Mason's Mission: Un misionero con un halcón

Day: the first rainy (ish) day in a long long time

Pushup Count: 265

Buenos días a todos! This was a crazy week. I thought I drove a lot last week but turns out that was nothing. We went on 3 exchanges this week and spent a lot of time in the car. I have a feeling this is just how my life is now. But anyways, here's what happened this week:

- We played werewolf on pday and didn't guess either of them so we all got eaten :(

- We made oragami dragons at FHE. Ten year old me was cookin

- I went on exchanges with Elder Randall. He's super cool

- I ate street tacos while driving. Not advised but we were in a hurry 🤷🏽‍♂️

- We saw a red tail hawk carry a dead squirrel through campus (don't open that picture if you're squeamish... It's not too bad tho)

- Our ward mission leader Tone came with us almost all day and even joined us for comp study. He's a legend

- Elder Randall bought me chickfila

- Then we drove all the way down to Palmdale and I joined Elder Peterson and Elder Guajardo in Agua Dulce. It was actually pretty there

- We met a member who's husband is an art director for huge Hollywood movies. Also cool

- We ate a member meal in her hair salon. I sat in one of those blow dryer chair things while I ate tika masal for the first time. Fue bien

- Elder Kemp was also on exchanges in Palmdale so we got to hang out at the end of the night

- We had a lesson with Andrea, who's mom is from the Buena Vista ward where I served a long time ago. Her mom said I looked skinny and I'm still convinced that she doesn't think I can speak Spanish. But they gave us guatamalan pizza stuff with hot sauce and Starbucks and it was pretty good

- We watched a broadcast from Elders Bragg and McKay of the seventy and it was super good. Elder McKay talked more about Joseph Smith just like he did in conference and gave us some great ideas for missionary work and personal conversion

- I ate some amazing tacos dorados and got to order them in Spanish I'll take any chance I get to practice at this point

- I went on exchanges with Elder Springer in Valencia. Definitely a different crowd down there, a lot less open to hearing us. But we taught a cool returning member named Dillon and I got to see my trainer Elder Vasquez the next morning :)

- Long story short, we drove to Palmdale the next day to drop off a car that needed to be repaired but the shop was closed. So we dropped it off with my last companion Elder Archibald. At that point elder Purcell realized that he had left all his stuff in Santa Clarita so we drove all the way back there before heading up to Bakersfield. That was a long day

- We had a great lesson with our recent convert Dillon about repentance

- We sang Christmas songs in ward choir

- We saw a super cool sunset at our member meal last night (picture below)

- I finished Doctrine and Covenants for the first time. Now onto the Pearl of Great Price

- Someone made us hot chocolate and it was awesome

So yeah, super busy but a good week. Today is cold and cloudy which is a nice change, hopefully it stays that way. Espero que tengan una linda semana y que todo les vaya bien!

Spiritual Thought

I don't have a whole ton of time today so I'll just invite y'all to go read Helaman 10:4-5 and look at the blessings that God promises to Nephi. I read them this week and they're super awesome :)

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