Hey!
A ton of stuff happened this week…I think… It’s hard to
remember now.
We were going to leave for the temple at 6:40 this morning to
do sealings with the guys next to us, but we missed our alarms and I woke up at
6:35, then freaked out and made my compañeros get up. I got ready in two
minutes but they literally took twenty so I was mad, but we sprinted to the
temple and got there in pretty good time. Sealings are my new favorite thing.
I’m not really bummed about being here for two weeks longer.
I think it’ll be fun to have new companions for the last two weeks. When they
called me to the secretary’s office I thought I was in trouble because I had
been on YouTube (looking at church videos) so I was nervous but it was nothing.
I guess they had my leave date for December 1st, which was ridic, so
good thing they changed it. Then they just told me to get to know the Panama
district because I’d be leaving with them, so I’ve been hanging out with them a
bit and they’re super fun. And somehow all the guys who left for panama a
couple weeks ago already know I’m here for two weeks longer. Don’t know how,
but they emailed me about it.
We learned the first vision in Spanish this week! I’m still
going to act like I don’t have it memorized though because it’s so awkward when
they just recite it.
Oh and a funny story…On Friday morning last week, I woke up at like
3:30 am to the sound of a jet engine in my room. And it was freaking loud and
scary, so I just laid there frozen for like a minute before I realized that it
was the sound of a vacuum, so I opened my door to see who it was and I see the
entire older district running away up the hall. Then I realized the sound was
coming from my room, so I went back in and under my bed wrapped up in a sheet
was a vacuum turned on. And the vacuums here are just like the vacuums
everywhere in the church. 50 years old and loud as heck. So I turned it off but
I couldn’t figure out how they did it.
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| The "jet engine" in my room! |
I tried to go back to bed but I kept thinking of how I was
going to prank them back. So after an hour, I got back up and took my paracord
to the other side of the hall where they live and tied their doorknobs
together, because they’re in the corner, and then waited till the morning for
them to wake up so I could see them trapped…and it was hilarious. They were
stuck for like ten minutes before they could fit a knife out the door and cut
it. Then they explained how they did the vacuum thing.
So we tape the lock on our door so we never have to unlock
it, and earlier that day two of them hid the vacuum under my bed then turned it
on, and switched the breaker off to the outlets in my room, so there was no
power. Then at 3:30, they switched it back on and waited for me to come out-
haha! It was so freaking funny. Elder Donaldson was super mad but Elder Clawson
just didn’t care.
After that we had service, which is every Friday, and we’re
assigned to our building so we basically just clean up our mess. Then we played
volleyball after that, which was still the morning, so the sand was like frozen
and nobody could feel their feet. But people suck less now so it’s fun.
Elder Clawson had his dad send us ugly ties, so I took mine
and cut the back and flattened it out, so now it’s the fattest tie you’ve ever
seen… like 10 inches wide. It’s hideous so I refuse to wear it, but it’s funny.
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| My big fat ugly tie! |
Sunday was “Christmasversary!” We celebrate it every 25th of
the month. We had church first, though, and I had to go to another branch
presidency meeting, and the second I walked in I had to go to the bathroom
super bad, but It was too late. Then the meeting went for an hour and a half,
so when it was finally over I had to walk so slowly to the bathroom. Took me
like five minutes to go twenty feet up the hall.
At night we celebrated. My companions and I are in
possession of the “Christmasversary” tree and we didn’t know what to do so I
just put it out in the hall and went around to everyone’s rooms and told them
to put something underneath it. It was loaded with stuff. We sang Christmas
songs for like twenty minutes and it was awesome. Then I decided Elder Hall
would be Santa and he had to distribute everything. I got a Poem written by
Elder Winsor and a little picture cutout of Elder Hewitt, who’s kind of new. So
“Christmasversary” was amazing.
Elder Neil L. Anderson spoke at the devotional last night
and it was super good. One of the first I stayed awake for the whole time. He
made the analogy that trees that grow in windy places are much stronger, so the
hard times that we have are just to make us stronger and more prepared. Like I
can now sit mostly still for four hours and I know how to study. So that’s
good.
And last, the other night we were in our classrooms, kind of
studying, and my companion said there was someone in the hall he was talking to
from the San Fernando Valley. So I came out and started talking to him and it
turns out he’s in the El Camino branch! I didn’t know him because he didn’t go
on trek, but I knew all his friends. His name is Elder Lorenzo and he’s going
to Kansas.
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| Me and Elder Lorenzo |
That’s it for now.
Bye love y’all!
Elder Green
P.S.- Kyle and Jacob’s mission calls are sick!!! I knew they
would get to go stateside. It’s a bummer that I will miss them by just a week.
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