Let's Hide a Body

 Hola,

It's super-hot outside. Obviously, it's not even the hottest part of the summer but it still is super-hot. Like around 108 degrees right now. It's going to get to around 115 later which is just ridiculous. Right now, is still terrible though. You just have to plow through it and pretend it doesn't exist. Pretend that it's not mega hot outside. Atleast this year I have a car. 

Funny story, we went to 'noche de hogar' which just means family home evening in Spanish. It's an activity that we have every once in a while, where families in the ward get together and have a spiritual thought and hang out together. Anyways, we're just chilling like 10 minutes before it starts, and some lady comes up to us and asks if we can help her with something. We're like sure. She's saying that this is something that we've probably never done on the mission before. We're like uhhh.... so, then she tells us we need to dispose of a body and gestures to a flippin dead cat next to the eating area! So yeah, that was gross so we got gloves and threw the cat into the dumpster. Everyone in the ward was just watching us. We thought we were so cool but we just looked so stupid. That was super fun and now I can say I disposed of a body on my mission. 

I found a duck egg and its huge compared to a chicken egg

Okay this story isn't super gross. We were teaching Cindy and she mentioned how she felt like there was an uneasy presence in her home so we decided to dedicate the home. It was actually a super cool experience because there was a clear difference between before and after the home was dedicated. The spirit was super strong after the home was dedicated and it felt like I was sitting in a missionary apartment or like I was in my home back in Illinois. It was actually pretty cool. I think Cindy noticed it too. Definitely a spiritual experience to remember. 

Elder Mosis being Elder Mosis

Here is a bunch of short quick stories that you might find interesting. We've started to play soccer every Saturday morning and we got lots of people to come. A lot of people are interested in the gospel too. This will be a super cool finding source because Spanish speakers love soccer. Also, the power turned off in the church so Posadas and I looked for the main power breaker and we found it in the Mother's Room of all places. Then we turned the power on. It was actually more fun than the email makes it sound, it was actually hype. Elder Posadas almost pooped his pants while we were tracking too. That was fun. I drive kinda slow so I think he got mad at me because of that haha. 

We had zone conference and it was actually really good. Sometimes I turn my brain off when it's something I've already heard before since I've been here for 19 months I've basically heard everything and I just vibe. But the theme was not going inactive after the mission so I took lots of notes. It was a good conference and a good theme. Here is the acronym:

P-repare daily to do his will

R-emain a missionary all your life

E-ducation 

S-earch for a companion who is steadfast in Christ

S-tay anchored to family and priesthood leaders

F-ollow living prophets and apostles

O-rdinances 'monthly temple attendance'

R-epent and quick to forgive

W-ork hard but never overlook family

A-sk God what I stand in need of

R-eturn and report each evening to the Lord

D-on't stop doing the fundamentals

Just a funny picture of my mission president

Thanks for reading my boring emails. Love you all so much!

Sincerely,

Elder Neil Pack

Lost in a Thrift Store

 Hola,

Crazy how fast these weeks go. Feel like it was yesterday when I was writing my last email. It's also going to feel extra fast because this transfer is only going to be 5 weeks. It's because our mission president wants the new mission president to come and not be stressed because of transfers. He wants it to be a smooth transition. The new presidents name is President Bruce Nielson, and he's from Texas. He seems like a super great guy. He'll be here in three weeks. Super wild. 

Just chillin' in the President's office

Anyways, so Spanish is going a lot better now. I can speak a lot better. I super wish I was fluent because there are moments where I miss a couple words and I start to lose control of what's going on. My companion is fluent though and helps me so that's nice. Elder Posadas is a great guy. He's just like a big Honduran teddy bear. Everybody loves him. We get along super well. Living in the house is still just fantastic. It's a great time. We're just super spoiled and I love it. Hopefully I stay here another transfer but we'll see where the Lord wants me. Honestly life is just really good right now so I'm worried that pretty soon poop is going to hit the fan.

The massage chair in our house   

We're doing a space theme with the zone and I like making things just so stupid so that's been fun. We keep it spiritual of course but I don't mind having a lot of fun. I also went on exchanges with Elder Spafford the other day. That was super cool. He's the assistant to the president. It was pretty fun. Talked with a lot of people and tracked a lot. 

I had a funny story during the exchange where basically 3-4 hour of our exchange was spent on a baptismal interview. We started out great and visited some people but then we made our way to Deseret industries for a baptismal interview. (Deseret industries is basically a thrift store like goodwill). The lady that was getting baptized was working there and we were going to do the interview on her break. So we get there and Elder Spafford's district leader and his companion were there. They didn't want too many missionaries storming DI so Elder Little and I just stayed in the car while Elder Spafford and Kunz went inside looking for the lady that was on her lunch break. Elder Little and I basically had a great time and just ended up talking about star wars for about 40 minutes. Those guys in DI must have been gone for so long. They literally asked EVERYONE on where this lady was. They even asked for referrals for people would know where this lady was. Eventually someone told them that she must've left to go home so they came back to the car after 40 minutes. Then we drove like 20 minutes to her house, still couldn't find her so then we get in the car. Then a worker from DI somehow calls us and tells us she is working today and that she was in the backrooms during a meeting! So we drove 20 minutes back and Elder Little and I get more time while the others look for her in DI for another 20 minutes. Then they came out after finding her and we go to the mission office since it's attached to Deseret Industries and do the baptismal interview. We then chill there for an hour eating Klondike bars and hanging with the office staff. So yeah, super hype exchange.  

Just a dumb license plate

   

Elder Smutz climbing a building  

Elder Little wearing a
Mandalorian helmet

Another good story while we were in the car this random member guy rolls up to our car and is like, "y'all are missionaries right?" And we were like, "yeah." He says, "what day is it?" We respond with "Tuesday." Then he says "so you're here at Deseret Industries... this must be Monday for you guys?" I look at Elder little, "no... it's still Tuesday..." Then he was like, "cool" and left. Our Preparation day is on Monday so he obviously meant that but the way he said it I think was funny. We had a good laugh after that.

Here's another story that happened. So we get home one evening and some other elders are at the house and we're talking. Someone tries to do something funny and prank Elder Spafford by putting something on his bed (I can't remember what it was, and it really doesn't matter). Anyways after some Elder did that, we're just chilling in the living room on the couches. Elder Frazier comes in and we tell him to go check out Elder Spafford's bed. So he goes in and comes out laughing, he says, "so it's funny what you put on Spafford's bed but... who pooped on elder Gunter's bed?" Were like what... so we all come into their room. We see this huge pile of poop right on Elder Gunter's rug next to his bed. We're like bruh what? Anyways apparently the dog from the neighbors came in a pooped so that was awesome. 

The dog poop

So that was the week, looks of stupid stories involving poop and whatnot. Love you all and hope you have a great week.

Sincerely,

Elder Neil Pack