Monday, April 19, 2021

Week 35: Whitewashing: Round 2!!

Our last District Council with the Sisters before they left for Brasil.

This has been a WEEK y'all. It feels like a bajillion years since last time I wrote. 

The whitewashing of the Lehi East stake has been a wild ride so far. Before the Sisters who's stake we got left for Brazil, we did get to meet with them a little bit to discuss the people they (we) are teaching, the people they are trying to start teaching, all of these people's friends in their wards, as well as just other cool people to know about. We did get to be introduced to some of these people by the Sisters before they left, but there was no way to get to meet all of them or even discuss all of them. On the morning that they left one of them just texted us a FAT paragraph about everyone else and I was like bruh

We are gonna be kickin it up like 10 notches now with what we're doing. We are finally gonna be going offfff. Once we got the new stake's Area Book combined with ours on their phones I was just like, "There's so many nonmembers!" and a lot of them have already been hit up by the Sisters. They really tore it up around here. 

We are just really excited to get out and start meeting people. It sounds like some of our investigators are excited to meet us too! Absorbing another area is like having a transfer mid-transfer, and it's kinda insane how much quicker of a pace we'll need to be working now. 

Probably the most exciting thing this week was finding out that we were actually gonna be getting a car!! I've never had a car on my mission, and it took some mental adjusting to not really have to factor in so much travel time anymore since we're not biking or walking anymore. As I was driving through one of our old wards I was reflecting on the glow-up I've had here, and how I used to bike these streets in the snow in like 29 degree weather and now I drive them with the windows down in the 64 degree Utah spring. 

Not really many specific things to report on, but it really has been kind of an insane week. Transfers are only 2 weeks away and this has been the fastest transfer of my mission. Also during this week I saw on my Google Photos that a year ago this week I opened my mission call. In comparison to any given year-long period in my life, this has been the most different of them all. Different in that I'm doing something now that no other part of my life has been like, and it has been such an amazing experience. It really has just flown by, and so that's we need to spend all of our precious time doing exactly what the Lord wants us to do, to the fullest extent that we can. 

I love you all!
Elder Snyder


Hot air balloon we always see on Saturday mornings

Some of our Ward Mission Leader's cars that he thought we'd want to see.