Welp, that new car sounds pretty
schnazzy, and I'm glad to hear student teaching has gone so well and that Dad
had a great birthday. I'm jealous that you got to see Into the Woods, and the
second half is what's supposed to make it so great because it shows that happy
endings are a bunch of hippy-dippy baloney. The rumor, though, is that the
Disney movie is being sanitized a fair bit, but Steven Sondheim says that's not
true. Who knows?
This was a pretty good week. I don't
have my planner on me right now, so I don't have that to flip through and
remember everything we did, but some interesting stuff definitely happened.
Tuesday was our zone temple trip in
Snowflake, so that was fun. I didn't think temples came that small though.
In St. Johns, the most intense food
challenge here is the triple grande burrito at El Cupido's. On Wednesday at
district meeting, we were asked to write down 8 goals we wanted to accomplish
before the end of our mission, so of course, I wrote, "Eat a triple grande
at El Cupido's." And the other guys in the district were all like,
"Well, we can cross that one off today."
So for lunch, we headed over to El
Cupe's and I ordered a triple grande "Big Jake". Steak, beans, rice,
cheese, and a jalapeno cream cheese sauce. The thing came out and it was as
long as my arm. I put it all down and only dry heaved once in the process. I've
never eaten so much of one thing in one sitting, and I was full for the entire
rest of the day. It was truly a tender mercy when our dinner appointment forgot
we were coming and just ordered us a pizza that we could take home, because
then I didn't have to eat any!
That night, I slept over with the
Concho elders because Elder Denham had to go on exchanges with the Spanish
speaking elders. I guess I haven't cleared this up, but Elder Denham and I
cover three wards in St. Johns. The Spanish speaking elders cover the other 2
wards (and live in the same house as us), and then there are 2 elders in Concho
(St. Johns' Levan). My day with the Concho elders consisted of helping an
investigator put together a hot rod he's building, visiting Concho's one and
only restaurant which is super ghetto and kinda disgusting, taking a nap that
accidentally went too long, helping an investigator bury her dead dog, and
eating dinner with a lady that gave extremely high praises to the movie, God's
Not Dead. So yeah, Concho's interesting.
On Friday night, we went to a St.
Johns High School football game, because the whole town goes to those. That
brought a whole flood of high school memories and weird emotions. Yikes.
We got to go the Snowflake temple
again on Saturday for another recent convert of Elder Denham's. So that makes
our 3rd temple trip in less than a month when most missionaries only go once
every 3 months. Then we finally got to teach Louie Quirroz a lesson (Louie's
that guy we did service for out in the middle of nowhere my first weekend here)
. We taught him the restoration, and you could just tell this guy's been
prepared like crazy for this. Even still, when I asked him to be baptized and
he said yes, my mind went blank because everyone else so far has said no or has
had something holding them back. My stun of silence sure was awkward, but we
set a tentative date for September 13th, the day before Elder Denham goes home!
So we're really hoping that pulls through. Then Louie made burgers out of elk
meat and Jimmy Dean sausage with onion and garlic mixed in, and those were
definitely the most delicious things I've had so far on my mission.
Yesterday, Madea fasted with us to
receive an answer as to whether or not she should be baptized. We'll hear how
that went for her tomorrow night.
And today, we went golfing with a
member in Snowflake! Like an actual 9 hole course and everything. It being my
first time golfing, I sucked like crazy. But I had fun, and we're going
again next week for Elder Denham's last P-Day.
So yeah. Love you all. As Brigham
told me this week, the church is gnu. I'm not sure what that means, but
whatever.
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