Well, life is good and the church is true!

Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have a good hearty breakfast I whipped up for Elder Gibby and myself! Elder Dietz is in my zone now and last Monday he told me and Elder Taggart that he had a gift for us. Then at zone conference he brought us some bacon haha so we put that to good use!

On Tuesday we got a call in the morning from a less active member who needed help moving, so we threw on some service clothes, picked up the north elders and headed over. This guy was living in a tiny little shack and it was nasty. He had dirty dishes piled up in the sink, there was animal poop in all of the corners and it wreaked of poop and smoke. We just moved a bunch of old beat up furniture and one massive oversized tool box, with all the tools still in it. It probably weighed close to 700 pounds! (Good thing we've been pumping iron every Monday with bro Lee) But we helped our guy out. When we first got there he said it would take 5-6 hours, but with 4 hard working missionaries and the Lord's help we got him all moved out of his old house and into his new house in 2 hours. 

We had a pretty crazy zone conference on Thursday, President Griffin started it off by giving us the details on our mission merge. He told us that on July 1st all the missionaries in the Peoria stake will be serving in the Iowa mission and all missionaries serving in the other 4 stakes will be serving in the Chicago mission! Pretty big changes coming up soon! The other thing that made zone conference crazy was my boy Elder Dietz had a seizure during the middle of the Zone Leaders Training! It was pretty intense, he was sitting right next to me and all of a sudden he just got super tense and sat up and was shaking. We hurried and moved the chairs out of the way and helped him down to the floor. It only lasted about 2 minutes then he came to. As soon as he came to he was his same old self, the funny ol elder Dietz we all love. Elder Taggart and I were sitting right next to him when he woke up and he said, "dang I felt that coming, Taggart go get my camera and take a picture of me laying on the ground so I can send it to my mom!" Haha then when we took the picture he closed his eyes and stuck his tongue out like he was dead haha, man elder Dietz is a hoot. But don't worry he's all good! 

This week we struggled a little bit finding new investigators to teach but on saturday we got a bible referral and so we went to bring her the bible on Saturday and she was sitting on the steps of her porch smoking and she started getting all antsy when we started walking up to her. She was a little freaked out by two white guys in white shirts and ties, but that's how everyone is here in Rockford haha. She was super nice and friendly when we told her who we were. She accepted the bible and let us inside to teach her the restoration. She seemed very interested and we gave her a book of mormon and she asked us to come back next week so hopefully she has some potential! When we got back to our apartment we realized that we locked our back door and left the chain on the front door so we were locked out. I wasn't about to call somebody to come help us out so I went into our storage unit and found a box to a phone charger that you plug into the outlet. So I took that and used the prongs on the end to unscrew the chain haha. It was pretty sick, I saved Elder Gibby and myself. Well, life is good and the church is true!

Elder Thorpe

Good, hearty breakfast I whipped up.

A mask we found helping the guy move.

Exchanges with the zone leaders.

Locked out of our apartment, but to quote Coach Willy Child, "It's a beautiful day!"