As all of you have heard by now, my trip to Michigan actually was trash. When I first left you guys and headed to my gate to fly out to Chicago, we boarded on time. Then we went out to the runway and chilled for an hour. The pilot was so beta and was scared to take off due to weather in Chicago so we DEPLANED. We deplaned for about an hour, then we boarded up to dip. We finally took off and I was on my way to Lansing. I landed at 2:45 and the fight with 16 other missionaries left at 2:40, so I could not see jorgy AND I was all by myself. I was stressed, I was texting mom and asking people to use their phone and they all said no…. People do not like missionaries in the Chicago Airport. I was starving and I had to wait in a two hour line to get my plane ticket. I got that and headed to grab some knock off Panda stuff. Now onto the fun stuff.
I boarded the plane to Lansing at 9 pm. Turns out that the weather began to pick up. So we sat in our plane for 2 hours because I had another beta pilot. We took off at 11 pm and this plane was tweaking. It was the smallest plane ever, I was terrified. We took off and there was lighting everywhere, turbulence the whole time, and since the windows were open the inside of the plane was lit up due to the amount of lighting around us. Turbulence was so bad that luggage began to fall out. I prayed about 40 times saying if I get off this plane safely I will not fly again. We were 5 min out from landing in Lansing and we TURNED AROUND. The weather was so bad in Lansing that the pilot was forced to. So the way back was even worse. More turbulence, more lightning, more feeling like imma die. We finally landed in Chicago at 1:30 am. Then I met the Schwartzes.
The Schwartzes were an elderly couple that worked in the mission/institute office. They were sent from God no doubt in my mind. They clutched up and got me the same hotel as them and they kinda took me in. When we were driving to our hotel, we taught the taxi driver about our church and we got his number/Addy to send him a BOM. We got to the hotel at 2:45 am and went to bed.
I woke up around 8:45 to Sister Schwartze waking me up to go to IHOP. That was delicious because I have not eaten since the Panda I ate around 5. It was bussing. We taught the manager about what I do and the church, so we got his Addy and phone number to send missionaries. We got to the airport at 11:15 am and we found out Sister Rogers (not the one in the mission office) , an old sister who is friends with the Schwartzes and she was the old mission office lady, is driving 5 hours from Lansing to Chicago to pick us up. So we sat at the airport for 4 hours until 3:30 pm when Sister Roger's got here. Funny side note: I could've gotten on a flight at 1:30 pm, but brother Schwarzte wanted me to drive with them so bad so he said no lol… rip. We now began driving. I wanted to nap and brother Schwarzte would not stop talking so I stayed up to talk to him. He was extremely grateful I did that so I'm glad I did. We got to Lansing at 8 pm… 39 hours later from going into the airport.
The APs, Sister and President Heap, my trainer, the elders I live with, and the Roger's were outside holding up a sign for me. It was hype, I was so excited to be there, they showed me so much love. This is where I met my trainer Elder Elliott. I call him Elli, but he is so awesome. Extremely great example and that kid pushes me so hard. I also live with Elder Candland who lives in Gilbert and Elder Reynolds. Candy (Candland) and I get along very well and he is a lot like Ryker haha. We then traveled 1.5 hours to Bay City, and we got there at 10 pm. LETS GO!!!!! Elder Elli likes to keep the room so cold throughout the day and I hate him for it. Also, I went to the store to buy this SD card for my camera so it goes straight to my Google photos. I have so many! I Love PHOTOS!!!!
I have witnessed many miracles already. We taught a man named Patrick the last three principles of lesson 5 and we are meeting with another girl named Jazii who has a high chance of becoming a member. High hopes for two baptisms coming soon. Patrick also came to church for the first time after being taught for 9 months… that is a miracle.
Another thing I wanted to touch on how broke missionaries are. You get 79 bucks every 14 days to use for groceries, laundry, and food. It is so lit haha. We need gift cards to place high key. Here is a list I sent to mom: Buffalo Wild Wings, McDonald's, Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse, Sonic, Walmart, Little Caesars !!!!, Subway, Panda Express, Wendy's, Culver's, KFC, and Dairy Queen. That is for future reference;)))). We do Little Caesars Friday and we call it ''Little Claesars Friday" (yes little CLaesars) and it is so good. I love pizza.
On my first p-day we went to the midland stake center and I beat 6 foot 4 Elder Elliott 13-11. I am bringing it Boi. I think we are also going bowing later which is hype. I also played a game of 21 with them and I smoked them with threes. Both of them are actually good. I just played better.
Just wanted to say that I love it here and I know that this is where I am supposed to be. I know I am supposed to be serving the Lord and bringing you all blessings. I will be on Facebook messenger all day and I am bad at replying so bare with mel. I am praying for you and I love all you guys.
Elder Elliott, my trainer/companion
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