He couldn't handle the smoke 🌬🌫☠

                                                                                                                        email sent on 5/22/22

Hopefully with this email my Mother won't kill me yet, but I hope you all have been well, I am chilling for the most part. But I hope you all enjoys this adventure of a last few weeks I am about to describe for you.

But life has been pretty crazy for me recently, I got transferred up to Flagstaff about 4 weeks ago and it has been a bit of a party. So normally I like to think I'm in half decent shape right? But Flagstaff decided to prove me wrong, because I went for a run my first day here, and I didn't even run that far but I got terrible altitude sickness because I came from Buckeye which is at about 800ft, and Flagstaff is over 7000ft above sea level so that was fun. 

Then we played some basketball on P-day and my companion had a terrible asthma attack, and so he was out for the count the next few days, which is really boring for me, because all I can do is sit there and wait for him to get better and I can't really do much.. so yea. 

Then in our area there was a pretty bad Forest fire, some members of our ward lost their homes which was really sad, but with his really bad asthma we couldn't stay where we were at. So normally we live just the two of us, but then we moves across town where the smoke is better, and are living in an apartment with 4 other Elders, so that makes 6 of us. And you know when you out 6 19-20 year old boys together, you get some trouble, so that has been a blast for sure. 

Also! Being a missionary is pretty sick too, this isn't why I like being a missionary but it's also a plus. We were going out to lunch the other day and we got some money from someone for lunch, so we were going to get 120 nuggets, with 8 large fries, and 8 milkshakes too to feed all the missionaries in our district group. It was gonna be like $150 all together, but we got money so we were like we'll be fine. We then are standing in line about to order, and this lady turns around and says, can I buy you all lunch. And we were all like... uhhhh, we feel bad because there's a lot of us, and said we should be fine, but she insisted and was like my daughter is on a mission, and she's needs some blessings. So we were like well, can't argue with that, so she paid for all of it, and I was like😱... I then said "The Lord is going to bless her soooo hard now" ... but yea that was fun.

Oh! And also we were all mega bedding in our living room with our mattresses, and then at like 4:00am we here this like pitter pattering in our cupboard, I think you already know where this is going. But I go to check it out and there is just a rat chilling in our cupboard eating our chili oil that we got stocked up which was waaaaaack. It was honestly really disgusting, but we then chased it around the apartment for a bit, then trapped it in a bag, then one of the Elders proceeded to curb stomp it, and another group spiked it, and then we tossed it in the dumpster. So... yea that was an adventure, ngl I almost lost my lunch watching them do that, but it's a fun memory now. 

But now actually I am down in Goodyear, because of all the smoke the Emergency Transferred us so that way Elder Borman could start to breath better. We have been down here since Thursday and it has been wack. But I has been a blessing from the Lord because I have been able to see a lot of cool missionaries that I used to know because Buckeye is right next to Goodyear, so I already know a lot of the missionaries down here which is fun. 

But we have been working in our area remotely and it has been super weird, we have called and texted so many people I don't care to count, but I should be going back up to Flagstaff with a new companion hopefully Tuesday, so stay tuned. 

But I hope you all are doing well, as always stay safe out there!

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