Transferred

Well turns out that it's actually Fort Smith Arkansas that I got transferred to haha. Doesn't matter really because I love it here. 

     It was sad saying goodbye to Elder Johnson but Elder Funk is the man. He was reassigned from Sierra Leone Africa and his language is so funny. We are in a quad and have tons of fun. 

     The service here is pretty intense. A lot of yard work and moving trees that have fallen down for people. Our Zone leaders are super nice guys and Spanish speakers. We have 6 Elders covering this one Fort Smith area. There are 800 inactives here so we have a ton of work to do :) 

      Just been embracing the sickness a little more haha. No point in trying to fight it! I'm extremely grateful for this opportunity and everything that its taught me so far. We talked a lot about the tools God gives us to bring to pass his will. Moses and his staff, Lehi and his Liahona, Joseph Smith and the interpreters, and us currently with our phones. We have so much capability to do good things and weve been seeing it with all the people we can connect to. This lady we talked with said she was losing faith in there being anymore good people in the world, then she saw our ad for service and all the members that came to move this massive tree and said how grateful she was that the worlds not all bad. We choose to be the bad or the good in the world :) love you all, have a great week!

Quarantine Week

  We are still quarantined! I'm going insane I think haha. But we should have results real soon here. They've had a huge overload in tests in the labs so it's taking 10 or more days to get results.

    We worked really hard this week. It turned out to be a blessing for us. We both are getting transferred out of these wards while other companionships are absorbing them into their wards. We were able to get a lot of things set up for them so that it was a smoother transition as well as really clean the apartment well. 

   To pass time when we had free time we tied things to the end of our fishing rod and cast them from our second story apartment. It was super entertaining haha. Life of a quarantined missionary. It was all fun and games until I got tangled on the power lines. Study got really intense too haha. The Bible can be kind of tricky but if you go to Gospel Library and look at the institute teacher manuals they can talk you through a lot of it which is extremely helpful. 

     I'm pretty sad to be leaving my dad of the mission. Hes a total goon that's pretty different from me who loves talking about getting married and wearing his suit non stop even on P days. But weve grown really close and I've learned so much from him about obedience and what missionary work really means. People tend to go out on missions with a whole bunch of fantasies of what there mission is going to be. So far my mission hasnt lived up to a single one of mine haha. But I have learned to endure, have patience, and understand why it is so important to love one another. Although I didnt want this experience of a Corona Virus restricted mission I am forever grateful for what I've been learning and what I will continue to learn. 

     I'm sorry I dont have much to say this week haha. Hopefully in Fortsmith Missouri I'll get out a little more :) love you all have an amazing week.

Sister Dorton wrote us a song and made an album cover for it that was pretty sweet 

A picture I really like

Busy Week :)

We had a solid week! Ended rough but over all solid. I'm sorry if service is getting boring but that's all I got. 

     Tuesday we woke up early and cleared out a whole dance studio with 9 missionaries, it was awesome she was just giving us whatever we wanted really with cases of Gatorade and Body Armors to take home along with an inflatable chair thing. Some other missionaries scored a Justin Timberlake poster that was pretty sweet but I felt pretty good about it. She was a super nice lady and loads of people came to help her out. We went and grabbed some Buffalo Wild Wings after it all thanks to half off Tuesday and ate them at a pavilion. Just some solid bonding time. Nothing brings Elders closer than some wings. Lol. 

      Thursday we helped out with putting up lockers for the riders at horses for healing. They were to hold their saddles and gear. It was really funny because they eyeballed everything so everything was kind of screwy and uneven haha. We also had to fix one of the mowers and sharpen up the blades on it. The workers all play the best music and it's nothing bad so I just soak it all in haha. It has been insanely hot. They sent us home from service when they said it was 105 degrees out. We were all for heading home early. 

      Saturday was a different day for sure haha. We went and bought some pop it's to celebrate with because it's the fourth. Then we went to service and filled in a sink hole with rocks on the side of this house. There were these baby snakes everywhere so we caught a bunch which was way fun. The guy that we were helping out was insanely nice and was cracking some classic jokes. Never sweat so much in my life it's seriously nasty. Later that day we went to grab dinner from a family because we haven't been able to eat In homes, when we went there one of her daughters boyfriends was there who was a full blown satanist. He was a nice guy but very off. He was decked out in leather and had a pentagram necklace so naturally we started asking him boat loads of questions. He told us all about how they kiss snakes, speak in tongues, write in their own blood, drink snake venom in a diluted form. He wasn't exactly a picture of health. He was playing with his piercings through his shirt and I couldnt help smile. We spent our night playing tag with pop its. About as crazy as it gets as a missionary on the fourth. 

     Sunday was full of meetings with the Stake presidency. I just get to kind of stay busy while Elder Johnson talks with them. Its just endless amounts of time on zoom. Then to our surprise a family that we interacted with let us know they tested positive for the Corona Virus. Not good. We are not allowed to leave our apartment for two weeks now. We went and got tested but havent recieved our results so hopefully we wont be stuck inside for the full two weeks. They really ram those q tips up your nose though, it's no joke. They scratched my brain for sure. Looks like I'm about to get crazy at knitting lol. 

      Meeting that satanist really opened up my eyes to the opposites in this world. Here this guy is, spending all of his money to be a member of a church that makes him cut himself and drink venom that makes his stomach hurt. Shaking like a leaf even after he roasted two cigarettes in front of us, cuts all over his arms so he can draw on his walls with his own blood. Just immensely lost. It made me so sad and made me realize how many people need help. He was raised a satanist and that's all his normal. It can be extremely hard to follow the Gospel sometimes, but I dont think it could get any harder living without it. Love you all have an amazing week:) please send me emails through the week so I dont go insane! I wont be able to respond but I will read them!

Wings with the Elders

Juan under the mower

Polly Cutting up Wood

Shy Snake

4th Celebration