Elder Spencer Hazeslip

Since my email may be a bit short today, I will share a quote from Elder Blashill's email. For those who also receive his email, you can skip this part. This has been a common topic of conversation throughout the week. But it's very true.  1. If you go to church and shake hands with everyone and more than half of them are missing fingers, you might be in Southern Idaho.  2. If someone tells you to grab "a couple- three" of something, and even they aren't exactly sure how many "a couple-three" is, you might be in Southern Idaho.  3. If you walk into a store and you can justifiably assume that everyone in the check-out line with you is Mormon, you might be in Southern Idaho.  4. If taking meat out of the freezer is referred to as "unthawing", you might be in Southern Idaho. (to defreeze is thaw so unthaw makes no sense) 5. If the recipe calls for ground beef, and you scoff and substitute one of the following meats ...

This was one of the most rewarding weeks of my mission thus far. TL;DR: Exotic Meats with J. Slovak String Musicians on Dirt Bikes Throwing Stars Moving hay with A. J. got freaked out by his Alexa Elba is on Fire Fletcher is getting baptized J. GOT BAPTIZED When in Rome, go to Utah 1 Year left!?!??!?!!?!? Ok, now to elaborate on these points for those interested. Exotic Meats with J: After the Polish Sausages we had with J last time, he decided he needed to step up the exotic meats game. This time we were able to supply some lamb sausage from the Declo Barnyard people. Jim also had some Moose in his freezer. So we each had some Moose Burgers and Lamb Burgers. They honestly weren't too bad. Slovak String Musicians on Dirt Bikes: We were driving to an appointment when we saw a young man on a dirt bike, trying to start it while wearing flip flops. This didn't seem to out of the ordinary to us, so we continued down the road. We were t...

HI EVERYONE! We had transfer calls this week... Everyone stayed. We went to Lake Cleveland last Monday. It was definitely worth it. There was some rain coming in and we could hear the thunder. We were going to skip rocks, but there were a lot of people fishing, so we just kinda looked at it... Anyway, the most exciting story from this week came from service. (I'm going to quote Elder Blashill's email because he tells it pretty good and I'm out of time sorry!) Elder Blashill: "This stuff smells like mold!" Guy we were helping: "Did you just say 'let's smoke a bowl'??" Elder Blashill: "... No..." Guy we were helping: *visibly disappointed* "oh." "Well if I thought you'd say yes, I'd offer you a bowl! I haven't had mine yet this morning." Elder Blashill: "Well we appreciate your hospitality nonetheless!" The guy we were helping then began to...