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Hey everyone!
This was a pretty cool week. I love my new comp, Elder Barney. He and I straight kick it all the time and he's just super chill. This is his 3rd YSA area, so even though I've been out more than twice as long as him, he's actually been in YSA for longer than me.
We found a new person to teach this week! His name is Xander. He grew up in St. George and in a part-member family where his mom was a member and his dad was Catholic. He said was given the choice and chose to join the Catholic church when he was a teenager. When we came by for our return appointment, we just talked about why faith in God is so important and beneficial to us. He actually asked for a Book of Mormon and said he wanted to try our church again, so now we're teaching him! Elder Barney and I did not expect to find a new person to teach out of our appointment with him, so we both were pretty excited as we left.
We actually had tacos 3 times this week. Don Joaquin's on Tuesday of course, then we went to a Mexican market in our area with really good chicken tacos. Friday we were on our way to Chick-fil-a, and then I started thinking, "You know what, I'm in Orem, and I could get food anywhere right now, and I'm gonna go to Chick-fil-a again?" Then Elder Barney says "I do wanna go to Jurassic Street Tacos sometime," to which I said, "Oh I've never been there," and then turned the car around to head to Jurassic Street Tacos. They've got a truck in Eagle Mountain that Elder Barney used to go to a lot, so when they opened up a store here in Orem we wanted to go. They have these huge tacos that you eat with a fork and knife with lots of yummy stuff on them. They're not street tacos haha. Would recommend.
What's cool about YSA is that other missionaries find people for us. There are probably like 10 family stakes in our 1 YSA stake, and all of the family stakes have their own missionaries, and some sister missionaries found like 2 people for us this week! One of them got handed a Book of Mormon by some missionaries on the street, and then apparently he's been reading it! We haven't gotten to meet him yet but there's some potential. The same sisters also got a referral for a guy that just moved here from California and was meeting with missionaries there and going to a family ward, but now that he's here he wants to go to a YSA ward! Apparently he's like already ready to get baptized. He was gonna come to one of our wards, so we were gonna try to meet him at it. We sent him the time and the address, and called him and texted him before he got there but he never responded. Later in the day we asked him if he'd made it and he said he was there! It was such a bruh moment but still good for him to come to church. Hopefully we'll still meet with him this week.
Friday night I started losing my voice, and then I woke up Saturday and couldn't talk at all. Elder Barney was kinda stressed about having a mute comp but he did a great job. I just did a lot of whispering haha. Some of the people we met with on Saturday called me the still small voice. Sunday I started to get my voice back but still did a lot of whispering. I'm kinda back to normal now but it was so weird not being able to talk, especially for someone who likes talking as much as me haha.
We actually had transfer calls last night, but our whole apartment is untouched. Last transfer was such an earthquake, and we lost so many people to OGs like two weeks so we had a mini transfer then, so it was probably the most uneventful transfer call night of my entire mission honestly.
So for the last few weeks or so I've been hearing about missionaries leaving for the Philippines; missionaries that had been out as long or even longer than me. There's even an Elder in my mission who's going. You'd think after all this time this would be good news, and it really is, but for me it was not. I honestly was really frightened that I'd get a call about it. I've been planning on finishing here for like 6 months. I don't even tell people I'm reassigned unless they ask. I'd still have the choice to go or stay, but not having to make that decision would just be a lot easier. As I thought about it, I eventually came to the conclusion that leaving the Utah Orem mission for the Philippines would probably be the hardest thing I'd ever do.
This week I did get a phone call, but it was to say that I've been permanently reassigned to the Utah Orem mission. It was such a relief honestly. I've loved this mission since day 1, and it's been such a blessing to serve here. There was a time where I really didn't want to be a UOM OG, but now I happily tell people that I finally am.
Love you all!
Elder Snyder
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| Me and Elder Barney |
