I have officially been out 15 months now. That is so crazy!
On Tuesday I went on exchanges with my bud, Elder Goodworth, who is the ZL. I went to his area. We had a few good hours of finding in the rain. The highlight of the exchange was meeting with a recent concert. Recent concerts are so cool and always have such an awesome spirit.
Well since last week our effort to get all the addresses into the Google Maps failed miserably, this week we had to enter all the addresses into our area book individually. We entered over 1700 addresses into the area book 1 by 1. Man, that was so boring - a whole 7+ hours of doing that, but it is awesome now that is all done. We can find the Hmong houses super fast now.
The battle with the cockroaches is still raging. We are in a full on war. We have our weapons all over the apartment just in case we see one and if we do see one they are dead pretty fast, well except for this one time when Elder Giddings was messing with one and chopped it in half with a knife and somehow it lived and crawled away. Dang roaches!!! Because of that, we decided we can't mess around anymore so we decided to go to Walmart and upgrade our weapons of war. We got some nice traps that we placed and some spray. And let me say, that spray is the best! No escape for those dang roaches anymore. #instakilled
One of my MTC teachers actually moved to Wisconsin for school. The funny thing is he is now in my ward. It is fun having him here since he served in Wisconsin a few years back. This week he took us 4 Hmong missionaries out to eat. That was a lot of fun.
24 But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things
A lot of bad luck for us the past couple of weeks. It seems like everything isn't going our way at all, but I know things are put in our paths for a reason - even if we don't know why. God wants to help us to learn and grow and I have definitely learned and grown a lot from these obstacles.
Love you all,
Elder Rich
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| Helping Kelly with Farming |
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| And no I didn't actually ride the tractor lol |
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| This was on Halloween. We just got glow in the dark stuff for pics |
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lunch with old MTC teacher, Richard Lee
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