First Monday evening we have a crazy storm. Just pooring rain. Elder Cramer breaks into our apartment and yells for us to come outside. So we all go outside and the 6 of us are playing soccer in the rain in our parking lot. We got pretty soaked pretty quick. It started to flood our parking lot as well. So it's the closest thing we could get to swimming. It was fun!
Tuesday we went to see Michael at McDonalds. Took Sean with us to help teach him. We met Michael's neighbors from Arizona. They were doing a church history tour and stopped by to see Michael. They were super nice. Bought us lunch. During lunch and the conversation there was a fight that broke out between two black girls that were the McDonalds employees. It was pretty crazy! Swearing a ton. The AZ couple was all "does this happen a lot?" It was funny. Yes, yes it does happen a lot. The one girl got dragged outside from their coworkers. They called the cops. But no worries, it's Buffalo so they cops didn't come for another 45 minutes. The girl is chillin' outside fuming on the phone and we can see her right through the window. So naturally Michael took a Book of Mormon out to the girl that was In the fight. She took it! He said that he just said something like "Hey, I can tell you're having a bad day. Read this. It'll help." Crazy! And he got her number. Pretty intense. He'll be good on his mission at street contacting. He's not afraid to talk to random people for sure!
Micheal left to go back to Arizona on Wednesday. It was pretty sad. He called us and he seems to be doing well. He is studying and around some good Mormon friends. He was telling me about a girl he knew that was in a friend group of about 12 really attractive BYU girls. He was saying he was going to hook me up. What a bro!
We also edited our video. We put together a video called "You're Always Welcome" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNgwiW5BhY - That link should work, if not blame our R.S. President. It was just a random activity we came up with for Missionary Activity Night. We just filmed a bunch of random stuff and put it to this song about how You're Always Welcome here. It turned out to be a decent success considering the lack of faith members had in us. It's not my proudest filming project, it was more thrown together. But it was fun! We might end up having to do another one.
We ended up handing out a lot of our "Come Join YSA" flyers that has all our activities. Part of our list of the whole stake that I'm trying to complete before I leave. And make 5,000 copies and give it to the Branch Presidency so that the information doesn't get lost. Ideally it'll be a decent guide for most of the people in the Stake that are YSA aged. We got info on a good amount of people and have left flyers on many-a-door.
The highlight of the week! Well, co-highlight. It ties. Aaron (Second Counselor in the Branch Presidency) and Bro Van Ry (1st Counselor) were just the most amazing people and took us to Texas de Brazil. How can I describe this Heaven? Well, you enter. It's a dimly lit restaurant. We go back to be sat at our table. There we receive this beautiful circular piece of plastic. One side is green. One side is red. We flip it green side up. Magically throughout the rest of the meal, while the green side is up, there is a constant flow of waiters carrying large skewers resembling swords with the most desirable of different types of meat, often wrapped in bacon, imaginable! Elder Whatcott and I ate what felt to be our body weight in the most delicious steak, chicken, lamb, ribs, a bunch of other fancy sounding meat type that I had no idea but I just agreed when the waiters offered it and ate my way to a heavenly state. After the meal we just about had to be rolled out. We had an appointment with Sean afterwards too! I have never been so full in my life! Soooooooooooooo delicious! It's a little pricey too. Aaron and Bro Van Ry are just the bomb.com.
Second co-highlight is the sites. We were able to go with Niall to the sites. Just the three of us. Usually we want a member present but this time it was definitely going to be better for just the three of us. We ended up only having time to do the Joseph Smith Farm and Sacred Grove. Sister McLaren was there to do the Joseph Smith farm tour which helped because she knew Niall from before she got transferred. It also helped because she could be more straight up with him. We went into the Sacred Grove and gave him an opportunity to go off by himself and while we went off and prayed our guts out that he would have a good experience. He definitely did a lot of thinking but... He still has some major concerns. One being polygamy. Especially Joseph Smith's polygamy.
I survived with only one mosquito bite. But it was on my bone of my ankle. So It itches like CRAZY!
Stake Conference was this weekend. We had Elder Perkins from the Quorum of the Seventy. He seemed to be a legit guy. He kept mentioning some of the Apostles like they were homies. Must be weird to be in constant interaction with the Apostles.
Gerald the Recent Convert is having some concerns. Which is super concerning. He's been laying low lately. And Niall is definitely slowing down on progressing. So that has us nervous.
Next week we have zone meeting. We are trying to do a jeopardy to mix it up and make it more interesting for missionaries.
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