the bartender here?"  is the bar....tender here...... wow

At church a family that nobody knew came. they told us after sacrament that they just had the feeling that they needed to become mormon. pretty cool, we have a lesson set up with them for thursday. the problem is they arent married....

but yea,

Elder Ockey

Week 56

What up my peeps!?

SO this week was pretty slow again in terms of teaching, but its mostly because we had 1093149081 meetings and I wanted to die they were all so long. well not really that many but enough to take up 3 full days.

Elder DUbe came to the mission. he is in the quorom of the seventy. also sort of on topic, dang! general conference is so close! But anyway he was really funny actually, telling us stories about the 12 and such.  we did a lot of role plays... I despise roleplays, though I admit they can be useful. I remember actually a few of my questions were answered, but sorry I dont really remember.

We went on exchanges this week. I went into GreenTree with elder Reese and Tuiha'a. Super weird being in a trio. We didnt really do much. THey are both pretty run down from their other comp who makes them bike everywhere in their car area. I was super tempted to talk them into visiting a few Samoans haha there are a bunch in their boundaries that are super cool. 

Man I gotta move on. 

Well temple trip on thursday. Also found out that there will be a 5 week transfer... to be immediately followed by another 7 week transfer......

PCE Fam,

Elder Ockey

Week 55

What up fam!

This week was pretty basic teaching wise. Sorry just in a bike area full of old people. We honestly only see like 3 people actually outside their house every day, and they are usually super crabby.

We had to drop one of our investigators, they were falling behind on their rent so they started selling their prescription morphine to hoodrats. So... thats a thing.

Boltz and Shaffer came back through the mission which was cool. They took Waters and I to dinner. Waters was Boltz' comp right before me. Visits from dead missionaries trunk me out more than visits from fam and friends

Friday we went ultra chaffa. Sumshady and Jarvis from VV came with us to lunch. THen we 'weekly planned' then we went to bro Davies. Haha I feel bad for wasting the day but it was a lot of fun at the same time.

Saturday and Thursday are the days we killed it, well at least for a bike area. We got a lot of lessons and a few new gators but nothing to exciting.

Well thats actually pretty much it. Good week, coulda had more exciting stuff happen though.

Elder Ockey

Week 54

Bonjouro!

This week was pretty fun. I cannot say it enough how weird it still is for me to only be in one ward, the work is a lot slower and you have a lot of spare time to contact or... tract (wah wahhhh)

Fear not, for though my emails me be short and bland it is not because I am bored or depressed or anything. Its because everyone in this area is soooo boring to write about! or its so absurd I cant even put it into words. But I am enjoying myself. Just not a lot to write. Also I misplaced my planner so I dont remember anything from this last week. Ill make up for it in pics!

We were going to sleep on the roof one night but E. Olsen wussied out. So we all went back inside to sleep... around midnight haha.

Nothing exciting in terms of teaching happened. Maybe this week.

We do service for a farm called "Squash 4 Friends" and they let us take produce home. so we took a bunch of armenian cucumbers. Hopefully Elder Badoni will send the picture sometime today. We got a lot. And they are all massive.

I killed a crow with a pellet gun. Gross.

And pictures from burning our shirts a while ago for our year mark.

Week 53

Hey! sorry I took a few pics but I left the camera at home. soooo. you will have them soonish.

Monday we didnt do a whole lot. Our zone is super small and everyone just wants to play dungeons and dragons so we ditch Waters' comp with those nerds and we veg at home and play cards or shoot things. okay to be clear because its probably confusing. Elder Waters and Elder Olsen are our house mates. Elder Gibbons and Elder Lanier are our ward mates. so yea. But we bought some pellet guns can shoot at crows and squirrels when we get bored. I killed a crow but the pic is on my cam. sorry fam.

Tuesday was pretty basic. The house-mates are ultra low on miles so they couldnt drop us off at home right away. its kinda sucked. because of that we didnt get a lot of work done.

Wednesday was our best day of the week. We went to a part-member/less-active fam and talked with them. Blake was just ordained a deacon and his friend was at his house, he said he wanted to learn more and come to church! it was pretty sick. (spoiler, he didnt come to church)  We saw quite a few other people though.

Thursday we totally got shafted and had to fill in for another companionship and do service. Its fun to do service but we had a good morning planned.

*sigh* anyway, we had an effective rest of the day in terms of biking a butt-load and seeing nobody. not so effective in terms of people letting us in.

Friday was hump day! whoooo! Elder Waters came out at the same time as me so we both burned a shirt friday night, as per tradition.  Other than that we weekly planned and saw Bro Davies.

Saturday was pretty good. We took our WML with us to a few lessons that went fairly well. We saw Jeremy and I feel like I should go a little more in depth about his whole situation but that would be a long email about schizophrenics and murder threats to his family. You just gotta know that he says crazy dark stuff and you dont know if you should laugh or call the cops. but he comes to church so thats cool.

Sunday was chill. Bro Spilsbury (PM fam from wednesday) came to church but that was it in terms of gators. Dinner was good, they said if we swing by later this week they will give us a bunch of stuff from their garden. Score! lower my p-day costs haha.

but yea fam... thats about it. Still super weird transition from covering two wards at a time for a year to... this haha. its awesome though.

Elder Ockey