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!

 

 

22 February 2021

 

 This week has been fairly cold, but recently, it`s been warming up. At the beginning of the week, we were getting some snow, but now most of it has melted.

We got in contact with a family that has some kids who want to hear the Gospel. Some people we are teaching right now seem very skeptical and like asking a lot of questions. I think the Work has been picking up a little bit here. There are some really nice members that make me wish the "no eating with members" food restriction was lifted.

A family we visited that works with wood gave me and my companion each a Plan of Salvation puzzle teaching tool. It`s kind of neat and I might use it sometime.

We also got to cook a cake from some cake mix we had. It`s a pretty nice cake.

15 February 2021

 This week we got tranfers. I got transferred to another apartment. This one is much bigger, but the things we have to cook with are a little disappointing. No bread pans or muffin tins, and just things lacking a little more all around.

Around here, the Work seems to be a little slower. Maybe I`m just trying to get used to the different way things run around here.

Both me and my companion had leaks in our tires, so we had to go get those fixed. We left our area to go to a mall, which had a bike shop in it.

It was fairly warm, but we got snow again recently. Not too much. It`s not super cold, but not too comfortable.

We have several people we are teaching, but it is difficult to get appointments set up. I think some things around here just run differently.

8 February 2021

 

 This week has been good. Yesterday we got transfer calls, and I am heading to Lakeview in Orem. The area has been pretty good, but I heard that in Orem there is a lot more food available. Here we have to leave our area if we want to go shopping.

We got some snow, but it melted fairly quickly. It`s relatively warm now. We got permission to go outside our zone and got some more Crumbl Cookies. While outside our zone, we also got to visit a really nice bike shop, where I got some help with bike stuff. My companion also got a package from his

There was a house that had several duck decorations dotting the lawn. My companion wanted each of us get a picture of the other holding a duck.

For the Super Bowl, a lot of our meetings canceled. We didn`t do much that night. We did get to meet with some members, though. My companion was hoping to watch some of the Super Bowl at their houses.

We also got to make some nice banana chocolate chip muffins.

Hopefully transfers are good. This one has been pretty nice.

 

 

1 February 2021

 This week has been a little exciting. We have been sharing a lot of messages with members, and one of the people we were teaching got baptized! We are still trying to work with a couple people and their hangups about the Gospel, but it is looking good. While we were biking, we saw a deer by the side of the road, which ran across the street really close to us. It continued to run by us for a couple seconds. I wish I got pictures, but it happened really quickly and I was on a bike. Another time, we were biking, and my companion just directs my attention to some deer. It was a small group hanging out in the street.

Today we got permission to leave our area. We went to Kohl`s and got some clothes and to Crumbl Cookies.

My companion had his birthday this week. It was on Tuesday, and he turned twenty. We made some blueberry muffins that morning, which turned out pretty well.

We have also had a bit of crazy weather. We have had snow sprinkling down lightly for a couple days. It rained, then was followed up with more snow.

That`s most of what happened this week! Got some pictures of some of the stuff: