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| Some kind of machine type thing |
This was probably the fastest week of my entire mission. It blew my mind that it was already Friday, then Saturday, then it was already pday eve.
Last Tuesday we got a call while we were biking from of the Elders in our district asking if I could do an emergency baptismal interview haha. They found this girl who had moved to Utah pretty recently to move in with her sister. She basically wasn't allowed by her parents to get baptized until she turned 18, and so as soon she moved out she literally stopped the first set of missionaries she saw and said, "I want to get baptized!" She passed the interview with flying colors because she basically grew up an active member but just could never get baptized. She finally got to become a member of the church last Saturday, which was seriously a miracle.
The members always come in clutch here. There was a time this week I was patching my front bike tube (in 2 places) and found out I was all out of glue for my patches. Then a lady came out from practicing the organ in the chapel and asked if I needed help with anything, and when I explained my plight, she said "Oh I've got a bunch of that glue at my house. I'll just go run and get it." Then she came back like 5 minutes later and gave me a whole new bottle of the exact glue I needed. She also gave me some rubber tire liners, so I hopefully won't get flats anymore!
We found 2 new people to teach too! And they're Filipino! We were literally just talking to the mom on her doorstep and she legit invited us in, and then we all sat down and we shared a quick message about faith with her and her mom. The grandma actually does not really speak English, so when we go back tomorrow night we're bringing one of our ward mission leaders who is also from the Philippines! It'll be epic.
We had an amazing lesson with Adrian last Friday too. He is so open to the gospel. His wife Theresa is a member, and she said she wanted to read the Family: Proclamation with Adrian, so we read that first and Adrian really liked it. He really likes all of the importance of family stuff that the church is really all about. Then we read the Introduction to the Book of Mormon, and when we invited him to read it, he said "Yeah I really want Theresa and I to read the scriptures together more." And I was like, "There's no better way to strengthen your family and have the Spirit in your home." Then they invited us to their 2-year-old's birthday party they were holding the next day, so we pulled up and got some street tacos!
I think what really made this week fly by was that we always had something planned in case we had nothing to do. We just always picked places to knock ahead of time so we would always have some idea of what to do. So every day it felt like we were running out of time! This transfer could very well be my last in this area, so I wanna make it count!
It rained a ton yesterday and today. We came out of an appointment Sunday night there was some scary clouds in the sky, so we just decided to bike home to avoid getting drenched, and it ended up paying off. There was thunder lightning and everything and it was so cool! Elder Toro, being from Florida, just thought it was aight.
It's also August now! Next pday is my birthday and then my year mark is only a couple days after that. This last transfer was an absolute massacre in terms of people going home, so a lot of the homies just died. I realized I've gotta start making homies that are younger than me so I can keep some homies around for the rest of my mission, but some of the new guys that have been coming in lately are pretty chill.
I really really like it here in the UOM. It's so much fun. Literally all day today for pday we played pickleball and spikeball, like my two favorite things ever. I'm having so much fun and making a lot of new friends, and keeping up with the old ones too. I almost have no intentions of leaving this mission anytime soon. I think I like it here too much. And I don't think the Philippines has any intentions of letting me come either, which is fine by me!
Love you all!
Elder Snyder
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| Wouldn't be a weekly letter without a sunset pic |
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| A family we had dinner with had a used rocket launcher so that was cool |
