🎵I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight!!!🎵

Ok, these past few P-days have been crazy packed so here's a blitzed email to prove I'm still alive! The work is beginning to finally pick up again after two weeks of slowness but this week is busy so hooray!!!

Last week was occupied with attempts to catch a certain furry creature we dubbed "Elder Mickey." Yeah, we had a rat, but we got him though!!! 

We finally had a friend come to church for the first time in a while. Welles was able to come to Stake Conference this week and I was so happy to see him. He said that he really enjoyed it.

We started meeting with a man named Sean Romney, he's a member who reached out to us asking for us to come study scripture with him. He hasn't come to church in a while but I've met him before! He came to the ward Trunk or Treat way back in my second transfer and he's finally following up and meeting missionaries again! I'm satisfied in knowing that I was able to get something started so long ago rolling, we're now meeting with him every Friday.

We had Bishop's storehouse which was a ton of fun and all the missionaries were singing Disney songs as we were filling the orders, we had to pass the time somehow. 

We went to the Mpingas the other night as a district and that was really good, they had pork ribs, beans, and rice.

Will is coming to church frequently now so I find comfort in knowing that I was able to help him return to following our savior more fully!

Last P-day we played chair soccer which was a ton of fun and the one game lasted for over an hour and a half, in the end Elder Baker won but I got third though which was fun. 

Elder Tuvell and I have been playing some Dungeons & Dragons in our free time Which has been a ton of fun. (That's what all the random assorted dice and coins are.)
Hopefully I'll be able to get a weekly in next week but God be with you until I write again. 

Hehe, now I have three sets of grandparents.😏

Ok, to be completely honest nothing happened two weeks ago and this last week was rough and nothing happened either. I was very stressed out recently but I'm doing better now.

The Davies left for home today and they are going to be missed greatly. They've lived here in the Portland ward for over a year and now they're heading back home to Utah. I am so thankful for all they have done for me in my 5 months here with them. I never knew it was possible to have three sets of grandparents but now I've gained another Grandma and Grandpa.

Our new district is absolutely HUGE!!! At last district council we had 17 missionaries sitting in the same room! We had a piñata and we destroyed it which was a ton of fun. We also had burritos which were very tasty. 

I decided I want to listen to every General Conference talk in the Gospel Library app. So I traveled back in time 1971 and began my journey. I find it so awesome that the very first recorded General Conference Talk is titled "Out of the Darkness". It's given by Joseph Fielding Smith and it pretty much summarizes all the core doctrines and truths of our church. It doesn't cover everything but it lays down a very broad foundation with very clear and simple language. It's crazy to see that our prophets now days are still preaching and teaching the same true doctrines as they did 52 years ago!

I would like to add my voice to all who have joined the Prophets and Apostles in saying, "I know that this church is true." We the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints contain the truths and doctrines taught by Jesus Christ. Now more than ever is the time to strengthen ourselves spiritually. I would like to invite all to read their scriptures and wax strong in their faith. God is with us and miracles have not ceased in this world, in fact they are around us in countless ways. I so testify with love and hope, in the name of Jesus Christ, our savior, Amen.