Week 44

heyooooo! This week was pretty good. Its getting really hot out here, and its hecka dry. The wind is like a blow dryer in your face its a struggle.

Tuesday after d-meet E. Boltz had his departing interview with Pres Hobbs. That was the last time I saw President, he leaves for Idaho tomorrow. Super weird. We get to meet the new president this Thursday though which is cool.

Wednesday we saw the Samasoni's again, they had to cancel on Monday. They didnt have a tonne of time but we shared a quick scripture, then they both told us that they were going to change jobs so they could start coming to church! #blessed

I hope it happens sooner rather than later. We also had a really good lesson with the brother in law of a less-active Samoan member. We read Moroni 10 with him and it went super well, he said he will read and pray.

Thursday.. I dont really remember what happened on thursday haha whoops.

Friday was E. Boltz temple trip so I went into a trio witht he Tongan Elders. Haha we had way to much fun. We took the Subi out for a rip on a dirtbike track haha. But don't worry we still got work done. We saw Shanay and her friend Candice, who was there for our initial contact 4 months ago. Candice said she would come to church with Shanay. (spoiler she didnt 😢)

Saturday was really interesting. We weekly planned because we didnt have time on friday, so we didnt get out until after lunch. Our zone has a goal of being out and walking on Saturdays so we walked 30 minutes to our closest Samoan member, who ended up not being there, and then walking back 30 minutes in 40 degrees! it was sooooo hot.  But after we were done walking and realized all our Samoan members were at the temple or out of town we headed into north Adelanto, (by car now thank goodness) where we had a really interesting experience.

We visited a member who lives in a trailer park, and his trailer is #nasty but we endure to save souls. Anyway I notice a few 'Simply Lemonade' bottles lying around the trailer, lets just say it wasnt lemonade. Then this member asks E. Boltz to fill up his cup with some lemonade from the counter, which in reality was urine. This member took a gulp of it then shouted "no Bueno! Where did you get that?" Then plays it off like he didnt just drink his own pee. haha gross, the hardest part was maintaining my composure until we left then I laughed so hard I cried.

Sunday was interesting as well. A tongan member named Nalgou ate a handful of the sacrament bread and downed 3 cups of the blessed water like shots. Interesting. Then in the middle of the talk he said, rather loudly, "Man this guy is putting me to sleep!" There are other things he did but I'd rather not say what it was haha.

Interesting week. It was a lot of fun though haha.

✌

Elder Ockey