"Elder Buckwalter, enjoy your last week in Vegas. You will be traveling to Hawaii on July 30th. I don't have the itinerary yet but it will be coming. Thanks for all your efforts here in Las Vegas. Finish strong!"
So there you have it!
After 4 months here in the Las Vegas West Mission, I'm heading to da islands!! The real question now is who is gonna get there first, me or the hurricane!!
A lesson I've learned from my time here is to be realistic in your expectations and realize that we're all human. Everybody has their agency and when a companion chooses to scroll facebook all day everyday, there's almost nothing you can do about it other than set a good example and maybe kindly invite them to refocus on the task at hand. Coming into the mission, I think I expected just robots following every rule and leaving everything from home behind. That's not the case and it's really, really frustrating to me, but hey, what can you do? We all have our weaknesses, we all choose to serve for different reasons, we all have our different perspectives of the rules and standards we're expected to follow. Anyways enough of that rant!!
My mom is not gonna like this, but I genuinely think I need all new pants; my gut is just growing way too rapidly. Shoutout to Men's Warehouse for not listening when we said almost 5 times, "please make everything big and loose b/c I'm going to gain weight!" Gotta love Men's Warehouse.
My pants are excruciatingly tight: last night we had dinner at a very cool members house and they literally grilled pineapple like the stuff you get at Tucanos; then they also smoked ribs. so you already know i was feasting. And then immediately I paid the price. For the rest of the evening at their lovely home, my stomach felt like a negative 5/10. so mom, looks like we're gonna have to spend another $2000 getting all new clothes. Love that for us!!
This always happens and I'm not sure how, but this email is longer than a Harry Potter book! Going on another hike right now so that should be fun. Hope you all are doing well. I want you all to know that I live and breathe the gospel of Jesus Christ and I've never been happier!
Please text me, email, facebook messenger, google hangouts or whatever and I'd love to chat with you today and discuss the doctrine of the kingdom, the NBA, or whatever!!
Me & Elder Kellogg (zone leader) having our last P-day feast on Hawaiian food before I go!
~Elder Buckwalter
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