22 March 2021

 This week has been good. It`s been a little bit stressful, because my Mission President came over and talked to me about a service mission, and it looks like it`s happening. Tomorrow I should be transferred back home to be a service missionary.

The week hasn`t been too busy, but we did get to teach four lessons yesterday. One of them happened over Zoom, I think the family said they were feeling sick. A lot of the people we are teaching seem really open to the message. It`s been pretty nice teaching in this area.

The weather has been really nice through most of the week, I think we got into the 70s one day. We also got snow yesterday. It looks like it melted, but I think the weather around here can get kind of weird.

Me and my companion are celebrating my last full day with some Crumbl Cookies.

I`m not feeling one hundred percent certain about this transfer, but everyone else seems to think it will be good for me. I`m kind of looking forward to returning home, but this mission is a pretty nice mission. I think I`ve enjoyed meeting with some people and some of the mission experience.

15 March 2021

 This week has been okay. We have been doing a good amount of biking trying to talk with members from far parts of the area. Members have been really nice and have offered us some of food that we are now able to accept. We have some really nice, faithful families that we get to teach. There are some others that are really skeptical, but we are trying to work with them.

We got to celebrate Pi Day with a frozen pizza, lemon pie, and peanut butter pie.

One of the member families we have been meeting with has a lot of little puppies running around, so when we go, we have a bunch of puppies trying to get attention and, recently, biting my shoes.

We got to make some homemade bread last week that turned out pretty well.

Not too much else exciting happening. It`s good in Utah, though. A little bit back, we got snow again. We put some meetings over Zoom due to the dark conditions to bike in, with snow and traveling along a major road. It`s been warming up now, though.

 

 

8 March 2021

 

 This week I got into a bit of a bike accident. My compnion`s bike goes down hills a lot faster than mine, so I went too fast around a corner and lost traction. I slid out for a bit, coming out with some scrapes, the biggest one on my knee.

We recently got a referral for a family that seems like they will be really nice to teach. One of them is already reading the Book of Mormon and they seemed really open to hearing about it.

Some of the people we are teaching are a little more difficult to teach. Some of them have a lot of questions about the doctrine, and it can be really hard to answer them. I`m kind of wondering how much interest one of them actually has in joining the Church.

I`m kind of looking forward to this April General Conference. I think the world could use a good couple messages from the General Authorities.

We did get some nice news- we can start accepting food from members! We still can`t eat with members, but they can give us something quick on our way out or drop food off. The covid situation finally looks like its loosening up. We had a Zoom meeting with our Mission President where he explained that some of the rules are loosening up.

Me and my companion made these nice peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. We stopped by Crumbl last week and finished off those cookies, and these new ones remind me a little of the cookies, big and cakey. I think they turned out well.

Well, that`s most of the news for this week. How are things going at home, in Arizona, and the Navy?

 

 

1 March 2021

 This week it was kind of cold at the beginning of the week, but it warmed up. We got a little bit of snow yesterday, but it`s starting to get a bit warmer.

We`re trying to teach some really inquisitive people. They ask a lot of questions. One of them asks some strange deep doctrine questions. Some of the questions are kind of hard to answer because they really aren`t the kind of questions you would consider very much.

We got to head out to Crumbl Cookies again today.

The Work has been going fairly well. We have people to teach, and are still setting up lots of messages with members.

Not too much exciting has happened. We did get to meet with some people from Fishers, Indiana. That is kind of special because most people I meet with hardly know anything about Indiana, much less Fishers.

Not too much else exciting right now. Things are looking better, though!