Elder Gavin Milius: PERKS OF BEING A MISSIONARY, PEOPLE GIVE YOU MONEY FOR NO REASON!

Welcome to my week 2 email! Probably not gonna be as long as the last one but that's OK! I think everyone can agree that I probably can ease up on the quantity of my emails for a bit lol.

This week was a blast, we had so much going on and this week flew by so quick! Tuesday we had service at "the farm" from which we built a dope flipping fence, so props to me and my comp! But while we were building this fence, Miss Judy was yellin' at the cows to quit coming up to us. She hadn't fed them that day and wasn't gonna till we finished the fence. But it's funny 'cause she calls her cows "the girls." So the first time she said, "All dem girls gonna start chasin' after ya!!" I thought she was talking about all the girls back home. As from which I proudly agreed to her and said you got that right, I'm what you'd call a girl magnet! It was a little weird and I felt awkward the rest of the day. But, then we had an amazing lesson with this girl and she is super smart, she loves talking to us and I'm praying for her everyday cause we would love to see her progress even more than she already is. Her boyfriend is on a mission so that's why she's been really curious about the church. She comes to Sacrament all the time and has a family in the ward that basically treat her like their daughter which has been so helpful cause now this girl just feels so comfortable coming to activities and all that jazz.

Wednesday we had another service to go to which was really fun, we got to go with the sisters in the area just next to us so it was fun to go hang out and clean out an old hula studio. We then had another amazing lesson with this family who is also super smart and super super nice. They made us a fantastic dinner and then we taught an awesome lesson, even though it was a really scattered lesson, I felt the spirit and I'm pretty sure they did too.

ZONE CONFERENCE!!! Aight so zone conference was Thursday and oh my goodness it was so fun. I might just be deprived of contact with others my age and with other people who understand me but it was a blast to get to talk with all the other missionaries In the surrounding zones and get to hear from our mission president and really just talk about our purpose and the power we bring as we truly dedicate ourselves to this work. After zone conference we went and knocked a bunch of doors. We honestly don't know what happened but some lady just gave us 40 dollars for dinner cause she said she liked what we were doing and said that she wanted to lift our spirits from all the mean people haha. Also while we were knocking doors, we get to this one guy who apparently talked with missionaries before and said he was having dinner, so we asked if there was a better time to come back and he just looks down, laughs, looks up and says "I want to say no, but I'm prompted to say come back"

So interesting!!! Honestly super cool!! So we are going back to contact him in a couple weeks.

Friday and Saturday were also super fun, we had service to go to both days and had a super fun YSA activity that we invited one of our friends to come to and she came! We got to talk with her and ended up going into the backyard with the family whose house we were at and played pickle ball for a while. It was honestly so nice to just feel like a teenager and have fun. But I do think that we really connected with our friend cause she seemed to enjoy it and she came to church Sunday so she wasn't freaked out by us.

Sunday you can't complain I mean, church, Sacrament, people who are nice, some dude gave us a 45 dollar gift card to Smash Burger, had an awesome Sunday school lesson about Jeremiah and how God was gonna speak through him and that even though the adversary was literally gonna fight against him, as long as he had the Armor of God on and had faith, he would know that the lord would deliver him and that the lord would protect him to declare his word unto the people. But that was fantastic and then! We get home and there's this note card on our door that says "to the balcony singer" and my comp earlier that morning went out with his ukulele and just messed around a little when a girl walked by and like stopped to listen. Apparently she was super grateful and said he had an amazing voice and that he made her day, so she puts this visa flipping gift card in it with 100 bucks on it!!!!!! Like what the actual heck!!!! We are hoping to see her again so we can either give it back cause that's a lot of money or at the least thank her so so much.

Anyway great great week, thank you to all who emailed me and uplifted me, I really needed all of y'alls comments. I'm praying for each and everyone of you, and if you guys ever need anything specific to be prayed for please reach out to me. I've learned a lot about the power of prayer out here and I can say I don't know what I would do without that knowledge of prayer. I'm so grateful that I can reach out to my Father and share my thoughts, share my pains, my sorrows, my joys because I can testify he listens, he hears every cry, he hears every laugh, he hears every shout, he hears and knows our feelings. Knowing that he is only one prayer away from us is truly a blessing and just opens my eyes to the love he has for us. He isn't a million light-years away, he is one thought, one feeling, one prayer away from us. Love you all, praying for you all. Hope to hear from y'all and hope you guys enjoy your week!!!