EXCHANGES WITH ELDER AUSTIN

This week was pretty cool! There were a couple days this week where we weren't able to do much because I got sick again. I think it might be covid so fingers crossed that it's not.


This week I got to do exchanges with my boy Elder Jase Austin! So we were comps for 24 hours and it was so sick. Literally to be 4000 miles away from home but still hanging out with him is crazy. During our exchange we were talking to people in the street at night and some guy grabbed me and started saying some crazy stuff. He started insisting that Elder Austin and I go back to his place to do inappropriate things with him lol. I was so confused. I obviously said no. The guy was so insistent about it though and he kept saying it and he wouldn't let us leave. He kept saying that we were the most people people he's ever seen. Then he looked me in the eyes, pulled up his shirt, stuck out his tongue, and starting rubbing his nipples. I'm not sure if that was supposed to convince me. I told him that didn't change my mind and he still wouldn't let us leave for like ten minutes. That's when I had to get creative. I pointed behind him to distract him so we could run and said, "look over there!" He wouldn't look. I tried so many times but he wouldn't just say, "you guys are too beautiful, I won't look." Then I told him I had a gift for him and he needed to close his eyes and opened his hands. He was so excited. He did it, we ran. We ran fast and we didn't stop. Wasn't one of my better street contacts.


We did service for a family this week were we literally just ripped down their whole house. Their houses are just made of cardboard and rope so we took apart the entire house in like an hour. It was so crazy how easy it was.


We have some good work going on too! We have our friend Oliver who is getting baptized this week and we have SO many other people ready to progress and be baptized but we're so busy it's hard to find time to help them. Lots of good stuff going on here.


I wanna share a verse that I really love. At the end of Moroni 8:16 it says, "perfect love casteth out all fear." All we have to do is love. Our mission president taught us that the opposite of fear is love. If we love, the adversary will never have control over us!!


Love you all, have a good week





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