Week 34.

 This week was exciting and a lot happened so without further ado, the highlights:

Programming - the social media Elders need some help with programming and my companion is beast so we go and help them and I was even able to write some code and help out so it was pretty awesome. 

Miles - Miles is doing awesome! We taught him the plan of salvation and he loved it. Then he came to church for the first time and it was pretty good. I'm so glad that members can help 

Stalkfleet - met with them again and sadly they didn't make it to church. But teaching them is definitely going to help me teach better. 

Rashi - we met again with him on Wednesday and taught the whole Plan of Salvation. He understood all of it and was very involved. We asked him to read some chapters on his own before Friday and ask us questions about it then. Come Friday it didn't happen because of a flat tire. 

Flat tire - anotha one, hopefully new bike soon. Had to cancel our lesson with Rashi that night but then he was like, give me more time to read those scriptures you gave me and that made me so happy. 

Khimani - she was doing so awesome and everything was going well, and then Satan got in the way. Now she's ghosting us, but we are just going to try our best to show that we love her. 

New training thing - so there's this new way of training in the mission field that involves the MTC. It was cool, but the really awesome thing was I got to see and talk to Elder Matt Terry from my high school. So that was legit. 

Mohamad - I might have talked about him before, but at Walmart he stopped us and we had no clue he was the same person until at the end when we asked his name, but it was so funny because he has good questions and believes very similarly but he for some reason doesn't like the commandments too much. But we are going to try and teach him more next week

Hoods - they are a convert family that we were finally able to meet with the Sisters' help. They haven't been to church in a while but I know a man with a 7 passenger van so things are about to change. 

Bishop - had an awesome discussion with him about the Plan of Salvation. He gave a cool way to look at it and also some insight I had never thought of before. I loved it 

When I first thought about the past week I thought it was bad, there were definitely some not good parts, but I love writing these emails because I can look back on the week with my 20/20 hindsight and just see how much God was in the details. In lessons, in our activities, and even in the flat tire. He was with me and I was able to feel joy. This week I even decided to try and count them. I started on Wednesday and so far I'm around 45, although I'm sure I missed a ton. 

2 Nephi 2:25

"Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."

If you feel like your week or your day isn't going well I encourage you to look for those times you feel joy. As you do you can come to realize, as I did, that even through hard times we can still feel joy. Because our Heavenly Father made a plan for us to be happy. And as we focus on that, the bad parts start to slip away and we can make every day a great day. 

I love you all, but not enough to take more pictures  have a great week and don't forget Jesus loves you too!!!

-Cool flower

- cool tree

- my face looks like an emoji

- brownie and oreo milkshake soup for dinner

-District +STLs