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February 26 - March 4

Ahhhhhhhh p day already?! Man... time is just slipping out of our hands lately! 

Monday- today was super fun! We got all our shopping done and then played some kind of baseball game for our zone activity. Man..... thay was pretty wild.... elders are pretty intense. I'll just put it at that hahaha. For FHE we played a game called "who am i" actually. Idk if that's the real name for it, but I'm naming it that. It's a game where you have a name taped on your back and you try to guess who you are. We played it with Book of Mormon names. So that was kinda tough. 


Tuesday- we had an AMAZING lesson with a..... NEW INVESTIGATOR!!! Her name is Ande and she is sooooo sweet! Ah I just love her so much! She is truly prepared and just GOLDEN! Idk how we got so lucky to teach her! We did a "How to begin teaching" lesson with her and then jumped into the restoration. The spirit was so strong! MAN I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!! 💕 I finished myplan and while I was at the church I saw my dear old companion Sister McGuire 💕💕💕 I love her! Then institute. It was really good! Clay got a lot out of it! Ah he is progressing so well! I am so proud of him!! 

Wednesday- okay, I know something super awesome happened today.... but I cannot remember what it was.... but, institute was good! We had 7 people show up that don't ever come so it was really cool!! 

Thursday- today was "a trip" - Clay. 
Hahaha well basically we had this super awesome lesson planned with Clay and right as we begin, his dad walks up to us and is like "have you ever had a potato patty?" Then brings us a "potato patty" .... okay it was basically hashbrowns it the shape of a circle.... we finish his potato patty as we continue trying to share a message. Then we get a giant platter of tomatoes with pepper on it and Clay starts laughing and telling him to keep bringing food to see if we will eat it. Then we get like 6 glasses of different juices that we "had to try". Finally we get asked if we have tried "Casadillas" .... or as we call them quesadillas. I am pretty sure Casa means house but its been a while since I have spoken Spanish. Obviously we were not in control of what was going down. We then have Clay showing us all their "old Mormon books" basically a replica of an original copy of the Book of Mormon and lots of other random books. Then he pulls out the notes he took on the Book of Mormon a year ago and photos from his baptism. Then we got into a deep conversation with his dad about some doctrine and you randomly hear Clay yelling things like LOOKETH. SEEKETH. FINDETH. SEARCHETH. HEARETH. DOETH.....he was skimming through the Book of Mormon and reading off all the "eth" words. As we are about to leave we got handed an apple each, Clay somehow thinks this is hilarious and is like "heyyyy take the apple from Adam and Eve!" Idk..... YSA is a strange place my friends.... we almost made it out the door when his dad yells "cooking for these gals was quite the trip, Clay, have them over again next week for more food and bible talk!" .....looks like next Monday will have tacos and "old Mormon books" on the menu for dinner and discussion.... 

Friday- OKAY TODAY WAS SO EMBARRASSING!!! lemmmmmme explain. NORMALLY, we have district meetings on Friday and we do our weekly planning on Thursdays at 10 right after our studies. But yesterday we were so busy, so we were planning on doing it today. I woke up and knew that we were doing our weekly planning. So right after studies I start doing weekly planning and my sweet companion followed. It wasn't until 11 when I realized that we were supposed to be at district meeting 45 minutes ago..... for some reason I've been super stressed lately and my brain is stuck somewhere in January. So I totally thought it was Thursday because we were planning weekly that day.... oops. Luckily we made it for the last 20 minutes. The elders got a good kick out of it..lol what is life. The rest of the day was kinda crazy so we ended up not finishing our weekly planning. Haha oh well.... we had sports night tonight where they played volleyball. Half way through the game our ward mission leader decides to say either: bop it! Spin it! Twist it! Yell it! Flip it! Pull it! (Like that one bop it game) every time someone hits the ball. Idk why I thought that was hilarious, but I did! 

Saturday- Today we actually did our weekly planning. It went well. We also contacted around downtown Ventura where all the tourists were. That was fun. Then at night we went boothing at the mall.... let's just say Old people aren't as nice as college kids with that kinda stuff. But we did have one man come up and ask WILL I SEE MY BROTHER AGAIN AFTER THIS LIFE. We were able to bare powerful testimony on the plan of salvation. He was super interested so we have a cool referral for some missionaries in Oakland! 

Sunday- Today was fast and testimony meeting! Wow. The spirit was SO STRONG today! Ande came!!! There were so many powerful testimonies! After I bore my testimony the Bishop stood up and asked me to stay up at the pulpit.... So I awkwardly stood there and he proceeded to tell everyone that next week would be my last Sunday.... So much for keeping that under the radar.... 😓 gospel principles was good! We talked about prayer!! I looooove prayer! It's how we communicate with our Father in Heaven! Who wouldn't want to speak to God everyday!? Then in relief society we talked about temples! After church we had break the fast. Boy do I love that time of day....food. tonight we had a fireside at President Nakkens home and it was all about the Restoration 💕💕 ah my favorite lesson! 

Man. What a good week!!! 💕