Elder Carlson in Philly: Mission Lyfe

Hey everyone!

Hope you guys are doing well! We've had a pretty good week. Elder Makaukane heads back to Hawaii in 10 days so I've been having to work a lot harder to know where everything is, and how everything works really fast since I'll be taking over the area when he's gone...so yeah that's stressful but it'll be fine.

We had some solid lessons this week which is always awesome. One thing that happened a bunch this week is getting referalls, setting up appointments, having to get a man to come with us if it's a girl (missionaries aren't allowed to teach women unless there is a man in the house) and then show up and they aren't there...so that's always fun but I guess you can't win em all.

Yesterday we were able to go get pizza with the Bills (senior missionary couple who are awesome) and that was super fun to be able to get out for a bit. We also got to go into a different part of Philly where there are actually white people, and there weren't gangs all around, it was super weird. Then we went back to our place that night and realized how ghetto our area is.

Fun fact I realized when you have a companion who is going home soon it's actually pretty nice cuz then all of a sudden everyone wants to feed you, and that's so sweet cuz we like never get fed out here, but we've been getting fed a ton recently, and by a ton I mean like 3 times but that's way more than we usually get fed, but we got more dinner appointments this week!

I got to confirm Isatu today! Usually they have the Elder that didn't do the baptism do the confirmation, but since Elder Makaukane is going home he let me do it, so that was awesome, I love Isatu she's such a solid girl in the gospel. I also met a crazy lady today on the trolley, she was just going on about how she was homeless, and she was gonna hunt me down and fight me (she's like 75 years old and 5'2) I was just laughing and trying to be missionary like, but that was a fun experience.

We had a solid Halloween, we were gonna have some guys over and eat Oreos and milk but they had to stay home for some reason, so Elder Makaukane and I just read scriptures, ate Oreos, watched conference talks, and slept from 6:00 (when we had to be in) until we went to sleep for the night. I miss and love you guys and I know that the church is true, it's blessed me more than I can say and I know it always will and I know it can bless everyone as well. Love y'all!