Man, has it been a week already?? Days fly by so fast here.

BTDubbs, I wont be emailing next week due to us spending the day at the TEMPLE this Friday (it counts as our Pday for next week). But, you dont have to cry, I made this one long to cover both days ;] Enjoi!

We have found some people to teach! Its really difficult here because its pretty nice and everyone “Is fine” where they are in life. We’ve been teaching Greg. Old guy in a wheel chair. 2 weeks ago we were on an exchange with the Zone Leaders (so i wasnt here for this experience) and Elder Reed and Gregory went by to see him. They knocked on the door and heard a yell, so they went inside to find him prostrate on the ground. It was 4:00 in the afternoon and he had been there since the night before. He has no family or anything. If they hadnt gone in to see him, who knows how long he woulda been there!

Tuesday we were making calls to former investigators and It was very long and not exactly a party….yet! Behind Elder Reed’s back, I switched a member’s (someone we like to mess around with) contact name in the phone to “”Bill Jones” and told Elder Reed to call the former Bill Jones. He calls and says, “Hey! Is this Bill Jones?”…”No…Its Bro. Inmon…”…. “Wait…What? Your name is saved as Bill Jones” and they just went on, I was laughing really hard. Lightened the process a little more!

We are teaching a part member family Brit and John and its going well! Trying to get them both to come to church and John is asking for sundays off. We are working with some other less active members too to help them back to church and the Temple. The priests are also a priority to try to get them on missions.

The last couple of days we had the nicest weather Ive felt since last winter! It just had the feeling of an Arizona winter. It was so much nicer to be out on bikes! One day it rained while we had to be out on bikes….So I think I learned my lesson! I totally did NOT biff it this time. Be proud.

Between the people we teach, we have a huge list of people Bishop wants us to check on/see if they are willing to meet, but it seems that nobody is ever home when we try! So some days are honestly just biking out to other towns to try to see doors of people that arent home and speaking to those on the way.

 I also got chased by my first big black dog on my bike this week! Whoooo, its no more heel bitters now! I dont have to worry about running over the dog, just getting away from it! haha

We got a call from a brother in the ward (thats outta town) telling us he was notified that his cars at home were spraypainted and asked if we could go scrubb it off. We texted our Ward Mission Leader, “Hey, would ya know anyone who would donate some nail polish remover?” and his response was, “What?” haha bet thatd confuse you too coming from a missionary! haha We got 2 people donate some remover and we scrubbed his Black Yukon and Jeep. We got everything off of the Yukon and some off the Jeep. That stuff is not easy!

Yesterday we decided to make a legit breakfast – Elder Reed made Bacon and Eggs and we searched for some pancake batter, but no luck. But we did find some German Chocolate cake mix, so we gave that a try! It was really good! Way better than my Hamburgerhelper+Icecreamsandwich in college….

Last but not least, we got lost out of our area for 3 hours! We had a priest that was nice enough to take us and a recent convert to our Mission Presidents Fireside in Hurst (45 min south of us). I was chosen as the lucky navigator using a GPS on a phone that I did understand….So we kept missing turns on the freeway and there are SO MANY bridges everywhere, it was confusing! Give me the benefit of the doubt. We ended up taking close to 2 hours to get there. 15 min before the fireside ended. We walked in and there was a youth fireside going on….What the? Apparently it was rescheduled but that information didnt get trickled down from ZL to DL to us. We just threw up our arms and just accepted it for what it was. We laughed about it and then went the 45 min ride home…but this time I didnt mess up so bad.

Whoo! If you got through all that give yourself a cookie. You deserve it, friend!

I love all y’all so much! thanks for the prayers, letters, and emails, it means a lot!

Much Love,

Elder Householder

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