Week 11

I'll jump right into this week because I am running out of ideas for introductions!

Monday after we emailed we went to the chiropractor who is a counselor in the YSA ward. E. Jennings has had back pain for a while so he got his back all cracked and such and his neck as well. Then Bro Francis (the chiropractor) asked me if I wanted to have it done so I figured why not. IT was super weird, there was one point where it felt like he was gonna snap my neck but it just made a really loud pop. It felt soooo good after though. 

Tuesday we met a LA family for lunch in hopes of teaching them an FHE lesson as well but it ended up just being a meal so that was funny. But they are the ones with the little kid named Bup and he was all over the place crazy it was hilarious. There was one point where he stole my sunglasses and said they made everything look green, his dad was all like, "you color blind aint nothing green!" haha classic. We taught the second last lesson to an investigator that day as well, her baptism date is for the 21st so that good.

Wednesday was pretty basic teaching wise, we visited a lot of LA's in the family ward. On our way to one address a chihuahua ran out into the road and we heard the owner scream super loud (we had our windows open) and we just burst out laughing. I promise the dog is okay though.

Our Thursday was crazy busy, we met with pretty much every single one of our progressing investigators so we had continuous lessons from 2:30 until 8:00 so we were super hungry afterward. President Chase, who is the president of the YSA branch, is the best flippin missionary I've met. He came with us to our 7-8 lesson and pretty much taught the whole thing. He pulls people aside every time we bring them to church (less active or investigator) and puts them on the spot its awesome.

Friday was super uneventful because of weekly planning, but we were able to meet with a few more people than we usually do on Fridays, nothing super exciting happened though.

Saturday was probably the worse day we have had so far. At least in the morning/afternoon because we had service (that part wasn't bad) helping a family move, and they actually had everything boxed up! #blessed. but then we had to try to rush to organize a ride to get an investigator to a baptism so they could see what they are like because the ride wee had cancelled. Long story short we spent3 hours calling and stopping at peoples housees begging for rides and we never got one. We ended up just showing her a video on baptism at her house instead... sigh... But the late evening/night was awesome! first of all we had a different investigator attend a different baptism, and on out way into the building we saw a meteor that qwas crazy bright white light that exploded into a green haze which was probably one of the coolest things I have ever seen. And then the baptism was awesome but it was in spanish so I didnt understand any of it and the font was filled up to high so water spilled everywhere. Our investigator loved it though and they committed to a baptismal date! but its in January... we are gonna work on that tomorrow.

Sunday was basic, every sunday is fast sunday for us because we go there at 8 and we get out around 4, but then we have a dinner at 5 so we go another hour without eating. the struggle is real. For priesthood though we had a branch counselor teach (not Bro Francis) but he was kinda crazy like, "buy food storage with cash so the government cant trace it," and, "THe US government is building concentration camps." Super weird, I think the lesson was supposed to be on the word of wisdom. We all got a good laugh in though which was nice.

Elder Ockey