Sorry for not writing last week, our P-day was super full. We played basketball a little later and after we ate lunch and went shopping it was basically the end of the day. Unfortunately I didn't get much time to send out emails. Last week was pretty cool, we moved a lot of beds to missionaries around the mission who are moving into trios, I got to eat at MOD pizza in Fairfax and got to be in a nerf gun war with a 5th grade kid after dinner one night. It was a pretty good week with conference, we have been sharing lots of messages about the prophets this week.
Last P-day we got some solo cups and elder Wamsley and I have been playing some pong. We've got a record board on the wall made out of a la Croix sparkling water box. Right now I've won 14 games and he has won 10. It's a fun game to wind down at night after proselyting and traveling around the mission all day.
This week we got some sunflower seeds and I've been going to town on em. We got a bag of dill pickle seeds and I spit a whole water bottle full of shells in a day, now I'm working on filling a 16 fl oz can. Elder Wamsley and I spit a whole bag of dill, most of a can of sizzling bacon and now we are working on another bag of good old classic Vlassic.
At the beginning of my mission I started a journal that Jeff Harmer gave me, and I finished the whole thing last week. It was awesome to see my progression and growth as a person and a Missionary in reviewing the past 7 months. It's funny to see the stress I was under with companions I didn't mesh as well with and to see how I was able to grow in the next companionship. I'm glad to start the new journal that my grandparents got for me for my 21st birthday!
This week we got to go to a few meetings. We had interviews with President Huntsman and I think we convinced sister Huntsman to take us to her favorite burger place called dice burger. Elder Wamsley and I were talking on the ride to interviews wondering how we might bring up lunch and dice burger in hopes that they would take us out for lunch. Both of us talked to sister Huntsman driving each other's interview with President about dice burger. After our interviews we were walking out right behind them and I whispered to elder Wamsley "what are the odds you ask them if we should ride with them or meet them at dice burger?" And not 10 seconds after I said that President turned around and asked if we should just meet them at dice burger. It was pretty funny how that happened, but it was awesome to eat lunch with them. I'm bummed we didn't get a picture with them!
We also got to eat at this burger place called Melt. There was an apartment we had to move out in Loudoun county (richest county in the US) and it is home to the 4th best burger in the states. This burger was huge and super good. I got a couple T shirts as souvenirs, then we came back the next day with the senior couples who took us out. We got to know the owner because we saw her the 2 days in a row.
We got to eat dinner at an investigators house this week. Corey and Nikki are super cool, they have the huge mastiff that lays on my lap all the time. He decided he wanted to start a book of Mormon that he is going to fill every page with signatures. I'm not sure he will fill the whole thing, but he is pretty determined to fill a few hundred. Corey has a collection of signatures of the cast of the big lebowski and a few other celebrities.
We also got to do this thing called receiving light. There is this religion that is actually extremely similar to the back story of Joseph Smith, but their founder is Japanese. So these people put their hands around you, but don't touch you. They have a medallion that they have that directs the light to specific points in your body and head that made the toxins leave your brain and kidneys. It was really relaxing because they had it quiet and had me lay on a yoga mat. I'm not sure any light penetrated me, but it was a good time of reflection and meditation. They told us afterwards that if our bodies have irregular discharge like runny dose or diarrhea that it was our bodies getting rid of the melted toxins. Elder Wamsley calls them our hippie friends.
Keep elder Wamsley in your prayers, he has been sick this week and had some weird allergies. Conveniently after receiving light he has had some irregular discharge, maybe he had more toxins in him than I did.....
