Elder Field Won't Have To Eat Sardines!

There is a story about sardines I will tell a little bit later. Anyway, this week was pretty fantastic.  We put in a lot of work and we're able to see some cool miri'curl's (shout out to USA curling team. The only reason I know is we were joking about curling with a member. Then he texted us in the middle of the week with the news) We did a ton of tracting and were able to find a couple of people who invited us back. They seem pretty cool and solid, hopefully I will report next week with an awesome amount lessons :) 

We had lessons with Kaelani and Diana(kind of) this week. Kaelani's lesson went great and we are still on track for the 10th of March. We are going to have her baptismal interview this weekend which we are pumped about. And Diana, well she is Diana. It's getting harder and harder to meet with her. We went to have a meeting with her this week and she couldn't make it because she lost her keys on campus, so we went over and helped her look for them. We found them. But meanwhile we walk in on a rally that they were having to remove the stature in the Arcata square..... Idk fam...... I'm sick of everyone getting offended by everything but it's whatever. Tried to talk to a few of them, but they weren't having it. So that was our "lesson" with Diana. A haha basically just reminder her to read from the Book of Mormon. But yeah. Life goes on. We are gonna meet with her this week hopefully to establish something to work towards.

We did tons of tracting this week. Found a few cool people who want us back so hopefully those go well. The best thing about knocking doors is you’re never quite sure what's gonna be on the other side. For example, we knocked a door where an old man who couldn't speak very well just stared at us and mumbled. Or another time a girl came to the door with so many piercings in the face that I could barely keep a straight face, or the time we knocked on a door and got called white supremacists. Or what about the time we knocked on a door and the dude was so high that he could barely talk. Knocking doors man. It's a blast. Yall should try it sometimes. 

So, the sardines story. So, with our zone focus for battle of the belt we decided that you were allowed to do companionship throw downs. Which basically a public exclamation during district meeting that you are going to do better than a companionship in the district..........  So basically it is a bet..... I know we are terrible but whoever wins the throw down gets 5 extra points and what not. Well to do a demonstration we threw down with the sisters and said we would find more investigators than them. Well they wanted to spice it up a bit and said losers have to eat sardines. Well long story short, after a tremendous battle the last day the sisters called us said they didn't want to eat sardines and they didn't want us to eat sardines and that this was a horrible idea and they promised never to do it again haha, but if we tied no one would have to eat sardines. So, we planned to tie and all is well. But I will tell you. It was tempting to just get one more than them...... So tempting...... 

Anyway, this week was a great one. Realized I still have a lot of things I need to change and work on before my time is up. So, I'm going to work my hardest to get those things changed. God is real, he knows and loves all of us, the Book of Mormon is true. It's there to help us remember everything God had done for us. Jesus Christ is the Messiah. And Joseph Smith saw what he said he saw. Have an awesome week! 

God is Good,
Cheers!
-Elder Riley Field