That's Tuff

 Ladies and Gentlemen.... I have discovered something great. You know how I said the members here don't really talk to us because the missionaries before us where L's. Yeah well I have a new strategy and I call it operation "Feed the Ego". Everyone has an ego whether you admit or not. So what do you do? You wait for the one inactive guy that is a better missionary than any of the active members to come to church. Then when he is there you just talk them up like crazy. "Oh man thank you so much for all the work you do, you're the best. You are definitely going to the celestial kingdom!" (Even though they haven't been to the temple yet) Now, you may be asking yourselves, well what happens?!? All the members see this and go WOW, Oh my Goodness! He's so cool I want to be like him. Yuhhh you see where this is going? Then the member that is doing work for you is now like ohhh snap I gotta do even better because this is what is expected of me now. And then another member is like oh man I better do something for the missionaries so they do and then you talk them up a bunch so everyone kinda starts competing to who can be the best member missionary! It works for meals too. Elders quorum...... "does anyone have any more announcements?" Yup, yes, over here! "We went over to brother Johnsons house and oh boy his cooking was amazing". boom the dads get there game face on, "ohhh yeah, If you think his grilling is good you gotta try mine!". Next person, "yeah I caught a 50 pound fish come over and eat it right now" so we go and he has no clue its a trash carp but we don't carrr 🚗 we talk up that 50 pound carp! .......Brilliant right? 💪 

Anyways today is a pretty uneventful Pday. You see this mission didn't really care about keeping miles low on the cars until we all were going thousands a month and gas costs like 50 bucks a gallon or something crazy these days. And we have been losing so many missionaries, no one left in town wants to do anything. Luckily you can just fiddle with the odometer reading and put it back down pshhh no problem. 🙂wowowoow I'm kiddddding calm down everyone. Anyways hoping to get a volleyball game up and running pretty soon. Our investigators are much more loyal then other missionaries so they should come.

Alright in order for me to inspire and enlighten you about my week I need you to grab a snack. For example, lettuce, and sit down and try not to fall asleep! To start off the week we had Zone conference on Tuesday. Not the most enlightening Zone conference but it was alright. Then I was able to do some baptismal interviews for 2 girls that got baptized this last Saturday! During each of there interviews when I asked them if they believe that Russell M Nelson is a true prophet. Each of them had no clue who that was so I was like Nice! Luckily they were able to watch a talk and pray about it before the baptisms. Then on Wednesday I went to Wahpeton again with Elder Hardman and had a good time. We decided to just leave the car behind and walk to the lessons for the day and wow did we see so many miracles from that. So many people we would have never talked to were able to and a lot of them where at least semi interested. Then that night we played basketball with some natives that where like totally insane for no reason and we got destroyed but then 5 like probably 13 year olds pulled up and wanted to do a 5 on 5. I'm not joking by the way. And so the natives were like no we're to old you don't want it and started trash talking these kids and we ended up playing them no mercy. They where punks so they deserved it but man I felt like I was good at basketball ball for a second just took people 2 and a half feet shorter then me to play against! Then the rest of the week we got thrown around but had lots of good lessons in between. 

On Friday night I saw the coolest thunder storm I have ever seen in my life. Crazy clouds that glowed blue in every direction for as far as you could see it was so sweet but I lost all the footage I got from it🥲. Also I have never wanted a 100 degree day with just straight sun more in my life. I swear I am sick of the 70's and 80's give me a dang summer uhh it is depresso expresso. And then give it like 3 more months and its already getting cold again. Whatever guess I'll take the desirable temperature while I can get it. We did have 2 warm days last week but that was it. 

Well, keep the faith!.... Trump once said, "don't you ever give up, never ever give up"

Knock knock, who's there? Banana in a dishwasher.... just kidding its me Elder Parker

 If you don't get that I'm sorry^