Oh my goodness this week has been
super crazy busy. It started legendary with last pday, our main man Elder
English (who is actually a Spanish speaking missionary) was about to go home so
we had to go hit the beach for an early morning sunrise. It was sick. We had a
super tight district and I absolutely love being here with my brothers. We
definitely had a drink that may have had caffeine and I was going nuts again.
Ultra hype. Then we stopped by pretty much everyone so Elder Van Tassell could
say goodbye to everyone. He will definitely be missed. All these Nigerians
might protest against the mission office haha.
Also Elder Van Tassell and I needed
a haircut super bad so we were like "yo any of you missionaries down?"
None of them had a haircutting kit! So we decided to stop by one of those
little hole in the wall places to get a haircut. Anyways she cuts my hair and
lets me see it and is like "how does it look?" It literally looked
like I had a chocolate brick on my head. So I was like "yeah could you
maybe go a little rounder and shorten it a bit?" Wrong thing to say. She
literally cut my hair so short that I officially looked like buzz lightyear.
Not good haha. The first thing my new comp sees is Elder Buzz racing to meet
him literally with hype from infinity and beyond.
The real craziness started on
Tuesday with transfers. We went out west to Naperville (old area baby) and I
was literally able to drive though these gnarly Indian neighborhoods I used to
knock haha. They had a big council for all the trainers to discuss the needs
for those we will be training, etc. They then introduced us to the new
missionaries! Thank goodness I got a total stud named Elder Bodily! I can only
imagine the amazing missionary he is going to become! He's way bold, talks to
everyone he comes in contact which I love cause I was not good at that at the
beginning.
So that began our adventures of
having meetings just about every day this week. New missionary/trainer meeting
on Tuesday, district council on Wednesday, MLC was on Thursday, and we had a
big meeting on Friday as a whole zone because president Shumway is making some
changes and he left the zone leaders in charge of it. It was a stressful week
haha. Being a zone leader and trainer at the same time is wild.
So MLC was sick. President Shumway
is an amazing mission president and he is making some inspired changes! It's
been super exciting to be a part of it and he's giving all of us quite a bit of
responsibility. He is training us to be A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST! What a legend.
So this week I was able to show the
young one the south side of Chicago. Pretty sure my man was very stressed that
he was going to die, but he's relaxed quite a bit. I will tell you something
that stressed me though, first thing he mentioned is that he's an extremely
picky eater, and as we all know Nigerians will be waaayyyy offended if you do
not eat all their food. My man had some Moimoi this week and it's basically
like a meatloaf, except it's filled with fish, egg, peppers, and a bunch of
mystery meat/breaded stuff. He only had the heart to eat one loaf and made me
pound like 3. Yeah that was stressful. Also he hates Nigerian soda which is
understandable because it tastes like spaghettio's but soda. We survived the
ordeal thank goodness and found a new person in the process!
So I'll tell you a little more about
my man. He's from Preston ID which is where Napolean Dynamite was filmed! How
cool is that! He's like a BMX biker and stuff. And he loves St. George and said
he might go to Dixie one day!
This is a hype time for missionary
work! We have recently baptized like 3 families from this one building, and now
we've been stopping by and continuing to teach those in the building. However
we've talked to almost everybody there and by the next baptismal service we'll
have 2 more people from that building: Darlene and Martins. So we might switch
off going there every day and hitting a different part of the area, something
my new companion suggested. We'll see how it works! We’re going to start
talking to more of those in the hood! Should be exciting!
I think that's mostly about it for
the week! I hope everyone is doing amazing and has a legendary week!
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