Un misionero con un compa enfermito

Day: April fools 

Pushup Count: 286

Buenos días mi gente! A few days ago my companion got sick. It must have been pretty bad cause this last week was the first time in 18 months that he's taken a sick day. He's very stubborn though, so we still did a lot of phone work and studying. But anyways, we were still mia for a few days, so not a ton happened this week. Here's some highlights though:

- Last pday we went to the latino market and then played sports with some friends from my first area - it was super fun to see them

- I went on exchanges in Oildale (the sketchiest part of the mission) and it was so lit. It was an English area, so I got to do Spanish contacts and we got 3 numbers  we also taught some crazy people and a I saw a homeless lady with a giant gash in her head... Super cool 

- The next day elder Westerby got sick so we didn't do much. He drove me around while I put church flyers on doors and then we did a tooon of facebook

- We did what felt like a million phone calls (actually only like 40, but still a lot)

- Did so much Facebook work that now Facebook thinks I'm a bot and I can't even send messages anymore :)

- Since we were sick we had lots of time, so we filmed new Facebook intro videos

- Yesterday was Easter  we had a cool church service and I played the piano for a few songs 

- A member gave us provably the best carne asada I've ever had yesterday and we ate it at park. They didn't give us any utensils tho so we had to use the tortillas as spoons. It was fun :) Once we were done eating we realized that there were spoons in the bag the whole time 

- A couple weeks ago some really sweaty dude in the park came up to us and gave us his number. When we texted it, Elder Westerby already had it saved in his phone, which was weird. We finally taught him a lesson this week and we found out that Elder Westerby had taught him before when he lived in our old area in Bakersfield, and I'm pretty convinced I had met him before too  he had moved and disappeared, but it's  cool how God didn't forget about him 

So... not the most fun week being sick but it's okay :) We're both itching to get back to work fully so hopefully tonight we can. Hopefully next weeks email is a little more entertaining haha. 

Spiritual Thought

This week as a mission we're starting to read the Book of Mormon in the same time that Joseph Smith translated it (85 days). As a missionary, that's really not that much, but I'm gonna continue my Spanish reading at the same time, so I see a LOT of book of Mormon in the coming weeks haha. I'm super excited though, because I LOVE the Book of Mormon. Whether you love it or not yet, I hope you recognize that the Book of Mormon isn't just like any other book. President Nelson was right when he said that it was power. The power that comes into your life as you read and study it daily is real, so go read it! (it can't hurt right?) 

Les amo muchísimo, 

Élder Page

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