Wipe It Off!

 You all heard and watched our amazing video about what went down during our preparation day. I loved it! 10 miles is a breeze. The next day I actually didn't wake up as sore as I thought. I'm actually in shape!

Tuesday was exhausting. The start of the week is always the hardest. I do have to mention one hilarious story that happened at the Salvation Army to Elder Fonnesbeck. The Salvation Army gives out free lunch Monday-Friday and we sometimes go to check it out and say what's up to the homies. This one dude was talking to us and put his food on his chair. As he continued to chat he forgot about his food on his chair and he sat right on his Spaghetti. He turned to Elder Fonnesbeck with a thin napkin and said,"wipe it off." It was so funny, Elder Fonnesbeck barely touched his butt and was like yeah that's not coming off and walked away. It was a really big dude who smelt bad so I don't blame him. That's one for the books. 

This week we had exchanges with the Petoskey elders in Petoskey. Since we are about an hour and a half away from these elders we just both work in the area of Petoskey for the day with different companions. I had the chance to be with Elder Brycen Doman. He's from Washington and he's been out for about 8 months. We had such a great exchange, we were laughing, sweating, and furthering God's work. Elder Doman knows how to cut hair actually good so he faded me up good! It was about 85 degrees and sunny in Petoskey while we were there. It was also about 90 percent humidity and I loved it! I am such a fan of the heat, it feels good. One cool thing about Petoskey is that it is the boujee part of Michigan. The downtown area has literally everything. We went street contacting and it was so fun to just talk to everyone while we were there. I'm excited to serve in a more populated area in the future. 

Nothing crazy went down on Thursday. We did have a funny experience with an inactive named Tom Downey. He is the definition of an UPer. We were there with him for an hour and we couldn't even teach him a gospel principle. He loves to chat. At one point in the lesson this 75 year old man asks us a question in which I reply with the answer. Bro Downey gets all excited and yells,"YOU GOT IT BABES!" Elder Fonnesbeck and I could not keep our cool and we burst out laughing. We get a lot of good laughs being with this member. 

As you know, missions aren't always so happy and fun. On Friday we stopped by an inactive members home named Robert. We got to know him and then he went into how he doesn't believe in the Church. He claimed to feel the Spirit more not in church than anything else. He invited us to look into that… yeah okay. He then went about absolutely slandering the prophet Joseph Smith. You could literally feel the Spirit leave. I paused him mid conversation and told him never to to discredit the prophet Joseph Smith because he is a prophet of God. We had to get out of there because it was hard to maintain charity for this man. We felt so dull and empty when we left his home. It was very depressing and discouraging. Elder Fonnesbeck then put on the conference talk Safety for the Soul by our boy Jeffrey (Holland). This brought the spirit back and we went out street contacting downtown. Moral of the story: Joseph Smith IS and WAS a prophet. I will never deny this eternal truth. 

The morning of Saturday we were asked to basically mow, trim, and clean a whole front and backyard lawn. It was huge. The UV that day was about 8. We both got a little burnt and we were out there for about 3 hours. It was actually really fun though, I enjoyed it. Thr guy who we did service for whipped us up some burgers, brats, and chicken and expected us to eat it all. From tanning, to mowing, to eating, it was all good fun. 

For preparation day we are going to Mackinac Island. The ferry ride over is pretty pricey, but I have to check it out! We are planning on being there all day which will be so fun as a District. T-minus 6 days until my birthday! I love you all, reach out :)) #FindTime4Me