May 29, 2023 What's up everyone! Long time no see... again haha. It's definitely a struggle to get these out sometimes. Not too much for general updates. Met a few new people but not much progress being made. Our friend Zoraida is doing pretty well. sadly she can never make it to church but she is willing to learn and with some help from our members itll be awesome. Cool Story! So to start off as my grandma always says, "Don't do drugs" so we are driving down the road and we see an old lady scooting around in her wheelchair. Not too unusual, but then we realize she is scooting around with her feet. Think about that for a moment. She the proceeds to ingest more drugs and curse at the world as she scoots past 50 mph traffic. so much fun. Then we got to see a pirate man who is marooned in Eugene Oregon. Quite a normal day for me. Zone Conference and MLC were fun, i got to sing so if you watch the Oregon Eugene departing devotional i'll be front and center not...

May 15, 2023 I'm doing awesome don't worry, missionary life is just trucking along. Time is flying by, and I'm continuing to study like a mad man! The past few weeks have been relatively uneventful, playing basketball a ton, not teaching anyone new lately, but we finally got back in contact with quite a few of them! The boys from Nicaragua are still a little dodgy, but it looks like some of the others we didn't have a ton of contact with are still down to learn. Our friend Felipe was on date for the 11th but sadly that fell through. We were able to give our friend Alexis a blessing and meet with him for the first time in months. We actually did meet one new person her name is Stephanie, and she is a caretaker of some men with mental illness. She is so cool she just wants to know all about missionary work, and we got to teach her a bit, I have never had someone say yest to reading the Book of Mormon so excitedly!  I've been able to give a couple blessings lately and ...