Then that night I ate a taquito.



HOLA personas!

Sorry for the lack of intro, I gotta go kinda fast. Also, I forgot to take pictures. So this morning I took several and will attach all of them (even the low-quality ones) you can decide which ones are good.

HIGHLIGHTS: Snow. Mexico. Canyon. Bikes?

Ok.

Monday:

We played basketball. For a very long time. I didn't jam my finger this time though! Balling is hard when everyone else is at least 5 inches taller than you. (We still won a few times)​


(Thank goodness for Ross)

Also I saw this:


Go Hogs!

Tuesday:

We spent pretty much the whole day going through the less-active members list. We met a lot of neat people. Then after correlation meeting, we met an elderly couple. He told us a lot of stories about riding horses to school and getting them stuck in the snow. Also some poor kid back in the 30s I guess got his finger cut off at school in an accident, and a while later they found it and used it to scare the girls. We could have listened for hours.

Wednesday:

After district meeting, someone Elder Gaston knew from Declo took us out for lunch. Elder Gaston was there for 6 months so he got to know a lot of people really well. Then we visited people on the way back to Hansen and visited our recent convert P. He listens to the Book of Mormon while driving the tractor. So about an hour a day. There's always time somewhere.

Thursday:

Interviews with President Bartlett. Elder Gaston brought up miles, so he suggested we get bikes and a bike rack. I'm ready to get some big legs. Afterwards it was raining so I remembered the benefit of having a car. We tried contacting some referrals in the Twin Falls 19th ward and WOW is that place densely populated. 

We ate dinner and the rain stopped. So we visited people in Hansen again. 

Then that night I ate a taquito.

Friday:

Pretty much the only day this week we got to go south of 3200 N. We found a guy who lived next to a dairy who broke his arm at work and therefore had Sundays off until he had the cast removed. He told us he wanted to come. 

He then told us he went to church in burley. 

We still don't know if it was our church or not.

After that we went to Murtaugh and visited people there. Some of them weren't really interested in talking to us and didn't want help building a shed. So we played basketball with their kids. 
They beat us.
Probably because I didn't have the Curry's with me.

Saturday:

So we missed a baptism in the morning. It wasn't our investigator but we wanted to go to it. We also ate Fiesta Ole. It’s kind of overpriced. 

They recently approved us to use Quizlet (for language study). I have been studying Mexican Geography. This has greatly extended conversations with Mexicans here in Idaho. 

We were talking to a guy from Guerrero.

Previously I only knew Chaipas and Jalisco.

Sunday:

We ended up going to the Murtaugh ward and teaching the priests quorum how to teach The Restoration. So we also stayed for Hansen Ward. 

Afterwards we visited people in Murtaugh with our ward missionary. Their house is on the edge of a sketchy canyon. 

Then we went home and visited people in Hansen with some of the Hansen ward missionaries. Ward missionaries are GREAT!

Monday:

We are just going to stay in Kimberly today to save miles. So this is from a different library than normal. This morning I made fried potato skins for breakfast. We know a guy who works at the factory where they make those. So he gave us a bag and now we have eaten them. They were good.



Here is the candy box update:


We still have a lot of candy in there.

​We have a good view:​


Picture of me looking at the view so mom is happy that there are pictures of me in the email:


Our Bracket is officially dead:​


Alright! That's all until next week! 


Love you all! Don't do dumb!
Have fun!

-Elder Hazeslip

OK, now for answers

1. Do you need anything? I'm doing great right now! Thanks!

2. Are you and Elder Gaston getting a lot of work done? He likes knocking on doors of people who speak English and I like knocking on doors of people who speak Spanish. It works out really well and we end up talking to a lot of people.

 3. What did you learn this week? People who speak English aren't too bad. Also, spring in Idaho doesn't mean much (we got 4 inches of snow out of the blue on Sunday).
Gospel related: Reading scriptures and praying and going to church and watching general conference and doing all of the things you know are good, will make you happy. You probably won't notice that they make you happy (because you will have developed a habit of it; habits develop slowly), but you will notice how much happier you were if you stop doing them (because blessings can leave quickly). There was a cool article in the last Ensign (I think) about what true happiness really feels like.

4. Best meal this week? F. took us out to Sizzler. It was very good. I was full for a long time. We also got to see the end of the Loyola-Kansas St game while we were there.

5. How often do you talk to or communicate with the mission president? Well, I send him an email every week. So that's kind of 1 way communication. Other than that we have interviews once a transfer. That was where those pictures with our district came from that made me look like a tiny person.


6. Anything funny happen this week? Sydney sent me some memes. Other than that we visited an elderly couple that were great. He only really used his computer to play online poker, but he never spent money on it. He also told us a story about a friend who got his finger cut off on the belt of a well pump at school. They took it and used it to scare the girls. Also he rode a horse to school, but one time the snow got so deep he got the horse stuck and his brother had to help him push it out of the bank. Horses and cars are pretty much the same thing I guess.

7. Any new investigators? Not right now. We are kind of low on miles and can't go to Chaipas (south of 3200 N). But the day that we did go down there we found a new guy to teach. He is from Chaipas and wanted to go to church. Apparently he got a ride from a friend and went to church in Burley. So hopefully it was our church. IDK.

8. Best day this week? Why? Wooo. Idk. this week has honestly been a blur. I have decided that going to church without taking a nap afterwards is like fasting without a purpose. You really don't get as much out of it. (no, we didn't take a nap after church )

9. What are you studying? Ether right now. But also Galatians. I'm really studying whatever I feel like. I need to get caught up on the reading challenge before General Conference. (Which I am PUMPED for) Watch it with me at this link!

10. Any good service projects this week? Sadly not yet. Everyone keeps telling us they will have things to do in "spring" whatever that means. (Spring officially began on the 20th of March) It sounds like we may get to help build a chicken coop. So that will be fun if it happens before I leave. 

Love You!

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