Elder Gavin Milius: IF YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, CALL ME BEEF!

Sup gang! This week has been a fire one for sure! Did a bunch of stuff! Can't believe this transfer is literally over! It's crazy that I've been out for 3 transfers which equals just about 5 months on a mission. Gosh I hate that! I do not like counting down the days cause one this is like the best experience I'm gonna have in my entire life so I don't want it to end but at the same time my district is trunky out of their minds so I'm like superrrrrrr trunky and I definetly miss the west!

But to go on with my week!

Tuesday! We had service on Judy's farm and I just love hanging out at the farm, that place is the place to be on a Tuesday haha! But after that we had the chance to go out knocking and it was like the first time in a while that we found some success in knocking, we talked to this one guy about families and how important they are to God and how as we make them one of the most important things in life we will be blessed and he loved that! We also gave him a Book of Mormon and got his number!! It was a fire contact!

Wednesday was another great day! We had a whole day open but we were able to go to a lesson with this one guy! Oh my goodness it was booty cold this day! We had the lesson outside cause there were people inside. Me and Elder Naylor were just freezing our socks off, shivering to death! And I don't shiver that easy so when I do shiver ya know it's cold!! After that we were gonna go knocking but it was just too cold so we went around and drove to some people we were teaching in the past to get in contact with them. Nothing too crazy happened from that, nobody really answered which was kinda crappy but oh well. We then got to go to a member dinner for like the first time the entire transfer which was really nice. Had a great time with them and shared an awesome message about the temple! Also if you haven't gone to the temple in a while...GO! I miss the temple so much and there is so much beauty, peace, and clarity that come from visiting the temple!!

Thursday we had lunch with Sister Neer at a seafood place, that was pretty bussin!! Then after that we had our last district council of the transfer! My comp and the other elder in our district were just trunked out of their minds ready to go home! But it was a good meeting, then we had to lug through weekly planning, then had dinner and then went to a lesson with a guy we had on date. This lesson was good but frustrating, this is the guy who's brain is a little slower and we brought him a notebook to write things down as we taught them to him. We went through the whole restoration again and he was writing a lot of things down! It was great! Hopefully this tactic will work and we can get him to remember things more. But I still don't know what to do with him, our president told me to just pray for the spirit of discernment and pray for revelation so he can understand this gospel because this gospel is for everyone and I know it's for him but at the same time I ask myself sometimes if I'm wasting my time. As of now I'm just gonna keep sticking it through with him and pray that he receives the knowledge he needs.

Friday was an awesome day! We got to go to the farm in the morning with our Zone Leaders! This is where the beef comes in to play. Obviously she has a lot of cattle on her farm so there's that, then they made us burgers for lunch so we ate some delicious burgers but while we were eating this one young cow came up to us trying to eat the burgers but the guy basically tried to kiss me, don't worry I got a picture and it is honestly my favorite picture out of my entire mission! But then after that we went home and had another great day of finding! We went visiting some more people. We went to the hood part of our area which is honestly my favorite area lol, it's just fun to be there and people are a heck a lot nicer over there especially when they know you are talking about Jesus!

Saturday we got transfer news!!! Obviously my comp is going home but I'm getting a new comp who is younger than me in the mission! He's only been out for 2 and I've been out for 3 so in super excited to work with him and help him in any way I can and hopefully learn from him as well. We are both just fresh missionaries going to take on the area of Mount pleasant! So I'm super excited for this next transfer! But after that we just again had a full day of finding!! It was pretty friggen cold this day as well!! It was nuts! Like cold humidity is terrible!! This is why I miss the west lol. But we just visited even more people in our area, just kinda filled out day talking to people we've talked to in the past. It was funny though we went to visit this one guy and we knocked on his door but his dog wasn't barking so we were a lil confused. We then thought he was taking his dog out on a walk so we drove around the entire neighborhood looking for this guy trying to get in contact with him! Unfortunately we didn't find him which was sad because it would have been epic to just pull up to him and be like YO! ITS THE MISSIONARIES!!! but after that we came home and I didn't know what I wanted for dinner, I had some ground beef though so I decided to fry up some delicious burgers!! They were greasy as but delicious as heck! After that we just finished out the night with calls

Sunday was fast Sunday and it was a long hungry Sunday! We went to church and then came home but we had to go out and visit even more people! We were really hungry so we finally came home and made some dinner! Made some fire chicken quesadillas! The we finished out the night with calls

Today aka Monday! This is my comps last Pday!! So we made sure to make it a good one and oh boy was it a good one! We went to the store and then came back to grab some of his old clothes to donate, then we actually went into the Thrift store and I popped some fire clothes, I got a sick lake shirt and a sick flannel and a sick sweater! Then we came back and played some pool then went fishing with the elders in our district and then lol we went to Texas roadhouse of course! Stuff was fireeeeee and the stinking elder in my district convinced me to buy a 30 dollar porterhouse steak! Which is you don't know it's both the filet and the new York strip, both amazing steaks! That thing was 23 ounces!!! But it was the greatest steak I've ever eaten!!! I don't think I can go back to the sirloin or even just the filet or the new Yorker alone! But as we went to pay I tried putting it on my MSF cause I didn't want my parents knowing I ordered a 30 dollar steak, turns out my card declined, super dumb!!! So I had to use my parents card and I immediately texted them and said "hey don't be mad but can you transfer like 37 bucks into yalls account but don't check what I bought!" They checked of course! So it was funny and I was embarrassed but I don't friggen care I just ate a 23 ounce steak cooked to perfection!!! 10 out of 10 would recommend!

Anyways that's my long week update!! I love all yall, I guess before I end off my email I've really been growing my testimony of the Book of Mormon lately! Like I know a lot of people who grow their testimonies of the atonement and of christ and other things but im so grateful for the wonderful opportunity I have to serve in Richmond Virginia cause no other place would I have been able to see how powerful the Book of Mormon is! It's crazy to see how much of a blessing it is to have the Book of Mormon! I know that it is true and I know the reason Joseph smith laid down his life for it was because he knew it too!! And so did so many saints in the beginning of the restored church. I know I am out on a mission because of that truth and I am so fixated on that truth that no power can change my mind! 3 Nephi is a perfect place to come to know our savior as is the entire book but if your feeling down or you need some guidance or need anything, turn to the Book of Mormon and read 3 Nephi and come to know the savior in the Book of mormon, christs love will be more powerful than anything from putting in that effort to read! I love that book so much and I hope those around me can see that!!! Anyways I love all yall! Everyone who's sacrificed their time and effort for me I just can't thank you guys enough!!

Hope yall have a great week! Looking forward to the next!