July 6, 2025
This has been a wild week. I did a lot of stuff. It's still hot as crap out here, I have been drinking sooo much water, great heavens.
Something about the humidity must make the spiders go crazy or something because I have had several spiders fall from trees right onto me this week. They'll just sit there hanging from a web on a tree and wait for a poor child to smack face first into it on their bicycle, which is lowkey funny to watch until it's your turn. They're also in my apartment and I wake up with about two more bites every morning, so lets hope no poisonous buggers make it in. There's also a spider outside of pretty much every window of my apartment, so opening them isn't an option anymore, lest the beast usher in 10,000 years of darkness. Spiders are the greatest hinderence of the Lords work in these latter days.
Some koreans told me the other day that america had moved an F22 over here, which is lowkey fire, but they didn't really know for sure. It was funny though because they talked about it like it was a dragon legend or something, which it kind of is. Anyways, I saw ittttttttt! The legends were trueeeeee. I was about to get on a bus and it ripped over me RAHHHHHH AMERICAAAAAAAA. what the heck is a kilometer? First time seeing an F22 in person so it was hype.
We went finding by the lake this week, and it was actually super fun (minus the spider that swung into my face) and it was super pretty outside. We try to do our finding later at night now so we don't die from the heat, and this place was so beautiful. We talked to quite a few people and got a good amount of contacts. Unfortunately we got a threat letter from the parent of one of the kids we talked to, so that was cool. Basically they told us that we were a cult and that we were destroying our souls by going to our church, to go back to our home country, and then said if we keep talkin to peoples kids they will "take action." Big talk coming from someone who didn't help pay for that F22 flying overhead. Must not know whose airspace they're in, silly guy. They also must not know that I just graduated high school and am basically the same age as their child lol. I'm sorry for trying to condemn your child to an eternal damnation by asking him if he liked ping pong. I will be more careful next time.
They then continued to send us a list of churches that they apparently approved of, and said that if we go to these ones we won't destroy our souls lol. Well you aint gonna save em either buddy. When people start bashing the chuch I've realized that I can just start asking them questions instead of saying my thoughts. Once you start asking them questions about their doctrine they realize they literally have almost no answers for anything. Where did we come from? Why did we need to come to earth? Why do we need bodies? Why are there so many churches? What happens to people who die without the gospel? What do we need to return to God? They have no clue what to say to these questions lol. Give it some thought! Let me know when you want the answers!
I went to the wilderness this week and helped a family farm. I love this place it's so fire. The greenery is very pretty, and the family I worked with is super entertaining.
Stayed up way to late on Thursday because I was trying to explain time dilation to my companion. I think he actually figured it out though.
Fourth of July:
God Bless America. By devine design God aligned my schedule to have the most fire exchange of my life on the 4th. I was with Elder McBride and Elder Ko and we had so much fun, and got a ton of work done. Elder Ko is a native and I want to be his next companion so badly, mostly because he's the most legandary person I've worked with but also because I want to get goated at Korean.
Despite him not being from America he was down to do a quick 4th celebration with us, which was us lighting up sparklers and singing God Bless the USA in a church parking lot. Elder McBride also listened to my vision for a funny video and executed it amazingly perfectly literally first try. One of the funniest videos I've taken on the mish haha. God Bless America.
We also went to a resaurant that was basically just every kind of bread you can think of. It was industrialized like crazy. They had probably 60 guys in the back making bread of every shape kind and size as fast as they could possibly go. It was dirt cheap so I bought an embarrassing amount. it was delicious.
I then broke into the church using the sparklers we bought because we didn't have a key the cold water bottles in the church fridge were not getting spared, I was coming after them one way or another.
We went hiking with our friend Johny and the sisters. Johny has a cat that lives in the woods apparently. His name is socks. When we got to the trail he started meowing and this cat ran out of the woods to great him. He then proceeded to feed it and then take pictures of us with the cat. He made a group chat and sends us updates of socks daily as well as messages from socks perspective. It was fun though, amd he had a shooting range for slingshots in the woods that we did for a while.
Elder Rust, I have discovered, was living under a rock for 19 years. He hasn't know a single song or movie I've quizzed him on, besides don't stop believing haha. He didn't know "Don't stop till you get enough" by Michael Jackson that was playing in the store, eye of the Tiger on the bus, or any Bruno Mars songs. He hasn't seen almost any of the avengers movies, interstellar, top gun... Basically I have no clue was bro was doing his whole life. Like Elder, I didn't listen to Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, or Ed Sheeran either; but I did, in fact, walk into some local business within the last two decades. I don't know how it's possible. He'd do good in a pandemic cause bro can not catch on
Love him though, he's just got some homework waiting back home.
Spiritual Thought:
While calling my Dad last week we talked a lot about King Benjamin from the Book of Mormon, and some of the things that he taught his people. I love the end of chapter 4 because after giving the people a lot of do's and don'ts he realizes that he would an eternity to explain every sin you can commit, so he basically says, "Aye y'all... don't be stupid." Which like I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically the jist of it. God has given us agency so we can choose right and wrong, but he's also given us the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and the Holy Ghost to help us do it.
When we stop asking what God would allow and start thinking what would He prefer the heavens are opened to us.
"And finally, I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I cannot number them. But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not watch yourselves, and your thoughts, and your words, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and continue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not."- King Benjamin
Love y'all, have a good week.
Current Weight: 194.5 lbs
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