Hi! Sorry I haven't e mailed you yet. This has seriously been the busiest week of my mission. haha I have been exhausted. I am glad you got back safe in the 4 runner! I promise I will write that letter as soon as I can. I have just been up till like 12 every night getting stuff planned. That is cool that experience you had with Nikki! Now just imagine that every day, all day and that's what I get to do! It really is amazing, the constant spirit and getting to invite others to come unto Christ every day. Its something that will probably never happen again so you have to cherish it.
So I don't even know where to really start this week. Last Wednesday we had our zone conference which was way good! Then we got a new truck and went on exchanges with the assistants and Elder Prince stayed here in Youngstown with me. We had an awesome lesson with J. He was the guy that came up and said he has been looking for us for forever. We like went in and didn't really have a plan to teach anything, but it was one of those completely guided lessons. He said the closing prayer and we stood up and he just stayed there on his knees crying. He is such a good guy. After that our appointment cancelled and Elder Prince and I ended up rolling up our pants and scrubbing the baptismal font, haha it was so nasty.
Thursday as it sounds like you already know we moved the Patton's and had dinner with T and A. It was sad to see them leave. Everyone is moving out, it's not good for the ward. Dinner was really good though!
D did get baptized on Saturday! It actually went really well. A kid that is getting ready to go on a mission baptized him. D even bore his testimony there and everything. It was a really good service. I don't have my camera but I will send you some pictures next week. Now we just need to make sure he stays active haha. He is a good kid though, he is just still an 18 year old. Sunday he was at work from 6am to 10am so he had to book it from work to get confirmed, but he ended up making it so it was good!
Monday was actually way nice. No offense but I was actually way excited not to e mail on Monday. Right after studies I just slept for like 2 hours haha. Then we went and played basketball all day with some other missionaries and a couple members. Tuesday it started to get even crazier. We had mission council in Cleveland that morning which went really well but then that night we had stake coordination with the presidency and President Vellinga. It takes a good 2 hours to get to Y town from the mission office and mission council didn't end till 4. So after we had to book it back to Youngstown. It was pouring rain and a ton of traffic the whole way so we thought we were gonna be late. We took the toll road and ended up making it, but it was quite the drive. We were going like 70 and it was just dumping and I could barely see. Then we just hit this massive puddle of water and started fish tailing and turning sideways. All while not even being able to see out of the windows haha (Glad he is laughing!!) It was scary but I got out of it and we ended up being fine. haha After the meeting was kinda cool. We had planned to just go home and plan for our ZDM we had today but they were talking about this guy in stake coordination and President Vellina wanted to go see him with us. He ended up not being home but President took us out to McDonald's for dinner and we ended up just talking with him about the work for like 2 hours, it was kinda cool. You don't get to spend much alone time with President, so it was fun. This morning we had our ZDM which went really well. I am getting kinda tired planning and doing meetings but this one went really well. Well I don't have much more time but next Monday we have zoned out so I probably wont e mail you on Monday. I hope you have an awesome week!
Love and miss you!!
Elder Skalla
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