America's Finest

7/24/17 Email:

Ya'at'teh everyone!

This past week was pretty chill.  Like I said last week, I went on a couple of more exchanges this week, and they were amazing!  So I wasn't in my area for a good amount of the week, but I got to meet some new people, and that was fun.  It has rained about every day for the past week.  It isn't constant rain, it is like once a day, and isn't very long, but monsoon season is starting up so this will be exciting, I love storms!

Anyway, not much else happened this week.  But on Sunday we went and had a weenie roast with one of the less-actives we are teaching.  She is a single mom, a firefighter, and her daughter is pretty stinkin' funny.  But anyway while we were having our roast, it started raining.  Anyway, we were having this roast in the rain, and she gets a call on her radio about a fire, so she quick threw her firefighters uniform on, and since she lives right next to the fire station she started walking over there to get the truck.  Well she had a stereo playing hymns, and while she was walking away "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was playing, and I was just like, how appropriate, the only thing that could have made it better was an explosion.  So #Lit.  Yeah I've never seen stuff like that in action, I was impressed.

Anyway that's about all I have for this week other than I think I broke my left big toe during exercises, haha, but oh well.  Anyway, I love you all, and hope you have a good week!

Love 

Elder Takis 

Bad Social Skills

7/17/17 Email:

Ya'at'teh everyone!

So this week has been really crazy and interesting.

I ended up going on 2 exchanges this week, so I was pretty much out of my area as long as I was in it this week, and I will be doing the same thing this coming week.  One of the exchanges was with the Zone Leaders.  It was really fun, and I enjoyed every second of it. My Zone Leaders are amazing!  We taught this one 9-year-old girl named Riley, and she was really smart.  I really enjoy teaching kids, it is so much fun!  But the funniest part of that whole exchange was when we were in bed.  It was pretty hot and we couldn't get to sleep, so we just quoted movies till we fell asleep.  We pretty much quoted all of Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, most of Hot Rod, and a little of Shrek.  Man I haven't laughed that much in a while!

Oh and last P-Day, when we played softball, we actually did a lot of things. We played volleyball, basketball, and baseball.  When we played baseball I batted lefty cuz I can't hit the slow loopy stuff right handed.  And for some odd reason everyone parked their trucks behind the right field fence.  Yeah, I almost drilled our truck, haha  But it  felt so good to hit a baseball again! I really got into this one and it went about 200 feet over the fence, across the road, and hit a van that was driving by, haha. That felt so good!

But about the title: a lot of the people we meet around here lately have not had any social skills...  Like you thought I was bad?  I have improved a lot, but some of these people take it to a whole new level.  Anyway we did meet this one really nice family and they were very sincere, had questions, and wanted to learn.  So we are hoping to see miracles with them.  Well that is about all for this week.

Love you all,

Elder Takis