Hey Yall!
This week was a good one! Neither I nor my companion got transferred but he wrecked his ankle this last Monday and so he's been in a boot cause he tore some ligaments. So we stayed close to our homestead. But that's been good because we have been going out and playing pickup games and shooting oops at a nearby court as well as we have learned a ton of card tricks and do street magic for people and then talk about missionary stuff after cause they always ask. Well this weekend was the third weekend we have really made it happen and so we were out Friday shooting hoops and tons of high school kids walked by going home from school and all of em were like, "Hey! It's Elder Hiatt and Elder black!" They knew us by name! All cause of street magic and ball. It's awesome. They know me as the baller and Elder Black as the magician but we do both we just are better at our corresponding talents. So it's way fun. Members are that way too, when we get to dinners they all after are like, "so we hear you do magic, let's see this!" So we then have an awesome time and end up getting tons of ward help from it too! It's been so fun. We recently learned a new trick and it blew some kids minds. While they all were watching magic some of them came over to me and asked for more Jesus cards cause they wanted some and so this time I gave them the articles of faith cards and everyone saw and then everyone at McDonald's wanted one! I sat while Elder Black did magic talking with everyone else as they read the articles of faith and asked what they all were and such. It was so sick, I felt like Alma. They all put em in the back of their phone cases so they could have Jesus showing it was sick.
We also had tons and tons of full size candy bars. Elder Black and I didn't want them so we filled our suit coats with 70 total things of snickers, Starburst, milky way,skittles, and everything you'd find in movie theaters. We then went to church and whenever someone in any class answered a question we tossed em. The priest quorum went nuts and the young men's president was all, "man you guys know how to get street credit with the youth, making my bar too high sheesh! No you guys are the best thanks for that man." So that went awesome. We also had a linger longer after church and we got stuck at a table with a way cool family. Their daughters were awesome and we enjoyed their company.
This week has been FREEZING...... It's awful. The air is so dang wet and it's all sub 32 temperatures so coats literally don't matter. It rained one night and then froze and all the trees were coated in like ice, every inch of them. I felt like I was in heaven cause the sun in the morning shined through all the ice on the tree branches and made them glow. It was so cool. Then it slowly melted through the day and so under any given tree it was raining.
Things are awesome, I appreciate your prayers!
Elder Hiatt
