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Hey all! This ones super quick, because my time has run clean out, but here's some of the people we're teaching: JJ, he's still awesome, and we've had a couple contacts with him. He also gave us some nice paintings as a gift. He's my favorite.  Elitzel is also someone we're teaching. She's always got super good questions, and we're just trying to get her to come to church. She's awesome. Martin is also awesome. He's been taught a while, with little major progress, but he's got such a sweet soul. He also came to church this Sunday! Woot! Thanks yall!  Èlder  Duncan Only playground for miles Palouse falls rocks. I'll hangglide here someday. Out here, trash is just burned. This was just a wood fire though.

Good Morning! This week was full of learning! I swear it was. I have to seriously dig to even remember what I did yesterday, so bare with me. We went on exchanges, so I was with Elder Borden for a day in Connell. We got free sodas in the morning, and in the afternoon cried with one of the older members who's had his world turned upside down. It reminded me of the covenant we make at Baptism, to mourn with those who mourn, to comfort those that stand in need of comfort.  Recently someone told us, 'the most helpful thing you can do for someone is to be there for them. A simple, "Hey, I know how you feel" We also had Zone conference, and a training from the president the next day focused on Goals!! Now, I swear that I'm going to have good goals, probably starting next week. Sunday whipped me. We were invited to teach at a mission preparation class, and I was tasked to teach young adults how to teach someone to pray. Once I started, the organization left my mind, and ...

Hello family, Hello friends!  Some goofy things happened this week. Here's one: Before realizing he wasn't there, we pulled up to the house of our friend angel. We parked and called the number he gave us. The person who answered said they didn't know angel, but Elder Jacobs started up a conversation with them about what we do. A couple people were pulling out of this house giving us weird looks as they passed. We're fairly deep into the call when someone pulls up next to us. Elder Jacobs handed the phone to Elder Day, to talk to this person, and dropped his glasses as he was opening the door.  At this point two conversations are going on.  Then Elder Day spills his water while on the call. When Elder Jacobs finishes talking, he starts looking for the pieces of his broken glasses. Elder Day hands the phone back to clean up the water, so they're both hunched trying to clean up or get glasses all while we're still on this call. Then the person on the call brings hi...

Hellooooooo!! I think you'll find pleasing these good things to report from Basin City: Our friend JJ came to church before we'd even taught him a lesson. We met him while we were walking in Mesa (mee-suh). We pulled over the car to talk to his brother, then he came out and shook his finger at us for driving a car that some gang members he knew also drove. Then the next couple days, he was working on cleaning up the only store in town, which was recently burned down, and we kept saying hi and inviting him to church. He's wanted to change his life, so he came to church! We're going to teach him on Thursday. Out here there is a lot of farming, and a lot of people to work the farms. We pulled up to some farm labor housing where some guys were playing volleyball. Ricardo, Alejandro, and Luis let us join for a couple games, and we lost horribly. But afterwards, we got to talk to them about the gospel, and Luis told me about how he got there.  We gave a Bible to our friend Vi...

Hello! Hola! Hallo! This week moved me to Basin City! It's awesome here! On the map, it looks tiny. In person, it is tiny. The area we cover is huge, and it's all farmland. Everybody in the ward here is related to each other in some way or another, too. There's a lot of spanish, and people are very kind here! It's so very beautiful too; The rolling hills, sunrises, and sunsets complete it. Everything testifies that there is a god! My companions are Elder Day (Día) and Jacobs. They're a ton fun to be with, and both are very good missionaries. We've had a lot of really good lessons with our friends Elitzel, Martin, ambrosio, and others. It's been awesome to have some of the conversations we have in lessons.  We've really been able to invite the spirit into these lessons. Wrong door: Last night we knocked on the wrong door, looking for our friend Cristian, and Ana answered. We asked her about her faith, which is quite strong. She then had a bunch of good qu...

Dearest amigos, Time flies when you don't stop to smell the roses. This week is flying, and it's a little scary how fast things move along. There were lots of roses this week though, and much to enjoy. Some really unique things happened, too. Among those, I was offered the chance to help dress the body of a member who recently passed in ceremonial clothes before cremation. We didn't end up doing that, but it was unique that it was offered. I also caught a cat that ran out the door we knocked on when the lady opened it. She had already closed the door, exclaiming that 'he won't be back for another day!' So I inched around the corner, got into a slow crouch, made a few tactical 'meow's and 'psps's to set it at ease, then I crept up behind while he was smelling the air vent and swept him up. The lady was very glad when we brought the cat back. Lots of snow and ice had Church cancelled on Sunday, so we got permission to have our own micro-church meet...

Hello Dearest friends! This week we had a great Zone Conference, where the president of the mission and his wife gave a great presentation on personal testimonies. And there was food! And this week has seen Walla Walla covered in snow! First snow of the winter that has stuck around! On Super bowl Sunday, we weren't having much luck with many of the doors we were knocking on. We were heading back home for spanish study when Elder Hill suggested that we just exercise some crazy faith. So we agrees to go keep knocking a street until someone gave us a return appointment.  The first couple were duds, but then we met Kenny, who wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon. Then the next house, we met someone who talked to us for 40 minutes. He wasn't super interested, but be was a very kind guy. I liked this quote from Elder Uchtdorf: “The Church is not an automobile showroom—a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It...