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Thrown for a loop Helloooo! It's another Monday, a hype day and another fantastic start to yet another week. This week has honestly been a bit of a struggle but exciting none the less.   I've run into some bike problems, nothing too big just some flats. The main issue was... when we fixed up the tire I went to ride it to an appointment, it worked just as it should. When we got ready to ride back I check my tires and it's flat again. I have no clue how it happened but the brand new tube lasted about 10 minutes haha. I never got the chance to check the tube for holes because my tire was flat and we were a 30 minute walk away from our apartment. I had a hand pump on me so we biked, stopped to pump, biked, stopped to pump. But as I was riding, I was about to get off and pump it up again, then it popped... yeah my flat tire popped. I saw white dust come out, from that point it held no air. I later found out the part where the valve attaches to the tube tore open. We had to wait ...
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Locked and Loaded   Hello! This week blew by, I guess I was just so focused on the work time just passed on by. I definitely enjoyed it though, we had a mission tour this week. It's a zone conference with a general authority present. We had Elder Meredith  and I liked him. He was very lively and funny.    We had to push back a baptism for a 9 year old we're teaching, we have a couple more lessons we have to teach her and our bishop wants to invite people to attend. Her family is really active and she has a decent memory. When we teach her, there are about 5 kids the parents have sit in. These kids are super fun but it's hard for them to focus sometimes. We have some object lessons we use to try to get them to focus. I love teaching them and they love the missionaries, they always want to ride our bikes because they haven't seen a bike so big before. Their whole family is just fun.    The crazy part of my week was visiting a member's home. They love the miss...
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Well hello, hello, How are y'all? This week was pretty nice, the weather was nice and rainy. I love the rainy weather, that might change once I experience a severe storm. This week is going to cook us alive, gonna hit 99°. That plus humidity, it's gonna be a sauna up in here. I'm excited for the experience none the less     We haven't had too many service opportunities since I got here but this week we had some solid service. A lot of people pay to have people cut up trees, logs, and branches cuz trees often fall down and get in the way. Well after everything was cut up they just left a huge pile of wood. So that's where we come in, we helped them move a ton of wood from their backyard to the front yard on the curb where the city comes to pick it up. Now that I think about it, that's probably one of the reasons why this city looks trashed. People treat the curb like a dump, well because it is, the city comes and gets it eventually so I guess it's aight. Serv...
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 We straight up hooping  Ayyyy what's good? I hope y'all are having a wonderful start to your week. Not too much crazy this week, just a typical Memphis week   We had a good week with regards to finding and teaching. We found Tee and his wife Martha by knocking their door, the first time we knocked though she said "yeah I'm interested but come back later, I'm drinking." Next week we go by again, same response. 3rd times the charm and she let us in, we taught the Restoration and they liked it. Super cool lesson and they said they would start studying the Book of Mormon together.    We had a very cool Thursday this week. We have a Ward Basketball night, we use this to invite people we meet to come play at the church. It's a super easy way to get non-members to the church in a natural way. We had a guy bring 4 of his friends and we balled up with them and a few others from our ward. The guy we invited was really good at dribbling and it was fun to watch, I sa...
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Attack of the dogs   Hey, Hey, it's the start of another beautiful week. More life experiences await, and stories to tell. It's so cool to gain knowledge and learn each and everyday. And no it's not because of the mission that I'm learning so much, at the end of the day it's up to you to decide if you want learn, you have to make the choice to listen and seek. Life has been so much more enjoyable when I let God prevail, trust in Him, and live His Gospel. By doing those things, no matter what happens to me in this life... I know for a fact where I'm going to end up. Knowing that allows me to have more confidence in my actions. I know I've been out serving for like 2 months but it's changed my mindset, I know the importance of this work. It's just up to time/experience to shape me, which I will have plenty of...   Anyway thought over, don't let the title of the email worry you, I'm perfectly fine, my companion on the other hand... just kidding....
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 Jeez Louise, Humidity... Wahooooo! Another week on the grind, having fun, learning, improving, and serving the Lord. Sounds like a pretty dope week to me To start things off, we got a new bishop, which is quite sad. We had Bishop Singleton for almost 8 years. I really wonder how it'll affect the ward. We went from an all black bishopric to an all white one, which obviously doesn't matter to me, unfortunately that image paints a different picture in others heads. It was nice seeing black people up there every week, especially for our friends we invite to church. Just gives a different environment. Speaking of race a lot of people in our ward like to see a white and a black (I'm mixed but you get the picture... Hopefully haha) in a companionship, they honestly think it's better... because... a lot of people will not answer/harshly judge if 2 white people show up, and the same for 2 black people. We got one of both... I could go on and on but the point is people judge som...
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Expanding my comfort zone Hello! I'm excited to get writing, I absolutely love writing to all of you. This really helps me reflect on my week and allows me to easily express how I feel. Also helps with my typing skills in general. Let's get outta this intro though and get into it... This week has been very eventful, none the less. I enjoy each and every day. With that being said it's also been a letdown at some points, some of the people we're teaching are not putting in hardly any effort towards being baptized. These people have been meeting with missionaries for over a year and say they want to be baptized, but just don't seem to get the commitment level they need to have. We invited both of them to be baptized cuz they were both feeling it. I'm supporting em every step of the way, they will get baptized sooner or later, they have good hearts. This week has been rough with finding though, tons of people just turning into ghosts. Tons of lessons canceled or res...
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