This week was pretty good. We are continuing to teach mostly the same
people. We are about to start teaching a mother and daughter who
moved over here from the Gilbert mission a week ago. They are pretty
excited to come to church and be baptized soon!
This week was spring break for the local school district, which wasn't
the greatest thing, because that means that everyone was out of town.
We still managed to have a good week though.
I spent a good amount of time on exchanges this week, which was fun.
Elder Stone, one of the missionaries in my district is pretty cool. I
spent all of Saturday with him, and it was pretty fun. We talked about
video games, which was awesome.
We visited with an inactive couple, and we watched a really good talk
by President Hinckley called "We walk by faith" that I really liked.
They also fed us "Barro's Pizza" which is a super good chain out here.
Also, the "Snake Story!"
So, while we were doing service at the temple grounds, the temple
grounds keeper found a gopher snake in the bushes. Elder Conover went
and decided to mess with it, until it started trying to strike at us,
then we left it alone because we thought it was a rattlesnake. A day
or two later, after finding out that it was a nonvenomous snake, we
were using a dirt road as a shortcut and we saw a stack of old hay
bales on the side of the road. Elder Conover decided that he wanted to
see if he could catch a snake, so he overturned a few hay bales and
found a small rattlesnake, which he promptly killed with a piece of
PVC pipe. We had a member look up how to skin it, and we deep fried it
that night. It was super boney meat, so it didn't taste too amazing,
but it was interesting.
Kind of a weird adventure, but now we've got a snakeskin trophy! 😋
(Meanwhile, I didn't get anywhere near either snake......)
That's what I've got for this week. Hope everyone is doing well!
Keep Hauling That Water,
Elder Joseph Richardson
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