July 17, 2023 THE HOPEFULLY NOT SO BORING ADVENTURES OF ELDER WILLIAMSON CHAPTER XXXIX

remember milk?.. cuz i don't... *on p-day we went to the american embassy here in the DR, since it's in our zone *basically just a super secure little villiage (wellll.. more like a super fancy rich community).. and you go in there and there are all these giant houses, and a bunch of american families live there.. so it wasn't for the 4th, but it was super sick to step on american soil for a little while.. even fake american soil *but it was crazy, cuz they had AC, and carpet, and they spoke english, and the had a community basketball court, and tenis, and they made us a whole BBQ lunch, and cookies, and they were just super nice, annnd it was just basically the equivalent of the celestial kingdom *and then we went on an exchange (that happens every week, buttt.. idk.. it still happened) *i think i've mentioned this before, but.. whenever i'm having a hard time, or something is going slow, god just sends kids in our path, to cheer me up *so anyways, on the exchange, just almost everything fell thru, and we didn't have any rEal lessons, and i was having a pretty good time honestly, becAuse.. i think it's pretty funny actually when just everything falls thru, cuz it just means we need to be somewhere else at that time, annnd it's just funny to me when everything goes wrong *sooo what do you do?.. pray, and ask where you actually aRe supposed to be right then *i've done that a cOuple times now, and it always works.. sometimes it takes a while, but it works *so anyways it was one of those days, and we diD end up finding a couple people for them over in their area, but it still was a very unproductive day.. in some ways.. but also in a billion other ways, that day definitely needed to happen, cuz it ended up leading to a lot of other things.. annnd i'm seriously trailing off now.. but anyways *the other reason i was having a good time, was because whenever you have a day that looks horrible like this day did, it means you're abOut to have an amazing day *sooo anyways the next day, was super good, we taught super good lessons, and it was crazy some of the things that ended up happening *but anyways, we finally get back to the point of the kids *so basically in one of the lessons, there was this 4 year old girl, and she is sUper smart, but the kind where she's also really ADHD, so it was the funniest thing ever *and then once the lesson ends, i say the prayer, and i get to the end, and look up, and then she just jumps up and gives me the biggest hug and says "GRACIAS!".. it was so funny, but stuff like that actually happens pretty often, like kids will just see missionaries, and just run up and give them a hug *but anyways, right after this lesson, we're walking to another, and this other 4 year old girl sees us, walks up to us, and asks me "are you going to my moms' house?".. and i was like "well.. where does she live?" (cuz when someone invites you to their house, obviously you don't say no.. especially if it's a kid).. so she was just like "come with me" and then she took my hand and led us to her home.. so that was funny too.. her mom was taking a shower or something, but were going back on another day *my birthday was pretty sick! *i made pizza rolls, which is a little harder than you might think, if you don't know how yeast works, and the ovens here are just unevenly heated boxes.. so they turned out pretty bad, but the other elders liked them a lot *and then 2 of the elders in my house made a brownies cake thingy, and bought a giant tub of ice cream *and then we had a day of just inviting the whole universe to church *so now i'm 19 ig that's all.. have a great week.. love you guys! moroni 10:7-8 And ye may know that he is, by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore I would exhort you that ye deny not the power of God; for he worketh by power, according to the faith of the children of men, the same today and tomorrow, and forever. And again, I exhort you, my brethren, that ye deny not the gifts of God, for they are many; and they come from the same God. And there are different ways that these gifts are administered; but it is the same God who worketh all in all; and they are given by the manifestations of the Spirit of God unto men, to profit them.