God has a sense of humor

 It's true God does have a sense of humor. And he's pretty funny. 

Alright, Tuesday we had Zone Conference. First one in the mission. It was pretty cool, I saw a bunch of people I didn't know but there was a really great session with president where he let us ask him questions. People had some pretty good questions. And that's pretty much all we did...

Wednesday, We had district Exchanges today. Both my comps were sent out to Basin City. So I was left to lead the area.... It went really well actually. I was companions with Elder Story. He's from San Diego. He's a really great missionary who is good at talking with people. And this is where God decided to show off his humor. Remember how I said last week I had a ton of Crazy Miracles. He decided he would prove me wrong. And today we had one of the craziest miracles I had on my mission. First we stopped by Josie and her mom. And that was a good visit. We had a couple other contacts nothing to special. We had a good dinner at the Brownings and a quick help setting up at the church for a Relief Society activity. Nice and Chill. And now time for the miracle. We've been trying to stop by this 11 year old boy and his dad (The boy had gotten baptized about a year ago) just to check up on them and they wouldn't answer the door. And a couple of the times we saw a light turn on inside and then turn of when we knocked so we knew they were there. And finally today they opened up!!! Totally awesome. And as he opened up he looks up and says under his breath Gracias Padre Celestial. And I look over at Elder Story and I'm like ok... that's never happened before. And we go and sit down and he breaks down into tears. And I again look over at Elder Story and we just like look at each other like is he ok?? And then he starts talking and says we're a milagro. Which stands for miracle. Turns out every time we knocked on his door he was there and had just been dismissing us each time. And he said that today it hit him what he had done so he had prayed for forgiveness and that we would come over!! And literally 20 minutes after he said the prayer we knocked on his door . It was totally awesome, I was immediately struck with a wave of the spirit and joy that we had taken the prompting to stop by again after having repeated days of no answers. Its still crazy to me that the Lord can work through little ol' me and touch the hearts of these people and this definitely testified that to me. And then (no this crazy contact isn't over) he said that he hasn't been doing all that well as he just doesn't feel right. And so Elder Story offers him a blessing of peace and comfort. And he says sure. And Elder Story looks at me and ask if I wanna do it. And of course I say no because I don't know Spanish well enough to give a good blessing (That's usually not how the gift of tongues works). And after he says oh give my son a blessing too and he's son speaks pretty good English as he's learned through school. And so I had the opportunity to give him a blessing.!!! It was a incomprehensible experience that has strengthened my reason for being on a mission. Our day after that was pretty rough but it didn't matter to me.

Thursday, We had cleaning inspections today, and sorry Grandma Anderson, but we failed. Not gonna dive deeper into that . Today's also Khalotus Day today and so we went there. We went to some interesting houses we've never visited before and we got a couple interesting contacts. And we got to a contact that had a giant dog like Goliath from The Sandlot. And it immediately starts barking at us, bad sign #1. We start to try walking past it and then it starts attacking Elder Smith. And then from Elder Smith he attacked Elder Madison. And me being a little slow didn't immediately jump into the car. And it ofc came at me too. None of us got bitten but it sure came close. And that pretty much summed up Thursday.

Friday, basic summary of the day we put Josie on date and got a new member at our English classes. Everything else was boring honestly. 

Saturday, We got our apartment rechecked for inspection, and we passed with flying colors. So much so that we are in a competition to win the Golden Plunger ( the cleanest apartment gets it). Other than that we had some contacts and nothing fruitful from it yet. 

And finally Sunday, We had a cool dinner with the Lagunas family. They are really awesome and fun to hang out with.  And ofc church .

That's pretty much all for the week if you want more details or just wanna say hi shoot me an email charles.garthe@missionary.org 

And here's the link for photos (I really gotta put more in.) https://photos.app.goo.gl/bm544UtmLSLn3cJh9

Signing off

-Elder Garthe