Dia De Los Muertos

 (Elder Putnam)

Aight, so I’m a little less lazy this week but my email is still not gonna be very well thought out. Last Pday we ended with an FHE lesson with the Birkenfeldi. Fun fact: if you go to the Come Follow Me manual, Brālis Birkenfelds and his son are on the front cover. Which is kinda awesome. I thought that was just sorta an eastern Europe vibe, cause that’s what they’ll do with some of the missionary pamphlets, but I guess not.

Anyways, after the lesson, we invited one of Brālis Birkenfelds' neighbors to a branch hosted Dia De Los Muertos party. He ended up bringing some of his kids and grandkids and now we have an appointment with him in a few weeks.

We had exchanges which were super fun. Elder Argyle and I went up to Rīga and my companion for the day was Elder Bastow. That was very hype. We taught English Club then made pasta as the two temporary companionships. Then the next morning we did some street contacting. I will say that contacting in Rīga is a lot more fun than in Liepāja. I got kebab for the first time in Rīga which was pretty darn solid. It was not quite as shwarma-ie as I imagined.

We finished raiding the old Liepāja Russian Elders apartments and I found a machete that we brought back to our apartment.

Dia De Los Muertos ended up being a very fun and successful activity. We invited a ton of people to it and it was a blast. We also saw some people across the street from the church at a park and invited them in. It was two at first, but they left twice, each time bringing back another friend. Gotta love Emīls and the gang.

I got my packages from Rīga today which was awesome. I made bread with the standmixer, breadpans, and oven mits. It turned out pretty darn solid. were gonna give it to one of our neighbors that says he loves missionaries. love the dude.

Were meeting lots of new people. Not holding a ton of lessons unfortunately, but it is what it is.

I got some walking shoes which is pretty money.

That’s like all I got for the week. I love the mission but I cant really sit down and put it in words or remember it all so ya.

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here’s some pictures:

1. Great breakfast before exchanges (ended up getting out the door 15 min late tho)

2. "And it came to pass... that we did go about to destroy the church of God" smth like that.