Week 20: Lehi Boutta Be Litttt!

Kamusta kamo?!?

I've had a good week. Turns out, I may only know how to do missionary work in the Eagle Mountain East Stake! Hahaha, joke lang! There is a little truth to that though, because having a new area, and whitewashing it has made me rethink a thing or two!

Anyway, transfers were last Tuesday and saying goodbye to Elder Sherrod was a sad moment. He and his new comp are gonna tear it up in Eagle Mountain, so I'm excited for them. We'll go surfing sometime post mish, if I ever have to see that boof again. Joke langgggg! Anyway, my new companion is Elder Dieker (pronounced like Dieter in Dieter F. Uchtdorf but with a K hehe) and he's from Eureka, CA! So like opposite ends of CA but it's still cool. He's originally assigned to the Vina del Mar, Chile mission, which is the same mission my sister went to! He went to USU for a year before the mission, so we're the same age pretty much too. And we came into the mission at the same time too, so we've both only been about like 3 months! Turns out we really like the same movies to, especially Harry Potter haha. He's definitely motivated to work too, which is good because neither of us know anyone here haha.

We live with 2 other elders in our district too, which has been pretty fun so far. We do like combined companionship study sometimes, and we cook together sometimes too. We're also all pretty young in the mission. Elder Thomas started the same day as Elder Dieker and I, and Elder Carlin only started 1 transfer before us. And interestingly enough, I'm the oldest one of the 4 of us, and I techinally started my mission first out of the 4 of us because Elder Carlin is originally assigned here and only had a couple weeks of online MTC. They have a car too so it's been fun having access to a car again and being able to get food a lot haha. Especially because we don't actually live in our area either, and we have to ride up a fat hill everyday just to get into our area, so sometimes they give us a ride too.

Also, we actually don't live in a basement apt. either, we live in a house! The landlords have the basement which is kinda funny. We go in and out the front door and we park our bikes in the garage too.

Anyway, probably the coolest thing that happened this week is we had a baptism! The elders that were here before us were teaching a kid named Kallon, and on transfer day they went by to say goodbye, and then the kid said he wanted to get baptized! On New Year's Day! That was on Tuesday, so that night right as we got to our new apt we found out we had a lesson with kid who was on date to be baptized 3 days later. That was a little hectic, but everything worked out and Kallon got baptized on New Year's Day. Elder Dieker did the baptism and I did the confirmation, which was actually a really cool experience.

For pday today, we just did our shopping at WalMart, took a quick trip to Deseret Book, and then got lunch at Mo Bettah's. It's really only a Utah place, but they have like Hawaiian food, and it was basically the exact same thing as Aloha Plate at BYU. It was so amazing. I ate soooo much food. It was a little nostalgic for me too because I thought I wouldn't be able to have Aloha Plate again for so long, and back in March I had to say goodbye to Aloha Plate so suddenly. And on the way out, we saw Brad Wilcox in the parking lot! He told us to hit up President Treadway and tell him to hit him up anytime about doing a devotional or something for the mission haha.

Oh yeah, New Year's Eve was pretty uneventful. We had to be in by 6, but we did get to see some fireworks too. We did not stay up until midnight either because we are obedient missionaries hehe.

Anyway, that was my week. I really haven't heard anything about the Philippines, but I am still really excited to go someday. I am still studying my Hiligaynon everyday, and I have really been enjoying that too. I think of it as my way of showing the Lord that I am trying to be as ready as I can to go there eventually, and I want to be as prepared as I can be to meet, interact with, and really help the people there.

Palangga ta kamo! Dapat kamo magpangamuyo para sa Lehi kag para sa Pilipinas palihog!

I love you all! Please pray for Lehi and for the Philippines!

Elder Snyder