Heyyy Everybody,
This week was our monthly Spanish FHE! Sadly Maria and Oscar were out of town, so big sad there; but we held it at the golf course that Jose's been working on for the last year. The part that is done is absolutely gorgeous, and it was pretty cool that Jose was so involved with planning it! I'm not 100% sure if Jose knows that he's investigating the church, but he comes to every activity and talks to all the members (that the language barrier allows).
Hermana Masner brought her cornhole set, and we played with Jose, and which ever Smith kid we could get the attention of for 5 or more minutes. Turns out I'm decent at cornhole, and Jose just kept saying "Shelton es professional". We also taught him how to dab, which was amazing. He did it every time he got a bag on the board! :) We also got to drive some old golf carts around, which was super fun!
We did service for our friend Fred this week, and man was it hot! We wore masks the whole time, because we have to wait for them to invite us to take them off, and once we got in the car after our faces were dripping sweat everywhere. Moving boxes has never been so rough.
It's been killer hot all week! Apparently we're breaking all these records here. Naturally the one summer I'm here, it decides to be the hotest summer on record. :) Everyone keeps saying it doesn't get this hot here, but it just keeps being this hot here. There have been quite a few times in the last few days were I thought this would surely be how I die; but I guess not.
Hermana Peterson and I went to "Art Fest" so we could talk to some people in the community this week. Apparently in Oregon you have to pay to walk into something like that so that was a big sad; but a member bought us food from one of the trucks so it was all good. That now makes it so that three members- that aren't the Ricks- have fed us since I've been here (we also got fed by a member on Sunday, but they weren't in our ward, so IDK if I'll count it). Which wouldn't be so bad if our kitchen didn't only have a toaster oven and a hot plate.
They actually ended up cancelling "Art Fest" for the next day, because they didn't want anyone to be outside. Hermana Peterson and I got matching "Domino" rings, because something about these rings just scream Oregonian to me.
Luckily a lot of our service has cancelled on us this week, so we haven't had to brave the weather too much. I'm still dying though, no one told me I'd hit 116° while serving in Oregon. The real kicker though was that a member from Waldport posted this weekend and their thermostat read "67°". Those spoiled children on the coast don't even know of the suffering happening throughout the rest of the mission.
Heat usually doesn't get to me at night, I've always been a very sound sleeper at Lake Powell; but now I'm starting to think that may just be because I've been swimming all day. Because last night I lost my mind, like how my dad loses it at Lake Powell! The AC unit wasn't doing it for me, and my comp and I were just laying there suffering.
We tried switching the direction we laid, then I was telling her hot air rises and I drug out mattresses onto the ground, but nothing was working. Finally we turned on the ceiling fan that I forgot we had, and everything was fine. We're supposed to have zone conference this week, but they're changing the dates because of the heat wave apparently (yes zone conference is done in a air conditioned building, but it's that hot here I guess).
When we showed up to our lesson with Montserrat and Karla a group of teenagers were sitting in the church parking lot. All of them obviously weren't members, which made me wonder what about this church parking lot screamed hang out to them. It became pretty apparent to me that these girls were smoking some grass as you say, so we didn't stay long to chat. But one of the girls got a gallon jug of water out of her car and started to pop the lid. Her friend's eyes got all wide and she asked "What are you doing."
The girl then turned back to her friend and explained, "I'm refilling the water in my car, my dad said I needed to fill it."
Her friend then tried to explain that she doesn't think water goes in cars, and she had never seen anyone do that, to which the water jug girl replied, "Well, do you drive a 2000 Toyota."
I almost died, I have no idea how that story ends because I went inside with everyone, but how weird is that? I made a meme about it below! :)
Also Haylie is still on track to be baptized on the 10th...the only issue is we don't know what ward she'll be confirmed into...so I'll have to figure that out. She also got in a fight with her parents, and figured there was nothing worse they could say to her, so she told them she was being baptized. Her dad said, "I figured," then proceeded to yell about something else. So it didn't go awful, didn't go well either, but that's okay.
Have a good week, stay cool, and send prayers (maybe even cooler weather if you can?)!
Hermana Shelton
Fotos:
• hermana peterson
• golf cart fun!!
• josé was wearing a raiders shirt so I asked for a picture
• the results of us being too hot last night
• domino rings
• I accidentally stayed logged in on a church computer...and an Elder found it.
• meme about the parking lot experience
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