Samoan BBQ, Army Vet & -5 Celsius

Hello Mother and father and sister and brother and family !!! Updates for the week include a birthday card for dad with some treats inside. 
Today is 8 months !!! (this was Sept. 14th, that he hit his 8 month mark)

Monday - I got 2 more fire patches. I think I have 14 or 15 different fire patches from Cali so that is very cool. 
My comp and I did it. We actually went to a Samoan Bbq on Labour day AND WE ARE STILL ALIVE !!! Seriously, I think I ate at least 20 pounds of food. I had like 2 steaks, ribs and like 8 chicken breasts, a lot of salad and water melons. Yes, I ate some of a foot long water melon. After that we went and got our stomachs pumped at the hospital (not really), and taught a less active family and her two non-member kids that night, so that was cool. 

Tuesday I had an exchange with an Elder I live with. He has autism so sometimes it's a little hard. He teaches fine, but has a hard time listening so he just does his own thing a lot of the time. We get along fine, so not a terrible day at all. 

Wednesday was good. We had service at a food share, which was good, but I was working in the freezer it was only -5 and I was freezing cold!!! I am from CANADA where it peaks at -30 what the heck??!!! I am acclimatized to a point that -5 bothers me, yeah, so that was the fun part of the day. 
Oh and we had Panda for lunch so that was good :)

Thursday was soo fun. We did service for this soldier who served in Afghanistan. He was a referral and needs help moving stuff so we helped him clean out his storage unit and oh my heck !!! He has ALL his stuff from his two tours in the army. He had guns like you would not believe. He had army gear knives, top grade gloves and more stuff. I got army under clothing and over 100 different police patches from all over the US. I got top grade military sun glasses that are ballistic glass and a lot of other cool stuff as well. We are going to be helping for weeks in his house and unit and he said, "oh wait, there is more to come". He said if we want it, we can take it. He is a really cool dude. So the pictures of me in the army stuff, that's from him !!! 

Grill donated 
by a member

Friday we had an awesome district meeting focused on the Book of Mormon. That was cool. Sad to say, I had to go back to Urgent Care for the same pain and they told me what it was. I have an inflamed muscle and I have somehow bruised the muscle around my rib so the doctor said over the next few weeks I will feel pain on and off. Some days will be very bad and others not so bad. They gave me some good meds to help, but he said in 3 weeks it should be back to normal so that is good. Nothing too crazy. I have no idea how I hurt it though, but they told me to take it easy, so I am. 

Saturday was just a long day and all we did was visit less active members. yeah, that's really it. 
 

Helmets donated by Member

Sunday we had church and I had to leave Sacrament because my chest started to hurt. I went home and rested up and it went away that night. After we went to a members house for dinner and their son leaves in 3 weeks for his mission so they asked us a billion questions. She said she has you (mom) on Facebook. Sister Ybanez, so that was cool. 

Well family, I love you. You are the best. The work here is great and I am going to the baptism this up coming Saturday. It may be later, as it might have to be pushed back again, but we'll see. 
I am working hard. I know this is true. I love this gospel and have found so much joy in it. Keep making efforts to follow our Saviour and He will bless you all. Love you. Talk to you soon.