My mom wanted me to send this out 7-24-2023

 For all those who still read my emails, I am alive and still in Moscow. The last few weeks have been quite interesting, the dynamic of our apartment is odd and we have a lot of fun. Some notable highlights are as follow....


- We have been able to see a few of our friends progress in the Gospel (Terra has been reading bits and pieces of the Book of Mormon) (Tony has come to church a few times and loves it) and our zone is finding loads of friends through tech and Facebook. 

- I participated in a lesson with someone named Logan and we were able to bring fellowship who was wonderful for Logan, they were able to bond over military service. The Spirit was strong as I testified of church auxiliaries.

- We have been able to participate in multiple exchanges, Elder Vavla and I have so much together. 

- The city of Moscow has been going crazy with city events (they have a farmers market every Saturday, live concerts at the park, etc) 

- We had preparation day at the LeBarons home (our mission leaders) and played frisbee and board games with a lot of missionary friends. My companion and I spent the night in Spokane and ran an exchange. I taught a guy who overcame the addiction of weed, lsd, pcp, coffee, alcohol, and xanax in 2 weeks. He got baptized on Saturday.

- We had zone conference and it was super powerful, I learned a lot from the Spirit.

- Today we got attacked by wasps on a nature hike and I got stung a few times.

- A friend of the other missionaries had a friend Juliea who got baptized! I had re-found her weeks ago. She's awesome.

- I am growing a potato and the plant is a few inches tall.


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