Week 40

May 22, 2017

Hey y'all! I hope everyone is doing great!! Another wonderful week

down here in the Burg. Spartanburg is an awesome place I love it here.

After my email last week it has been brought to my attention that my

emails of stories and updates on cars I see here are actually the

interest of my few readers. So ya I'm just gonna be me and tell y'all

what happened in my week haha. On Wednesday we got our car back which

is great. All y'all missionaries out there who just walk everywhere I

look up to you. Keep it up haha

This week we had Stake Conference so Elder Maynes from the presidency

of the seventy came for it. Saturday night we had the adult session

and he spoke to us and pretty much just dropped some deep doc on us

haha it was sick. I tired to catch him after to ask him some deep

questions haha but our mission president started to talk to me so I

just asked him haha he's a good guy. Sad that he's going home next

transfer. Anyway on sunday we had our investigator Manny there! His

first experience with one of our meetings was two general authorities

speaking so that worked out well haha manny's awesome tho! We saw him

3 times this week!

On Friday we went to the park with manny and played soccer for a bit

then sat down and taught him the Restoration again. He told us how

we're filling in a lot of holes for him so it's way cool to see. On

Saturday he texted us and invited us to the Verizon fair with his

family. We we went into Greenville and to a little fair that Verizon

had for their employees cause his mom works there. We only stayed for

like an hour but got to meet his family and get some free cotton

candy:) so good to see him showing Initiative to meet with us. Keep

him in your prayers y'all!

On Tuesday we had planned to go with our investigator Tim to meet the

Sisters for pizza, then go have a church tour, then we give the sister

blessings for transfers. Well Tim's gf got way sick so he just ended

up not going but giving us money for it...so we ended up at the pizza

place without Tim lol then just gave blessings which was a cool

experience. Kinda weird night but we at least got to see Tim for a

while. We went over on to Tims on Thursday night and told him we were

going to teach him the Restoration and he had to save his questions

and comments to the end cause usually he asks questions that just get

us into super deep stuff that we really don't need to discuss. But we

were able to teach him the Restoration again and it went so well. At

the end I was able to bare my testimony about how there's is no way I

would still be here if I didn't know 100% this was true. Tears were

shed my friends. I love that guy wow. He also called us at midnight

Saturday night for advice with his friends haha he's an awesome guy.

I'll send a pic of him so you can imagine him:)

Well now that I've shared some missionary work I'll share our fun

story for the week:) well having a Hawaiian companion he likes to keep

all the doors open all the time (so do I:) so ya we ended up getting a

mouse in our house. He ate our stuff for a couple days and even

nibbled the crap out of one of my new shirts:( now it's just hipster

cause it's all tattered haha. But anyway we had asked the maintenance

guys and they said they would send the exterminator Tuesday (tomorrow)

but on Friday morning while we were making breakfast we saw it run

under the fridge...so we took up our battle stations. I got my

lacrosse stick, while Elder Dawbarn got the fly swatter and a tupper

ware. We began our standoff by creating a perimeter using towels and

old ties to block off cracks. I then proceeded to dead lift the fridge

so we could attack. After nearly 45 minutes of strategic attempts to

lure him to our grasp, he was able to escape to a narrow hold in the

dishwasher. After taking apart the bottom of the washer, we decided

missionary work is more important. So we set up a barricade of Book of

Mormon's and weights, and decided to head out.  We saw maintenance

dude and told him about our standoff. He ended up just giving us

mouse traps (idk why they didn't do that in the first place) and

within a matter of hours the enemy was eliminated:) what a morning

that was.

Well that was about our week. This week I realized I haven't really

shared my testimony with y'all in a long time. So if y'all don't mind

I would like to do that:)

When I came out on my mission I had what you might call an untested

testimony. I came out because I believed, not because I knew. But I

can tell y'all now that I truly know. I know this is the true church

without question. It has changed my life completely. My thoughts, my

interests, my desires, my nature, all have changed for the better. No

matter how much persecution we face, how many anti dummies tell us

we're wrong, how many trials I face, I never fail to be able to answer

my questions. Like I said earlier, there's no way I would still be out

here if I didn't know this was true. I love being a missionary and I

love y'all:) have a great week everyone!! Keep reading and praying!

Luvs

Acts 7:56

D&C 76:20

John 5:19

Pic 1: Tacos on exchanges last week

Pic 2-3: Last District pic

Pic 4: Pizza with the STL's lol

Pic 5: I crashed:(

Pic 6: G bike

Pic 7: Scoot-or-die

Pic 8-9: Cool waterfall we found biking forms service

Pic 10-11: The Warzone/BOM barricade

Pic 12: Tim (left) and his friend Steve:) funny dudes