Four Corners Mission: October 2017

Bat Stakes

9/18/17 Email:

Ya'at'teh' everyone!

So not a whole lot happened this week either. Monday after emailing, we went and played basketball and stuff in Gallup. Elder Hardman brought a Blitz Ball, and we messed around with that for a bit, and played Monkey in the Middle with his trainee. He is going to bring a Wiffle ball bat next Monday so we can play a game with it, and we will probably play actual catch with gloves and a baseball. I'm excited.

Today we are going golfing. We have been having some trash talking going on and I am going to beat everyone and they will all bow down when their beatdown happens... Just kidding, although I am going to win. So this will be fun :)

Also I am having a workout competition with Elder Vickery and so I am going to get huge. It's a win-win scenario for me cuz I told our Bishop that I would arm wrestle him at the end of this transfer. Our Bishop likes to arm wrestle and did a bunch of competitions and tournaments so he is the real deal and hasn't lost to any missionary yet. So it's time for him to be humbled. Man, I'm talkin' so much trash right now, haha! I'll calm down next week. But anyway things are pretty exciting right now.

Oh I almost forgot a picture for Steve!

So we were walking in to the church on Thursday for District Meeting and we found a bat by the door! We thought he was dead but he wasn't. Then on Saturday we were walking to the church for interviews with President Adams and he was still there. We thought he had to be dead cuz he hadn't moved, but he was still breathing. I was going to check again today but I forgot, so Idk if he is still there.

Love you all,

Elder Takis

Stinky Richard

9/11/17 Email:

Ya'at'teh' everyone,

So this week a few crazy things happened, but some of them will have to wait till I get home, haha. But one of the crazy things was I went on exchanges with Elder McFarland to Crownpoint, and there was this cat that had been hanging around their trailer. They nicknamed this cat Stinky Richard. This thing looked like and smelled like a zombie. It was the grossest and saddest looking cat I have ever seen and it really did stink to high heaven. There were constantly flies on it, and it was so thin. Well when we woke up the next morning it was dead, and so we were kind of examining it and what we found was absolutely disgusting. It had a hole bigger than my fist in its stomach, you could see everything inside of it, and I'm pretty sure it was rotting, so we think it might have gotten bit by something but man that was gross. I should have taken a picture of it for Steve but I was going to throw up if I looked at it any longer, so I just didn't bother. Sorry, Steve!

We are seeing some progress with the area. We have 5 people on date for baptism and we had 3 investigators come to church! So things are progressing, slowly but surely. Somehow word got to our Bishop that I was pretty strong, and so he wants to arm wrestle. He likes to arm wrestle all the missionaries cuz he did arm wrestling a lot and went to competitions and tournaments and everything. I am probably stronger than him, but he has the technique so I am screwed. But I said we would do it at the end of this transfer. Oh, that was another thing, we got transfer news on Saturday and we are staying the same.

Hopefully Elder Hardman remembered his gloves, too, so we can play some catch today. That's about it for this week.

Love you all,

Elder Takis

Bashin' Bogeys at 10 Months

9/5/17 Email:

Ya'at'teh' Everyone,

So I have been out for 10 months now, and it is pretty crazy, cuz I don't know where all that time went.

Anyway, not a whole lot to tell from this past week, everything exciting that happened managed to happen yesterday. Which I also need to apologize for not emailing yesterday. Everywhere we email here was closed cuz it was Labor Day. But anyway to start off I am going to give a shout out to Steve Pond cuz he enjoys all my weird pictures that don't have a whole lot of meaning and here is another one for ya. I had to retire a pair of shoes cuz of some holes...

Another thing that was kinda exciting is that yesterday morning we took some time out of our P-Day to do some service and it was for the parents of a convert here. They are members of the Church of Christ, and they aren't too happy with their daughter for joining our church. Not only that but their daughter is going to serve a mission in Orem, UT. Anyway they said they could use some help painting their house. Well we had a good conversation to start off, but then the mother wanted to talk about religion and stuff. So we started talking and the conversation got to the temple, and not long after that she started asking me questions about the Bible and stuff like she wanted to Bible Bash. Well too bad for her, cuz really don't know much about the Bible so instead of a Bible Bash it was her pummeling me with the Bible, and I couldn't say anything cuz I didn't know. So I wish I would have payed a bit more attention in Seminary, haha.

Umm yesterday Elder McFarland, Elder Vickery and myself went golfing together, cuz our trainees didn't really want to go so we left them at the church to do whatever, so it was like a mini exchange. It was so much fun, and I was actually pleased with how well I did, given the fact that it has been over a year since I last went. We only got in 5 holes though cuz of time, but I was in the lead by 7 strokes!! Elder McFarland wants a rematch cuz he didn't get the full 9 holes and he was just getting warmed up... Here are some pics...