Week 61

To whom it may concern,

this week was aight. We had a stop smoking lesson with Jeremy and threw out all his tobacco products. He almost kept his vape pen but we talked him into letting us take it, but he wont let us throw it out so now we have a vape pen in our house and house inspections this friday haha that will be fun.

We had two exchanges this week. Wednesday I stayed here with Elder Tuiha'a. We got some good work done, he is a good biker so its a nice break from having to stop every block and wait for my comp to catch up 😪

Thursday a missionary that went home a while ago took us out to lunch. Its so weird having friends come back, we just talked a lot about boring missionary gossip. That night after dark we were going to a family in the far end of our area and my Cooke totally got lost. I turned off the street and waited a few feet down for him, and it looked like he turned down the road but I guess he didnt haha. I ended up just talking to some random peeps asking for their phone so I could call Cooke. It all ended up okay haha. He blames me though and he got angry when I told him he needs to bike faster. *sigh* I mean I love my companion and I totally tolerate him...........

But then we did exchanges on Saturday with GreenTree, I went over there with Elder Memmott. We tried a lot of people but didnt really get any lessons in. A lot of contact established with formers and potentials though which was good.

We had a primary program on sunday so I totally checked out, not that I dont check out any other sacrament meeting haha. In my defense Elder Bednar did tell us that Sacrament talks are stupid and boring.

The weirdest thing happened yesterday. The sky suddenly got covered in this weird dark fluffy stuff and the sky started to cry! I wonder what that is. I feel like Ive experienced that once before long ago.

Elder Ockey

Week 60

I missed a few things last email...

Okay so Jeremy bore his testimony in church which was super cool. He is a really smart guy he just has a weird though pattern because he fried his brain with heroin and meth. But his testimony was super good. the members kept telling him how inspired they felt because of him.

We found a few wind scorpions INSIDE our house! ug I couldn’t sleep they are so sicky-sick gross ew I hate them. We put one in a jar and cooked it on the stove as punishment.

Man so Wednesday was Elder Laniers birthday and the dinner we went to threw him a surprise party. it was pretty awesome. To bad it poisoned me hardcore and I was throwing up all the next day. Pretty awful. It was msotly just water though because I was sooooooo thirsty. So we were in all day Thursday.

Friday we weekly planned and such, the boring stuff.

Saturday we had a really good lesson with Jeremy, he was super down and by the time we left he seemed way happier. I kept crashin hardcore, I hadnt gotten a lot of sleep from throwing up all night but I was done by Saturday night.

#blessed 🙏🙌

Sunday was chill, our wardmates didnt come to church because elder Gibbons has pinkeye but pretty much all of our investigators came which was sweet. Yadira even brought her bf who is she said was anti so thats cool. He watched the primary practice for their program and it seemed like his heart softened a lot. 

but yea

thats it

love you

Elder Ockey

Week 59

Okay, monday was Columbus Day so all the libraries were closed. The only real important days that occured where Canadian Thanksgiving and Maryns b-day. Happy Birthday!

Well we also didn't have any time yesterday to email and I really dont have time today either. 

So a quick highlight runover...

We did service pretty much every day which was a nice change. We helped some members move, another member paint, a different member we helped load a trailer.

We helped B. Davies weed his yard which is massive, so we took a fence down in the middle and drug a big peice of mesh/fence behind the truck and tore everything up haha. I stood on it and got a ton of sand in my shoes.

We were supposed to have a stop smoking lesson with Jeremy yesterday but it fell through. 

We had some really good teaching appts with Yadira, the lady who came to church randomly. 

not much else honestly. I could go into detail but I got shafted for time, and this keyboard sucks. haha

Elder Ockey

Week 58

Hellllooo.

THis week was kinda long.

Monday was chill though, we went to Dan's house. He is a recent

convert in the Santa Fe ward that pretty much everyone in the desert

knows about because he is a freakin baller. We played horseshoes and

darts, shot some things. It was fun.

Tuesday we biked around the area a bit, trying to find people out and

about. suprise, there wasnt. Our area is pretty dead and it can bear

down pretty hard sometimes. I cant remember if I got a flat on tuesday

or wednesday, but I got one. I just traded tires for the week with a

spare bike in the garage. THere are these crazy devilish little thorns

called goat heads that are freakin e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e aand they stick

in your tire. if you leave them in they plug thier own hole but you

end up with 5-15 of these suckers in your tire.

Wednesday we saw Jeremy. He was doing pretty good. COnsidering all the

problems he has the lesson went really well. We got a solid baptismal

date with him and are going to help him stop smoking... among other

things

Thursday we had to bike to squash for friends because our ride had an

appt. after we got home both of Elder Cookes tires were flat and we

didnt have enough spares to change them out so we walked the rest of

the week. We saw the woman and her kids who came to church on sunday.

We took bro Casino with us, he is super cool, super spiritual guy. THe

lesson went pretty well and bro Casino invited her to watch General

Conference with his family.

Friday... nothing really happened

This weekend was obviously GenConf. It was interesting how most of the

lessons were back to the basics. Missionary work and repentance seemed

like a common theme. I personally have a hard time focusing unless

there are a lot of stories or they are really in-your-face throw down.

I liked Hollands talk in the Priesthood session about how much we suck

at hometeaching haha. Got me kinda pumped to do it back at home.

Have  a good week!

Elder Ockey