Mason's Mission: Un misionero con bici

Day: last pday of the transfer

Pushup Count: 268

Buenos días a todos! We had a lot of crazy experiences this week, most of them having to do with bikes and/or the Elders that ride them, hence the title. Here's some highlights:

- We went to the mall and olive garden as a district... The life of a stateside missionary is pretty fino

- My district leader elder Purcell got called in for an interview with President, so we drove him over there (cause they're on bikes) and we found out he was getting called to be ap

- We went to the legendary don pepes for lunch

- We had exchanges and Elder galbraith taught me how to do yoyo tricks

- Because elder Purcell was getting called to ap, he had to go say goodbye to people really fast. Us, being the angels that we are, let them borrow our car so that they could visit more people. We took the bikes and it immediately started downpouring.... We were soaked after less than 10 minutes of knocking doors. Thankfully a couple people let us inside (we got their couches so dirty ), but we were so cold that we had to all it quits a little early so we wouldn't get hypothermia and ended up chilling at McDonald's for a bit waiting for a ride.

- Speaking of McDonald's, I ate four double cheeseburgers that night

- We got our temporary district leader, Elder Lawson

- One of our rc's gave us pan dulce and then asked if we wanted something to drink. I asked for a water and he goes, "no, no, its not gonna go down with that, take a squirt". So I drank a squirt instead... Also the way latinos say squirt is hilarious

- Google maps lied to us and took us down a super sketchy muddy private road with nowhere to turn around until we reached the house covered in no trespassing signs

- We ran a trio for a bit with one of the bike Elders while his comp went to MLC

- We brought the old bishop to a lesson and he ended up teaching like the whole thing and basically calling our friend a fool.... It was lit

- We rode bikes again for a little bit on Saturday, no rain this time

- On Saturday we had lessons booked from 3-8 pm and all but one of them fell through

- Yesterday we went to young men's and then ended up blindfolding me and yelling a lot... Object lessons are lit

- Yesterday the bike Elders kinda lied to us and told us they had a lesson on the far end of their area and that they needed a ride. We said yes, but then ended up being late cause I left my phone at a members house. Then we found out that they didn't have a lesson, but that they just didn't wanna bike that far which is fair, but we ended up missing a lesson because of it soooo it was a tad frustrating. But I can't be mad cause I love those Elders too much

- We had dinner with Obispo in his super lujoso casa - they made us salvadoreño posole verde and it was sooo good

- Last night the list came out and we found out I'm not becoming a district leader or trainer, which means my chance of staying in buena vista just went up

Wow. Longest email I've written in a while. I hope y'all are doing as good as I am or better (cause let's be honest, I don't want any of you getting hypothermia), but if not, keep your head up and remember that Jesus loves you :)

Spiritual Thought:

I've been doing a special study of Jesus Christ as Easter gets closer and I ended up reading the talk "Behold the Man" by Elder Uchtdorf. It's a super good one, so go listen to it and think about ways that you can remember Jesus more. He gave everything for us, so we can give him just a little bit more.

Les amo!

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