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HELLO! 

Ok quick rundown of the week for those of you that will only read a little bit of my emails. 

Monday - P-day, there is a sweet root beer store that is awesome, and a muslim guy paid for our lunch

Tuesday - Transfer Day, Elder Hess trained for District leader stuff, we met a jack mormon who is roommates with a deaf guy so that was cool, going back Tuesday. and a lady bought us ice cream at Dairy Queen.

Wednesday - Elder Madsen enters the MTC! hes gonna kill it!! Tell all the teachers I say hi and I love them!! Besides that tracted and didn't find much. Rough day

Thursday - Made a bomb pizza, don't even worry about it. Thanks P-Murphs crew for teaching me, it was way good. Taught Brady (inv.) and Darryl (LA) it was good.

Friday - Met two potentials, a woman and her fiance. Also went to Mt. Vernon and taught a less active and her friend who is a non member, while her son slept. Hopefully I can talk to him soon though, Elder Hess said he never really talked to missionaries but I want to talk to him CODA to CODA so we'll see!

Saturday - Met Brady again, finally got in the Young families house! Thanks to inspired timing from the Lord! We showed up right when he was unloading groceries. Got in and talked to his wife! She never wanted to talk to us before but yeah, we invited them to have dinner and stuff so I'm super pumped!

Sunday - Church, met Eliot, the deaf guy we didn't see Tuesday, but we're going back Tuesday to teach him and all of the people in his house! Also went to a members home to visit but his dad wouldn't let us in to see him. Really ticked me off, I'll explain more in the expanded version of my email but yeah.

Love you guys!!!

So for those of you more than just slightly interested in my life and with more than just a little time on your hands I'll explain a little more!

Monday - So there is seven missionaries in Costco just chilling and waiting in line to get lunch, when this guy comes up and asks if we're Mormon. We said..Yeah.. and he said oh I want to pay for your lunch!! We slowly accepted and talked to him a little more, he said Oh I'm not Mormon but I have a Mormon neighbor and he is a journalist and meets lots of Mormons and they're always super nice so he bought us lunch. Super cool! Also theres a root beer store on Aurora Avenue that is way sweet, tons of root beer and they give missionaries half off!

Tuesday - Elder Hess got trained so we had to go to transfer meeting even though we weren't getting transferred but we went it was cool. Brady skipped out on a lesson with us, but we decided to not let it get us down, we went to a former investigator Eliot and talked to his roommate and roommates girlfriend. Roommate is named Russel and is a jack mormon, basically super inactive and smokes and drinks and has tattoos, he fell away super hard. But the girlfriend is a non-denominational type of church person, she says she has her own views that she likes and a lot of churches don't fit that view, that is a very typical view up here, lot of people like that. But taught them both some of restoration stuff and some plan of salvation stuff, they had a lot of questions but it was good. Left a chapter to read from the Book of Mormon and are going back Tuesday. Miracles! So we go to Dairy Queen to get ice cream, BTW there are tons of DQs up here, its weird. But we are in the parking lot and this lady comes screeching in and rolls down her window and shouts, Hey Elders! Did you guys finish eating yet?? We were like umm no... so she was like Awesome! I'll get you whatever you want! So we just got ice cream and said thanks, but people are so nice!!!

Wednesday - Met with a less active in a super rich area called Capital Hill, but he wants us to visit every week, a lot of members want us to visit every week, because home teaching here is kind of awful, so we are working with members to change the mindset that missionaries are not just 24/7 home teachers...but yeah he got mad at us for a lot of different things, super weird, anyway! Love him! We tracted around a ton and found nothing really... so that was a bummer. Rough day.

Thursday - Made my pizza, it was delicious. We also had Zone Leadership Conference. ZLC, that was good, I had to go cuz Elder Hess is district leader. I'm not a zone leader, haha jk I guess I'm like Assistant to the District Leader? Its a title, the pay isn't any better;) LOL I'm hilarious. We had a lesson with Brady about modesty and virtue and prophets and a lot of stuff, but it was very good! We all felt the spirit! and Brady is going to get a job!! It should be good!! Also gave a less active Darryl a blessing, he has a crazy bad staph infection, its disgusting. Anyway haha gave that to him and talked to him about moving to Utah, hes been delaying moving to Provo for so long, like 5 months now, we told him to just go do it. He feels its the right thing to do but its just been postponed for suuuuuppppperrrrrr long. Anyway it was way good!! I told him when he goes to Utah to find my parents in the Lehi Branch so hopefully he does that!

Friday - Awesome day! Met with Jennie and her fiance Eric to see if we could teach them, we will go back hopefully when Eric isn't there because he just likes to chat but Jennie is actually somewhat interested in learning. Also we met with Saralyn, a less active, and her non member friend and taught a little bit of the restoration lesson. We are going back soon.

Saturday - Deaf social in Seattle, met a lot of cool people, deaf socials we meet a lot of people but we can't preach unless they ask us so, its tough, some people are interested in us though. We met with Brady again and taught another lesson, on how and why God helps us in our trials. Then finally got in the Youngs house!!! We are trying to make them comfortable with us and then we will try to teach, they have a daughter at home as well so we are hoping it can be really good! Like Kenny said quality of connections not quantity.

Sunday - Church was cool, I interpreted for a high councilman while he talked, but it was tough, he is from the Spanish branch so it was hard to hear his accent sometimes but I think I did ok. Then we (the ASL missionaries) had a meeting on how to make our schedule more effective, it was way good! We are still making changes in the ASL area! Elder Bird, Elder Camillo Gois and myself are all planning on big changes in the area because we see some big areas of concern with how things we're done so things should be changing. But then we met with Eliot! We felt prompted to go to his house and talked to him, taught the Restoration and are going back Tuesday to teach probably the Plan of Salvation, he seems very ready though, and hopefully we can reactivate a less active and have two other people baptized as well. But yeah exciting stuff!

So that was my week, I love you guys so much!!! You're all the best!! Keep going and being awesome!!

Oh yeah the solar eclipse thing, people got way crazy! haha people just sitting with boxes on their heads, or telling us about the end of the world and all that crazy stuff. Way funny though. Love you all!!!