Thanks for the awesome letter! Sounds like Snowflake is kicking into high gear! Sam and Vandee bought the Home Slice pizza place and are running it?? What??? And Dallin is going to be getting his driver's license??? WHAT??!! And the house might be sold and you'll all move??? WHAT??!?!!! Man leave for a mission and everything changes!! :) That's so awesome with all that's going on though! To answer your questions, the ward members have been praying for missionary opportunities and are working on that. Oh by the way, WE FINALLY FOUND VICTOR AGAIN!! He apparently had to work on the day of baptism and now he is getting a new work schedule so we can coordinate something with him and we'll be re-teaching him everything before he is baptized so pray that everything will go through! As for Pastor Philip, we haven't been able to find him so we're working on that.
Hahaha so on Monday after we did laundry at brother Vaughn's house, for some reason his drain in the basement started backing up so we were like running a pipe snake down the drain, nothing happened. Then we tried some drain cleaner and nothing happened but some black sludge started bubbling up!! So I got down on my knees-in work clothes obviously-and stuck my hand into the pipe and started pulling out a bunch of nasty goop. Nothing we were doing was working!! So brother Vaughn called Roto Rooter and they apparently came over the next day and flushed the pipes with superheated water and that finally did the trick! Yup just another week in good ole' Des Moines!
On Tuesday we went on exhanges with our zone leaders and I went with elder Petersen in our area. Hahaha man I love that guy! We hit the east side of our area, some areas were REALLY ghetto, and tried to contact a bunch of less-actives and we did some finding as well. Hahaha even though we were both bundled up, we each caught a cold because it was so cold! Especially elder Petersen poor guy. Haha we met this one lady named Tonya and we taught the Restoration to her on the doorstep and it was interesting. The lesson was good but man! We were both getting weird vibes from her so it was kind of strange! And we met a random guy named Lef from Estonia! Sadly he wasn't interested in the gospel though. We then went and read the Book of Mormon with Madison and went home. Another miracle was the Shafers had us over for meatloaf and mashed potatoes! They are a less-active family who we've been starting to meet with more and they are awesome!!!! On Thursday I went on exchanges again!
After an AWESOME district meeting, elder Hoskins and I hit our area! We did a lot of finding and met with some awesome less-active members who were open to us stopping by again some other time! Miracle! :D Hilarious story real fast: I had to go to the bathroom so we stopped at a nearby McDonalds and I went. I went to get a quick hot chocolate and the cashier, an awesome black guy named Deonte, was like "Can you go shake everybody's hand in the restaurant and introduce yourself to them?" So I said, "Umm...what?" Then he looked at this little card he had in his hand and he then said, "Alright, can you turn around, tell everybody your name and then yell your biggest fear?" Then I just said, "What? Look man can I just pay for my drink?" Then he told me, "If you do it, the drink is free." So I turned around and in a loud voice said, "My name is elder Flake and I have claustrophobia!" All of the employees went CRAZY cheering while all of the customers, including me, looked confused! Hahaha so apparently all of the employees were having some kind of contest that their manager gave them and they had to try to get a customer to do one of the random things on a card that the manager gave to the employees. So after my announcement, Deonte pulled out a McDonalds sticker that said "I payed with lovin" and gave it to me along with my free hot chocolate! Best bathroom stop ever right? Hahaha it was hilarious!! And weird!!
On Friday, we were able to see William and his family and set a baptismal date for March 7! It was kind of an interesting lesson though because we started talking about the Restoration and then William kinda took the reigns and taught his family the Restoration pretty much! Hahahaha man he is a character! But it was awesome and we still have a lot of work to do with him and his family! :) We also saw Curtis that afternoon which was a blast because he is hilarious! Man I love that guy!! Ha-ha another random story: we were knocking a neighborhood and on one of the doors this big black guy opens the door, looks at us and our nametags, and before we say anything he just says, "Yea, this is a crack house so I'd appreciate it if you didn't knock this house again bye." And then he slammed the door. Gotta love Iowa! On Sunday it was stake conference and that was awesome! Bishop Dyer gave a talk on the importance of developing Christlike attributes and then in Sunday School, the stake president, President Pence, went through a bunch of them and we all discussed them and how we can better develop each one! It was awesome!
So in my personal study on Sunday afternoon, I just sat down and read out of the New Testament and it was fantastic! I need to get so much better acquainted with it because the life and ministry of Jesus Christ and his apostles is just amazing! I'd encourage you all to start studying it more! When we were knocking in this kind of sketchy neighborhood, we suddenly saw a random cat corpse lying in some yard! So we were like "Ok?" and then not five minutes later we saw it! This sign outside a random, scary-looking house that said "Sugga Babies Day Care." Hahahaha not "sugar" but "sugga!" (pronounced shuga) :) Man I love Des Moines! We then went to a surprise birthday party for Sister Craypo that the Robinsons (family from our ward), the Velas, the Vosses, the Pooles, the sisters, and us had all set up. Hahaha sister Craypo came through the door and we all started belting out "Happy Birthday" as we gave her a cupcake with a candle in it! It was the best!
Love,
Elder Logan Flake
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