Dear Elder Slavens

Dear Elder Slavens
Elder Trenton J Slavens
Thailand, Bangkok/Arizona, Gilbert/
Texas Houston East
Elder Dallin J Slavens Cambodia, Phnom Penh
Elder Chancellor J Slavens Idaho, Twin Falls

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The Covid man

WHAT'S UP FRIENDS. My name is Elder Slavens. Call me The Covid Man. I'll just say it was a wild week. Many things happen, many things also don't happen. Wonder what that means? I can tell you if you ask politely. Say please. Ok good thing you said please or else I wouldn't tell you. Let us begin. 

Alright so the beggining of this week was good. One of my missionary buddies went home so we got to hang out a lil on pday and say bye to other missionaries. It was fun but sad. We went to the same appartment complex I used to live at in Queen Creek. Little did we know people there were sick and a couple were tested positive with Covid. Cool right! On top of that a few days earlier we were knocking doors and a member came out put his hands on our shoulders and said, "Hey my son has covid, come back later?" We said, "Umm ok, we have Covid too now." We didn't think we did but then we went to encentada as well and yeah good times. So we told the nurse and she said, "Yeah you gotta quarantine and lockdown". Sad for us. We locked down and then we got a few symptoms. So my nose is wack. I can smell fine but some foods smell acidic and like spicy. Hard to explain but true. Here is a list of spicy acid foods:
Ketchup 
Ranch 
Canes sauce 
Panda Express orange chicken
white bread 
wheat bread 
Canes texas toast 
the fridge in general 
drawer in desk
the outdoors 
bathroom in the back of the house 
something while walking through kitchen 

As you see some bizarre things smell acid to me. Elder Story is having breathing problems but like nothing is too bad for us. So we have been locked in and it sucks. It's like the first 4 months of my mission in Arizona all over again. Rip. So we have just been studying a lot and calling people and lots of that stuff. Yay.

Exciting part of the week is when the nurse said President wants you to go get tested. I guess everyone with symptoms has to go get tested but we drove and did the spit test. Not gonna lie I wanted the big stick one to see what it was like but oh well. So I don't know if we have covid right now but I guess we will find out soon enough. But besides that we still trying to survive. Also we have transfers this week. Story and I are staying together again but are geting a third companion. This is legit my 5th trio. It's getting crazy how many trios I am in. Not fun. Oh well I need to learn something once again. His name is Elder O'Conner but he can't transfer here untill we are out of quarantine in like a week. If we test positive idk what happens. I guess we will see. 

Well that's all. Don't go to the encentada complex, don't let ketchup smell acidic, don't get locked inside. Not super fun. I still love you all though. Bye bye have a good week. 

Elder Slavens
Elder The Covid Man (Maybe)
Elder We Put A Couch In Our Room
Elder Ketchup Nose

3 Nephi 5:13 one of my favorites 
 
คุณเคยสงสัยไหมว่าจะได้รับซอสมะเขือเทศและไก่สีส้มของคุณเพื่อกลิ่นเหมือนกรดผมสามารถช่วยให้คุณทำอย่างนั้นได้อย่างแน่นอน มันดูดแต่มันสนุก
have you ever wondered how to get your ketchup and orange chicken to smell like acid, I can most definitely help you do that. it sucks but it's fun.


Lo and behold our covid tests. The spit test was so wack but we did it. Crazy, you spit and you know if you have covid. Science is so cool.


Us right before Elder Heinhold my buddy went home. Sad times. 
We've all had some good times together. Enjoy home life.


District show and tell day. I brought bingo. I'm not that good at bingo but I said I was. 
We all had little items it was quite an exciting time.


Oh yeah I just got this picture but this was when we had the Christmas zone party. 
So cute! Gotta love the AGM.

Monday, January 4, 2021

When New Years and Worlds collide

Happy New Year people and friends and family and dogs and cats and antelope. I hope you have had a wonderful 2021 so far. Kinda cool it's already another year. So sweet, you know. Good for us all lasting another year, proud of you. 


It's been a wonderful new year for me already, not very different from last year besides people say, "Happy New Year" a little bit more than usual. Crazy how that works. 


Wait if you haven't ever seen it look up the video "When worlds collide" from Spongebob. Idk why it popped into my head but it's so good. Let me know what you think plz. It is high quality. 


Back to serious talk even tho I legit can't be serious my bad. So it twas a wonderful Holiday filled week. Everyone was also so happy and hyped cause you know Christmas and then New Years. It's a pretty good time. Tom the guy that was baptized in November, we meet with him every single week and it's the best thing ever. We are going through the new member lessons with him and he legit knows everything and is the best guy in the world. I LOVE TOM. But also we can eat at members houses in the backyard now so that's sad but its better than nothing so I aint complaining. Yay for Arizona. I used to not really like Arizona but it's growing on me and I am very very happy here. Congrats for me. 


On New Years all we did was hang out with some other Elders, go on a walk and see some fireworks then play some games. It is hard to have an exciting New Years or really any holiday on a mission. We hang with others but you are not gonna be partying and going wild. Life is always wild with me but you get it. We saw a live concert in someones backyard on our walk so that's nice. 


Well the end. Not tons, but always a good week. Love you all. Merry 2021, Merry New Year. Merry Holidays. 


Elder Slavens

Elder When Worlds Collide

Elder Wild


Enos: 4-5 good I used in lesson with Tom. SO SICK 


ขออวยพรให้ผู้อ่านทุกท่านมีความสุขในปีใหม่ขอให้สนุกในปีนี้

I want to wish each and every one of you readers a happy new year. have fun this year please. 



We got buffalo wild wings. AWWWW. We got spicy stuff and since I ain't in Thailand I'm weak so it was quite spicy for little white me. 



Hey all you San Ramon people. This is Hudson DeWitt. He served in our ward in like 2017. He lives in Arizona and I got to see him and it was mega fun. Shoutout to friendships. 



This was us in the backyard. Fireworks all over and we just sat there going yay good fireworks in the sky. Happy year of twenty-twenty-one. 



Most of the district met to make a lil video. Here we are in picture form for you. Meet district 3B in the San Tan Zone. SO COOL. SO SICK. fun.



Oh yeah so my Momma has this thing when her children go on missions they get a little build a bear to be them. This is Honey my dog since I was little. Just thought you'd like it. 



Hey when you gotta go, you gotta go.