At the play place
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10 ways humans are like Garlic bread! (#7 will surprise you)
Hello! It is a Monday! Which means I’ve got to come up with a dumb title for my weekly! If you can figure out what it’s making fun of…. Good for you.
10: Murica day was Wack. We can’t shoot off fireworks, so that was weird, and Elder Willits said that holidays are the best days to go find people. Well, they kinda are. We met a lot of people but no one wanted to talk. I don’t really blame them tho. After we were kinda done for the day, we had a zone activity where we all hung out at a members house and just played some sports and had a fire, with a spiritual message about sacrifice. That kinda made up for no explosions. Kinda.
9: I met my first weird Oregonian! We were tracting around our house, and this lady told us that we shouldn’t be handing out the book of Mormon, and the church wasn’t true. We were thinking “oh, is it because Joeseph Smith wrote the BoM, or are we brainwashed into following the devil, or something like that?” But she said that we shouldn’t be handing out the book of Mormon because it’s bad for the environment. Wat. Apparently the church isn’t true because you can’t totally recycle the BoM. That was weird. Even Elder Willits said that was a new one, and he’s been working with these people for 2 years!
8: After we found out that we didn’t have a dinner for Thursday, we decided to make one of the frozen pizzas that the relief society President gave us. We looked around for a baking sheet and found that we didn’t have one! (It was okay, the pizza turned out fine) But while we were at a members house for dinner, they asked if there’s anything we need. And we said “a baking sheet would be good, but if you don’t that’s fine” and the member had just bought a new set of baking sheets! So she gave us one of her old ones! #theLordprovides
7: We were going out to talk to someone who hadn’t been contacted in a while, but as we were heading over to her trailer, we met a family sitting on their porch who had some questions about the weird Mormons walking around. She was nice, and chatted for an hour about religion. We gave her a book of Mormon and she said that she’d read it, and have lots of questions for us! Looking forward to that.
6: I am learning the book of Mormon really well! When we were talking with someone, I knew the right scripture that they needed! Who knew that reading every morning and listening to the spirit would actually work?
5: it is going to be way too hot later. Upwards of 105° I am going to make sure that all we do is visit members and go straight from car to house. Yaaaay.
4: I got the cool protein breakfast shakes, and am feeling great! You feel kinda hungry for the first couple days, but now I’m used to it! Gonna be HAWT pretty soon. That’s how ill bring people to the gospel.
3: We met our first tweaker today, he was talking about how the mayor and the sheriff were going to burn everything he’s worked for down, and pointed at a port-a-potty. Then he tried to hand us a broken phone, and some other stuff. We told him where he could go to call a good sheriff. It was weird.
2: Sunday is great. I love being able to take the morning to read and focus more on the Lord. Or accidentally fall asleep. But I didn’t fall asleep in sacrament. Elder Willits did tho. Even though he says he didn’t. Church is so nice, because I don’t have to focus on teaching. Carlos and crystal came, along with another guy that we had taught the previous night!
1: Carlos and Crystal have committed to baptism and marriage! Wooo! They were do excited about it, and are going to start keeping up on commitments. Nice. I’m pumped!
Cupcake challenge
Copy a cupcake as shown on the internet.
Ammon an Ky in the pool
4th at the SF Pool
S1E2: The electric Boogaloo
Top 15 most overpowered anime characters. If you can think of an anime character that is more overpowered than the ones listed here, be sure to comment down below! While your at it, don’t forget to like and subscribe so you don’t miss another EPIC anime list again! Let’s get riiiiiight into the [list]
1: Brother Vitus is the MAN! He’s our ward mission leader, and on Saturday he took us out for lunch to a local pizza place, and got the deluxe version of everything. We have so many leftovers. Then he took us out for dinner to this very nice Mexican restaurant. Of which we also got so many leftovers! He easily dropped $100 on us. This man is going to be a sooo blessed.
2: We went on splits with the zone leaders (which means we switched companions) and Elder Clem and I went out tracting. We met this nice man who was working on a ’73 chevelle. Very nice man, and car. Talked with an older lady who spent the whole conversation telling us what we believe. Then we got a couple Gatorades from a nice Catholic couple who wished us luck in the area cause everyone was either Catholic, Jehovah’s witness, or seventh day Adventist. It was a good time.
3: Elder Willits and I were going out to talk to this one investigator, who didnt happen to be home at the time, but right as we were starting to leave, a car pulled up, and we started talking with this young mother named Bree. She was very interested in our message, and scheduled a lesson later. We had the lesson at a members house, which was a Victoria era looking house. Very nice. Bree was very touched by the restoration, and said the first vision story was beaitiful. That lesson went for 2 hours, but no one minded. I am so thankful for the Brown’s for letting us in their home!
4: In the desk that i use, I found some Pokemon cards from mcdonalds!
5: The ward had a fantastic bbq at which we got to see some members that have been less active, and got to talk with them and hopefully get a lesson set up.
6: I got to talk to elder Clem all about comics and the story of Jawbreakers. He thought the characters are cool and the production story was interesting too!
7: On Sunday we had dinner with a less active couple, and it wasn’t Mexican food for once! The lesson we talked about was baptism and the sacrament, they were really touched by it, and commited to coming to church next week. Nice.
8: I’m going to start a protein breakfast and lunch shake thing so i can be stroncc and not thicc.
9: It’s the 4th of July this week and I’m kinda bummed because I can’t shoot off fireworks, and we can’t go tracting to watch them go off. 🙁 That’s fine, I’ll just stay up late and sit on our little balcony and watch them.
10: Speaking of fireworks, we met this lady on our last door of the night, and she has been in the fireworks business and told us some super neat tips with fireworks. You’ll have to wait till I get back home to tell you. Or take me someplace with nice fireworks and I’ll tell you. Anyways, we chatted about religion for a while and she said she would read over the book of Mormon that her friend gave her, and set up a return appointments.
11: That’s another thing I’ve noticed, everyone knows a Mormon. And everyone seems to have been handed a book of Mormon at one point or another. Which is good when the Mormon they know is good but we’ve run into one or two people who know some not-very-faithful-members let’s say. But that’s kinda rare.
12: We found our P.O. box! If you want to send us the good stuff, ;)Don’t bother, this is Oregon, and it’s already legal. But if you want to send some printed memes or framed pictures of Guy Fieri go for it! (Its P.O #48, 375 2nd ave, Gold Hill, Oregon, 97525)
13: We had a lesson with a good guy named Dominic, who is a seventh day Adventist, but likes to keep an open mind. We talked to him about the restoration, and he really liked it and thought it made sense. We extended a baptismal invite when he comes to know that these things are true, and he said yes! As we were wrapping up his dad came in and we found out that he had been talking with the missionaries before they moved up here! He said that he might sit in on a lesson next time! Nice.
14: I am so grateful for personal study and prayer. It’s a great time to just sit down with the Lord in mind and read his word, or just talk with him. The book of Mormon really brings a peace into the day that you never can get anywhere else. I just don’t understand why I didn’t take some time in the morning before I came out to read even a few verses. It’s not that hard, or even much of a commitment. Please do it. Even 5 minutes is fine.
15: Burger king foot lettuce. The last thing you’d want in your burger king burger is someone’s foot fungus, but as it turns out, that might be exactly what you get…
I love you all, and appreciate you tolerating my stupid humor just to read this. Going on a mission has been The best choice i could have possibly made.
Ya boi,
Elder Berky
Random pictures
Ammon & Jacob swim lessons
Replacing the deck
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S1E1: the Fire Nation Attacks
Earth. Water. Fire. Air.
Long ago; the four nations lived in harmony but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. I was going to come up with something cute for that, and kinda parody it, but I’m lazy, and typing this up on my phone, so yeah.Without further ado, let’s get the list for this week going! (Don’t forget to like and subscribe)
10: I’m finally here! Ya boi’ s in Oregon! After a nice flight we came into a nice and humid airport. It had rained the past few days and then the temp. Spiked so everything was nice and awful. Hey, it instantly ironed my clothes, so that was nice.
9: Met my companion 2nd day, this guy named Elder Willits, He’s been out here longer than he cares to remember! Super great guy, can’t wait to learn everything I can from him.
8: Our apartment is very nice, it’s got all the necessities of life, fridge, dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer, food dryer (Microwave), and a cute little balcony! The apartment is big enough so that you don’t feel cramped, but not too big.
7: The area that I’m serving in is called Gold Hill. It’s about 20 minutes away from everyone else, so it’s a little inconvenient getting from here to appointments in the regular city of Central point, but hey! It’s cool, we got a car! It’s a cute little town of about ~1.5k people, with some areas really nice, and some… not. But the ward is fantastic, we met (mostly) everyone at the BBQ they were having on the day we got here. (Coincidence? I think NOT!)
6: Because we were whitewashed in, which means both missionaries are new to the area, we get to pick up where the last missionaries left off. We have this couple named Carlos and Crystal, and they are SOOO ready to get baptized, they just need to get married and follow up with one or two commitments, but by my 3rd episode, we should have a baptism! They came to church, and paid tithing all on their own! Carlos even said that he’d pay more than 10% if “The lord is good to me, I’ll be good to the Lord”! I love these guys!
5: Tho nice, our apartment doesn’t have WI-FI, which is kinda weird, especially when we have skype appointments with some people, so we head over to a member’s office and sit outside to use theirs.
4: We have a temple in our area, but can only go twice a year, which is a bit of a bummer, but hey, I’m here to do invite others to come to the temple, so I guess that counts!
3: We have been fed dinner every night so far, our ward is so nice! We have dinner scheduled every night this week! If I don’t exercise enough I’m not going to be ya boi anymore, I’ll be YA BOI which we can’t have, so, plenty of sit-ups for me!
2:Personal study is sooo nice, I really wished that I had done this more at home, oh well, I will now! It’s such a good opportunity to just relax and read the words of God. Learn some interesting things to think about, like what the boat that Nephi built looked like, for it was not made after the manner of men, but the manner of the Lord.
1: After realizing I have never had Dairy Queen before, all the elders in our Zone demanded we go to Dairy Queen for Lunch. It was great. I got a cup with Chris Pratt on it, but threw it away because it was gross and made out of paper. I’ll cut him out next time, and frame him on the wall.
Love you all, Oregon has been great!
Ya Boi,
Elder Berky
