Flu Shots and Rug Burns!

Lots of fun stuff to report this week!

First off, we found this new way to make biking a lot easier! We decided to play Mario Kart while we are biking. So if you slap a trashcan or mailbox you get a weapon and you can zoom to the front or throw a banana. It's pretty fun.

This week we went out to eat with a recent convert named Mattheus. Theres this place right across the street from the institute called Cali N Titos and they have good tacos. But then on Friday, we were able to go to his ordination. He got the priesthood and a temple recommend and we are so excited for him! His girlfriend came from Utah to be here for it and it was pretty awesome. He's incredible. 

After the ordination, President Joyner went and bought us Cane's. He's an angel honestly. We are our Cane's and watched the new Book of Mormon video!! Who watched it? It's so good I'm so excited for the rest of them. The trailer is incredible I loved that too.

We met this guy Harlis on campus the other day and we were able to have a lesson with him this week. He also brought his two friends Chris and Marquette. They're pretty interesting but they're awesome. 

Lisa is still doing really well. We are getting ready to start planning her baptism! 

We also got to watch the devotional that President Nelson gave at BYU and we loved it. I love how he explains things and I love how inspired he is to talk about the things that he does. My favorite part was when he talked about how God's laws are a reflection of his love. He gives us these laws so that we can progress and become more like him. And that's an expression of love by him. 

The best parts of this week were zone conference and the game!

So zone conference we talked about so many amazing things. We got so many new ideas of how to find people and talk to people. After that conference we went out and hit it hard and we were able to find 13 new people. A miracle honestly. We love zone conference. 

Also at zone conference, we got flu shots! Woot. I was excited I dont want to get sick so. But we had an interesting time getting flu shots. I was waiting with Sister Ferris until she was done with her shot and I look over and this elder gets up from his chair and passes out on the floor. So President Marsh runs over and the elder finally opens his eyes and says "hey president". Poor guy is okay but he has some major rug burn on his face that looks like it hurts pretty bad. 

We also had an elder fly over his handle bars on his bike the other day and break his wrist. He had to have surgery on it to get some screws and things. Bike safety yall. And flu shot safety I guess?

We went on exchanges after zone conference and that was pretty fun. We had Sister Hammons with us and we had a blast. Always love learning from other missionaries. 

And of course. Game day!!! Go dawgs! This Saturday Georgia played Notre Dame and it was a huge game. But it was so fun. 

One of the members, Micah, is in ROTC and they were putting those little pom pom shaker things on every seat in the stadium so he invited us to come help. So guess who got to go in the stadium!! It was so fun. There are a lot of seats in there though haha. We also got to go see where ESPN was set up. Crazy game yall. We stood outside the institute and handed out lemonade and cards which went pretty well but everyone was pretty drunk so I dont think they'll remember it haha. And the dogs won 23-17 so that just made it all the better. 

Something I wanted to tell yall about is something we do in our mission called yellow pad prayer. And really what it is, is a way to receive personal revelation. We have yellow legal pads but you can use any paper you want (just dont tell President Marsh). And we open a prayer like normal, but then you ask for the guidance and questions you have and you leave the prayer open ended and write down the impressions and promptings you receive on the pad. Because as we write them down, we are better able to recognize them, we remember them, and we will act on them. In our prayer we also make what we call perfect boxes. And they are just boxes you can check off for things God wants you to accomplish tomorrow. It's been really helpful for me to be able to really listen to what God is telling me. And after you've done all this you can finish out your prayer. 

Its has been an awesome experience trying to figure out how to do this and receive that revelation from God but it is really helpful. So I would just encourage yall to write down those thoughts and impressions you get as you're praying so that you're able to show God that you will act on those things.