The Longest Week Ever

 Hola,

Wow this was a long week. Which is weird because technically my week started on Tuesday instead of Monday, so my week should have been shorter. It felt really long though. Tuesday happened and we all did the whole transfer thing and went to a church building and switched stuff around and then dipped to their new assignments. Elder Plaster and I only had to go to pick up our new car. It's a 2019 Chevy equinox. It's pretty cool. All the other cars I've driven are 2020 and 2021 so this one might be one of the older vehicles I've been using. Elder Plaster is the designated driver which is awesome. I hate driving in Las Vegas and I prefer having the SIM card. Usually they split the responsibilities between the two in the companionship, one drives, the other one takes phone calls and sends messages. 

My new apartment is alright. Not as nice as the last one. I've been very blessed to have lived in 4 man apartments my whole mission and I've really liked all my roommates. This one I'm in is a bit older but isn't as bad as the one I lived in during the summer. There is a reason we retired that apartment, that one was an old fart. This one isn't too bad. The apartment I had when I picked up Elder Plaster (so last transfer) was by far the best one I've been in. It's super nice. The Church literally just bought it. My new roommates are Elder Rehkow and Sorensen. Living with my trainer again has been pretty fun. Talking about old times and stuff we missed out on. We've both changed a lot. Elder Sorensen is cool too. This transfer goes all the way through Christmas and New Years which is super cool. I will spend New Years Eve and day with Elder Rehkow again, just like last year. Maybe we will try to play Jenga again, haha. 

Yeah this week just felt super long for some reason. Like we were outside alot finding and didn't have any lessons or members lessons so we were just finding. It just felt super long. We found a lot of interested people but not a lot of progressing people. We found a lady named Dora who was cool and a guy named Rafael. They were pretty cool. We are just going to have to spice things up and start doing some other ways to find. Street Contacting and going home to home all day isn't producing the outcomes I'd hope for. But we atleast we have interested people which is good. 

Nothing really funny or interesting happened. The car is cool and so is my distinct and zone. Elder Plaster is awesome. Just a recipe for a great transfer but just not really a whole lot is going on with the work. It might be because Christmas is coming up but I really don't want to use that as an excuse. Because if they're elect people then it doesn't matter what time of year it is. I haven't had a baptism recently and I'm getting kinda sad about it, I really want to help Elder Plaster teach and take someone to the waters of baptism. I definitely have the faith, hope, and diligence for it but I guess I just need to be more patient. Missionary work is definitely hard mentally. 

But honestly I shouldn't complain, this transfer is awesome and I shouldn't really be complaining. I'm working as hard as I can and I think that's enough. Elder Plaster and I are always outside in the area and talking with as much people as we can. So we are doing our part. Speaking of the area, I'm super glad we have the car. We almost live out of the zone and have to drive 15 minutes to get to our area. So it's nice having a car for that. The area is a lot bigger than Willows but still super small. Laurelwood is fun. 

I think this week we are going to try some new ways to find people to teach. It's kind of depressing having a drought of super spiritual experiences and lessons. But hey, atleast I have an awesome companion. I laugh so many times a day. 

Sincerely,

Elder Pack

Happy Thanksgiving

 Hola,

Well that was probably the fastest transfer of my mission, these things just keep on flying by. I am so excited for this transfer though. Like, I am soooo excited. On Saturday we got our transfer calls and Elder Rehkow and Flores told us we'd be transferred... sort of. Elder Plaster and I are still sticking together (which is AWESOME) but we are leaving the Willows Ward and going to the Laurelwood Ward. Apparently, I was supposed to be in the Laurelwood Ward and then I got put in Willows but now I am here which is good. We had to change apartments so I wouldn't be living with Elder Carter and Schmutz anymore (which is sad) but now I will be living with Elder Sorenson and Rehkow. That is so cool and rare! I'm living with my trainer again. Out of over 230 something missionaries what are the odds of me living with him again. I am so excited. Also we get a car! Yay. Life is good. We got a white Equinox which is so sick. I am excited for this transfer. I'm still the District Leader which is fun, I like it a lot now. And some old friends from the beginning of my mission are in my District now.

My District

So last transfer was a tough experience for me. Not physically, just mentally. We grinded but couldn't find any success. We had a couple of people to teach. Lots of miracles for sure but not any miracles that led to the waters of baptism that transfer. Of course we planted some MAJOR seeds, we didn't really get to see the fruits of those. However, I know that those people we ran into and taught will progress and I hope they choose to be baptized. What's cool is a lot of the people I have taught previously have gotten baptized. Like Eric and his friends from when I was in Evergreen. Also Buddy from when I was in Evergreen got baptized which was cool since we started teaching him first. I don't even know how many seeds and other chain of events I am starting. 

I increased my humility and faith a lot this transfer which is good. (Those are the two Christlike attributes I was trying to work on). Now I want to study virtue and meekness (meekness is basically teachable). 

Anyways what happened this past week, well not a whole lot. Let's see... oh yeah Thanksgiving happened.

So Thanksgiving was awesome, we went to the Bishop's house and our Mission President told us it was okay to spend as much time as we wanted at members homes eating Thanksgiving and sharing messages. So we spent a decent amount of time with the Jones hanging out. We taught their kids how to rub their fingers on wine glasses and then make really annoying noises. It was so awesome but Brother and Sister Jones thought it was less awesome. The food was awesome and it will definitely be known as one my most memorable Thanksgivings ever. This Christmas will be memorable too and I'm excited.

This transfer I am just going to go off with Elder Plaster. I can't express to you how much I appreciate Elder Plaster. He is so awesome. This is definitely the best parts of my mission so far. Great zone, great companion, great area, life is good. Don't get be wrong all my other companions are my best homies. I love all of them so much and I am definitely hanging out with them after the mission. 

Our Taco Bell sauce tower

It's kinda cool being more than a year out and now people respect me. I feel like a cool kid now haha. Nah, I'm just joking. I love my mission so much. I love who I am becoming. 

Sincerely,

Elder Pack

I almost got stabbed by a man!

 Hola, 

I hit my one year mark! This is so awesome! Now I feel special! 

The end of the transfer is coming. Which means Elder Plaster and I get our transfer details in a week. If I get split from Elder Plaster I'm going to be so sad. Might cry honestly. He's so funny and I love him so much. I know I say it every email but it's true. He's honestly become one of my best friends. This transfer has been awesome. Loved training again. Really liked being a district leader, even though for the first 3 weeks I had no idea what I was doing. I basically figured out how to make councils and now it's dope. I don't have a lot of time so it's time to write a short email really fast. 

Angela got back to us and we had a powerful lesson. We finally had dinner with our ward mission leader Brother Erickson. The ward has been good and now we're finally finding a decent amount but no one progressing really quickly. Life is still just really awesome and I'm not depressed so that's good. We also served at a primary activity and I got to ride a hand wagon pulled by 8 year olds. It was so fun.

I had a two cool experiences, one where we were biking around and I was trying to teach Elder Plaster how to follow the spirit. I want to make sure Elder Plaster has all of my tips and tricks just in case I leave. Following the spirit is tough. Basically the spirit is usually the first thought that pops into your head that is something you wouldn't typically think. The second voice is usually the adversary. It tells you that the thing you thought was something stupid and won't work. So we were biking and we passed a U-Haul and I had a thought to follow the U-Haul so I looked back and yelled at Elder Plaster to follow the U-Haul. So we did and then when the lady parked in front of her house she got out and we asked her if we could help. She said that there was no way she could do it all by herself and that she has been praying that God would send angels to help her. We said "well here we are, so how can we help?" It was a cool story to show Elder Plaster how to follow the spirit. 

Another story is when I almost got stabbed by a man during our lesson. We met with a guy who was really lonely and needed some friends but also told us he was suffering mentally. So then in the middle of the lesson he yelled "what if I just grabbed this knife here..." and lunged towards Elders Plaster and I. I was ready to die. But he basically just wanted to do a weird knife object lesson. I love the guy and all but it was really scary. 

Elder Carpenter

Check out this hamster!

Anyway, I know this email was short but I love my mission and I love my time here! 

-Elder Pack

The Teaching Pool is Kinda Dry.....

 Hola,

Not going to lie, it is really hard to find people to teach in this ward. Luckily I have Elder Plaster to keep me smiling, but if I didn't have Elder Plaster I would straight up not be having a good time. I'm used to other areas where people will listen to you but here mostly everyone just runs away or doesn't want to be bothered or yells at us. Not really anyone willing to listen. There are a lot of families here which is cool, hopefully we can find one that will listen. The people we have right now are some of the most coolest ever. When we first ran into them they seemed elect but they all have been ghosting us now. I'm not jazzed about that. One of them was a family that straight up told us they wanted to join our church so we had an awesome first lesson but we couldn't get a return appointment and now it has been two weeks. I'm about to throw some hands. I just more or less feel bad for Elder Plaster because he really isn't getting any teaching experience. (Other than the roleplays I do with him and the occasional willing to listen guy). At the end of the day it's whatever, I just feel bad for him. We have a couple of other people that we want to teach to but they just need to get back to us so I guess we'll have to drop them. 

Let's see, what are the highlights for the week. Elder Plaster totally destroyed his bike earlier. We were riding out of an apartment complex and all of a sudden his gears in the back tire just broke and the switcher thingy broke off. It was pretty bad so we ended up calling a member and he gave us a ride back to our apartment. That was pretty lame. We're going to go in on P-Day and demand them to fix the dumb bike. 

I crashed again this week haha. I don't know what's been up with me lately but I guess I'm prone to crashing. I was on exchanges again with an elder in my district and we were at the top of this huge hill. At the bottom of this huge grass hill in this park, we could see a guy walking away. I was like, we need to talk to this guy. So I start zooming down the hill and circle in front of this guy. I'm going pretty fast. I pull out a card while I am in front of him and yell "What's up?" Then I hit the brakes to slow down because I am zooming. I slow down on the front and I basically cause my bike to completely flip forward and it throws me over the handle bars. I am completely on the ground with the bike upside down over me and the guy just looks at me and walks away. Doesn't even laugh or anything. I really wanted to give him that card. :) 

Elder Plaster's broken bike

Making district councils has gotten a lot easier. I was pretty stressed at first but then I realized that I shouldn't do it like people I'm not, I should do it like me. So after that I've been able to make them easier. I really like my district, they are beasts. Everyone is so awesome and hard working missionaries. They all find and baptize, it's super cool. Having Elder Rehkow has my zone leader has been awesome. Love serving around him again.

Spring Lakes Zone

Love my experiences with Elder Plaster. He is so funny and awesome. I've never laughed so hard in my life. Hopefully I'm a good trainer for him. I know he is enjoying his time but I really also wanted to give him lots of teaching experience and especially a baptism. Hopefully I'm with him another transfer and we can get him a baptism. I know that we can do it but it's going to take a lot of work. I'd honestly be down to rock a 3 transfer with Elder Plaster. I'd be so hyped with that.

Me and a creepy clown

Elder Lutter

I had a pretty cool experience where I got to do a baptismal interview for a guy named Manuel. The interview was so long because his life story was pretty cool. His testimony of the gospel was awesome to. Being able to interview him was such a cool experience and I won't ever forget it. Honestly, now that I've been out for a year I realize what they mean about these precious experiences. I have been having the most coolest experiences ever and I wouldn't have had them if I never left. It's pretty cool. Some insane things that I thought I'd never do or see. I just hope I'm not wasting it. I've been out for a year. I'm halfway done. Did I try my hardest in the past year? Did I waste a year of my mission? I don't think so, hopefully I can go the hardest I can for the next year. I really want to teach people though so Elder Plaster and I better find some people or I'm going to flip out. I know in other missions and areas people barely have any teaching and baptisms but I feel like that's not an excuse for my area. The people are there. I know they are, just need to find them. Las Vegas West is a baptizing mission, there are plenty of people outside, we need to find the elect one. 

"9 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you—there is no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper;

10 And if any man lift his voice against you he shall be confounded in mine own due time.

11 Wherefore, keep my commandments; they are true and faithful. Even so. Amen."

Doctrine and Covenants 71: 9-11

Sincerely,

Elder Pack    

Haunted House and Nathan Pacheco

 Hola otra vez,

Here we are again. Life's good here in Vegas. Almost too good. Elder Plaster and I get along really well. Honestly I don't know what I did to deserve Elder Plaster but he is so awesome. Area is also doing well. Could be better. The members in the ward are so awesome and I love them so much. A lot of people are outside so we can talk with them now, but no one is willing to listen. I guess people in really rich south Summerlin don't want to talk about God. It's a little frustrating. I'm used to finding a decent amount of people and getting return dates but people here are just not having it. We did find two families though that are interested. They are just not getting back to us through phone which is lame. They're all like, "Of course we will come to church and read and pray about the Book of Mormon," and then don't follow through with there commitments. You said you would! All you have to do is read and pray about the book and then you'll know it's true. But it's alright I guess. We had a fantastic first lesson with them and that was cool, wish we could teach more.

Right now the mission has this huge push on getting a baptism every transfer and I feel a little overwhelmed sometimes. I want to help Elder Plaster gain some good missionary skills and become a baptizing missionary, but I can't do that unless I'm a baptizing missionary too. We're just going to have to reevaluate the way we find in this area. Anyway, it's all good. I just want to provide a good experience for Elder Plaster and we don't have to baptize to have a good experience. 

Yeah so this week was interesting. We didn't find anyone which stinks but we did have a lot of service and concerts and stuff. Our mission president is awesome and took us to a Zions Youth concert with Nathan Pacheco there. I didn't get any cool pictures or the concert but I got a picture of the foyer. It was such a nice auditorium. It was sweet. They were pretty good. Reminded me of my singing days and stuff. Nathan Pacheco was awesome too. He's pretty good. Then later in the week we did service at the giving machine. 

That was pretty cool. We were asked to not where our mission tags and wear normal clothes. We also were asked to go by our first names and not proselyte. That was pretty cool. I felt like a normal person. So basically I had to introduce myself as Neil and not Elder Pack. Oh and we helped out at this cool service project for a place called opportunity village. We basically helped take down a big haunted house. It was awesome. There was this small haunted house and a big one and it was actually a lot of hard work but it was cool. Got some fun pictures. 

I went on exchanges with Elder Moss this week and that was cool. He's a good missionary. Super fun too and always wants to do the right thing. We were grinding all day and hadn't seen any success. Until the end if the night we were walking and ran into a newly married couple. We talked about families and what we share and then we talked about eternal marriage. They really liked what they heard and wanted to learn more. It was pretty sweet. Love when people want to listen and decide for themselves. Cool miracle. 

Then I went in exchanges with Elder Rehkow my trainer and that was cool. It was so sweet to reunite for a little bit. He is a totally different missionary now. Super hardworking and humble. Super friendly and fun too. He's changed a whole bunch and so have I. We've both been so impatient with each other and it was so awesome to serve together again. We were pretty jank and just basically talked all night. It was cool. 

Other than that, nothing really happened this week. I love my mission. I love my new friends here. It's so cheesy but I've changed so much, which is good. I needed to change. I'm coming up on my year mark which scares me a little. One year as a missionary. I love my companion and all my previous companions. I think the mission was really for me more than it was for the people I'm teaching. It's so cliche and cheesy and I hate that but this is good for me. 

Love you all and I miss you, feel free to write or message me on Mondays.

Sincerely,

Elder Pack 

Happy Halloween!!

 Hola,

Well I'm back! This was a pretty good week. I feel like the days are slow but then once I get to P-Day I realize how fast it's going. I love it here in Las Vegas now. The weather is absolutely amazing again. I used to yell every single time I walked outside in the summer, "who would live here??" But now the weather is perfect. It's like in the high 60s and low 70s and occasionally will get a little higher than that. It's so nice. For the next 6 months it's going to be the best mission ever and then it's going to turn into a nightmare again. Hopefully I won't be on bike again by the time summer rolls around. 

The Willows Ward is definitely a very nice ward and finding new people to teach can be a little over overwhelming, however, the people are awesome. Everyone is so friendly. Missionaries in the past haven't really had a lot of success here so the members are a little hesitant to work with us (which if you really if you think about that doesn't make sense, if the past Missionaries didn't have success, wouldn't you want to help the new missionaries and help them have success rather than not work with the new ones?) I'm in this place called South Summerlin in Las Vegas and it's so nice. In my area I also have downtown Summerlin which is like this huge mall place. But president doesn't really like us going there so I've only been there once. That's actually where the baseball game was a couple transfers ago. We are teaching some people that are promising and could get baptized. Elder Plaster and I found them and they are cool. Their names are Angela and Nathan. We are going to see if we can put them on date in our next lesson. 

Elder Plaster and I get along very well. Almost too well. It's weird. We are so similar it's ridiculous. We both are going to study computer science after the mission and start coding. He is going to BYU Hawaii and I'm going to BYU Idaho but I'm trying to convince him to go to Idaho. We have the same exact sense of humor and sometimes we'll say the exact same thing at the same time. We both really liked choir and have a lot of fun memories from men's choir. We both did the exact same things in high school and played the same games and watched the same TV shows. We both worked at a pizza place before the mission and were pizza delivery drivers for a little bit. AND for the cherry on top, our birthdays are two days apart. The only difference is he is from Spokane Washington (like Elder Rehkow, and no, they didn't know each other). I've been so blessed to have awesome companions. Elder Plaster is so fun and I hope I stay with him for a couple transfers. 

Well, I crashed my bike again. Yeah this time it was 100% my fault. It was really dumb.

I was riding down a hill and since Elder Plaster and I are goofing off, I thought it was a good idea to see if I could ride my bike without any hands and standing up on it. I stood on the pedals and then I let go. For about 1 second it was pretty neat and then I lost control and ate asphalt. Out of the whole sidewalk, I fell into the only bush that had been near it. Any other time and I would've gotten seriously hurt. Instead I just happened to completely destroy a bush. I totally nailed it and tore a giant hole into that bush. I remember Elder Plaster was screaming at first and then he started laughing historically. I started laughing too and I was shaking pretty bad because of the adrenaline. I was stuck in the bush still under my bike and needed help getting out. Elder Plaster had to help me out. It was honestly a crazy crash and I should've gotten hurt pretty bad. 

The bush before I landed in it

The bush after I climbed out of it

Just the other day we had this cool experience where we were walking inside the church and we were going to do some weekly planning when there was this guy standing outside the church at a bus stop. I stopped Elder Plaster and told him we needed to go talk with him. We went outside and introduced ourselves and started a conversation. His name is Sal and he is from Saudi Arabia. As he was going to the bus he gave us his phone number and we set up a time to meet. We met in the church building and did a church tour kind if thing then sat down and talked for a little bit. He is Muslim and we basically just answered his questions. He asked so many great questions. We eventually taught the whole restoration and plan of salvation out of order and then taught the law of chastity and the law of the fast. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he was super excited to read it. It was a pretty cool experience to talk with someone outside and then teach them the next day. The fact he actually showed up and was interested is pretty cool too. You know the Church of Jesus Christ and Muslim theology are actually super similar. I learned so much from Sal. It was super cool. One of the major differences though is he believes that God doesn't use prophets anymore. We teach that God doesn't change and he uses the same things he did when Jesus Christ was on the earth. Like apostles and prophets.

-Ephesians 2:19-20

"19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;" 

We teach that miracles are still here and God still speaks to us through his ordained mouthpieces, the prophet. They don't believe that. Their last prophet was Muhammad. There are a lot of really cool similarities though. 

I feel like I've been learning a lot about other religions recently. So there is this Jewish synagogue in my area and we pass by it all the time on our bikes. Then one day the security guards waved us down and talked with us for a little bit. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ and just wanted to say hi. We got some sodas and they told us a lot of cool stuff about the synagogue. I'll just share one highlight that I thought was neat. They have this sacred ceremony before they enter into a kind of chapel room. They get completely wet and wash and anoint themselves to make sure they're clean before they enter the presence of God. It's called a Mikveh (hopefully I spelled that right). Basically what it sounds like is baptism. The security guards say it is SUPER similar to baptism and they explain in the ceremony that it has been on Jewish tradition for so long. Before the new Testament and into the old. Pretty cool to think about. I thought I'd share another scripture because it's super cool to pair these two things together. 

-John 1:23-25 

"23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?"

So to explain this scripture, it is when John the Baptist is baptizing people in the river and the Pharisees came to him (basically almost everyone at that time was Jewish and these guys in particular did not like Jesus or John the Baptist) and said basically "what authority do you have to baptize?" They knew what baptism was even before John the Baptist started baptizing, or else they would said "what the bruh are you doing in that river?" Just an interesting thing to think about.

To end the week off we got to have a Halloween party in my apartment. On Halloween we had to be back in out apartments by 6:00 pm so we got everyone in our apartment complex to come to my apartment. It was sweet. (Don't worry I got permission from the zone leaders, I'm not disobedient) it was honestly so awesome to end the week off on a highlight like that. Life is super good right now.

Well, that concluded my week I guess. I love you all so much. Thank you so much for reading my emails. It really means everything to me!

Sincerely,

Elder Pack 

This place is poppin'

 Hola!

I'm back again! This week was pretty insane and a lot of cool stuff happened, so let's just jump right into it.

So I spent my Wednesday morning with Elder Galland while I waited to go pick up my new missionary. I just want to say that Elder Galland is such a beast and he's probably going to be a mission president one day. Anyways, we had an awesome day and then we went to go pick up my new missionary. The first day was super fun and weird because I had just done the exact same thing 6 weeks ago for another new missionary so I felt like deja vu heavy. My mission president, President Reese, said the exact same remarks as last time and then all the new missionaries came in and we got to see them. Then president Reese slowly reads off each name and matches who should be their trainer.

My new missionaries name is.... ELDER PLASTER. I LOVE Elder Plaster. He's so funny. He is the most wholesome guy ever and we are super similar. I keep saying obscure YouTube video references and then he quotes the next line and I'm like YOURE THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO GET ME! He's also a super hardworking missionary and gets stuff done. I can't wait for this transfer. He is so awesome and funny. I like the last names Pack and Plaster because it's easy to remember and everyone in the ward knows us now. 

So this transfer in Spring Lakes is going to be really different. I was sad to say goodbye to all my friends in the Lone Meadows Zone, but now I'm here and everyone here is a dawg. First of all my zone leaders are Elder Flores and Rehkow. Which if you remember him, he was my trainer, and I'm super surprised he's a zone leader but we're going to go off. We planned an exchange together so we can relive old times haha I'm so excited. Elder Flores was also my zone leader in Elkhorn Spring back in the day and now he's going home. Plus Elder Leeper is here in my district so we have the old Elkhorn gang back for one last ride before Elder Leeper leaves to his original assignment and Elder Flores goes home. It's seriously so awesome. 

So my new ward is called the Willows Ward and it is super nice. It's south Summerlin and everywhere here is gated communities and expensive. In the center of our area is a large gated walled off community with a guard. We call it Fort Knox and our goal is to get inside and start proselyting til we get kicked out. We'll probably hit up a member and he'll let us in. We already tried talking to the guard to see if he'd let us in and he said "absolutely not." We told him we'd be back. Apparently the way to find in this area is through the members. Originally I was supposed to be in the Laurelwood Ward but a couple days before transfers the assistants to the president called us and said that I would be going to the Willows ward instead. I guess he thinks I can handle lots of member work. We'll see if I can do that...

I love this ward though. Everyone is so nice and friendly and wants to work with us which is good. I'm pretty overwhelmed right now honestly though. Training a new missionary and then being a district leader and then being in a completely new ward and needing to find people who want to get baptized so I don't get roasted makes me a bit overwhelmed. It's not too bad it's just wild sometimes. Basically being district leader isn't hard or anything it's just people ask for me for help and sometimes I'm just like bruh I don't know good luck. Everyone lives so far away from me too and since I'm on bike again I'm just kinda vibing, I guess. So we don't really get any rides to the p-day building which is kinds buns. Yeah but I do love my district though even though I can't get rides from them to my own district council.

Elder Plaster is so cool. I love serving with him and I hope we can have a lot of fun this transfer. Being able to find new people might be a little difficult but I'm so down. Since previous missionaries in the Willows Ward were in the Spanish branch and the Willows Ward, no one focused their efforts in that ward. So now, we get to focus all our efforts there. I think the key to success might be working with the youth. That seems like the most profitable finding source. 

So there is this park barely out of our area that we sometimes go to do companion studies since our area is so small. This park is popping. I wish I took a picture, it's ridiculous how many people are here. It would probably take us two hours to talk with everyone there. So that's what I've been doing with Elder Plaster to get him out of his shell. We're just walking up to random people in the park and bugging them about Jesus until they accept a pamphlet. It's pretty fun. Not super effective because everyone hates us but it's still fun nonetheless. In this area everyone is so rich and prideful they won't even listen to what we have to say. It's pretty lit. 

Cool Halloween house

Our teaching pool of people is so small. We opened our area book and there is nothing. So we've been on the gas this week and found a couple of people. I really hope we can find lots and teach lots so I can provide a good experience for Elder Plaster. I really want him to have an awesome training experience with me and see the value of hard work. But if we can't see the fruit of our labors then it's pretty hard. Hopefully Elder Plaster enjoys his time with me. I know I'm going to love every second with him.

This P-Day we are going to buy Pumpkins and carve Pumpkins at the church building with my district. It's going to be awesome. That's something I'm looking forward to. It's crazy how it's already Halloween. It's wild. OH, here is a spiritual thought for the day. My Christlike attributes that I'm studying this transfer is faith and humility. I've found that when you study Christlike attributes you realize how inadequate you actually are. Last transfer I studied patience and love and my patience and loving abilities were really tested. Now sometimes my faith to find is being tested. I guess the spiritual thought for the day is that we all have something to improve. We could always be better and more like Christ. I hope that one day I can master all of these attributes but that's pretty hard not going to lie. But God makes everything possible.

Anyways, I love you all. I hope you all have a great week and I'll talk to you next week.

Sincerely,

Elder Pack 

We carved pumpkins for PDay