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Quick update of the week I missed!! There wasn't anything too crazy y'all missed!! But, there was a thing or two!! To start, we had Zone Conference!! As always, it was a conference where the Spirit was so abundant!! Zone Conference is always the best spiritual boost!! Especially when you legit just have a bomb mish prez haha. During the conference, one of the things our mission presidents encouraged us to do was to start doing 5-minute interviews with our members!! That night, Elder Hansen and I acted on this invitation. We showed up to a member's, rang her up, and she quickly let us into her apartment. We talked with her, played with her overly massive dog, and shared a spiritual thought.
To be honest with you, I can't even remember what the spiritual thought was about, at the point. But, what I do remember, was the Spirit we felt as she begun to share her conversion story with us, while a few tears rolled from her eyes. It was a great member visit. She gave us both an apple as we left haha. The next day we went to another member's apartment for a dinner appointment. He is Indian, so we were all prepping for the spicy Indian food that we knew was coming, especially me. Turns out I actually took that food like a champ!! I was proud of myself 😂.
I send my apologizes for not sending a weekly email last week!! I'm sure it was detrimental for some of you. However... hopefully this one makes up for it!!
Elder Wilde
Elder Glass
Quick update of the week I missed!! There wasn't anything too crazy y'all missed!! But, there was a thing or two!! To start, we had Zone Conference!! As always, it was a conference where the Spirit was so abundant!! Zone Conference is always the best spiritual boost!! Especially when you legit just have a bomb mish prez haha. During the conference, one of the things our mission presidents encouraged us to do was to start doing 5-minute interviews with our members!! That night, Elder Hansen and I acted on this invitation. We showed up to a member's, rang her up, and she quickly let us into her apartment. We talked with her, played with her overly massive dog, and shared a spiritual thought.
To be honest with you, I can't even remember what the spiritual thought was about, at the point. But, what I do remember, was the Spirit we felt as she begun to share her conversion story with us, while a few tears rolled from her eyes. It was a great member visit. She gave us both an apple as we left haha. The next day we went to another member's apartment for a dinner appointment. He is Indian, so we were all prepping for the spicy Indian food that we knew was coming, especially me. Turns out I actually took that food like a champ!! I was proud of myself 😂.
Fast forward to this week!! This week was so much fun!! It snowed a ton and most of the week was like 5 degrees!! On Tuesday, it snowed legit the ENTIRE day!!
To start, Elder Molnar and I went together on an exchange in his area. The first day, we went to visit a bob and grandpa who lived out in the middle of nowhere. They were this cute little 90-year-old couple who had let him and Elder Glass in each time they came!! Anyways... so we got to their house and they let us in and asked us if we would like to eat!! We agreed, which was a mistake... we get to their kitchen and she rinse cleans some bowls (pretty sure last night's dinner was still stuck to the sides of mine) and then pours in some, well... let's call it mystery soup, cuz I'm still not totally sure what was in it 😂😂. As she walked out of the room, Elder Molnar sprinted and poured half of his back in the pot and as he was about to take mine to help me out too, the bob was too close 😂. So I'm eating this soup, and all the sudden I got a spoon full of some sort of fish, which is not allowed to eat in this mission because the fish in Ukraine are not clean at all (some have radiation, some have mercury). Anyways, I didnt wanna be rude and prayed that God would bless this fish with purity, and sent it 😅. All of a sudden, there like six little bones in my mouth that I gotta sort out and pick out 😂😂😂. So that was sin 1 lol. She also gave us some mystery pastries lol. But sin 2... she was wanting to give us tea and we said okay sure!! At first, she whips out the black tea!! And we're like, "Oh oh oh no, thank you, we can't drink that." Then she whips out what we believed was fruit tea... at first. We drink it, and then see the tag, reading - green tea. Sooooo, yeah 😂. We repented on the way home. Everyone, don't worry lol.
On the way home, we also came across a well!! We, also, decided to full send that 😂. It's an experience!! We pulled up the water and drank from the bucket 😂. It was actually really good!! Maybe it washed out the fish and tea 😅🤷🏼♂️😂.
To start, Elder Molnar and I went together on an exchange in his area. The first day, we went to visit a bob and grandpa who lived out in the middle of nowhere. They were this cute little 90-year-old couple who had let him and Elder Glass in each time they came!! Anyways... so we got to their house and they let us in and asked us if we would like to eat!! We agreed, which was a mistake... we get to their kitchen and she rinse cleans some bowls (pretty sure last night's dinner was still stuck to the sides of mine) and then pours in some, well... let's call it mystery soup, cuz I'm still not totally sure what was in it 😂😂. As she walked out of the room, Elder Molnar sprinted and poured half of his back in the pot and as he was about to take mine to help me out too, the bob was too close 😂. So I'm eating this soup, and all the sudden I got a spoon full of some sort of fish, which is not allowed to eat in this mission because the fish in Ukraine are not clean at all (some have radiation, some have mercury). Anyways, I didnt wanna be rude and prayed that God would bless this fish with purity, and sent it 😅. All of a sudden, there like six little bones in my mouth that I gotta sort out and pick out 😂😂😂. So that was sin 1 lol. She also gave us some mystery pastries lol. But sin 2... she was wanting to give us tea and we said okay sure!! At first, she whips out the black tea!! And we're like, "Oh oh oh no, thank you, we can't drink that." Then she whips out what we believed was fruit tea... at first. We drink it, and then see the tag, reading - green tea. Sooooo, yeah 😂. We repented on the way home. Everyone, don't worry lol.
On the way home, we also came across a well!! We, also, decided to full send that 😂. It's an experience!! We pulled up the water and drank from the bucket 😂. It was actually really good!! Maybe it washed out the fish and tea 😅🤷🏼♂️😂.
The following day, we met with another guy who, also, lives in the middle of nowhere. He had us meet him in his shed where he makes kalbasla. So, we walk up to his shed, and his huge dog is just changed up going crazy and barking. Elder Molnar tried
to convince me that half the time he gets off his chain 😂. Didn't work lol. Anyways, we come inside and the smell of fire smoke and kalbasla just hits us. Took a minute or two to adjust to the smell 😂. We get in there and there's just meat hanging on hooks,
blood from the meat in a puddle on a table (I hope animal meat... at this point I'm thinking this is a trap and we will be his next victim or something. Lol jk) While in the room, I'm surveying the area for spiders, rats, and just knowing that this place wouldn't
pass a health inspection. But apparently, his kalbasla is way good, so props to him!! He said another day we can watch him make it haha.
Another day, Elder Hansen and I walked an hour out to this area that was added Into our area, only to find out there was almost absolutely nothing out there 😂. It was filled with abandoned buildings, and factories, and we had to cross this
bridge that had a lot of very unsteady planks to get there lol.
There was one little neighborhood, however!! So we went tracting there, with little success. But, it was cool. This dog followed us around for like 30 minutes and he was super cute!!
One more fun thing about this week!! For English practice this week, we had a lesson on music!! Elder Glass and I led the lesson. At the end, I had the whole class sing the song "Call me Maybe," and it was historical 😂😂. There's also a running
joke between me and the other Elder that my nick name is "T-HYPE", because I use the word "hype" all the time 😂. So, we tell everyone that I'm a sound cloud rapper, top on Spotify, making my way through iTunes. At the end of class, after I led the singing of "Call me Maybe" and "Shake it Off" by Taylor Swift, one of the people who usually comes to our English practice came up and asked what my sound cloud is, if I really had one, and that she didn't have sound cloud, but would download it to listen to me 😂😂😂. So
hey, maybe I have a career lined up post mission 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️😂. Jk jk haha.
Love yall!!
Elder Wilde
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