Week 29 - 2 weeks in a row? Wow!

This is kinda crazy isn't it?? Y'all are so blessed to hear from me twice in a row.. 

Everything is going super well this week! Elder Helms had a surgery on his jaw and he was on some pretty heavy stuff which made him have some pretty serious mood swings. It kept things pretty exciting this week!! He stayed awake for 4 days straight and if that doesn't make a person cranky I don't know what will.. but now hes sleeping and he is not moody. Which makes me a happy Elder Door Hinge. 

After P-day ended last week we had a super fun mega awesome family home evening activity because we are in YSA and it's basically just a bunch of thirsty kids in their twenties trying their hardest to find an eternal companion so they need to have activities where they can get together and flirt it up. It really just takes me back to high school which is just great. It's great. Really its great.

I didn't say anything about the new person we are teaching last week so I will now. His name is Travis and he is SO Christian. Hes tried a bunch of religions and all of them are just so different that he decided to just call himself Christian to strive towards a unity of faith which is just like dang bro that's what we want too. Last Wednesday we had a lesson with him and before the lesson he texted us and he said hey guys let's not do the lesson tonight and I'm like oh no and he says let's just get together and just play cards and hangout. Then I thought ok that's better. So we went over and played cards and just had a good time. Elder Helms thinks he was just testing to see if we aren't just straight up nerds. And I think we passed because we are going back over this Wednesday!! :D we aren't nerds!! 

A spiritual thought you ask??? Anything for you! I was reading the bible yesterday and I came upon Luke 1:37 and it's just such a great and eternal truth and then I also thought of Philippians 4:13 then I had a thought pop into my head "that scripture is right" and then I was like that wasnt a thought that was The Spirit aka Ultimate Fighting Champion 11 years running. Love feeling the spirit. Also since you probably had to look up those scriptures you should just go ahead and read a chapter if you can. In the bible or book of mormon. Go ahead this email is over anyway. Go home. Its over. Respond to this email when you've read a chapter with what eternal truth you learned. Go on. Do it for Jesus. You know you want to. Ok bye

- Elder Dorrance 

3 Nephi 5:13 ;)

Week 28 - 5th Transfer 4th Zone

Hello everybody what's going on. It has been about a month since I last wrote a weekly but there are still things going down in the WEM! I got transferred out of Bothell after only one transfer again. President just loves kicking me around hahaha I haven't gotten to know my wards since Everson which is sad but it's ok. Guess I'm just a problem child.

Well I got transferred to Skagit island YSA which is apparently just like the dream place to be because the ward is just so close. My new companion is Elder Helms and hes just a wild ride lemme tell ya. One second hes extremely quiet and the next he will just be yelling at me and I am totally here for it. Yelling as a joke btw he's not like angry. He's also very very... like the best word for it is wise. Hes literally so wise it's incredible. I asked if adam had a belly button and he was like yes. And I was like how do you know. And hes like i cant tell you. And hes being totally serious. It's crazy. I got bit by a dog (if u want a pic message me) and we found a new person to teach the first day I was here. This transfer is gonna be great. 

July 2019 - I know your ways

Already read all yo plays

Yuh

Hello everybody it has been quite a while since I emailed haha a lot has happened, I got transferred except I wasn't supposed to what the heck. President Wilding sent transfer texts out on Monday and I wasn't on the list but then on Wednesday like 15 minutes before transfers were supposed to happen the zone leaders call me and elder scheffner and they are like "Elder Dorrance! Pack your bags and get to the mission office! You're getting transferred!!" I was like what the garbage alright sounds good. So usually we get like 2 days to pack up and I got like an hour and a half. It was crazy.

So now I'm in my new area in canyon park Bothell stake with my new companion Elder Harris. We baptized a kid named Teddy who is just really awesome and creative and perpetually distracted. He was fun to teach. We said goodbye to president Wilding which was so sad I almost cried but I didn't because I'm a robot. In the closing hymn he couldn't sing at all he was just bawling and I was like dang pres tryna hit me with the feels alright. Also we got a new mission president named President Auna and he's from Hawaii and he's Hawaiian he's literally so awesome the first word I heard him say was alooooha! And it was legendary. Hes so awesome. He was the area seventy in Hawaii before this and he's gonna be an apostle some day I can feel it. 

We are teaching a couple people and they are pretty awesome. One is named Barry and he's a chemical engineer and he's really smart and he's just really seeking the truth so hopefully the spirit is just like guess what ya found it. Grats. 

Anyway I don't know what else is going on but I'm having a good time and I'm perpetually sore because I'm on a bike. I feel for you bike missionaries. I am dead.

Anyway goodnight goodbye count your blessings love u all talk to you later bye from Elder Dorrance