Mission Life in the NWP: Week 10. Wanna fight a Tongan?

Ok so here is what happened last week, I know you were all anxiously waiting these three days and now your wait is finally over. A lot more happened but here are some of the highlights:

More Trees - One of the members had a bunch of wood stacking up so we took two hours and helped him with a third of it, afterwards he made us some steaks and it was really good.

Anotha Book - We helped a lady named Vicki (the person I talked about in my last email on tuesday). She just wanted more help cleaning up her garden and we talked for a bit and apparently she is famous and liked us enough to give us her book for free. So now I have been given two books even tho I'm the one supposed to be giving them out.

Hochs - I've probably mentioned them before, but in our last lesson/dinner with them we were talking with them and we found out that Brother Hoch was giving a talk the next Sunday and that he had paid his son $100 to write it for him! It was a really good talk and he did share some personal stories that made it good, but he is just one of those unexpectedly funny guys. so it was really cool to see that and to hear that.

Apple Pie - So yeah that didn't work. I had three people give me recipes and one person told me to not even try making the crust from scratch, so I didn't. I bought the just-add-water and was supposed to stir it until it collected into a ball, but I'm not that patient. So I tried using my hands and ended up ruining the crust so that I wasn't even able to use any of the recipes I got. But Nina took pity on me and now she is going to show me how, so now we can go back and maybe invite her to LightTheWorld with our members and get her involved. So hopefully that'll work.

Where do Liars go? - Sister Hymas texted us and asked us to call and tell her daughter where liars go. Thankfully my Mom had already taught me this so I knew exactly where it was (2 Nephi 9:34). We had time so we called her daughter and said that we had a spiritual prompting to call and share a scripture with her. Once she saw the scripture she knew it was from her mom and couldn't stop laughing. But then she did have a question about Hell so I got to answer that for her, so that was cool and fun.

Thanksgiving Day - We drove to Oak Harbor early and played flag Football in the pouring rain, because it's Washington. It was super fun tho and I think I got 2 touchdowns. I also got smacked in the face when I tried to catch a punted ball and it slipped through my wet fingers. But it was great. Then we had Thanksgiving dinner with our Senior Missionaries which was planned for 12, (dinner at 12?), but we got there late and ate at 2. It was a good dinner and a fun night talking with the district.

Boxing Match with a Tongan - I can neither confirm nor deny if this happened. But if it did, I would have lost terribly.

This week I just wanted to share an analogy that Elder Fuluvaka told me. We are all trying to learn to become like Christ, just like a baby learning to walk. The baby will take a few steps but then stumble and fall. We will all fall short and get sad and it can be really hard to get back up again, but because He is our loving Heavenly Father, He will pick us back up and help us try again. It will take time, it will be hard, but His love will never end, and eventually we will be able to walk and be like Him. I really love that analogy and how we are asked to become like children in Mosiah 3:19. I hope this week we can all become a little more child-like and follow Christ and help Him Light The World. He loves you, I love you, and my dog would love you too. Talk to y'all next week, bye!

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