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Well Hello Beautiful Women who read my oh so boring e-mails :) ...oh hello my dudes, who also read this...fix your face... (.__.)
Haha So, this past week was very productive. Saw those crazy polys up in Boliver...which is where i spent the vast majority of my week at this past week. Also met one of the most zombie prepared person in the world..like for real. He said its all going to happen and when all the people who thought he was crazy (with the exception of the missionaries. Hes a recent convert) come and look for him when it goes down, hes going to close down his super thick metal doors and laugh. Hah he was pretty funny but ...im going to go find him if it really happens haha. Anyways, i just got done geting my lumber jack swag on, working on the starter and engine of log splitter and chopping a million quarts of wood so...im kind of tired. Haha anyways, here was my past week...
Tuesday October 2nd: Seeing how our teaching pool is incredibly low (Like 2 people...smh) Me and my comp decided to try a new method of finding because tracting in our area is beyond ineffective. The Aurora Area covers about 4-5 cities, Auroa and Mt Vernon being the biggest of all of them. We got the ward roster and marked everyone who is active in church and then broke down all the Less-Active families down to what cities they live in and visit all those in the different cities, on a different day. Today we went the biggest area; Mt. Vernon. Now...in Mt Vernon, its a law that you cant knock on certain peoples door if they take their home address to city hall...you can get locked up for a little while for it...hahaha kinda crazy. But, we hit up all the names in the Mt. Vernon area, about 15 something names...were only able to meet with like 6 or 7 cause no one was home, even when we tried back later! A vast majority...well all of them were not interested. Except for 2 families; The Cantrells and...The Forsyths. Yup, took me a second to get that one in my head. Ya'll dont really need to know their personal business..no offense but this goes on my blog. Haha But we're working with the Cantrells to get them back to coming ot church and the Forysyths are now Methodist and dont have much intrest in the LDS church, but they were probably one of the nicest couples ever!!! They said they support our missionary service and that if there was anything they could do for us, they'd do it. :) Cute Old People!!! That pretty much sums up the day
Wednesday October 3rd: Day 1 of 3 on my exchange in Boliver. Got out here and we met with one of their investigators who they call Grandpa. Taught the Law of Chastity...and i'll tell you. Its a lot easier teaching it to older folk than little children...I think i've done my fair share of the Birds and The Bee's talks with a few of the little kids with their parents! Haha Low key...nah high key VERY AWKWARD. Haha Anyways, Hes geting baptized on the 19th of this month. Today we also visted that crazy Zombie Prepared guy...well to be honest, hes not crazy, he just has a strong feeling that the Zombie Apocolypse is going to happen. Did you know it talks about the dead coming to life in the bible... (.___.) dude....haha Anyways, hes a recent convert so we taught him his new member lessons and that wraps up today.
Thursday October 4th: Started the day off with a very long and chastising Zone meeting...aparently we're not doing as well as our zone leaders had wished so...they kinda tore us up haha. But its all good :) I know that Aurora is progressing just fine, the only person who can tell us other wise is the Lord...and the mission President, but no worries there :) After i went back to Boliver with my homie Elder Keith Macilroy and did some service for a non-member family. Baled, and yes i counted, 280 bales of hay into a hay barn...I was so dead after that. And we still chopped wood!! Uhh!!!! Muscle Memory is a beautiful thing...shout out to Coach E and the whole Strength & Conditioning Staff up at the U. Oh which reminds me...we lost to USC )': dude. bummer zone haha Its all good. This is all a process...gotta take our lumps at first and slowly but surely push through to the top. It beats droppin bombs on Mt. West teams haha. I'd rather go toes with everyone in the PAC 12 then sweep the MT. West. We'll get there. Whoa...got side tracked haha. But that really was the brunt of our day. Oh we went and taught some less active members with one of the members and we came across a guy who stopped coming to chuch because of a lot of personal reasons but one of them was he couldnt afford church clothes cause he didnt fit any of his old ones anymore. Mom, im going to need some new long sleve white shirts haha I gave 2 of them to the guy and some ties. But, that was the whole day.
Friday October 5th: My last day up in Boliver. Started out with meeting with an older lady whos getting baptized on the 20th. Watched Legacy and then headed back toward Boliver; she lived in a town called Humansville....scary town haha. But when we got into Boliver we went and saw those Poly's again. Theres 3 Brothers straight from Samoa and 3 other Tongan cats from Tonga. One of the Samoan brothers is dating a Mormon teine in Hawaii whos related to the Ho Chings in Utah, shout out to Beav one time. He said he wouldnt mind taking the lessons, as long as i taught them to him, when i told him i wouldnt be back after today, he said in samoan, i understand every word he said and it went something like this "Sole, I dont like these white boys (palangis) they think we're going to rob them or something. Thats racist" Haha something along those lines. I told them the message is still the same so hopefully he takes the lessons. We had dinner with them after...felt like i was in heaven! Sapasui, Taro, Masi, Coco Rice and other things...but i dont know how to spell it haha. G.O.O.D Friday.
Saturday October 6th: Exchanged back and got back to Aurora with enough time to catch the morning session of conference. After we headed to my little league football game and we bombed on them, of course, 53-0. Sad story bro...oh well. We won. After found out the announcement of the new missionary age!!! So....theres about to be a lot of young fellas and ladies out in the feel....Haha all you 17 year olds better get those papers ready!!! #HashtagCalledToServe. Shout out to T. Jex and Inok-Locc. Oh, attended my first Prieshood session ever...Like for reals. Haha I missed every priesthood session my entire life...hooray for my first :) Better late than never.
Sunday October 7th: I hope everyone enjoyed the words of the Prophet and Apostles today! Very very inspirational talks, Especially Elder Holland!!! Yo...Boyd K. is getting very old...He kind of looked like Mr. Fredrickson from UP. :) haha I love that guy! One of my favorite apostles for sure!!
Well..there you have it folks :) My week at a glance. Only got 3 weeks left for sure in Aurora, 2 weeks till transfer calls so. To be honest...as much as I love Aurora and the awesome set up i have...Im hoping to get transferred somewhere else. Haha Im coming up on 6 Months and im still here haha. Oh well...I guess when the lords prepared for me and Im prepared for the lord people, I'll be sent to them :)
I hope everyone has a great week. Also, please keep my brother Christian Terry and his family in his prayers. Go to https://www.facebook.com/BelieveInCt and keep praying and supporting CT. #BelieveInCT
Till Next Time
Take Care (Shout out to Drizzy Drake (: )
-Elder Isaac Asiata