18 MONTH MARK

"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."

This week was wild. First 3 days we got to be in our area and we found a bunch of new people which was nice. We had to do service for 5 hours I love service so much but raking leaves is not that fun especially when one of the rakes you have is broken... but we bagged like 30 bags full of leaves and the lady was super happy and grateful. After those 3 days we had transfers. This transfer was wild because all the sisters that I came out with went home this transfer! It was a little sad having to drop them all off and then getting back in the car and knowing I still had 6 more months... but then we picked up all the new missionaries and it was so much fun. Me and Elder Lowder are doing another transfer together so that'll be fun. This week I hit 18 months which is actually insane.  Luckily we stay super busy so I don't think about it too much... yesterday at church we had to teach gospel essentials and the stake president came into our class and we didn't even prepare anything, but there's 2 members that never stop talking if you ask them a question so they took half the time which was nice.  We also had a crazy experience in church, there was a drunk guy that came to church and had to be escorted out because he was yelling at the ceiling, then I was sitting by some of our friends and one of the sister missionaries spoke and after she turned to me and asked if she could clap and I was like yeah go for it, so she starting clapping and chearing for one of the missionaries. It was actually hilarious, I love when friends come to church. Last night we had a devotional and it was by a guy that is an undercover cop he talked about how the Holy ghost would help him now if he was going to die or not. So he wouldn't show up or have to change the plans.  He showed a video of him doing a drug bust and how he caught all these dudes who were smuggling hard drugs into the US. It was extremely intertaining and honestly I might want to do that as a job.