Week 7

 Pday was pretty lit. We went golfing and I'm a little rusty, but had some nasty iron hits and almost a chip in (it rimmed out). Then we went shopping and thrifting and I got the most fire golf fit so I'm ready in two weeks for the course, I still gotta practice but it's a par 3 course so I thankfully won't need a driver. We also played some volleyball and some people are very uncoordinated but we did chair soccer and that was fun. Then we had Bible study and that was good. We taught it that time and it was about when Jesus and Peter walked on water and we had an old couple we're teaching come and the guy said maybe the water was shallow. 

Next day we had district council which was good then had 3 lessons which was great. One of them was with the old couple who feed a bunch of animals and in the middle of the lesson Elder Tucker goes "do you normally have raccoons on your porch?" And there was one peeking inside the house and we went out there and I tried feeding the deer but it wouldn't eat out of the cup, but it like put it's nose in there so that was cool. There was also a family of raccoons so that was wild.

Next day was exchanges and it was a rough day, not many people answering doors, but we had one lesson with this guy who paints cars and showed us his side hustle project thing so that was cool, but not a lot of people we could talk to. I went on my family tree while Elder Johnson was doing language study though and found someone from 1300 BC so that was cool.

Then it was a normal day that went pretty good. We started our day with service for this one guy that got surgery on his neck and he also talked about getting his lipomas taken out and stuff and how he's awake while they do it, it was gross. But he was funny and we loaded up cut down bushes onto the back of his Ford f-550 that he got for 3 grand, but doesn't have a bed... so we hauled all the wood on the frame and gas tank in the back hoping something wouldn't fall down to the driveshaft but nothing broke or burnt down from his exhaust so that was good. He also had a diesel Porsche cayenne in the garage that gets like 30mpg so that was cool. Oh and he has a 8 wheeler crane. But then we had a lesson at the church with this cool dude that had been stopped teaching cuz he was gone but apparently he just got back from a mission from his church, but admires the young men from our church and kind of like the community around our faith. So that was really cool and he had some deep questions. I think he's gonna come to church, but we won't be at that ward this week. We also met Brian towards the end of our day and I was kinda cooking. I did like the whole first part of the contact and he said he goes to a catholic church at home but hasn't gone to one here so we invited him and he said he'd go and has gone to things with his LDS cousin so shout out to his cousin. We also gave him a BoM so that's fire. 

Then I had exchanges with my roommate Elder Staheli which I was a little worried about cuz I was leading my area too, but it ended up OK. There were some things that he does like weird idk how to explain it, but we made 2 friends so that was cool and im meeting with one of them Saturday with his mom who is interested too so maybe she'll be a friend too hopefully. One thing I sold on was a lesson we had. I was supposed to pull up the bishops voicemail of him bearing his testimony in one of our lessons and I completely forgot so our lessons with members is a little rough. But I think a lot of people might come to church and that's always great. The only sad thing is they're like all from Oak Harbour haha and we're gonna be at south Whidbey so ig we'll see how that goes. We also ran into a Spanish lady that I was able to kind of talk to (I understood like 3 things she said) but it was enough to send her over to the Spanish Elders and give background info.

The next day was good, I had one lesson I wanted to teach but the people were sleeping so we didn't get to teach them. When we went out finding, we talked to quite a few people and they were really nice but none of them were interested except we did find a member who had just moved in and she gave us rice crispy and banana bread so that was hype. The highlight was dinner with the viking family who are the people who don't want their like information anywhere, but it was good food and we played a game then when we tried to teach the lesson the dad just went on about some wild stuff. Some of it was good but then he would go into like masonry I think is what it's called and a lot of viking stuff like Valhalla and reincarnation so that was something. His wife seems super normal so idk what's going on there. But all in all great people and super loving, just a lot of superstitions and interesting beliefs. Also we met with Alex again and he was super happy to see us and felt the spirit when Elder Tucker shared Mosiah 4:9 and that was great and even wanted to try praying after we did a closing prayer. So that was super cool and he was super happy.

Sunday was something. Church was good and idk if we had too many friends at church I think maybe 2. It's hard cuz nobody goes to South Whidbey and we couldn't follow up with like 3 of the people in Oak Harbor cuz we don't have their number.  But I hope they were able to go and if not they better come while we're there so we can talk to them. Knocking in South Whidbey is just sad. Lots of people are not interested in anything and even people we try to go back to just aren't there. It's super discouraging and it's just such a drag. The only thing that was keeping me going is pday tomorrow haha. This week was super good I'm just pretty burnt out and it'll probably only get worse so I guess I'll try to get used to it.