Un misionero con mucho comida

Day: officially the end of spring here in Bakersfield

Pushup Count: 298

Hey y'all how's it going? This was a long week - every journal entry I wrote has some variation of "I'm super tired" somewhere in it haha. Lots of good things happened tho, including a weird amount of stuff to do with food. Highlights:

- We saw the eclipse... It was cool I guess 

- We went and got wings with the district ( #1)

- We brought an inactive member to a lesson, which is lit, but then she kinda just distracted our friends the whole time  they ended up giving us shrimp pasta ( #2) 

- We did service and they gave us cinnabons after we packaged 360 rolls ( #3) 

- I went on exchanges with Elder Taylor who only has a couple months left in his mission. He doesn't speak Spanish so I had to teach two lessons by myself  he's a great scripture reader tho and we had a lot of good conversations 

- A sweet old member made us the best posole I've had on my mission so far ( #4) 

- We had a walk day and it was awesome! I know most missionaries are jealous of the fact that we have cars, but walking was so much fun

- It almost hit 90 here 

- After a couple super hot days, it started to downpour and it's just now stopping. I went on exchanges with my ZL Elder Gardner and we were soaked after just a couple minutes. Luckily, one of our friends let us in for an on the spot lesson and they gave us fish tacos ( #5) 

- We had a member meal with the coolest family ever - Hermano played us Spanish music and Justin Bieber while we ate taquitos ( #6) 

- We decided to knock on this tiny little house that was basically in someone's backyard and this sweet old Honduran lady answered. She told us she was so happy we visited because she's sick and she doesn't get to see people often (at least I think, catrachos don't open their mouths when they talk) She also did this funny thing where she would just yell a couple words out of nowhere and make us jump. She gave us orange juice ( #7) 

- We had a member meal last night and their daughter put makeup on all of us 

- I played a guitar for just long enough to realize that every time I pick up a guitar I've forgotten even more 

So yep. Lots of food and lots of being tired haha. The district leader/trainer list came out last night and made it pretty clear that Elder Westerby will be leaving. I'll let y'all know if I get a new comp next week. Let me know what the best food you had this week was! 

Spiritual Thought:

I just want to share a banger of a scripture this week. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says: 

"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong"

I invite y'all to just think about that this week, how your weaknesses can be made strong through Christ :) 

Muchísimo amor, 

Élder Page

Fotos! 

probably the healthiest meal eaten in our mission this week

us lookin super pretty