12th Weekly Email

 Paqui chip challenge! gone wrong?

After transfers, we started this week off with zone conference. I absolutely love zone conference. The mission president and his wife basically spit straight facts right at you for 4 hours. They say it's a revelatory experience and they mean it. It's basically like general conference (specifically for missionaries in our zone)


Before each zone conference, president sends a subject to write a 4 minute talk about. I was confident in my last minute talk so I jokingly told my companion that I'd love to share it in front of the whole zone. I think God heard me say that because the next day, I got called on. During the middle of conference, the APs pick about 5 people to share their talk. The first 4 people were called. There was one more poor soul that had to get up there. "Elder Lewis". My heart didn't know how to feel. When everyone turned around and looked at me, I got pretty nervous. I felt like I was in the hunger games and I was just called to be a tribute. My life was surely over. My heart was racing once I got to the stand and I think the whole zone could tell. Anyways, I feel like I did good and it was pretty fun😅


My companion and I found out yesterday that a member in our ward was *at one point* ranked the number three Yugioh player (i think something like Pokémon) in Utah. He would have gone to national finals in Ohio but he was busy that weekend. Don't ask him about it. 


One crazy thing that happened this week. One sister in our district (in a trio) is going home in 2 weeks. We figured out that our whole district (the other 6 of us) have been out less combined transfers (11) than her (13). We are a young district but we will still baptize nations!🤠


After 9 pm one day, my district was at the church and decided to have fun. An elder that just went home left a paqui chip for us to eat. The paqui chip is the one that's black and it's super duper hot. Anyways, we had one and three of us wanted to try so we all got a third of the chip. Even a small piece and we were all struggling pretty bad. I think one elder almost threw up? Also my companion later that night took his contacts out and I guess didn't wash his hands well enough...😭


Italiano per la settimana: "Natale" - Christmas


Vi voglio benissimo,
Anziano Lewis


Pics: zone conference with the ugly sweaters, enough trash bags for a bed, cute pic with the district leader, I made three different kinds of pasta (none were good), chip we ate, comp and I love Facebook