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| Photo shoot at the only view in our area |
SO WUS GOOD YALL
This week has been quite the week. We really are looking for ways to have fun around here because it is sooooo cold nowadays.
We had Zone Conference this week, but it was all over Zoom, so we actually had Zoom Conference. There were some really good talks from different missionaries throughout the mission, and President and Sister Treadway spoke too and they were great as always. President Treadway spoke on basically his ideas on how to simply live a happy life, and it was cool because it wasn't just about straight missionary work like it normally is. It was kind of sad though because Zone Conference is normally when you get to see all the homies from the mission, but we just sat on our couch and watched it in the living room. In our suits haha. We were okay though, it was still a really great Zone Conference.
We were finally able to hear back from Maria this week! She has been really busy with her job of course, but she and her new husband now have been looking for a house too, so they've been busy with that. So the only person we're teaching might be moving! Yay! (that is sarcasm, just so we're clear) We're meeting with her tomorrow though so hopefully that will go well. We will just have to see where that goes...
We've been doing a lot of contacting and just knocking doors and meeting people this week, which is always interesting because you never know what you're going to get when you knock a door. We've met a lot of really cool people though and people are usually pretty nice to us. Not a lot of people that are interested in the gospel, but it has been fun.
So Elder Dieker and I don't actually live in our area, and we have to bike up a fat hill just to get into our area every day. And it has been very cold and snowy the last couple days, and I am shivering sitting in my apartment thinking about biking up that hill later today as I write this. Anyway, Elder Dieker decided to name the hill "Big Donna," and we only refer to the hill as Big Donna now. We also made a scoreboard of us against Big Donna on how many times we have conquered her. Big Donna gets a point when we get a ride into the area from the Elders we live with who have a car. Attached is a picture of us with our scoreboard.
As for the food this week, we decided to not eat out this week and do our own cooking and that has been fun too. We've been doing a lot of cooking together as a group of 4 elders. Elder Thomas makes some really bomb fried rice, and Elder Dieker and I made fancy nachos too. We did go to In-n-Out today though which was amazing as usual. We do have plans to go to Chick-fil-a this week too....
Lately, I've been thinking about how it's really important to keep in mind that a mission is so much more than just knocking doors, Area Book, and talking to people that don't really want to talk to you. There is so much for us all to learn about the gospel, about Jesus Christ, and about ourselves that I feel like you can really only learn with an experience like this. As a missionary, I really only get a small glimpse into what Jesus' life was like. Jesus spent 100% of his time teaching the gospel and serving others, and I at least am trying to do that to the best of my abilities. Jesus certainly suffered a lot more than I ever will have to, but because of his sacrifice, I am able to be strengthened through the hard things in my life because Jesus has done it all before.
Anyway, that was kind of the week. For reading to the bottom, you get to hear about the subject line, hehe. So Elder Carlin always plays Christian rap in the car, and he always plays a song that says "cold water for my broken heart" like 98,3347 times. Now, my companion, Elder Dieker, and Elder Thomas are both originally assigned to Spanish speaking missions internationally, so they like to put Spanish words into random sentences to speak some funny Spanglish. So we all like saying "cold water for my broken corazon" all the time just to troll Elder Carlin, haha. Anyway, it really isn't that funny, but that joke has persisted the whole time we've all been together so it at least can last.
I love you all! Have an awesome week!
Elder Snyder
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| More from the photo shoot |
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| The scoreboard against "Big Donna" |
