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Well this had been a very interesting week to say the least. But it has been great! Thanksgiving was awesome, we had some dang good food and lots and lots of pie. People just love giving us pie.    Ok well let me tell yall about one of the miracles we had this week. So in our mission we have this goal for every referral we get we half to contact them within the first 10 min we get it. A contact would be just sending them a text or calling them. So we get this referral for a lady named Diannah. So we give her a call and she was very ready to hear the gospel. We taught her a lesson right then and there over the phone! She was asking questions like we are in a roll play. Like "How do I get rid of my sins" "I feel like I'm missing something" "do you have a church I can go to" haha anyway you get the point so we invited her to be baptized and she said she will pray about it. That was definitely an answer to prayer very cool experience.    Also we got transf...

Well this week has been pretty good just sharing the good news with everyone that we can!    I have been having a heck of a time with car keys/apartment keys this week. So like every day this week someone how I have forgotten and locked the keys inside our apartment. We will come home for dinner and I take the keys out of my pocket then as we go outside to the car, well it just won't unlock and as I've said before I look to Elder Chapman with that look of fear saying "Did you lock it" He says "yep" so to say the least we have gotten really good at climbing through our window.    We had a really good/crazy lesson with one of our friends Kim on Monday. We went with Brother Tolman our ward mission leader and Bro Tolman is a very interesting guy to say the least. We go in the lesson planning on talking about the book of mormon and Brother Joseph. Then like boom right in the middle of it Brother Tolman starts talking about Politics, Polygamy, Aliens, transgender ...

Hey everyone how the heck are ya? It's been a pretty good week here, got a lot work done.    The beginning of the week we went on exchanges with the ZLs. So me and Elder Knoll were holding down the fort in Estacada! Elder Knoll is such a good man! Anyway, we were just munching down on some Pepe's food truck burritos and we get a call from some sisters in my district...they were like soo do you guys know how to change a tire. I was like heck ya I do so we drove like 30 mins and went up and helped change their flat tire. Lol those car jack's the car comes with are the worst… sheesh.    We had interviews with President Haymond! That man is so smart sheesh also I don't know how he does it but he remembers every missionary’s name and what ward they are in and like where they are from its insane, he has a dang good memory!    We had the primary program this week and those kids went crazy!  When you're a kid you just don't worry about anything you just b...

Well I don't even know what happened this week it was a quick one.    Went on an exchange with a new missionary in my district his name is Elder Adams! He is a good guy, he is learning Spanish so obviously he is serving in a Spanish area. So as we're going out through our day visiting with people he says. "Man white people really don't like Jesus" "We can hardly talk to a Hispanic guy without talking about the Bible or Jesus" I was like yep you pretty much have to push it down their throats if you want to talk about it to white people. I don't know why but we can talk to people about normal things then as soon as we bring up the gospel their like oops I'm going to head out now, kinda silly.    We had our ward Halloween trunk or treat party this week. And I posted about it on my story on Facebook for (Estacada people) and the only people who voted were people from home who definitely weren't coming hahaha it killed me, but it was great! We had...