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Awesome awesome awesome about football!! I hope this is the year!!! :D :D And to answer your question mom, it would just be super legit to learn how to play Zelda songs on the piano because they are super pretty and awesome! :P Idk its just an idea though. :) And we mostly do our own door-to-door finding but we've had some good member referrals here and there. :) Hahaha I love the picture of the cows on the porch that is awesome! And the walkway looks great too!!!! So this week was a little crazy!!
Real fast sidetrack: on Monday we totally got to play golf for super cheap because some of the West Des Moines elders had golf clubs and bags in their apartment and balls and the fee was a good price! :D It was the best!!! Monday wasn't very productive unfortunately no one was receptive. :( Tuesday we did the English class thing again and that was interesting teaching a Japanese and a Mexican lady about our system of government cuz it was almost election day. Fun fact about Iowa: they go craaaaaaaazy over political stuff! There have been posters and banners up the wazoo all around Des Moines!!!!! We had dinner with Curtis after teaching him and then we did a bunch of finding and it was hilarious cuz 3out of every 4 houses we knocked on they were all either Buddhist or Hindu and didn't speak almost any English!! Haha man Iowa is diverse! Wednesday we did some service at terah's house, she is an investigator of the sisters who is getting baptized on Saturday! :D, doing a bunch of yard work and it was the best because I totally got to use a HUGE heavy duty leaf mulcher and it was a blast!! :D Then we went on exchanges with our district leader and his companion, Elders Coy and Hayden. Hayden and I stayed in our area and we went and taught Lindsey with some members, Sister Burgess and her son Brooke, and it was totally awesome because it was a super powerful lesson about the Book of Mormon and how it can bless our lives.
We then found a few AWESOME potential investigators and had a blast! Elder Hayden and I actually came out together so that was fun to bond with him. :) Hahaha because we were in my area I got to drive and it was a little bit sketchy at points because its been some time since I've drove on a freeway but we were fine. :) Thursday, we studied and then went out at the cold hour of 10:00 and found some more good potential investigators and then we went to district meeting. We had an amazing district meeting on retention of converts which was super good because we haven't really got much training on that yet. :) Then we went and taught our blind investigator Janet and we gave her volume one of the six volume braille Book of Mormon (or as we named it, the Braille of Mormon) and had a good lesson about the plan of salvation with Mason Diaz (another member). We then gave her to the sisters because Janet apparently lives in their area (oops). They weren't mad though. :) Then we had dinner with brother Nate Spencer who is a super legit member of our ward who goes to Des Moines University, which is a really good medical school. He totally fixed the knots in my back without kneading them and pressing them and making it hurt! All he did was lift my arm in some certain way and I apply a little bit of pressure and after a minute or so the pain was gone!! It was awesome!!!!! :D :D :D :D Then the weekend came and all of a sudden we got slammed with service!!
Friday we did more yard work at Terah's house, then we went and helped the Robinettes move one last time (for real this was the last time, they're moved now) and it was kinda sad to say goodbye. :( That night, a member of our ward who prefers to remain nameless, took us to the fanciest restaurant in Des Moines!!!! A five-star restaurant called the Chop House!!!!!! Hahaha he totally taught me how to eat fancy and properly and that honestly might be the best meal I've ever had in my life. IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!! The steak was amazing!!Saturday we did more service, helping Terah one more time and then helping out brother Vaughn, then we took brother Spencer to a lesson with Lindsey and oh man! It was awesome!!!! Brother Spencer is a spiritual powerhouse and a half!!!! We set a baptismal date forDecember 27th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday we had church, Lindsey was sick so she couldn't come, and Madison came to church! He hasn't been for like three to four months!! :D :D We then went and saw a member's sister-in-law who was in the hospital and gave her a blessing with him. She has breast cancer and is in her late 40s but she looked like she weighed less than 100 pounds and she couldn't be much bigger than a 10 year old kid. But it was really touching because it was a beautiful blessing and we were all tearing up and when we shook our hands she kissed them. Haha it was a little unusual but still really cool. :) We then had dinner at the Craypos (beef stroganoff!!) and then we tried to contact some potentials but they weren't there. :( But the weekend was FILLED with service! :)
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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