Un misionero en el carro

Day: 4

Pushup Count: 271

Buenos días a todos! It was a good week here in Bakes but yes, you already know I forgot to write about any of it  Please forgive me and wish me luck. I'll try to remember the highlights:

- We played volleyball last week and I spent the whole time trash talking with Elder Mitchell in Spanish cause it's the only practice I get these days 

- I went to the dentist! Not something you get to do much as a missionary, but one of my companions needed something fixed so we got to hang out there for a sec

- We had an awesome lesson with our friend Ryan. He's been studying general conference by himself and getting super close to baptism :)

- Tuesday night we rushed to finish the presentation we were supposed to give in zone conference the next day and then woke up early that morning to go down to Palmdale 

- We had an awesome zone conference x3  I was absolutely exhausted by the end but it was fun to see all of my favorite people across the mission 

- I went on exchanges with Elder Sjoblom in Lancaster and we had a great time. He did cross country in high school too so we ran in the morning and it was a blast 

- This week's institute was about marriage and family again (with a little video about Yom Kippur mixed in there for some reason ) so that was fun

- We went to the giant park a couple times to talk to people. We started talking to this one lady and then her dogs almost ate a little girl so that was awkward 

- We went to the ward halloween party and had chili dogs and some of the best mac and cheese of my life (maybe just cause I was starving, but it was really good) 

- We had a cool moment where all three of were teaching someone in Spanish over Facebook at the same time 

- We had dinner with the Allreds and they also had bread... For some reason it's been so tempting lately. But anyways I did eat like 8 pieces 

- We stumbled upon a chalk art exhibit near our house last night so we walked through it on our way home and pretended that we knew what good art is supposed to look like 

- I have a 9 day duolingo streak learning French in Spanish and I still don't know how to say hello, goodbye, please, or thank you... I think the course might be a little off  But on the bright side, I can talk about apples (les pommes) and books (les livres) all day long. 

With all those zone conferences we did a lot of driving and it was pretty exhausting. But we got a lot of work done and slept great  Next week starts our series of exchanges so we'll see how that goes. Let me know how your week was, especially if you think you drove more that me. 

Spiritual Thought

I was reading near the end of Alma this week, right in the middle of the Book of Mormon war chapters, and I ran into one of my favorite verses. Basically what's happening is that Moroni is out fighting the Lamanites and he's not doing so well. Even though they've won a bit, they're running out of food and soldiers. So he sends a letter to his leaders and is like, "Hey! We need help, why are you ignoring us? We're all dying and you're just sitting on your thrones eating grapes and watching Netflix or whatever". He's pretty stern with them, but in the middle of the letter in Alma 60:10 he says, "And now, my beloved brethren—for ye ought to be beloved; yea, and ye ought to have stirred yourselves more diligently for the welfare and the freedom of this people". I love so much how he expresses his love for these people even though they're neglecting him. It's one of the biggest examples of Christlike behavior that I've read. He truly loved those who had wronged him. And we should too :)

Mucho amor, 

Élder Page

Fotos

before the chalk

chalk