Hey gang! This week on #whatsmysnack we have something I've been craving for the past year! Costa Vida sweet pork burrito baby!! Im pretty sure there is only like 1 Costa Vida in the mission and it's downtown Chicago so we had to go! Man I've missed Costa. Plus the worker had the hots for elder Spahr so she gave us free chips and queso, it was a win win!
Pretty crazy week we had in the Southside! We taught a bunch of lessons and found a couple new investigators during the first half of the week. Our weekend was full of meetings and service and not much time in our area. The service though was super dope. We, as a zone, got to go downtown and help provide 1 million meals for hungry people in Chicago with an organization called "feeding children everywhere". All of us missionaries got to be table captains which meant, each session, we trained a group of 12 volunteers on how to fill, package, and box meals. It was super fun and we were there for 4 sessions so we got to work with a ton of people! They even had a DJ who played some bumpin music, man I miss music... tender mercies!
Yesterday was so great. Fast and testimony meeting in Hyde Park is known for its interesting testimonies haha but yesterday's was much more normal, so I'm told. One lady did break out into song mid testimony, which was LIT. Then Jabari Parker's dad, Sunny Parker, bore his testimony and told us all about the bball camp he and Jabari did last week. Oh yeah the Hyde Park ward is the ward Jabari Parker grew up in, so that's pretty sick. Now only his dad goes to the Hyde Park ward, pretty cool though he sat next to elder noble and I, he is one large individual.
Hyde Park is a missionaries dream. I'm so unbelievably blessed to be here! We had 12 investigators come to church yesterday which was so cool, and all 12 were given rides by members!! We are currently in the process of planning a mega baptism for September 1st!! I'm so pumped we have 4 Nigerian families who we are teaching and are preparing to be baptized on that day! I know you'll forget them all but I thought it would be cool to tell you all of their names. They are, Oladele, Lydia, Dami, Victor, Abiola, Ibukun, Nifesimi, Issac, Bola, Fatima, Folahomi and Folawami!! I love Nigerians!!! They are so nice and so faithful!
Pretty crazy week we had in the Southside! We taught a bunch of lessons and found a couple new investigators during the first half of the week. Our weekend was full of meetings and service and not much time in our area. The service though was super dope. We, as a zone, got to go downtown and help provide 1 million meals for hungry people in Chicago with an organization called "feeding children everywhere". All of us missionaries got to be table captains which meant, each session, we trained a group of 12 volunteers on how to fill, package, and box meals. It was super fun and we were there for 4 sessions so we got to work with a ton of people! They even had a DJ who played some bumpin music, man I miss music... tender mercies!
Yesterday was so great. Fast and testimony meeting in Hyde Park is known for its interesting testimonies haha but yesterday's was much more normal, so I'm told. One lady did break out into song mid testimony, which was LIT. Then Jabari Parker's dad, Sunny Parker, bore his testimony and told us all about the bball camp he and Jabari did last week. Oh yeah the Hyde Park ward is the ward Jabari Parker grew up in, so that's pretty sick. Now only his dad goes to the Hyde Park ward, pretty cool though he sat next to elder noble and I, he is one large individual.
Hyde Park is a missionaries dream. I'm so unbelievably blessed to be here! We had 12 investigators come to church yesterday which was so cool, and all 12 were given rides by members!! We are currently in the process of planning a mega baptism for September 1st!! I'm so pumped we have 4 Nigerian families who we are teaching and are preparing to be baptized on that day! I know you'll forget them all but I thought it would be cool to tell you all of their names. They are, Oladele, Lydia, Dami, Victor, Abiola, Ibukun, Nifesimi, Issac, Bola, Fatima, Folahomi and Folawami!! I love Nigerians!!! They are so nice and so faithful!
Elder Thorpe
#whatsmysnack Costa burrito
Helped the Bellos move.
Me and my boy, Elder Parkinson, at MLC
The big time service for feeding children everywhere.
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