I Get My First Door Slammed In My Face!!! 10/7/2019

Chaos of Monday last week. For a Linner we went to Chuck-O-Rama which is a buffet and we ate a bunch. At the end, Elder W remembered that they had for some reason scheduled a dinner appointment for us on Monday which doesn't happen normally. It was in an hour and a half and we were already full. The member took us out to Mexican food and I had to stuff down some food before saying I was full. It was kinda awful. I did get a ton of leftovers though.

Tuesday's highlight was that I found someone who genuinely likes The Last Jedi and Rose. His wife also loved Captain Marvel. I didn't know what to say to those things. It was weird and we were both shocked. We also had burger king and I got a crown (but not a hershey pie unfortunately). We also had district counsel which was good. It's weird how random meetings on your mission are still super spiritual. One miracle that I shared was how we went and met all the bishops in the stake. Then, they called a new stake presidency and the person that was called the new stake president was the bishop that neither I or Elder W had met before the meetings. Because we had met him before his call to be stake president, we were able to have a good meeting about missionary work in the stake with him. We also found 7 people who said no to go to general conference with us before we found someone. Utah is weird.

Wednesday we went and did service at the food bank. We mopped the floors and moved things around. In the evening, we played chair soccer (the classic) and I won 3 or 4 times but burned holes in my socks so I had to throw them away.

Thursday was hilarious. I went on exchanges. I traded Elder W for Elder G for the day. We went and did some service for this old couple that were having health problems. The wife had skin cancer and the husband had 2 knee surgeries and couldn't walk very well. Then we went and pulled carrots out of another family's garden which was fun. When we finished they had us take some produce from their garden and so now I can pretend to eat healthy. We went knocking on doors and ran into a girl named H (see quote below) she looked way older than she was which threw us off. We also met this Brazilian lady who spoke Portuguese. However, we went and got an returned missionary who spoke Portuguese and talked to her (props of being in Utah). For dinner we went and had some Indian food. I forgot what it was called but it was good. For desert we had some yummy hazelnut nutella ferro rocher cheesecake (pictures to come). In the evening we were knocking more doors and we decided to do one more before going back. Elder G gave this big pep talk about how someone in his home ward had been found in the last door before the missionaries went home. We went and knocked and the lady said this isn't a good time and slammed the door. We died laughing after.

Friday we shopvacced up acorns in Maxine's backyard. the amount of acorns we sucked up filled 75% of one of her yard bins. It was ridiculous. We then picked up apples from the ground and the Gs and then they took us to Panda Express. For dinner we ate with R and her family. She served us Filipino food and some Balut which is basically a partially formed duck egg. We ate it and it was pretty good. We then taught her part of the plan of salvation but she started drinking during the lesson so that was interesting. On the way home we were biking back and our bag with leftovers fell and we had to pick that up and then my nametag fell and we had to find it. Then we biked so hard home to try to be back to our apartment that Brother Willis would have been proud. We were still late getting home though.

GENERAL CONFERENCE!!! It was awesome. We picked up Rickson and went there with a member and his wife. We were able to park in the the Handicap parking lot so we parked right there which was great. I saw Elder K there. When we got it, we walked around for a bit and looked at some pictures and sculptures they had. My favorite session was the Women's session. The talks there were amazing. My favorite talk was from Elder Holland (of course) which was about reminding us to focus on Christ. He also had the biggest mic drop ever. We had a lesson with C that went alright. We taught her the law of chastity, tithing and to follow the prophet. The temple announcements and the Young Women's changes were a curveball.

More Conference! It was awesome! We also watched the piano guys face to face and I had forgotten how cringy the face to faces are but it was a good time. For dinner we had spaghetti and it reminded me hardcore of pasta parties because that had really good ceasar salad. Then we stopped by R's house to talk a little bit more about his baptismal plans. We also had a lesson with I who got baptized recently. Our original plan was to have LJ there and teach the restoration but LJ didn't come so we had to come up with a new plan. It took us a little bit into the lesson to figure out what we wanted to talk about. I had an impression to talk about service and then we showed him one of my favorite vidoes called "what shall we give".

Miracle of the Week: We were unable to get in contact with R for 2 days before we were supposed to take him to Conference. We had told him to be ready in the morning but we didn't tell him when. He and his family are late sleepers (like sleep till noon). We went there and knocked on his door at 8:30 with no answer. We knocked again and R answered the door fully ready except for shoes. We were able go!

Quote of the Week: "So do you live here with your kids? I'm 13."

Pictures (hopefully in order):

1. The Conference