1/12/2025

 Whats up everyone it has been a minute since I have written an email. My fault. I am still chilling out here in Virginia except now I have been transferred to Harrisonburg. It's a lot further north, it's kinda a smaller city, and the wards here are awesome. I am also training my baby boy Elder Mulholland. He is from American Fork, Utah and is a straight beast. He played basketball for American Fork and at one point guarded and talked to the Cooper Flagg. We have a lot in common so it has actually been a lot of fun doing some missionary work with him. We are now in the 4th week of our transfer and my beautiful boy has already grown so much. 

The wards here are awesome. We are covering 2 wards out here is Harrisonburg and both of them have welcomed us so well. I have left 2 meals with members sharing spiritual messages that have dang near made me cry both times. I know whatever friends we bring to church are going to get fellowshipped like nobody's business. So that has been amazing. Also I almost forgot we got Uncle Mikey here in Harrisonburg. Every Saturday we go to his house and call everyone in our area and invite them to church, after which he takes us to Texas Roadhouse every week. Uncle Mikey is better than Lebron. Prayers up for being stateside.

We got some really cool people we are teaching right now. First we got Steve and Sondra, these two are my pride and joy. They have been practicing Jews for what is like 40 years now and my guy Steve had some questions for us on the Book of Mormon and its geography and everything that he was really hung up on. We kept on bringing him back to the Book of Mormon and how it came to be. He couldn't understand it and he told us he would get back to us. After some philosophical discussions with chat gpt about our boy Joseph Smith he is down to be baptized. And we're gonna throw those 2 on date yo. 

Also we got my guy Yusuf and his fam. Yusuf and his 2 Aunts and Uncle have been rolling up to church for a minute now. Yusuf's aunt Esther has been taught for a while now but she genuinely just doesn't know English. The previous Elders kinda gave up on her but Yusuf whos a 17 year old speaks perfect English. So we have been teaching him for a bit and he is down for about everything we were saying. And he is about to go on date too. 

There have also been some crazy miracles for people coming to church in Harrisonburg. One of the crazy ones was a lady who is a Menanite which is kinda just a more lax Amish person really wanted to come to our church but she does not have maps or GPS. We met her in a parking lot so we just told her to go back to the same exact one 30 minutes before church so when Sunday comes around we go right on back too sharp shopper to guide Sarah. to church. We got there and there she was with three kids ready to go. We guided her over and she really loved the service and is hopefully gonna meet us at the church for a study. We also had our friend Cindy come to church who we were just talking to about alarm clocks for a lil bit in Walmart, We then invited her to church and she was so excited but she could not remember her phone number. We wrote it down on a card and gave it to her and with all my time as a missionary none of those people where we don't have their number come but Cindy said nah. She came to church this Sunday and was in tears the whole time. They were good tears. Trust. 

Also I got attacked by a Spanish Abuela's huskie this week. I haven't told my mom this so my b mom. We were on exchanges with the Spanish Elders in our district and we had a lesson with a new member at her house. While we were there I was throwing in some of my Spanish shoutout Senor Selles and I realized my Spanish isn't what it used to be. Gonna have to get back into Duolingo. Anyways, while we were there the lady we were teaching said the big ole huskie was nice so I was giving it some pets and it started growling at me and then it went ham on me. I showed it who the big dawg was but it left a few scratches. It had all of its shots so we were chilling but now whenever me and Elder Mulholland pray we ask that no dogs attack us. After that we had a lesson with one of our friends Victor in Mcdonalds cause his wife dont mess wit us. But the lesson at dons made me feel a little better.

Spiritual thought

2 Nephi 31:20

Wherefore ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope and love of God and all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward feasting upon the words of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.

This scripture has been in my head a lot just because of the grind it has been to get started in this area. But through a lot of grinding and having a steadfastness in Christ I have been able to see some of the best success on the mission! 

Honestly so much happened but I am too lazy to put it on the email but love yall! I will be locked in on emails from now on.