Apopka adventures

So its been a week. its been a good week. Nothing monumental has happend but none the less it was a good week.

So monday was low key just a typical P-day.

Tuesday was hot. It gets hot when your car has no AC. And  also when its like 91 degrees outside so that'll do it.

Wednesday was a normal day again so meh.

Thursday we had ZTM and after that we had exchanges so i went to Apopka with elder stewart. And i was in the hood for the day. That was fun. Like really fun. JK it was terrifying. I also ate some authentic Venezuelan food and everyone was speaking spanish and i had no idea what was going on. I did catch a recipe for plantains tho and tried plantains for the first time and they were ok. Also gave a guy 18 dollars because he said that his tire blew out and he didnt have his wallet on him. Was he lying? Was he telling the truth? i dont know but i did what christ would do so that made me feel good. I then learned how to play chess for the first time and i lost. twice.

Friday i went back to leesburg and it was hot again because hey no AC. But i did buy Inncense and other stuff. Oh and i also got sick so everytime i swallow it feels like im swallowing nails. its nice. it really is.

Saturday was normal.

Sunday we had a minor Pizza party at our house and it was pretty chill.

Monday( today) we drove down to orlando and did a car swap while ours gets fixed and WE HAVE AC!!! also we visted an asian market and i bought some asian items but apparently they taste good but i cant even read them. And then we played catan AND I WON! WOOOOO GO ME!

So sorry that my life is super boring but i love yall!

Elder Hanson

Punching armadillos in the face

So this week. Gah. GAH!! Like punch a armadillo in the flippen face. I
hope this next week gets better which it should so thank goodness.

Monday was pretty low key. We didn't have any miles for play but we
have wifi at the apartment so that was super handy. It stinks when you
live in the part of your area that has nothing fun going on. And we
just can't bike 9 miles down to the other end of the area just for
p-day. Miles are liquid gold. I wish that miles didn't exist. The
first thing I'll do off my mission is laugh at a vehicles odometer.

So Tuesday was by far the worst day this week. This Wilson came down
with something mainly because his tonsils are going out so we call
brother jozitis to inform him that we won't be over today and someone
else answers the phone. "Mike can't talk right now the paramedics are
here. Claire (his wife) has passed away." *click*. Talk about a punch
to the gut. So we rush over and calling people to meet us there. We
get there police are there and neighbors and she's in the other room.
He's sobbing but still as kind to us as ever. So we were there for two
hours. And then comes time for them to take her away. He said his
final goodbyes to her and the thing that kills me is that he stood up
out of his chair on his one leg. That was. Blah. One of my best
friends is hurting and I lost another friend. Bad day.

Wednesday was district meeting but we couldn't attend because Wilson
was still sick so we puttered around home that day so that he wouldn't
get anyone sick. Low key.

Thursday was again low key.

Friday was ok got a few things done like planning and ate some really
freaky meatloaf. Like it killed both of us and gave us weird dreams.
It tasted good tho.

Saturday we ain't lunch with clints sister and her husband because of
me being a tater boy. Reminisced about Idaho for quite a lot of time
and that was pretty cool to be able to talk about that.

Sunday we were expecting 3 new gators of us to come to church but none
of them did. That was a scream at the world event. But silver lining
we had 3 less actives come to church. Brother jozitis, inactive for 1
year. Sister Deane, inactive for over a year. And Lynn, inactive since
I baptized her.
Also we had a meeting with elder Clark so that was cool.

So here's for hoping for a better week.

Love elder handsome.

Bike fest!

Hey look my 5 month mark is coming this Sunday how crazy is that? I don't feel like it's been almost five months. But heck it's close to the 6 month and then I'm a quarter way done. But this week has beeeeeen interesting.

So Monday was pretty low key because we are low on miles and that really stresses me out and shoots my anxiety through the flippen roof but it is what it is so ill bear it. Not much that I can do.

Tuesday was the beginning of week one and we didn't have to go to transfers so it was a pretty normal day. Pretty much my whole district is the same except that we lost one sister and got two other sisters.

The two new ones are alright I'm a little partial to the old one because she was part of the old first district but oh well it is what it is.

Wednesday was district meeting nothing much happened there besides the whole having to drive to another town to have district meeting.  But one thing sure happened and it was pretty awesome. So we had a RM from lake Mary drive down to help us out with a lesson with Fredrick. Now normally I wouldn't make a big deal about this but this RM serves in the Marshall Islands. Fredrick is from the Marshall Islands. So we had half of a lesson in English and half of the lesson in Marshallese. It was cool, didn't understand a word being said half of the time but it was cool. Marshallese is one of those languages that sounds like gibberish mixed with another language or two.

Thursday was the beginning of bike fest. The Harley Davidson and the city of leesburg every year hold the bike fest. And guess where the church is. Right behind the Harley Davidson. So our parking lot was being used by bikers and such. They had permission and everything but they had the shuttle running and also some of these bikers are not as courteous as others.  We spent some time walking the parking lot picking up coffee, beer cans, soda cans, and other alcoholic beverages. It was a mess. And it only built up as the week went on.

Friday was pretty good we went to go help president Matthews. So we drove to his sons house to help guide a tree as it was getting cut down. One problem. They started without us. This being said it resulted in an unfortunate side effect. The tree fell on the house.

Florida houses are pretty strong. Usually the walls are made of stone or cinder blocks as to fight against storms and usually the roofs are stronger than non tropical storm areas. But this tree decided to change all of that. So the tree fell on the roof and boom punches a hole through the plywood and breaks 3-4 trusses and made it so you could see daylight trough the roof inside. It was no Bueno for them.

Saturday we did service for president Matthews this time at his house.

And this time we were cutting down trees. Again. Luckily this time nothing was harmed in the process. It was hard tough work though. I have never sweat so much in my life but then I came to Florida. But it was all worth because he cooked ribs for the troops and oh mah gosh.

These suckers had been smoking for a while and they were the type of ribs where you don't have to have sauce on them so you just eat em dry and oh goodness it was good. It was a southern barbecue lunch. Ribs, smoked chicken, potato salad, homemade baked beans and rolls. It was the works and I demolished a half rack by myself after all that. The rest of the day was lame because bike fest destroyed our appointments because either everyone was there or traffic was to thick to get anywhere but we got through it.

Sunday we only went to sacrament meeting cause Wilson has been sick so it was a low key day yesterday.

So that's the email. Everything else is good. I'm going to go cast out evil spirits of a home now( no joke that crap happens out here)

Love elder Hanson

P. S. Next weeks email will be a day late we are having a training so that we may receive Facebook back. Yay!

Cheesecake and Cinnamon Rolls

So its the end of the third transfer and drum roll.......im staying in leesburg with elder Wilson. That means a total of 6 months in my first area. A quarter of my mission spent in sleezburg. I mean im happy because we are only loosing one person from our district this transfer and that's sister Jensen. Its bitter sweet this transfer because im staying but hey I got driving privileges today so awesome stuff.

So Monday we had a nerf gun war and that was pretty sick. Nothing like shooting people in the face with nerf darts. Its super awesome. And also somewhat of a stress reliever to shoot your friends in the face. good stuff really. Everything else was pretty normal with that p-day. And then we went on exchanges

Tuesday we were on exchanges and I was in Apopka and it was super fun and we messed around and I made three cheesecakes! THREE! it wasn't that hard especially because sister western just flat out gave me a mix so that's gunna stick with me but back to the cheesecakes. I made three different kinds. I made a newyork chocolate covered strawberry, a double layer pumpkin cheesecake, and then finally I made a orange dreamscicle  cheesecake. They all turned out pretty darn good.

Wednesday we had district meeting and president interviews and turns out that my cheesecakes were a huuuuuuuuuuge success and president berry loved all three of them. Sister berry loved all three of them and now wants me to be transferred to the hunters creek zone so that I can bake for her little parties and dinners that she hosts. Wouldn't that be a missionary story. I think thatd be awesome. We also found some super awesome family that were going to start teaching this super awesome family and he used to be a gangbanger so thatll be super cool. Me and Elder Wilson were asked by the sisters to do some blessings for a less active. I think that was the mostspiritual blessing I have ever given in my whole life.

Thursday was pretty normal

Friday I made some home made cinnamon rolls and I had to let them raise and so I made a nice little deal for them to rise faster. The rolls turned out super good and then I made the home made icing that turned out really good.

Saturday normal day

sunday was sunday

not too many interesting stories beyond that really

Love Elda Hanson

So I've been super tired lately so I must be doing something right lately. Everything time wise feels like it's speeding up. Pretty soon I'll just be home. That'll be an interesting experience.

Monday we had a super legit district p-day. Elder Hanson grilled up some pork tenderloin in his classy apron. Played some awesome volleyball. Gave Wilson a haircut. Almost rescued a kitten. Now that's a story. So we are driving back from district p day and were stopped at a light and Wilson looks over and sees a kitten in the middle of the road. The poor guy was a newborn. His eyes weren't even open. We were going to rescue it but the light turned. So we're driving and we feel terrible. So we get down the road a little bit and then all of the sudden we make a u turn I'm ripping open a box to use for the kitten. We get there and the kitten was gone so someone picked him up.

But it would have made a difficult time explaining to president why we had a kitten in our apartment.

Tuesday we started cleaning like crazy and what do ya know we didn't even get a apartment check this week. Talk about annoying.

Wednesday we had our usual Eustis district meeting. I made the strawberry cheesecake cookies and it was a huge success. We have really thrown the hammer down on the work lately

Thursday pretty much normal stuff.

Friday was pretty fun. We did a lot of golf cart contacting and racked up a lot of lessonss. Not everyone can say they do golf cart contacting.

Saturday there was a baptism.

Sunday. Blah.

That's all that has happened this past week so.

Conference rocks!

So sorry that I'm sending this one out so late. Busy day.So Monday we had a boring stay inside p-day because we have no milesTuesday was extremely limited mainly because we had 10 miles to usefor the whole day but thankfully it was the last day of the month soit was fine.

Wednesday was pretty good because we had miles again so we went andtaught people and me and Wilson have this goal now to get 20 lessons aweek and 70 contacts so we are going to kick trash this upcoming week.Oh and I got a package. That was ok I guess. Yea.

Thursday we had ZTM which is where the whole zone gets together and welearn from each other and of course I baked for that. I made somecookies n creme cookies and peanut butter Hershey kiss cookies. To saythe least elder Hanson is popular in the zone. After the ZTM all theelders from the zone went and ate at firehouse subs and it wasdelicious. And then had the normal daily events of a missionaryhappened. Got another package from grandma. Kinda made Wilson a littlemad but he got over it.

Friday we did the normal stuff nothing to exciting.

Saturday was conference and it kicked butt. Ate a lot of snacks. Andright before priesthood session we got fed by the ward. Oh my gosh Iate a real southern meal. Biscuits n sausage gravy, pancakes, hotsauasage, cheesy grits, and a big glass of milk. I'll tell you what.Grits set like concrete in your belly. All of the missionaries thatate that got wrecked afterwards.

Sunday was conference again and that was real good. It was alsoEaster. Sadly no one fed us for Easter. So I ate sandwiches all day.Not complaining. And then after I made 3 dozen chocolate lava cookies.With my handy new apron I might add.

Love ha lots!Elder Hanson

Stairs hurt

Miracle filled week. But also a trial some week. But all in all I'm glad that I went through and heck I got some good stories out of it.

Monday we sat around the apartment because we had no miles. Like barely anything.

Tuesday I was on exchanges with the district leader in good ole sleezburg. Pretty good time. Did some service by pulling a butt ton of weeds for the husley family. We got lunch out of it today and that made me happy. It was good lunch. It reminds me why I like them. And then we did the typical missionary work and it 'twas good. Also ate at a super good pizza restaurant and that twas good.

Wednesday was a good. Went to district meeting and then the westerns bought us Steak 'n Shake after because they like us more than everyone else and that was pretty darn tasty and then we did the usual missionary thing.

Thursday we had service with the sister missionaries and we raked leaves and filled up 62 large bags with leaves. That's right 62.

That's a lot of leaves and also a lot of being attacked by insects and a pit bull. Also I now want to own a pit bull. Not a mean untrained pit bull. But a nice trained one. But yea it was a lot of leaves. It took us 5 hours to do it and afterwards me and Wilson took advantage of the shower in the church that no one knows about.

Friday suuuuuuuuuuuuucked. So we went to a crappy Chinese buffet with a member and then we had to bike. Up a hill. In the wind. Also I almost wrecked on the bike. And then Wilson popped his bike tire and he has no money to get a replacement tube. So then we had to go home.

And then we got home and I went to mail a letter and I fell down the stairs! It was one after another. But by falling down the stairs it put us at the mailbox at the right time to meet a less active so the lord knew I had to fall down the stairs. Unfortunately. But hey later I also saw my first alligator and we got 4 referrals so not all bad.

Saturday we walked everywhere. We ended up walking like 8 miles I think. We also helped this dude who ran out of gas. Imagine two missionaries walking along the freeway with a gas can. That was us.

But I did see a restored xr7 cougar and that made me happy but everything hurt afterwards. Especially my ankle from falling down the stairs.

Sunday was pretty low key nothing exciting happened. We went to the hospital for the sacrament. The westerns fed us. Drove their golf cart around. Had an overall really awesome Sunday.

So my goal this week is to not fall down the stairs. Hoping. And praying for that.