Nevadan #2

Hello Again! 

I think I've said this before but it's so true. The first week with a brand new missionary in the area is always amazing! The first week of last transfer when Elder Windous got here we were super busy and we found O__ who was baptized less than a week later. This week we we were super busy again and we started teaching J__ and M__!

At the beginning of the week we had to drop Elder Windous off at the airport. He took off on Tuesday EARLY in the morning. We woke up at 3:30 and had to be at the airport at 5:00. We dropped Elder Windous off and he got to spend the whole day flying to Jamaica. After that I got to crash at the Zone leaders apartment until we drove up to the mission office to pick up my new companion! His name is Elder Durham and he is from Nevada too! Just like Elder Windous. He is super cool. He's a musician so you'll have to check him out on YouTube and Spotify and tell me if he's any good His name for both is Easton Durham. 

Wednesday was our first full day to work and it was crazy. We had lots of lessons and we had an extra companion with us since his companion had to go to a leadership only training meeting. One lesson that was cool was with this guy named A__. He is really interested and loves a lot of things about our church he has heard a lot about the welfare program and really likes that. But he has a pretty cool background story. He was in the military for a while and then after he did that he had a hard time returning to civilian life. He tried everything and nothing worked for him until he tried hypnotism. He was hypnotized a bunch eventually he was able to ease back into regular life. Pretty crazy. But now he is doing the same thing for other veterans so he goes around hypnotizing people all day. Hopefully he doesn't hypnotize us during a lesson 

Some other cool people we started working with this week are J__ and M__! They are awesome kids whose mom is a less active member in the Tongan Ward. They are super crazy and energetic and they are wanting to be baptized on September 1st. We have gone over just about every day since we met them. There are always about ten kids running around the house as we teach so it can be pretty crazy. It's been lots of fun! 

Have a great week! 

-Elder Burgon 

Pics:

Before Elder Windous headed out for Jamaica we wanted to hike up to the Hollywood sign. So that was our plan for last p day. We got up there and hiked for a bit and found out that if you go the wrong way you can find some pretty sweet caves and other crazy stuff. After exploring those we started hiking in the right direction towards the Hollywood sign but it was extremely hot! We started hiking around 2:00 which wasnt the greatest idea. So 15 minutes in we decided it wasn't worth it and turned around.

I found a cool sculpture that works perfect as a comfy seat 

Elder Durham and I didn't take any pics this week so we took a selfie at the library