Hello one and all. I feel like the weeks are really speeding up here, really getting into the groove of missionary work. I'm gonna dive right in this week to some of the good stuff.
Well Monday was a pretty typical P-day. Shopping, letters, laundry and basketball... all the essential missionary activities. We had an awesome dinner out with The Bishop. His wife was sick so we all ate out at a place called Fire-Pit Pizza. We all got our own one but they were like $12 a pop! I'm pretty sure he's loaded or broke cause he didn't even look at the bill, haha. But it was good and we coordinated the work well that night.
Tuesday was pretty unremarkable from what I can remember. We were supposed to do splits that day but the DL wanted his comp to meet some key investigators so we postponed for a day. We were also supposed to get steaks for dinner but the husband got food poisoning so we ended up with Chinese take-out, haha. Oh the life of a missionary. We headed home with dinner and when we got there we decided to try for one more contact to make an even 20 on the day. As we did this we actually found a man that when we asked him about the BoM his response was "Well, I read it once... I know it's true". Talk about miracles!
Wednesday, we did the afore mentioned splits that day and we took off with some Elder Parsons-inspired quirks. You see, Elder Parsons is a college wrestler and LOVES working out. The man wears ankle weights all day for heaven's sake. He's ripped too..... Anyway, to get a better workout while riding a bike he took off his and his comp's bike seats. It wasn't too different really but it was a thing only he would do, ha ha. We ran around and checked on some people that we had lost track of. The fun part about this is that people live in these secure apartment complexes so we need to get creative to get in sometimes. Elder Parsons was in the act of jumping a fence and a man came out and yelled at us, ha ha. I was doing so as well and a man came up and applauded me! Weird stuff in LA man....
Thursday was pretty cool. We started weekly planning and got a call about an hour in for a blessing, all the way across the area. We took of and gave said blessing and whipped back around to go get dinner on the other end of the area. It's so fun being on bikes sometimes.... We had some Passole that night and then when we got home we made dinner for the DL and his comp because they are out of food. We made some pretty good cinnamon rolls too if I do say so myself.
Friday and Saturday were somewhat painful to get through. It actually rained in LA. Yep, it came down for 3 days like crazy and we had a packed schedule, which meant the work must continue. We armored up in our rain gear and rode out and promptly got soaked the bone. Those were probably some of the longest days on my mission but they were good. We got a lot of great blessing and meetings with people out of it.
Sunday was pretty fun. We went to church and the whole sha-bang and afterward we finished up our studies till about 4. We took off after breaking our fast with a light lunch to go look for some less-active people in the ward. As we were out doing this we saw Elder Parsons and Eddy walking down the street with Chino. I'm not sure if I told you who Chino is but he's a super cool recent convert that loves to feed us all. He said we wanted to have us over for dinner at church but didn't know if he could. As soon as he saw us he yelled out "It's a sign! Come over for dinner tonight!" so we did. Who are we to turn down a free meal?
Anyway we got there about half an hour later and Chino was making us "Baloo". It's basically an aborted duck still in the egg. After 7 weeks they take the egg and freeze it or something like that and it leaves most the yoke and about a 1/3 formed duckling in there. You hard boil it and chow down. Chino says it's a Philippino thing. He went first to show us how it's done and then made us all one. It was really good actually and he says it's "a natural male enhancer", ha ha. Elder Eddy got cold feet though when he saw the baby bird to which Chino yelled out "Look at that thing! It's an evil alien and you need to eat it to kill it!" He's a really cool guy Chino, but you need to be careful at his house, time tends to get away from you.
Well, I'm out of time for email. I love you all and hope you have a good week!
-Um no exercito de Deus
Elder Teela
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