I'm Older

Elder A. and me!

Hey y'all! The end of Winter is nigh up here! We were driving around (because we have a car) and I noticed that there are actually a ton of lakes in our area. They're everywhere! It's just hard to see them with all the snow that happened. Also, I get my licence this week! We drive a RAV4, but Elder J. is the only one of us allowed to drive right now.  It turns out that International Driving Permits don't actually mean anything up here anymore, so all of us trainees have to wait until the end of the week to get our licenses.

I ate something called "Donair". It's a kind of meat thing that they put in a pita with a special sweet garlic sauce and some lettuce, onions, and such. It was super good. You should look it up. I'm not sure exactly what meat it is, but it's good.

Also, the people who do the steak challenge really want me to try it. I probably won't--I don't think my stomach would ever be able to survive it. But Elder J. did it, so maybe I'll be able to.

We have a service thing that we do every Wednesday. Pretty much we go to a retirement home and help out with the games and serving food and just hanging out with the members there. It's pretty great.  We just get to hang out with a bunch of old people for a couple of hours. We've also helped some people move furniture quite a bit. We tried to help some people with shoveling their snow, but they turned us down.

Also, I did get to do something for my birthday! We went to our dinner that night and they had an ice cream cake with my name on it! They also gave us an air freshener thing as an inside joke. It was awesome. I'll probably get the birthday package today, too.

St. Patrick's Day wasn't really a big thing here, but we did have a St. Patty's day party on Wednesday at the retirement home. We got to wear a bunch of stupid hats and play bingo and such. I got to call out the bingo cards.

I also went on another exchange with an elder. He's actually one of the Mandarin Chinese-speaking missionaries, so we got to do language study in the morning. I'm bad at Chinese.  We mostly went knocking on doors all day but we didn't have a ton of success until after dinner. We decided to do a little more tracting at around 7:30, and at the second door we knocked on, the guy was super interested!  We had a super good lesson with him. He didn't have a ton of time to talk with us, but he said he'd love to have us back later. I won't be there, but I'm excited for him to hear of the awesomeness that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

All of our investigators cancelled at the last minute this last week, so we didn't have any more lessons. But, we did a ton of tracting and studying. Here's hoping for a lesson filled week!

Love y'all! I'll talk to you next week!