The Uruk-hai

Well it has been a minute so I’ll try to give a brief recap of the three weeks that happened without an email.

So back around July 1st is when you stopped hearing from me. So let’s start there!

If you remember back that long I had started an exchange with Pride, it was pretty fun with Elder Bowden, the new missionary in our district being trained by Elder Dearden. They’re currently in a trio, so elder Keller went up to McComb. We did a lot of knocking and had some cool miracles happen, it was really hot for much of the day so many people gave us water.

For the 4th of July, we went over to the Reynolds and fished after we had dinner with them. The members here are awesome and are really involved in the work. A little after the 4th of July we also hit our first feels like 100° while raining.

We had Zone Council where we got our Zone scripture which is really awesome from Exodus about concentrating everything to the Lord. We also had Zone P-Day, which was really awesome. We had a huge water balloon fight and then played volleyball at the church. It was super fun! On the way back I also hit that giant traffic jam and couldn’t send email due to how late we got back home.

We were also gonna go on exchanges with Pride again, but there were some injuries that happened. So we switched them up a little bit and had Elder Bowden come up to McComb with us while the other two Elders just stayed in Pride.

During the exchange, we went and played basketball with some of our members then it rained and I slipped on the wet court and injured my arm a little bit. It actually wasn’t too bad. The photo that we took makes it look a lot worse than actually is.

Finally this week. We helped make some stairs for a member where we dug some post holes and got to use a sledgehammer to break through concrete, the “feels like temperature” was twelve degrees higher than the actual temperature where it felt like a 106° in the humidity.

I had an awesome exchange with the ZLs and then went down to Baton Rouge for our Zone Conference, which was really fun and got to see the temple for the first time on my mission. Our Mission President gave a talk about moral agency.

For P-Day we went over to Liberty and went fishing at a member’s pond and played pickleball. Since we saw the sisters’ car at Walmart, we decided to put some pamphlets on it as a joke. After all that we went to the Perkins who are some pretty awesome members! I got to eat some pretty interesting food. I had some pickled quail eggs, some Dubai chocolate, and yellow watermelon. I love the food down here in Louisiana. You always will get something unexpected.

Sorry for missing so much hopefully you’re all caught up now!

May the Currents be in Your Favor.

-Elder Ward