A train with malicious intentions.

Time just keeps flying by over here. I asked Elder Blashill if he would be more scared of a dragon or a train flying around. He told me that trains were not inherently dangerous. So the question was modified to keep the comparison fair. 

Anyway, this week we did a lot of service. Including (but not limited to): 

-Shoveling dog poop.

-Pulling up T-posts

-Driving in T-posts

-Building fences

-herding goats

-filling in holes

-weeding

-tasting hot mustard (to make sure it was safe)

Anyway, we also had stake conference this week. President and Sister Bartlett came down from Boise and spoke. It was really neat. A lot of the talks had to do with ministering and receiving revelation. A few of them even combined the two and talked about how increasing our ability to receive revelation can help us minister to others.

Fun Fact: this was the first stake conference I have been to in Idaho. I managed to somehow dodge the other two.

We also went to a party for some people we visit son's first communion. They are devout Catholics, and very good people. They invited us so we stopped by to say congratulations. We also ended up leaving with two plates of carnitas. They had a lot of food and didn't want to keep it.

We also had a guy tell us about the Kimama Light (sound familiar Sydney?) Anyway, it's a light that moves around north of Kimama Idaho. Sounds cool, but it is out of our area and we can't be out that late. But maybe in about 14 months we will find it. 

ALSO: We had an investigator tell us that he knows for a fact our church is true because Alex Jones said the LDS church is the only organization the Illuminati is scared of.

In the words of Elder Blashill: "a testimony is a testimony"

Anyway. The other pictures I have this week are:

A rock chuck on a pile of rocks in Albion:

Zoomed in

Zoomed in 

Where we exercise in the morning (the people who own it weren't interested but were more than happy to let us use their basketball court):

A tractor:

And more pictures of Albion (the dark one shows what it looks like coming down the mountain from Albion into what appears to be the booming metropolis of Declo):

After District Meeting 

LOVE ALL Y'ALL

-Elder Hazeslip

Q & A

Hola Manatí!

1.  Do you need anything? 

Nothing right now. WE GET FED A LOT HERE. There isn't a day that we don't get fed. So food isn't too big of an issue. I am going to be purchasing meds next week so just a heads up.

2. Best day this week? 

Every day was a really good day. There isn't a very good way to rank them. I did get permission this coming Saturday to go back to Kimberly for the baptism of two girls I helped teach over the past few months, so that should be really cool.

3. Details regarding our video call NEXT WEEK?!? 

I have Skype set up on my phone. I was going to follow Lindsey so we can do it from hers. It will be sometime during the day. We will have some members text you the details when we figure out where we will do it from.

4. What did you do for P-day last week/plans this week? 

We were planning on going to City of Rocks. But the Malta Elders need to get food, so we will be doing that next week. We will just do bowling and sports. We didn't go bowling last week because everyone else here is sick of bowling every week. We also spent a lot of time in the DI last week, so that might happen again.

5. Where do you shop for groceries in the Declo area? 

We go to Walmart in Burley. The same one I went to with Elder Hodge back when life was simple and I had no idea what was going on.

6. Best meal this week? 

Carnitas at a first communion party. Even though it was kind of a second dinner. The frijoles were really good.

7. Best thing about serving with Elder Blashill? 

He is funny. Really funny. He knows memes, even really old, obscure memes. He cannot be stopped.

8. Hardest day this week? 

I guess on Friday we spent the entire day pretty much doing service. I was very fatigued the next day. So that probably qualifies as "hard".

9. Funniest thing to happen this week? 

This will also be in my weekly email, but we had an investigator tell us that he knew our church was true because he saw an interview with Alex Jones where he said that the only organization that the Illuminati is scared of is the LDS church because they can't control it. So... I guess a testimony is a testimony. He actually told us several reasons the church was true, but that was just one of them.

10. What stood out most from the talks at Declo Stake Conference? 

Ministering to those around us and receiving revelation. Also, receiving revelation to know how to minister to those around us. President Bartlett cannot be told secrets because he gave us sneak peeks (that he received at mission president training) at what is coming next.

"Fewer Chapels, more Temples. Less teaching at Church and more teaching in the home"

He also said that we have a healthy, active prophet-president, revelation is coming.

OK, better get started on the weekly email.

LOVE YOU!