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| Me and Elder Toro |
This was an epic week. It felt really long just because lots of stuff changed during the week.
Elder Thomas is now off to another part of Orem, and now I am training Elder Toro! He's from Orlando, Florida and he's originally called to the UOM!! Let's gooo! He's hilarious and he came ready to work and willing to learn. He's great. And the Vineyard stake is happy to have him too.
Since Elder Ames is AP now, our new roommate is Elder Stubbart. He was also trained by Elder Sherrod so he's kinda like my mission brother. We hit it off from the start sharing stories about our great father whom we love dearly. On my first day with Elder Toro, his bike was having some issues so I had him ride mine and I borrowed Elder Stubbart's bike (which is really nice haha). At the end of the night we stopped by Maverick and I got Elder Stubbart a Goji Citrus Strawberry Mountain Dew to say "sorry for not asking to ride your bike" and he was like "You can ride it for the whole transfer now that I'm in a car!" Big dubsssss
We still be playing pickleball every morning and I'm falling in love. I already loved it, but now I'm addicted. I frequently find myself thinking about pickleball when I'm not playing it, haha. We played today for like an hour and a half today when it was like 95 degrees out. Grind don't stop!
Sunday was great too. Sley and her sister came to church, and there were people sitting with them, talking to them, inviting them to Sunday School, and it was great! Sley's sister is a member, and she's a great help in lessons and in helping her come to church.
One of the fun things about training in Utah is that people here eat it up. Whenever Elder Toro tells people that he's only been out like 3 or 4 or 5 days, they light up! One guy in a member message who found out that Elder Toro had only been out 3 days was like, "Elder Snyder, take your new companion somewhere local," and hands me $20! Another guy asked Elder Toro if he was homesick yet and he said, "Well I haven't really had time to think about it because we've been so busy!" Proud dad moment for me right there.
So a couple weeks ago, I volunteered to be in a choir for the UOM thinking it was just gonna be for some of our mission meetings this week for the new mission president or something. Last pday at night we ended up having a Zoom meeting with all the choir members in the UOM, and President Treadway told us that we are actually gonna be performing for the New Mission President's Seminar which is actually being broadcasted around the world from Salt Lake City! We're singing with some missionaries from the Provo mission, and we'll be traveling up to Salt Lake City this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for the performances. Since it's being broadcasted though, we were told there was only gonna be like 15 people in the audience, but those 15 people will be the First Presidency of the Church and the Quorum of the 12 Apostles!!
We're also gonna be performing for the mission meetings this week, so we have rehearsals and performances pretty much every day this week! It's seriously been so nice to just have a music project again. I've pretty much always had some kind of music performance or competition or whatever to take my mind off of things all growing up, so it's been nice to have all this choir stuff to look forward to!
Anyways, I love you all! The work is going steadily here. As soon as we start finding some more new people to teach (which we will soon!), we will be, as they say, popping off.
Keep popping off!
Elder Snyder
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| Elder Wade and I sang together in BYU Men's Chorus, and he's reassigned to the Provo mission, and now we're singing together again on our missions. |
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| Another cool sunset |
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| Utah Summerz |
