Good News: I am an aunt again! My brother Greg and sister-in-law Kim had a baby! On August 29th, 2017! His name is Maxwell Evan Kezos and he is the best thing ever.
Also, Hurd hit her 1-year mark! We celebrated with glow sticks and sparklers.
And now for the title *drumroll pls* We went to a Buddhist temple! With a legit statue of Buddha, incense, candles, meditation pillows, and MONKS! I felt way out of my league. Our investigators attend and they invited us. And lemme tell y'all something. SISTER KEZOS IS THE WORST MEDITATOR IN HISTORY. I had to legit move every 5 seconds cause my legs were asleep. And the monk kept talking about our nose itching and so obvi I had to itch my nose. Then he went around with a PADDLE and was making people sit straighter. It was terrifying. For 40 MINUTES! Also, they have a little building that holds the urns of their ancestors (yes like Mulan!) and there was this one urn that had a Santa Clause hat on it. It was amazing. Then the monks throat sang for us. Yes, you heard me, they throat sang. It was so odd and I tried so hard to be respectful and not laugh. (which was nearly impossible but I did it y'all.)
*I didn't take any pictures, but we are going to go back and get some.
Then we got a flat tire. We put the jack underneath and it snapped in half! So we called the AP's to help us (it was 100 degrees out) and we were all sweating. The elders were a little more than us haha. Their jack was too high so we had to literally lift the car- by the power of angels for sure. Then we spent 3 hours getting the tire fixed. Apparently, when the elders had the car they ran over a nail and it has been stuck in it ever since.
For Pday we went to the trampoline park, Area 51. A member is the manager so he got us in for free! It was so fun and there was a trapeze and a tightrope. Let's just say it was definitely not my calling to be in the circus. Then we found out the next day that there is a new rule that missionaries can't go anymore so that was sad. And they took 200 miles from everyone. Nobody can go around all of Baton Rouge with 800 miles, so needless to say we are going to be biking and riding the bus a lot.
We also got to hear Elder Bednar speak for the young adult devotional. Which was so cool.
The rest of the week was filled with mapping, (we finished mapping 1011 people yay) tracting, and contacting. But this week was definitely the hardest week (or two weeks) of my mission. A mission ain't easy. But the Lord wanted me here and I'm still trying to figure out the rest. This church is true! I love y'all!
#GodBlessTexas
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