Dallin is going to be dating????????? AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH HE'S SO OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First off, there was a miracle! I went on exchanges with elder Whiting on Tuesday and we stayed in our area. Appointments were falling through everywhere!!! So we stopped, said a prayer asking us for guidance, and then the Spirit was like, "hmmm....go to 15th street." So we did and we met this awesome black guy named Philip who is a pastor and we taught him the first lesson and he accepted the baptismal invite and he was the first pastor I've ever met who didn't want to bash with us! Whew! That was a long sentence! Wednesday, we tried a bunch of potentials but....nothing. :( So we started to go through the list of less-active members in the ward that we had gotten from our ward mission leader and tried to contact a lot of them. It was really good in some cases and in other cases just plain weird. The good things were that probably 3 of the 7-8 people we contacted this week are interested in us coming back and talking to them and seeing why they don't come to church and whatnot. Then there were just some interesting people. One was a 90 year old lady who says she belongs in the Greek Orthodox church and she never should have gotten baptized, the Church is wrong, etc. But yea it was fun. :)
When we were knocking on Thursday, we set up a return appointment with an awesome Army guy named Darrell! Hahaha but when we came back, his Rottweiler was chained up on his lawn and that thing was NASTY and wouldn't let us come close!! We also saw someone's silhouette watching us through the window so that was....kinda weird. We then went to Bishop Dyer's home for dinner and we had amazing tortas! It was awesome because we are FINALLY starting to get close to Bishop Dyer and he is starting to trust us more! Yes!! Friday night, Royal took us to Jethro's BBQ and brought each of us a GIGANTIC sandwich called the Eminecker!! So it goes like this from the bottom up: bun, breaded pork tenderloin, bacon, pulled pork, buffalo chicken tender, brisket, huge angus hamburger pattie, buffalo chicken tender, pulled pork, bacon, breaded pork tenderloin, bun. not to mention a legit POUND of waffle fries on the side. I didn't even eat a third of the burger and had to stop! I've been eating it for dinner for the past two days!!!
Saturday, we helped brother Poole move to his new place in Windsor Heights and sadly he is now in the Beaver Creek Ward. :( I love the Pooles so much they're awesome! We then had dinner with the Childress family and they are all awesome! I (kinda) played the piano and elder Deeds played the ukulele for a moment with them before we left! It was awesome! Then around 7:00 or so it started snowing and then at 8:00 we get a text from the assistants saying that cars are grounded because the snow was coming down hard! So we went home. And then that night, we got a text from Brother Greene (the ward secretary) that church was cancelled because of the weather!! And then all of Sunday the heavens were unloading snow and we had to stay inside because of the weather and President Jensen had to shut down the mission because of the cold and snow blowing!!!! IT WAS CRAZY! At about 3:00 or so, the zone leaders texted us saying, "you wanna come over?" So we bundled up and layered our clothes and we headed over because we were going stir crazy! That and they live two streets away. :) We played, Settlers of Catan (which elder Deeds destroyed us all at), talked and hung out, and then elder Petersen randomly showed us a bunch of magic tricks. :) It was awesome and when we left to go back home around 8, they were just like "Thanks guys we would've gone crazy!! But man what a week!!
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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