Trespassing - Mission Week 19

I'm gonna start doing a quote at the beginning of each email

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably...He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of....You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

C. S. Lewis

Welp, transfers are complete and Elder Harmon, my new companion, is getting settled in to Basin City. He came from a much more populated area so he's kinda been in shock how we do anything around here without endless doors to knock. He's from Riverton, UT (probs like 10 mins away from my house) so that was a cool connection. 

We had a very eventful week. As missionaries we keep track of all the people we talk to each week and this week we talked to 11 which is pretty crazy. Our average is like 2 conversations per week. Other areas you get >11 per day sometimes haha.

Back to the beginning of this week when Elder Barlow was still here, we went around and said goodbye to a bunch of families. That picture that my mom sent last week is of the Shaw family and they always like to take pictures with every Elder that comes to BC. They're pretty great! We also said goodbye to the Holst family and devised a little plan to spook E. Harmon when he came. 

The whole first day E. Harmon was here I was planting seeds of doubt that our visit with the Holsts might fall through because 'they're very busy people' and 'we scheduled it a long time ago so maybe they forgot.' We get up to there house at 8pm and go knock on the door a few times. No answer, the house is dark. 

E. Harmon says, "Well looks like they aren't home" 

I just say, "yeah. They're super nice though and probably wouldn't mind if we grab a snack" then I just open the door and walk into the completely dark house. 

E. Harmon was pretty shocked and just timidly followed me in saying things like, "Uhhh Elder are we actually doing this." "What are you doing?" "We are literally tresspassing right now and we just taught a lesson about Sustaining and Upholding the Law!!" Then as soon as we got to the fridge all the lights turn on and the entire Holst family came out and spooked him. 

It was pretty great, we had it all planned 2 days in advance. We had a few ways to check with them before hand that they would actually be home. The Holsts are all just so funny and love doing that kind of stuff with the missionaries. We had a great visit afterwards too :) 

Other stuff, 

• Because of transfers I got the good bed and the good desk at home :)
• We had a really good lesson with Edgar this week and we're pretty sure he's going to get baptized this month :) 
• We got in with an unusual amount of Less Actives. Most of them I have only seen once in 3 months :) 
• New Pizza place opened in Connell :) 
• E. Harmon kicked the meanest dog in our area and earned the nickname Elder "Alpha Dog" Harmon :)
• I spoke so much Spanish this week, it was crazy :)

Alrighty well I think that's about it, sorry no pics I'll try to remember to grab one with E. Harmon but as for now I'll just send a meme that was made with E. Barlow's face.. Fellow Spanish missionaries will appreciate :)