Oh my goodness I'm tired. Oh goodness. This week has been
a whirlwind of activity. Most of this past week I don't even remember most of
what happened. That's usually what happens as a missionary. You just loose
track of time. I have been so exhausted I have been going to bed early but I
couldn't be happier even if I could talk to girls. Ok if I could talk to girls
I would be a little bit happier but that's besides the point.
So we shall begin on Tuesday. There were exchanges and we
lost elder Langston and sister Knutson but we gained a new trainee sister
Woolley. We will get into that latter. We also found out that the moved the
belle view elders out of the district so now me and pututau are the only elders
left in the district. We also found an less active recent convert who hadn't
been to church in about 6 months. She was baptized in Jacksonville and the only
reason why she decided to start the lessons was because she thought that the
elders were attractive.
She also got three tattoos after her baptism so we aren't
completely sure if she joined the church for the right reasons. Her name is
Ashley Widle and she is 18 and highly energetic around highly attractive
missionaries such as ourselves.
Onto Wednesday! So
Wednesday I made some bomb Hershey's cookies and cream cookies and I'm going to
be honest...they very pretty fetching amazing. But I made those for district
meeting. So during district meeting I met sister Woolley from California. She's
pretty cool. Elder pututau had a meeting right around lunch time so I had a
very depressing meal of a MRE. Find out later it was expired. Explains why I
had stomach pains for a few hours but hey I've had worse. That's pretty much
all that happened on Wednesday.
Thursday. So Thursday I began fasting because we had a
baptism. Things I learned from this fast. DO NOT PERFORM MOCK BAPTISMS WHILE
YOU ARE FASTING!! I don't think I can stress how important that is. So we were
at Lynn's house giving her the plans on what was going to happen on Saturday.
We do a mock baptism. Now for this next part I want you to imagine me very
hungry at 4 and pretty much drained of all strength.
Now imagine me trying to "dip" my 270 pound
companion with no water.
Let's just say I drop him. He's holding onto me so I go
down. We run into her entertainment center and her tv and I get a good sized
bruise on my knee. Lynn at this point is laughing out of hilarity and most
likely terror that I will drop her in the font. And then later me and pututau
made a music video. That will come later.
Friday. So we start setting up for a wedding and a
baptism. Original plan the pututau and I had was get them married in the
bishops office and then eat hot dogs. some of the Relief society and the sister
missionaries would not have it. The ended up helping us set up a nice modest
marriage setting and also pulled together some personal resources to provide
them with a nice dinner. The bishops wife even ended up making them a really tasty
wedding cake.
Saturday. So we managed to have a wedding and a baptism
All in an hour. That seems like a record for something. The baptism was perfect
except for one detail. On the program it said pututau was baptizing her. Nope
it was me. Made me prove my point to why I don't like our Ward mission leader.
But other than that she was a one dunk. Not bad for my first baptism.
Sunday. Sunday makes it to the most interesting days of
my mission list. So we got a phone call from the bishops son in law who is a
nonmember asking us to get one of the family members. We do. Next thing we know
the bishop says come with me and we are whisked away to the bishops house. We
met Tyler the son in law and he's all cut up.
Turns out somebody tried to break in and he fought them
off. So we get there and he's got cuts on him and he's got a machete and he's
shaken up and it takes a lot to shake him up. So then the police get called and
they get there and start chewing Tyler out for not calling immediately. I got
pretty mad at the cop for treating him the way he was but I kept my cool. So
long story short the cops didn't believe him and he chose not to press charges.
So crazy crazy week but I'm happy. Everything is just
going really good in the mission minus the carpenter ants. But it's all so
good. I will talk to you later.
Elder Hanson
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