Week 41: October 17

Dear family,

This week was okay, a lot of canceled appointments which isn't good, crazy weather. But Monday was pday it was good we had apartment inspections with the new apartment couple, they were super impressed with our apartment so that's sweet, they gave us toilet paper for the reward which is a blessing!! For sure. But we then had a lesson with the Owens and dinner they made us steak and chicken super good, we taught them the restoration which was pretty good we only taught them the first couple principles cause it's hard for them to understand, but it was good.

Tuesday was zone conference it was really good talked about committing investigators to commitments and a bunch of other things, it was good. I saw the Jeknavorians!! They gave me your cookies!! They were so good!! I ate them all within the next day haha. Thank you!! Those are my favorite. ❤️ we had dinner with a ton of missionaries including then APs with some of our members that was fun, they made curry for AP elder Achal! But they made homemade apple juice and it was fermented, it was still good but had a little zing to it haha, they said it wasn't strong enough to make us drunk, I thought it was funny cause we all drank it than asked why it was fizzy and they didn't even know haha. Funny stuff happens. After that we went to the park and had a lesson with sister tooker and her sun. It was a good day it was weird to see the Jeknavorians, haha, it made me feel like I should be home. 

But Wednesday was good, we had service with this farm lady and we mucked Cow poop which was awesome!! It was fresh too. 😂 but that was fun she let us take a free pumpkin home which was amazing, cause I picked the biggest one haha, but we went to blue lakes and went finding all day our appt. with a less active wasn't there so we went trackting pretty much until dinner which was with the hamblins and we went finding again!! That was our Wednesday, definitely need more faith in finding, and in pretty much everything. 

But Thursday was really good we went up to hoopa and went with brother Kimble to find some people went through the 3 different reservations up there it was so beautiful the Kuruk tribe, hoopa tribe which isn't even the real name of the tribe we are trying to find out what the actually name is, that's just what the other tribes call it. And the Yurok tribe, hoopa is the biggest and there is a big rock in the Klamath river that splits the tribes. It's a cool rock but we went up through all of them to orleans a very small town and went up this road called ishy-pishi, still trying to figure out what that means haha 😂 but we went finding and took some more pics around there, it was so smoky cause there was a fire very close to where we were and everything was clouded. It looked really cool though. We had dinner with the Kimbles, and the wind started to pick up and the rain came In so the drive all the way back to arcata was pretty crazy. But we made it. 

Friday was super duper fun 😉 planning was good, we had dinner with the zundels we talked with them for awhile it was fun they are a sweet family. 

Saturday we went finding until 2:30 and then we had a ward baptism that we were until 5 and we had dinner with sister kautzer and she cleaned my ears out, holy cow there was tons of crap in them it was so gross, but it's a very good way to clean them all the way out, and it doesn't hurt. But after that we went finding again haha. 

Sunday was good 12 week and then church had a good time in gospel principles and in priesthood, we went finding after all over mickenlyville and had dinner and then went finding in Arcata and had a lesson with Eric and investigator we read first nephi with him, it was cool how interested he got as we read it was sweet to see. But after we went to a members cause they invited us to have pie haha. Apple pie is very popular up here. Haha it dumped rain yesterday like the freeway was a river it was crazy driving in it, my favorite is hitting the puddles with the truck super fun 😂 but that was my week, hopefully this one will be a little more exciting haha, you guys are gonna be foster parents again?? That surprised me, are you going to adopt again? I have not yet received the Halloween package, but I will look for it 😀 tell the kids I love them and the dog!! Love you guys.

Elder Devin Brown

brown.devin@myldsmail.net

3503 LK Wood Blvd.
Apartment B
Arcata, CA 95521