Fred Texas and Fred Bernhardt I do adore you.

Dear Everyone, 

I really do love exciting weeks. Not only because it makes it exciting and a big change for me, but it also makes it a better email and experience for you. I say this because it was a super boring week and I'm excited for a crazy week were something unexpected happens. oh jk that was this week. Buckle up please and keep your hands inside of the vehicle. Enjoy. 

So week started normal with Elder Winder enjoying life being good missionaries you know. Normal stuff. Tuesday we get a call from the mission president and he starts talking to us then says, "Ok well here is the real reason I am calling right now". So he tells us that an Elder was going back to his original mission call so I was being moved to take his place. They call this an emergency transfer when you get moved randomly. I've only been here about a month and I am already being moved. So that day Elder Winder and I had to pack and had our final fun work day before I left. I then was taken from Pasadena, Texas all the way to the boarder of Texas and Louisiana. I am now in a town called Fred, Texas. Fred, Texas let me tell you about it. I am living in a town with a population of 700 or less. I am currently living in a trailer home. It is a huge trailer home for just 2 of us but still. Fred has nothing. It is just large long highways and then some houses. No parks no stores nothing. I think I heard there are like 2 big restaurants here and I already went to 1 so I've seen 50% of what this town has to offer already. 

My new companions new is Elder Stokey. He is from Heber, Utah, loves trying to catch snakes, and is going home in 4 weeks. So I am his final companion. While there isn't much here I am making us work a lot. We are teaching 2 people Autumn, and Jessie. They are married with 3 kids that love to play in the dirt. I think that's most kids in the world but especially in Fred, Texas people love dirt. We have gone to their house just a few times and we always have to kill wasps with bats and it is very exciting. We also go to our branch presidents house a few times a week. Super cool family. The dad is a high school teacher and he teachers science and chemistry and I legit hated those classes and I told him that I don't like those and he said, "hmm I'm starting to understand what you were like as a student". Now what does that mean. I am not sure but it hurt. He also told me how students are cheating now. I am learning so much on my mission! But yeah Fred is cool for sure but very different. Went from a huge area with lots of people to a bigger area with like 18 people here. Its a change but it's super good for me. 

It's getting hotter in Texas so lots of mosquitos and I hate those things. They are everywhere. We also have bugs in our trailer here don't worry.  We are right off the highway so all night there are cars zipping by our house. It's like nice sleeping noise. I don't mind. One day this week our air conditioning went out and I did mind that. We had to sleep at some other missionaries apartments and of course they were 40 minutes away. I am in the middle of nowhere. Also my moms uncles name is Fred Bernhardt so I thought that was cool. I love Fred and Fred!

Ok but finally we don't have a ton going on here but I am trying to get us moving and doing everything we can to find as many people as we can teach. At the same time if anyone knows of anyone that wants a message of peace or hope please please let me know. I am a pretty positive guy I can for sure help your friends. I am not saying this as a "I AM A MISSIONARY AND WANT TO TEACH YOUR FRIENDS" no I just am a friend and if you have someone that needs it, or wants God in their life, that is why I am serving a mission so please i'm here to help. 

So yeah that's about it. I know for sure I will have crazy stories here so stay tuned. Love you guys have a good Texan week. Yee haw. Enjoy life and enjoy the non-mosquito life you live. It's good. Don't take it for granted. 

Elder Slavens

Elder Fred

Elder Ton Loan

Elder Missionary

ร้านอาหารที่ผมกินที่ใน Fred มีเครื่องปรับอากาศที่แข็งแกร่งที่ทำให้ผมล้มลงผมมีขนลุกทุกมื้อมันเหมือนห้องนม Costco แค่เย็นชาและน่าสังเวชไม่ละขอบคุณ

The restaurant I ate at in Fred had such a strong air conditioning unit that blasted directly on me I had goosebumps all dinner. It is like the Costco milk room. Just cold and miserable. No thank you

Doctrine and Covenants 58:27

Read this and was like yeah that is true. We are rewarded by our good works so yeah we do need to do good works every day. Be engaged! 

Bye bye Elder Winder. You were fun. I said bye to you today. Enjoy life in Pasadena, Texas not Pasadena, California.

 

This is Elder Slavens and Elder Stokey. Yes we have a lot of boxes in the back of our truck but no we are not affiliated with FedEx or UPS. We just love to help other people.  

Sure this picture may look boring to you but this is the room I spend every morning working out. We have 3 bedrooms in this place so I can have my own room with nothing in it where I can spend my mornings. Love it!

I took this picture and immediately said, "This for sure is my favorite picture I took this transfer". I just know what I like and I know I like this one. I mean just look at it. C'mon!

A candid picture of a dog and I. Her name is Jet or Jessie idk they call her both names so I just call her You. "Hey You come here". It's so weird that I say that and everyone in the house walks over to me. Odd. 

The Elder that could be a veterinarian

Now this was a week. All other weeks are weeks but this was a WEEK. You know? Basically means it was a real good week. Wonderful for me. I love it. This week I hit my one month in Texas. Really crazy. My time here went really fast but at the same time it was very slow. Trying to readjust here was the slow part but every day goes by very quick. Our of nowhere its 9 and I'm like ok time to get ready for bed. That's one of my favorite parts of the day, sleeping. I love to sleep. I also love personal study. I just get to sit for an hour and study it's the best thing ever. I'm getting good at not using my phone. Man that thing is distracting but not anymore I'm a good boy. 

Ok want to hear why this week was good? I can tell you. I got some exciting stuff this week. But first what are we doing? Well we have been calling tons of random people getting lessons, we are teaching a lot of people so it was just a super busy week. We have lessons in person every day and then after the lesson since we can street contact we just talk to people in complexes and around on the street and my companion and I are talkers and are social people so we are pretty good at that. People just love to talk to us. 

Ok so story time. We had this lesson at this lady's house and it was a nice house but we went in and it was a crazy cigarette house. It smelled awful and there were drugs all over the table. All sorts of bad stuff and she and her friend met with us and told us a lot of struggles in their lives so it did end up being a super good lesson. It was very interesting though because she was acting weird and people kept knocking on the door and it was just all over the place but it was good. Later we got a called by a few people telling us that she is a con artist and does this to a bunch of different missionaries and churches and she is a drug dealer and every story she told us is fake. So we have no clue how true that is. We don't know what to believe but we are going to still try to meet but either over zoom or at a church to see if she is really interested and if this is something she wants or if she is trying to trick us. That was a plot twist to our week. 

We also got to visit this other family and the mom's son passed away so we got to eat dinner with her and cheer her up and at the end she asked us to give her a blessing. There were 4 of us and she picked me. Idk why but i've given so many priesthood blessings lately. Everyone that asks always asks me like I gave 3 this week. It's been so cool every time I have the chance to do this. The Spirit is real. The church is true.

Finally an amazing story. So we were leaving a lesson and I was driving home. I was going and thought I saw an animal then we drove over it. Like we didn't run it over it just went under the middle of the car. I pulled over and we jumped out and it was a little baby kitten in the middle of the street. We grabbed it and it was so small so stinky. We took it home washed him up with axe body wash gave it tuna and water and found it a home at one of our investigators house. We called a ton of people and either they said no because we hate cats or no we are allergic. I am also allergic to cats but apparently when they are little they are hypoallergenic so I didn't feel itchy so we good. We named the cat Tubi after a streaming service we heard about recently. He is a needed cat that won't stop meowing or following us. Glad we got rid of that but also sad. A bittersweet goodbye. 

So yeah see quite a good week. Thanks for coming and excited to see you again soon. Yee haw I love you sir. Enjoy your week in the Wild West. 

Elder Slavens

Elder Veteranatian

Elder Tubi

Mosiah 3:19 an all time goodie. I want to be a child again. Take me back. 

ผมยังไม่พบคน ๆ หนึ่งใน Texas ที่พูดอะไรใกล้ ๆ ภาษาไทยผมกำลังพยายามอย่างเต็มที่ หากใครรู้จักใครใน Pasadena Texas ที่พูดภาษาไทยได้โปรดแจ้งให้เราทราบขอบคุณ

I have not met one person yet in Texas that speaks anything near Thai. I am trying my best. If anyone knows anyone in Pasadena Texas that speaks Thai please let me know. Thanks

Our president gave us permission to go to a roller skating rink and while we couldn't skate 

we just went to talk to a member family and their nonmember friends while they were skating. 

Pretty fun we bonded with them quite a bit. 

Someone gave us a lot of otter pops so I said, "if you blend a lot together does it become a snow cone"? the answer is no it was just dark green, sticky, and gross. don't recommend. 

This should be something that everyone does. This is the new planking I call it DVDing. 

Like "oh after we eat this ice cream want to go DVD for a little bit"? Could be cool.

And here is our kitty Tubi. He smells like tuna and dirt and He is needy and jumps on me 

while I'm trying to study. Kinda unfortunate but at least he has a new home. 

Slay teaching English. Every Friday I have to stay up late to teach English. I am always tired 

but don't worry every time these people leave they know at least a few more words. 

If you like crawfish I like you cause I do too.

Friends. Hello. I. Am. Elder. Slavens. Welcome. To. My. Weekly. Email. 

Another exciting week and we had transfers this week and it was raining a lot this week. That's life in Texas rainy and hot and lots of crawfish.

So we had transfers and nothing is changing. Elder Winder and I will be together another 6 weeks. Woo. Cheers to more fun, memories, and hard work. I'll cheers to that. We only have 4 Elders in our district so that is pretty exciting. That's how it was last transfer and it is interesting because they usually have 10 or more people so it's quiet in meetings but gets real fun. 

So this week let's hear what happened. If you are a true fan and remember one of my first emails in Arizona you will remember this but I was on a walk and was burying a bird when my phone slid out of my pocket and cracked so that day my phone and my bird looked dead. Well this week I got out of the car at a gas station to get a drink and boom dropped my phone. A lame way for it to go but the whole corner got messed up and now I can't see how much battery my phone has it's so cracked. Like it still works just a crack at the top and a crack at the bottom. Rip phone. 

We were at a members house and the daughter Avery walked up to me. She said, "Hey can you hold this". I put out my hand and she hands me her tooth. Her brother knocked out her tooth and she wanted me to see it. So cool! She said that she was going to get money from the tooth fairy and she would give me half. I said, "No, you don'y really need to do that, actually please just don't do this". Don't worry I won't take a girls tooth money. So that was exciting and unexpected. 

For lunch one day a few Elders said hey you wanna get some crawfish I said yes please. Wasn't my first time I ain't a rookie to the crawfish game so we got 8 pounds of crawfish. It was just 4 huge bags of dead cooked garlic cajun flavored craw things. It was tasty. You have to break the tail and the shell and suck out the inside of the fish an eat the little baby parts of meat on it. If you were to watch someone do it you may puke but while eating it's delicious! You should try it sometime. 

We got a text that we were getting a new car and by new they really meant new. We got a brand new 2021 Chevy something with 28 miles. Never been in such a new car. That missionary life you know. Kind of a lame addition and story for this email but I just wanted to tell you what happened this week. Welcome.

Umm also we are teaching about 6 people right now which is crazy and is so nice. This area is amazing. We just have a bunch of lessons and work every day. Also our mission just got permission to start street contacting again so just walking up to people on the street and talking to them. I only did that for a day and a half in Arizona and that was a year and a half ago so wish me luck. But excited for this week, it'll be a good one. But anywhoo love you miss you fans, friends and dogs. Yee haw and have a good ol week. 

Elder Slavens

Elder Tooth

Elder Crawfish

Romans 6:3-5 a goodie I read this week. Enjoy her. 

สัปดาห์นี้เพื่อนของผมถามว่าคุณต้องการตัดผมไหมผมบอกว่าเอ่อบางทีอาจจะตัดสินใจไม่น่าจะเป็นความคิดที่ดีแต่ถ้าใครรู้วิธีตัดผมและอยากให้สอนผมก็น่าจะดีนะ

This week my companion asked do you want to give me a haircut? I said uh maybe then decided no. Probably a good idea, but if anyone knows how to cut hair and wants to teach me that would be nice.

I got this fancy thing you chew and it's apparently suppose to make your jawline looked better. 

No clue if it works but I'll give you a review in a year. 

This was us at Buc-ee's the huge gas station. No joke if was very large. 30+ urinals a lot of gas things and 

lots of drinks. Best pit stop of my life!

Just 2 pound of crawfish. Didn't mean to brag or make you sad with this one but it was pretty tasty and 

you missed out for sure.  

One large zone. If you find me text me and say hey there you are. I'll give you a virtual high give and

 I'll virtually give you $3 in monopoly money. 

Happy Birthday Adavele. She is the wildest lady ever. We are teaching her with some Sisters and 

she just laughs at us. Don't worry I told her she was my best friend. 

This is Elder Minor. He left and I am sad. Truly a good entry in the Elder Slay sad day journal. 

the spy ninja in a white shirt and tie

YEE HAW 

Another week another nickel. The Slay is back. The man of the hour. The missionary that this email talks about. It's me, the Spy Ninja. 

What a week. I enjoy being a missionary, and I enjoy being a missionary even more when I can go outside. Kinda crazy right. Yeah being outside is much better than being locked inside for 300 days or something like that. Crazy times. Can't believe that happened to me. Good for me. 

Ok but outside life is nice. Idk if I said this last time but we cover a young single adult ward and a family ward so we have a lot of work to do. Our whole area has so many people that are not interested that have been taught before so we are now able reach out to them and see how they are doing or if they are interested now. It's a lot of calling people and knocking on random doors with often no response. Better than sitting inside. Also Facebook in this mission is crazy. Like we have so many people reaching out to us looking for help and messages because the mission has ads on Facebook. I don't really get it but it gets us more people to talk to so I am happy. 

Ok but this week lots to say. So I went on exchanges with this other elder and he was sick so I got sick and I got a sore throat and then it spread to a few others. But my throat was dead and then I got all congested then my ear like stopped working. It was all pressurized and couldn't equalize. Kinda confusing I said, "yeah can you stop"? My ear replied, "no". Well the mission nurse said go to urgent care so I got to go back to the doctor. It reminds me of when I broke my wrist but didn't know for 2 months and they said, "Yeah dawg your wrist is broken". Who knew you could break your wrist and not know. But the doctor just said get pills and you'll be fine. Kinda lame I thought I would have an ear infection or something cool but no just snot and phlegm and congestion. BOO. 

It was also my companion Elder Winders birthday this week. He is 19 such a little boy. But we got to go to this food drive and they gave us a big bag of raw onions so he said, "Eat that onion, I dare you". You know I'll do anything I'm dared. So I ate 5 bites of raw onion right there. This became the thing of the day. We carried them around and got maybe 24 missionaries to take bites out of raw onions. I probably had 3 or 4 whole onions by the time the day was over. They had to do it for Elder Winders birthday. One of the best days of my life. Peer pressure at its finest. But also don't worry people loved it. 

Finally, on Sunday we went to knock on this guys door. His name is Morris and lives in this janky janky janky apartment complex. Here tons of people just hang out outside in the complex. But there were these kids running around and they ran up to me and said, "Hey you look just like a spy ninja". I definitely took that as a compliment. They said, "But your friend, nope". Idk what makes me a spy ninja but it feels good to be recognized as something cool. I told them I would learn how to backflip and come back and teach them. I also gave them silly bands so they liked me. 

Well yeah see another crazy week. Tons and tons of missionary work and I love it. Also some good memories and now since I told you them you are also involved in my memories. Welcome. Well I hope you had and will have a good week. Thanks for tuning in. Till next time. 

Elder Slay

Elder Spy Ninja

Elder Raw Onion

Elder I Found A Toad This Week On The Ground And Tried To Scare People. I Guess People Here See Those A Lot And It Didn't Scare Anyone. It Just Peed On Me. That's All. 

Jeffery R Holland 

The ministry of Angels

We are reminded that not all angels are from the other side of the veil. Some of them we walk with and talk with—here, now, every day. Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods. Some of them gave birth to us, and in my case, one of them consented to marry me. Indeed heaven never seems closer than when we see the love of God manifested in the kindness and devotion of people so good and so pure that angelic is the only word that comes to mind.

Just read this talk. yee haw 

ดังนั้นพวกเขาจึงบอกว่าทุกอย่างใหญ่กว่าในเท็กซัส วันนี้ผมไปปั๊มน้ำมันที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก  เรียกว่าบัคกี้และว้าวพวกเขาไม่ได้โกหก  เท็กซัสชอบของใหญ่

So they say everything is bigger in Texas. Today I went to the biggest gas station in the world. It's called Buccees and wow they didn't lie. Texas does like big stuff

Welcome to Elder Slay and Elder Wind are in a meeting with the mission and 

I decided to take a picture of us. Good for me.

This is me. This is when I was being told no you just can't hear because you are congested. boring. c'mon doc give me the bad news.

 

We went to this families house but they showed up an hour late with KFC 

so we talked to the husband about cars and cats for too long. They had 15 cats so we had s lot to talk about apparently. Also in allergic to cats so that was and A+ moment for me. 

We are friends. Meet Elder Slavens, meet Elder Maires, meet Elder Minor, meet Elder Winder. 

Now that you know us please  introduce yourself. Thanks. 

Happy birthday Elder Winder. Enjoy still being a teenager. Being an adult is so much cooler. 

I love family. Happy mother's day momma. Also the baby is Indie. She is almost 10 pounds 

so she's a little chunky and needs to cut off the carbs. Keto here she comes. 

OK this video is the beginning of the end of the onion game. This was bite 1 of maybe 9 in a day. 

                                                                Good work me!  

Oh Slay where have you been?

 สวัสดีครับ Hello Howdy 

WHAT'S UP. ELDER SLAY IS BACK. 

All I can say is man what a wild past few months. So you may want an update on my life. I can give you an update if you want. I guess here it is. So we got crazy times around us right. Well I've been reassigned again and now I am serving in the Texas Houston East Mission. HUH? Yeah. I got here just a little bit ago and man it's been a crazy last few days.

So first I will say sorry if you have missed me but don't you worry I have returned and I will never ever leave you again. I'm here for good and I'm here for you. 

Now Texas. Yee haw am I right. Texas is a wild place. So my mission is a little part of Houston all the way to like the middle of Louisiana. Right now I am serving in Houston East it's in this place called Pasadena. I like to call it Stinkadena because you know it smells bad. But Texas is always very humid it will start randomly raining and there are always bugs everywhere. There are cockroaches at dinners, there are cockroaches in our kitchen, it's basically pretty cool not going to lie. I laugh every time I see a bug and they are everywhere so I'm gonna lose my laugh box like Spongebob in that one episode where Squidward tells him if he laughs too much he won't be able to anymore. Wish me luck.

Alright here are some of my favorite moments. 

We do service for this old guy every week and he just sells metal for fun. Like his hobby is selling metal. Interesting I know. We loaded his truck with hundreds of pounds and he got an astonishing $22. I may need to join the fun metal club.  

Our apartment smells like cigarettes and is the jankiest apartment I've ever been in. The shower is black, the dish washer doesn't work, the sink is falling apart, the blinds have fallen off 2 times already so we gave up, there's a pipe aiming towards the shower that just says the word pipe and I don't know what comes out of it but idk if I wanna know. Oh yeah and again we have cockroaches so they are going to call people to deep clean this place and roach bye bye this place. Good for them and us. 

Ok now some others things that aren't part of that list but just are memorable I guess idk. 

We went to this guys house for his birthday party. He is 41. We had pizza and cheesecake and he told us about his xbox and his games and how much he loves rootbeer floats for maybe 35 minutes. A pretty good conversation. Also he sneezed and I saw the cloud of sneeze stuff fly. Luckily it was straight to the ground. Still kinda exciting. 

We talked to this girl named Sylvia and it was such a sad phone call. People are very open and happy to talk and really tell you all of their problems and issues. It's really cool how humble and open people are but I don't like sad conversations. But we are teachers of happiness and God's plan so ultimately we are the right people to call. 

Oh yeah my companions name is Elder Winder. He is from Highland Utah and is friends with some people I served in Gilbert with. Small world am I right. I love him and we get along so well. We have the same personality so you already know we are wild but reverent boys. 

Yeah so it has been a pretty weird readjustment to go from one mission to another but it has been pretty exciting. God needs me here for something and I am just going to do what it takes to do that thing. Even though Texas is pretty open and everything is bigger in Texas we are still not able to knock on random doors or just talk to people on the street so we are working from our apartment but are having lots of lesson and dinners. It's my favorite. I'm way happy and excited to be here. Texas is probably the most opposite thing from Arizona so it's been so funny seeing opposites of everything. I have really learned so much in this little time I have been here and excited to keep living it up and working as hard as I can every day in ol' Texas. Yee haw sir yee haw. 

Love you all lots. I just have to say one thing. Not going to lie I don't really like the word y'all at all for some reason just doesn't fit my personality but I feel I have to say it at least once here. So I love y'all. Ok glad that's over with. I've missed you guys. Email me. Say hi to me, or howdy whatever you would like. Never forget I love Spongebob, I love Michael Bublé, I love corn dogs a lot, and I love being a missionary. Have a wonderful week. 

Elder Slavens

Elder Slay Is Back

Elder Yee Haw

Elder Also Howdy Cause Texas

Elder Laugh At Bugs In Texas Cause There Are A Lot Of Them. 

ผมพนันได้เลยว่าคุณพลาดข้อความภาษาไทยเหล่านี้ไม่ใช่คุณพวกเขากลับมาดีและไม่ต้องกังวลว่ามันจะชั่วขณะหนึ่งแต่ผมยังใช้ Google แปลว่าเขียนเหล่านี้ไทยเป็นเรื่องยาก

I bet you have missed these Thai messages haven't you. Well they are back. And don't worry its been awhile but I still am using google translate to write these. Thai is hard

Alma 24:27 I like this lots. I know that yeah God does work in many many mysteries ways for the salvation of His people. That may be why I'm here to save me and help me save others. I love it and this scripture lots. 

This is me with my companion and my mission president and his wife. My companion is the one to the right of me if you were wondering. Just had to clear that up. 

Luckily it's warm here so I don't have to be cold cause I dislike being cold but crazy Elder Winder still wears sweaters. Silly boy. 

This is our pipe that says pipe. I really don't get it or get what it does. I've asked my companion and he doesn't know either. I guess we will find out when pudding or something comes out idk. 

Giddy up. Yee haw. Howdy partner. G'devening laddie. 

Animals. They got animals here. This snapping turtle tried to eat my frisbee what a mean guy. 

Don't worry we put him back in the lake after this image was taken. No need to fear friend! 

That awkward moment when you go to someone's house for dinner and they say, 

"Hey go make our chili and beans". Yes sir yee haw. 

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.

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.