Week 46

 

March 29, 2023

Hello once again audience. To anyone who gets that reference, shoot me an email 😉. This week was a tiring one. More than a few times, when we came back to the apartment, I crashed exhausted. I even fell asleep on the floor 🥲. I think the hardest part of missionary work is planting the seeds. "We're often planting seeds for the trees whose shade we'll never enjoy." We usually go somewhere, get rejected a whole bunch, all day, and that's pretty much how this whole week's been. But it is what it is sometimes. We just keep moving forward and try to have fun while we get our hands dirty. Also, we almost have no money... and food... We've been living off of rice and beans, and we're almost out of that too 😵‍💫. What happened is that when we came to the area, our biweekly money drop came in early, and we had to make it last 3 weeks, in a new house that didn't have a lot of food in it. This is happening about everywhere in the mission, so at least we're not starving alone ✌️. So we'll see what happens. If all else goes wrong, we have emergency funds, so there's really nothing to sweat about. We had some good activities in the branch last week so that's been improving unity amongst the members, as well as our friends that have been coming. We also found some new friends to teach through these activities, so we'll be working on maintaining our activities 😁. It's also very hot here 🥵 which doesn't help the fact that I'm already a low energy person.


Spiritual Thought:

Live life. You only have one, so just do it right. Watch General Conference. If you don't, you're missing out. If you want to do something, just do it. If you find yourself lacking the motivation just start jumping and hyping yourself up, put on some sick music and go nuts. Life's short, and before you know it you're gonna be too old to jump, so "hop to it." (🤣 I made myself laugh with that one). I'm tired, but I'm tiring myself for a reason, and for such I'm content. You should try it 😉.

Love y'all.

~Elder Owens

Photos

Asleep on the floor...I didn't know my companion took this photo until he shared it with me.
Very old abandoned buildings.
Little pigs.




Our activity with our branch.

Stuffing I made and a pancake with jelly.

Playing Monopoly Deal and Elder Marcia won!
That's me in that garbage bag.  


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