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The Greatest High

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Whattup Spirit Junkies,  As I sit at my slightly cluttered but mostly organized desk covered in books of scripture and laser-engraved knives, tastefully decorated with a singular potted plant, I sip my coke zero out of a plastic cup and eat air-fried chicken nuggets out of a plastic bowl and realize...  That's it. I peaked.  Nourish and Strengthen Well anyways, heres what happened in the last two weeks. Two tuesdays ago, we had lunch with our favorite recent con Ana, and she invited her aunt to come and eat lunch with us. We took the opportunity to teach her some cool stuff and she also asked us to give her a blessing, which was very spiritual. Then we went back, did weekly planning, and then got caught up in a meeting with our bishop where he printed off like 400 names of people for us to visit. There are a lot of inactive members in the ward wow. Wednesday I went down a crazy rabbit hole in my studies about dual snake symbolism and if Jesus was married. Pretty...

Hit Em With Those ZL Tactics

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Whattup 9 Year Olds, This week we have resorted to the classic missionary tactic: baptizing kids. It's ok though her mom is a member who's like kinda inactive but really wants to be more active and their whole family has a goal to get sealed in the temple it's actually super sweet. Literally love this family so much and gonna talk about them later but for right now let's talk about last week cuz Shadows Die Twice I know I've been sick before on my mission but not like, cannot eat or drink anything for two days sick. That was a first last week. So basically we lost the whole week to sickness :( but we still had a bunch of people come to church miraculously so that was a great blessing.  That whole first day of sickness was probably one of the most painful days of my life, but it was also weirdly one of the best days of my mission. It's like passing through that pain gave the Lord a million little facets to show me his love, and there were so many tender experienc...