Week 6

I actually remember most of what happened this week because I wrote it down!

We did some service earlier last week for brother Christianson, we were laying down a bunch of concrete blocks in his backyard. It was super hot but its good to get out of a white shirt and put on some shorts and a t-shirt. But the crazy thing is he offered us some water so we go inside and his counter is just fulled with jars filled with bugs. Straight up was kinda scary, he had some praying mantis' which we have seen around our apt as well, but he also had a bunch of black widows and brown widows. He told us that the pain from a bite is so intense that most people want to die soooo... Pretty much since then I check under my bed for spiders now because they are super common here.

We contacted a referral last Friday (with whom we have a return appointment today) but his son was watching Jurassic Park 2 during our lesson so I pretty much watched that whenever I wasn't talking haha it was the part when the big group of people show up on the island near the beginning. Man the struggle is real, we watch the district for entertainment :(

We volunteer at the food bank every week as well but this time was kind of different because we were there for 4 hours instead of 2, it was super busy and we restocked this fridge with apples and pears and that they said would go bad before they could give them all away so they told us to take some food with us, literally pushing it into our hands, and that's the short and simple story of how we stole food from a food bank.

On Sunday night we met with an investigator who struggles with smoking and we brought a member along named Bro Ledesma who is this super chill old dude. They started talking about working and how much things cost when they were younger, he then said that his got his first job when he was 25 after he was married because, 'no money no honey.' 

Our p-day is today this week because we went to the temple today, its outside of our mission which is kind of annoying because then we cant go as often but it was still sweet. I don't understand why they make us take p-day when we go to the temple because when you get out you can feel the spirit so strongly it would be awesome to teach but we aren't supposed to. 

We had exchanges on Monday which was kind of nice because my comp had started to get on my nerves a bit, I went with our DL Elder Nwobi, lets just say after 24 hours I was more than happy to be back with my assigned companion.

Love Elder Ockey