Week 90. The week that almost didn't happen

 Hi! Sorry about it, but I hope you're ready for 2 emails in a row because I slacked on getting this out sooner. Some weeks are just awesome and writing takes a lot longer... and I procrastinate. Wups. But I told my Mom I'd write every week. I think it's up to interpretation if that means once a week or just writing about every week.  love ya Mom!

Exchanges - I took Elder Suchomel with me and within the first hour he twisted his ankle in basketball. Which meant we couldn't run the next morning. Big sad. But the next day was one of the best ever. We had a great study together and some great lessons that day. My favorite was reading 3 Nephi 27 with Riley... and Azalee, Kat, and Ethan, who had all stayed from our last lesson. We went through groups of verses and just talked about them and the principles from it. It was the best. Give it a study

Wednesday Dinner - was pretty normal as usual. It was pasta. The funny thing that happened was when I tried sitting next to these 2 new guys. As soon as I turned my back to get a water, they got up and moved. Kinda sad but it was okay, because afterwards Jonathan from Columbia, decided to sit in on our lesson. He's still learning English but everyone else in our class knew Spanish. A tender mercy. 

Ocean - this story has been slightly modified to make the telling of it easier:

We were talking to Azalee about her baptism, when out of nowhere Kayla spoke up and said, "wouldn't it be cool if you got baptized in the ocean?" Azalee thought that was a great idea. So for the next week and a half or so, we called Bishop and President, got permission, let everyone know we lied to them when we said it was at the Stake Center, scouted out potential beaches until we found a good one, and had to reorganize everything else. That was fun, mostly hectic, but it's honestly going to be awesome 

Cookies - the first time I do cookies on campus with Niven and the oddest stuff happens. We got out 2 hrs late because the first batch of cookies got messed up, Azalee and Ethan came with us which was cool, and some odd people came up to talk with us. We had a Pastor from another church, he tried telling us that there was 1 God. We had a guy with a banner that said 'Repent or go to Hell' on it. He tried bashing (arguing) with us, but we weren't giving him anything. He tried saying we were brainwashed as kids, my comp is a convert of 3 years and the dudes argument fell apart. Then he brought up some scriptures that he thought would shake our faith, and I simply said, "yes, I believe in that scripture and I still believe in what I believe." He tried talking to us more but eventually left. Nobody came up while he was there but a lot took pictures. 

Then this dude who believed in astrology came up right after, talked for a bit, then ran, stole the dude's banner, and took off. It was insane. We actually ended off great tho talking with a couple Christians who wanted a Book of Mormon to look into the Church and see what it was about because they thought we were good Christians. It was a cool miracle. 

Costco - the best place for members to buy missionaries lunch because it's so cheap. It was a blast talking with the guys: Mitch, Mckay, Ethan, and Zac. They are some of the coolest dudes I've ever met. And the lesson was funny because we talked about the Oaks devotional on marriage and told them they were all slacking  guess that was the last time they'd feed us, jk

4th Wheel - we had a lesson planned with Azalee on Saturday at the Seattle Center. Coincidentally a festival was going on at the same time and she was with a dude named Eric. It took me a bit to realize that she had been on a date and had planned our lesson to be right after in case it went bad. But this was only after we invited him to walk around the whole festival with us... wups. Afterwards we shared a scripture and later found out that he is an in-active member. 

Pizza Pact - Larry is so good at fellowshipping. He hosted a party for Caitlin and whomever she invited. Which ended up being like 7 people. Made pizzas for everyone and we got to talk to peeps. Found out one of them was a member, nobody knew. And it was just a good time. Then that night we get a text from her saying she feels a very strong need to be baptized! 

More on that next week

Spiritual Thought - I can say this with some authority because I am a procrastinator, but the more you put something off the harder it gets to do it. A lot of the time Satan doesn't try to make us to not do something, he tries to get us to do it later, and later. Which effectively has the same effect. 

I invite you all to do this with me, pick the one thing you know you should be doing, and do it. Write it down right now, plan to do it, or just do it right now. Waiting only helps the adversary, if it's something good why not do it sooner. I'll be working on it and I hope together we can get past that self-made barrier and follow Christ. 

Love y'all 

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That's Eric