Tuesday I had my first real day with Elder Pehrson. He is from Syracuse, Utah and he has been out 9 months. He got to celebrate my 6 months mark with me! August 13 is exactly 6 months from the day I entered the MTC and started one of the best things for me. It's funny to look back and to see how shy and unconfident I was even in the MTC. I feel that I really started to have a testimony in the MTC and then my time with Elder Harris solidified that growth of testimony. My time with Elder Coombs helped me to become confident and bold as I never really was before. I have the gospel which is the best thing people could have. Why not act like it? If you really think it is the best thing why wouldn't you want people to accept it. Elder Gardner, helped me realize how much growth I have had, as we were both out the same amount of time. And lastly Elder Pehrson helped me, too see that it is important to be who you are. Don't act like someone your not. So now I act strange all the time! 
Wednesday we had lunch with Grandma Piecek again, and she made so much food as usual... we were able to help her clean out her garage, so that was good. After that we drove to Crosby and biked around the town to our different appointments. My companion Elder Pehrson was trying to be cool and tried popping a wheelie and lost control, lol. He ended up dislocating his shoulder but he has double jointed shoulders so it popped back in real easy, but he was still in a lot of pain. He ended up scraping up his elbow pretty bad, but he was able to get it cleaned up with my first aid kit. (see it can be useful sometimes!) We called up a member in the area who is a nurse and she gave us ice packs, and some really nice bandages for his arm. She gave us some brownies too! 
It was worth it for the brownies! 🤣
After that cool experience we taught Tammy and her son Isaiah again and we had an activity lesson for the 10 year old. He loved it, and wants us to do more with him!! We had a dinner after that lesson so we biked through the trails again to get back to the car. We then drove to our dinner, and it went well. She cooked up extra stuff so we could have leftovers to eat the next day! People around just love to feed each other, and to go hand and hand with that, people also like eating a lot out here. Besides Polynesians, I think these people eat more than anyone else, lol. After that we went over to Kevin Decent's place and he showed us his bunny farm! He raises them and then sells them off to people. We sat and talked to him for a long time and hyped him up about his hobbies.
On Friday, we traveled down to Onamia (about an hour south) and we tracted out this little trailer park in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately we didn't have any success, but we got lunch at this little hole-in-the-wall restaurant called Happy's, and it was super good! After that we went down south about 5 miles to the closest thrift store because Elder Pehrson had forgotten his tie, so he was going to buy one for the day. We went in there and they told us they didn't have any ties! What type of thrift store doesn't have a tie?! So then we went across the street to the other thrift store to get one there... they didn't have any either! But we got talking with a lady and she said that she had just donated some really nice ties to the other thrift store, so she said we should ask for them to check the recent donations. So back we went and we asked the owner to check her recent donations. Lo and Behold there were three ties! So Elder Pehrson picked out a nice blue one and we asked how much and the lady said we could just have it! She must've figured that if we went through all that work for a tie it was pretty important to us... lol.
After the Tie fiasco we went and we talked to a member there who is so sweet to us. She loves having us visit because she doesn't get much company there cause she lives so far from other Branch members. As we talked she started telling us about this neighbor of hers and she let us know that he said he wanted to meet with us! So hopefully next week we will start teaching this guy! We then went up to a lady named Bobby and we showed her the Because of Him video, and boldly told her that she needed to start coming back to church to show her appreciation for the savior, by partaking of the sacrament. Before we had just kept telling her that she was doing well, but the spirit directed us to call her to repentance! Sometimes boldness just feels so good! And she felt of our sincerity and she wants us to keep on coming over. Being bold is important and sometimes you have to be very direct and upfront with people. It just has to be with the love of the Lord.
Saturday we had another really busy day. Whew... We got to see Stan again, and we talked about Baptism with him for a while, but it ended up turning into a conversation about a lot of other Doctrines of Christ. It went well enough. Then we biked on over to The Rusty Gun, because there are two members that own the place that we hadn't met yet. We talked with one of them for about an hour in his shop. They don't really ever have customers that often so they can just sit around and talk whenever. We then went back to the Apartment to grab the car and we headed off to a dinner appointment that was about a half hour away. They had a great big family get together and they invited us to come on over and eat with them. They had a great big ole fire pit with cheese Brats, hot dogs, and hamburgers.
It was pretty crazy and funny to see them all talk. After that we headed back home and there was a member doing his laundry downstairs so we decided to talk with him. Overall we stayed busy all day!
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| Burning a tie (traditionally Elders burn a tie at their 6 months mark) |
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