Yoooooo what is going on guys. Another booming week in Bay City Michigan. The last half of my p-day Elliott took me to an outlet mall to cop all my winter clothes. Let's just say that I will be dripping out this winter. I think I spoke on this before, but Elli loves to freeze the room at night so i LIVE in my new north face jackets. On the way home we passed one of the only Sonics they have in Michigan. So of course we stopped and I got a large strawberry nerds slushie.
This week went by so fast and I began teaching so many people from Facebook Finding. Facebook Finding is basically our door knocking nowadays. We friend as many people as we can, get in touch with them, send a video of what we do, then boom. We either get left on read, receive a huge paragraph on how we suck, some people reply with the answer "sure" (....), but there are some who reply with interest. I found this dude Tyson who is a chiller. He is this light skin 20 year old who lives in Pennsylvania. Tyson has strong faith, he says he's mad spiritual, and he wants to get baptized because he has not before. So basically I told him I know a guy that can help with that haha. We taught him virtually, but we will have to hand him off to the Pennsylvania missionaries;((((. The missionaries I handed them off to are Elder Christensen (YES the kid in my mtc) and his trainer. SMALL FREAKING WORLD. It is crazy how God works.
Elder Bennett, a general authority, came to speak with us at a super zone conference. Three out of the five zones in Michigan came to the Midland Stake Center to hear him speak. We only had to drive 30 minutes, but others had to drive 3 hours to get there… lol that sucks. Us having the opportunity to have a general authority speak to us is a miracle, you usually only get one every year and this is the second time he has come in 2021. Elder Bennet said some fire things and also he said many things I can not repeat to spread rumors haha. It was from 12:30-4. It was a fatty long zone conference, but it was sick. I SAW JORGY. I gotta take a picture with Elder Jorgenen at the super zone conference. We weren't allowed to linger around due to covid and there was a general authority there which kinda sucked. But it still was cool being able to see Jorgy for the first time in Michigan.
We went on Facebook marketplace on Wednesday and got a free couch. It was mad nasty, but we cleaned it out and bought cool cheap sheets from goodwill. Our living room is just a couch fest, we can host the General Conference this year in our apartment low-key. Another thing about the apartment is that Elder Elliott and I are the only ones who do the dishes and clean. Since I am homies with Elder Candland, I roast him to do the dishes and he does them haha. I love that man. Elder Candland and I mess around too much and sometimes get Elliott annoyed lol.
I hit my month mark, LETS GOOOOOO. We celebrated by going to Buffalo Wild Wings and spending almost half the money we got for these two weeks. Yolo. We get 79 bucks every two weeks in our MSF, so missionaries gotta live off great value and you can only go out a couple times a month. Sometimes I am feeling myself and I use my personal card haha.
Also, I slowly write my emails throughout the week so they will usually be long, sorry bout it. I'm about to tell you a huge tender mercy. So since I have been in Michigan, I have never gotten a stomach ache. BUT here is the wack part, I have eaten bowls of ice cream, multiple whole pizzas, countless amounts of chocolate, and so much gluten. Every night before bed I eat ice cream and it is not sherbert, it is amazing. Now I actually believe that I have been blessed with not being lactose intolerant and gluten free while I am on my mission. I LOVE THE MISSIONARY MANTLE.
I found this absolute GOAT on Facebook. His name is Duff Zube. He is a grandpa that lives in the boujee part of Bay City. Bay City is mad ghetto, so like a super nice part is an average place in Chandler. Duff received a book of Mormon from a set of missionaries 20 years ago, he read it cover to cover and no one followed up with him, so now we are. Duff loves history. He keeps asking us about historical facts on Jesus Christ coming to America's (Yes Taylor, He came there). We are like boi. You do not need facts to know it happened. You need faith. Anyways, he always makes us Nestle Toll House cookies and they are bussing. We are expecting him to make a lasagna for the next meeting. This is a huge blessing because we are not allowed to eat with members unless an inactive or nonmember is present….
This email is FATTTTT, I am sorry about that, I don't even know if Mom or Dad will make it this far. This transfer Elli and I are making a goal to be more dignified in our language. So when we say frik, crap, dang, dope, shoot, frikin, etc, we have to do 5 push-ups right there. So we have now replaced them with more dignified words such as "blast, drat, jeepers crow, rattling, howling, and inarticulate." It is actually so challenging to use dignified language because we are so used to our everyday slang, but we are trying our best. We are going to be so dignified here in Bay City.
Saturday was a party filled day. Not much missionary work was done because we had a wedding celebration from 2-5 and a farewell ice cream party for a kid named Jefferson from 6-9. At the wedding celebration, they brought out a cornhole. Let's just say that I went off. I hit multiple cycles and nailed at least 2 in the hole everything it was my turn. I honestly felt bad for everyone, but that did not stop me. I went 6-0. At the ice cream party we played Monopoly Deal at the church. They got the newest version and all the cards are so boujee so it threw me off a lil. That did not stop me, I won again. My competitive side has not left me while I am up here in the 989. After the ice cream party was over we got to bring home the leftovers. Now we got 3 gallons of ice cream in our freezer, 6 liters of soda in our fridge, and it was all FREE!!!
On Sunday we had a scheduled baptism for an elderly lady named Barbra. She has been getting taught by the other elders that live with us. So at 10 o'clock they received a phone call from her saying she wasn't about it….yet (hopefully). It was a depressing morning for Elliott and I as well. None of the people we have been teaching came to church. Apparently no one wants to come inherit the kingdoms of glory with us. This past Sunday was the first time I gave an opening prayer in a Sacrament meeting. I passed. I am also planning on speaking within the next month because the ward has like 100-120 active members with 6 missionaries assigned there….I know SIX missionaries. The sisters that are in the ward with us are uhhhh nice.
All the people of Bay City are awesome, but a bit strange. Everyone lives off unemployment, retirement stuff, and the government. If there was a laziest city in Michigan it would be Bay City. I love it here though, I love being on a budget, I love being with all these missionaries, I love spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are a lot of things I can work on for being a good missionary and one of those things is being bold. When I was back home I never shared the Gospel, I never expressed the happiness it brought in my life, I never shared it to my friends at school, I never spoke about how I went to sacrament meeting, I never said anything. Looking back on it now I wish I did. Even in the field I struggle. Knocking on doors is so rough for me because people are usually rude and do not care, but when we get one follow up lesson, so much excitement comes. You never know who's lives you will bless with just sharing your testimony. There are so many crazy wicked people in this world that will try and convince you that our church is not true. But one thing I know is that no one can deny your testimony. Your testimony is one of the most powerful things you bring with you everyday. SHARE YOUR TESTIMONY. BE BOLD.
I took lots and lots of photos so I will send all the photos in the Facebook Messenger group chat. I am praying for all of you and I love you!!!!!!
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