Week 59- Another trio

Hey everyone
Yup, that’s right; I am in a trio again! It’s super exciting. Anyways, I’ll get to that. This week was pretty full of things, especially this weekend. So Tuesday, I went on exchanges with Elder Christensen, which is the last one I have to do for this transfer. It was pretty fun. I went to his area, and we had a good day. He’s on bike, and we had 2 lessons in person. The first was with one of their ward missionaries who met with us outside on his patio which over looks the bay which was pretty cool. He also insisted on feeding us, so we had some pizza which was also pretty good. The craziest thing was that he gave us 21 referals. 21! Our goal as a zone for the month was to get 25 total. Most were part members families but it was still a really cool experience. Then, we biked even further into the reservation about 10 miles in and met with some other members who game us 2 referrals, so 23 in one day.

Elder Mendoza and Elder Castillo came by after that lesson and took us home as it was getting dark, and there we no lights on the reservation. Then we had a quick dinner followed by a lesson and then dropped off some brownies and had to bike another 6 miles or so to do it haha. Good time though.

Wednesday was the normal district council, and then we had some lessons. Thursdays I got to go over a parable with Drew and we had a lesson with Perla and Elian and well… Elian accepted a baptismal date! She is on date to be baptized March 6th. I’m pretty excited about that. Unfortunately, seeing as transfers are next Tuesday I don’t think I’ll be here for it, so I’ll watch it over zoom. Which is tough. But still, it’s not about me, it’s about her and it is exciting to see.

Friday was a little crazy. We got a call from the assistents, Elder Pratt and Elder Herbst and they’re like, “Hey Elders you wouldn’t mind covering all of the branch and getting a 3rd companion would you?” So it turns out Elder Kleven is going back to Mexico February 23rd and was late for his 14 day quarantine by 4 days and they had just found out. So Elder Elison, Elder Kleven, Elder Castillo, and I all went to Mod Pizza to eat together and say goodbye to Elder Kleven.

Funny story when I was paying a member pushed me out of the way and payed for all of us. Like she physically pushed me aside haha. So we ate with them and then the assistants dropped in and took Elder Kleven at 7 from our apt. We found out then that we would probably be together until next transfer even though they had told Elder Elison “a couple days” so he had only bought a couple stuff with him. Well bad news was… Saturday and Sunday we were snowed in. So we couldn’t go get his stuff.

Saturday, we ended up having to walk to Walmart to pick up a headset for Elder Castillo to translate Stake Conference [meeting held twice a year for all members of the Stake. A stake is generally made up of 7 to 12 congregations,] for all 4 sessions (with some other people so not just him). We were luckily able to do it remotely from our apt but yeah that was a 2 hour walk, that we took lunch and our walk times for because it was a needed thing for him to translate. He did a great job though.

Sunday we had Stake Conference from 8-12 because of a special Spanish meeting from 8-9:30. It was fun. Elder Castillo translated and Elder Elison and I turned into Italian pasta-making grandma’s. I had told the district I would make them pasta so while we watched we made some pasta, and it was really good in the end. It took a lot of work and effort but it was also fun. It was surprisingly physically exerting to roll out as much pasta as we did.

After Stake Conference, Elder Glazier, Tolman, Christensen and Mendoza came by and ate it and then left. Elder Hatch and Elder Young were too far away to walk but I dried some pasta and saved a decent bit of the sauce and cheese (some fresh motzerella and riccotta) so we can have them stop by and eat it some day this week. It was a lot of fun and it was crazy to see all that hard work eaten so quick haha. Hand made pasta is worth it in small quantities but maybe not in larger ones, especially when it’s all hand made and you don’t have a roller.

Last night most of our lessons fell through. Though I did have on with Carson on the parable of the talents which was good. Thanks to our lessons falling through though, we did get to make a video to “hype up” the Spanish missionaries. We’re going to be doing a page completion, and so we made a little video that took 2 hours to make that just says how we’re going to beat all other pages, but it’s in a little Lego video. I’ll send it haha. Then today was good we went up to Arlington and got a bit of Elder Elison’s things and then played spikeball and football in the snow. Elder Hatch bought and threw a fish at me for always doing a “dead fish” hit in spikeball. Luckily Elder Elison knows how to filet a fish, and we took it home and cooked it up. It was pretty good. And now I’m siting here typing. Though as soon as I finish I’m gonna get started on cinnamon rolls, because, why not?

Questions –

Any changes on the phases in your mission? Are you still in phase one as a mission. – Unfortunately no

Favorite teaching moment from the week? – Elian being put on date and being excited about it

Share something from your scripture study that you’ve learned this week. – I studied the Pearl of Great Price… Yeah, that was interesting. I definitely have a lot better understanding of why we have it and need it and what it adds, especially in relation to the premortal life.

Last week you dazzled us with pasta homemade cake. Have you tried anything new this week? – I made bread but I forgot to take pictures, and it was gone so quick. It unfortunately was a little more cakey, so this week I bought bread flour, and I have two packets of yeast, so one will go into bread and the other into the cinnamon rolls. We bought steaks, so I’ll probably make it the day we have that.