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Bass fishing and baptisms 6-10-2024

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  I got transferred out of Airway Heights Washington and I was super bummed because that area was so fun with all the sketchy trailer parks and fetty-walkers we called them aka homeless people tripping off of fentanyl pills. Some of the hardest goodbyes of my mission thus far came a few weeks ago when I left. I had to say goodbye to Mariah who was the lady that got baptized at the end of my time there. She was a miracle, she had been in contact with missionaries previously in her life but fell off the radar and when I got to the area I found her and we were able to teach her and she has a desire to get to the temple to do family history work for her deceased husband! When I told her I was going to Orofino she told me a story a way back in her crazy days she was hiding out in a trap house and the feds came busting up into the house so she tried to jump out of bathroom window and fell into a bathtub full of uncured meth and got horrible burns all over herself. She repented and is now not
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Going to the church and she's gonna get baptized 5-20-2024

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  If you remember our friend Mariah who I talked about last week, well she is locked in for baptism this coming Saturday. She came to church yesterday which reinforced everything that we have planned with her. She is incredible! In her journey to this point her mom's side of the family has all walked out of her life and blocked her on every form of communication. Her in-laws are Satanist and do not support her son attending church with her but they don't mind too much that she comes with us. 34 of her home dawgs as she calls them got federally arrested for cock fighting, grand theft auto, money laundering, etc etc. Her son may have cancer and needs a blood marrow transplant and the only donor who is a match is her brother who is in federal prison with a bond of $700,000 because he is a big time criminal but I did meet him a few weeks ago and he's really chill. He came out of the house shirtless with a big fat bowie knife on his hip and said what up brother. To make a long s
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It's been a while 5-13-2024

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  It's been a while since I wrote an email. A lot has happened! So our friend Asia did get baptized! It was an incredible service. Her leg was still hurting from the bus accident so she stood for the duration of the entire service and when she walked into the font and I baptized her she said there was no pain in her legs which was a miracle. She has been coming to church to an earlier ward because she had a Sunday work schedule but just this week she was able to shift that around so we're looking forward to having her come to her ward and grow in the gospel.  In other news I have been quite busy with some of the craziest things I've seen in my life. I thought this area couldn't get any sketchier but alas it has .... We are teaching a friend named Clarice and we showed up to her house for a lesson and there were six cop cars in the front yard. We waited around for a bit and when they all left we started talking with Clarice and she told us that her husband beat her up be
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New Comp & Miracles 4-22-2024

  On Thursday I drove to the transfer site to drop off Elder Hatch. While there I saw Elder Rouland which absolutely made my day. I brought my Polaroid camera only intending to use it if I saw him there. I bought the camera halfway through the mission and was able to get a flick with all of my previous comps except for him. I've been trying to find him for months! I then met Elder Morgan my new companion, he's been out for 3ish months. I'm his first companion out of training haha. He is an absolute clown. He loves cars, shoes, and food and his vocabulary primarily consists of "monkey, dome smoked, etc" It will be a good transfer, because there will be learning and growth from the two of us. Oh and he's from Provo Utah so straight from the factory hahaha. Miracles! Our friend Asia was riding the bus to work and some guy ran a red light and smacked the bus! She was uninjured, just sore so she went to work. We had her baptismal interview on Saturday night and she
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Helllllooooo 4-17-2024

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  Elder Williams Update! It has been a while. Last week was General Conference and that was a revelatory experience with a lot of wonderful talks given on the power of temples and Covenants made therein. One of my favorite talks was called "Pillars and Rays" and it reminded me of a BYU devotional I enjoy called "Flashes of Light." We had our friend Nathan watch with us and a member and he usually gets distracted easily but he was attentive the whole time which was a miracle. We watched another session with our friend Amasone with a senior missionary couple who lives in the complex near him and that was a miracle in of itself because we had gotten in contact with him 10 minutes before the session started and they were willing to host. The biggest miracle of all was our friend Asia! She was planning on watching Saturday morning with some members but her daughter kept her up all night so she slept in and she had to go to Oregon on Sunday to catch a court trial so she w
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The house was on fire pt2 but way less severe than last time 4-01-2024

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  This week was insane!! My companion and I have been clowning around town having a blast. We have been talking to everyone in our favorite trailer park and everyone is still too busy to talk. We met some more with our friend Nathan who is preparing to be baptized on the 7th! He is so funny, he really enjoyed the story of Laban getting his head chopped off. Update on our friend Asia.... we had a lesson scheduled and we arrived with fellowship. No one answered the door, so we left and came back 15 minutes later to that same area for other contacts. We heard a fire alarm going off and it was coming from her apartment! We ran to the door and she was fanning smoke out the entry way. She saw us and closed the door and opened it a few minutes later. From the doorway she started to get emotional and expressed a lot of concerns she has with our Church, doctrine, etc. The brunt of it were some scriptures she found in the Book of Mormon from an online source that taken out of context could come
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All is well here in Zio.... I mean Airway Heights 3-25-2024

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  Howdy folks, it's been a minute so I thought I'd update you on the happenings of my life! Over the course of the last few weeks we sent off another missionary who headed home. He had weird flight logistics so he left 10 days into the transfer. The weather has been getting warmer and my teaching area has been producing lots of random people for us to talk to! There's this one trailer park that we call the "npc spawner" because so many people we've never met emerge from a collection of 5-6 camp trailers on one corner lot. We are teaching a 19 year old kid Nathan who lives there! He was referred to us by our recent convert Clint's friend son who is Nathans uncle. Real quick story about Clint. He was baptized a few months ago... he has never read from the Book of Mormon, still smokes pot and cigarettes, is a one legged diabetic man who lives in an absolute dump of a trailer and completely relies on other people to live. We love Clint but its a struggle to ge
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