Felsted, Andrew

Hello everyone! I hope you are well!  So we spent a lot of time at the church today. I wonder how many times I have been to the SM church.  So the proper name for a hobo is an urban camper. They hangout outside of our church a lot! This week, we saw them sleeping on the ground right outside the church many times. There were also two times this week that they were just walking around right outside the church just walking around and yelling. So ya that was interesting.  This week I had my departing interview with President Carter. That was kinda crazy! Like thats it. I've been having interviews with him every 6 weeks for 2 years and now no more. It's a weird feeling.  We got bashed by an atheist. Well he was kinda bashy but also just really a big faith shaker. He was weird. He's like there is no God, because He can't be like a man because He is so mean and just hates people.  Some cool scriptures I read this week.  2 Nephi 27:23 For behold, I am God; and I am...

Hello and good afternoon all of you wonderful people! OK so a lot happened this week but as always I'm not sure what to put in the weekly. This may be shorter.  So at the beginning of the week we made some cookies. Some for one lady we are teaching. It was her birthday. We also made some cookies for this couple and their young son because they were a little sick. So president Bragg from the area 70 came to tour our mission. We got to listen to him and the Carters for 2 days. That was really good!! We had a lesson. We were talking to this lady and her daughter. Another lady comes into the room and touches my arm and says "o wow muy blanco que lindo que bonito". She was telling me that my white skin was so pretty. Elder Nunley's dad is Mexican so ya Elder Nunley looks Mexican. Often we'll be in a contact or a lesson and I'll be speaking Spanish and the person will look at Elder Nunley and will be like "wow look a white dude speaking Spanish". It's ...

Hello everyone! Hope that you all had a great week! This week wasn't anything to crazy but also kinda tough.  So we had this really awesome lesson with this couple we are teaching. Before we started teaching anything, we were talking about missionary work and how it's pretty tough. We talked about how there are so many prideful and hard hearted people who won't listen to us or just waste our time. We talked about how pride is the biggest problem in the world today. It's so true. Humility is the opposite of pride. I told them that humility was on of the attributes of Christ. He taught, healed, and ministered with humility. He really is our perfect example. There is a chapter in Preach My Gospel, chapter 6, that talks all about christ like attributes. I invite you all to read through it. It is really good! If you have a paper Preach My Gospel that works, you can also find it on the gospel library app.  There is also a talk called "Beware of Pride" that I'll ...

OK friends what is going on?!?!  So Tuesday was transfers! As you all know I am still here in the AMAZING Santa Maria mission! So I'm follow up training Elder Nunley. He was in the zone last transfer, so ya he has enjoyed moving down the street. He is HILARIOUS! We've had a really good time this week!  So we started teaching a lot of really cool people this week! They are awesome! Like they are all really cool! We had some great spiritual lessons! Of course we did have lots of people cancel and flake on us, but These lessons that went through went so well! People that I don't want to leave yet. But, I got 5 weeks to enjoy and teach them!  On Saturday a member invited us over for Carne Asada! It was great!  We almost saw a Mexican fight break out. These dudes were definitely drunk. One dude rips his shirt off. These other people were holding these two dudes back. The best part was this was all going down at a quinseñera.   Also HAPPY MOTHERS Day! Ya we ...

Well everyone... It's Monday again! You know what that means..... you get to endure another one of my weekly emails.  So it's also transfers again. Kinda crazy. It's like I just got back here to good ole Santa Maria. Well that's OK because I'm staying here! That's right.  Last transfer , and I'm dying in Santa Maria. OK but get this, I'm no longer a zone leader. They changed the zone leader area. Crazy huh!?!?  So I'm gunna be comps with an Elder named Elder Nunley. This will be his second transfer. That's why I said "normal missionary,... Sort of". I'll be his follow up trainer. He was in my district last transfer. His trainer was the district leader. Now he's one of the zone leaders here. Elder Teichert is going down to good old Moorpark. Still to be a ZL haha.  Happy national pretzel day on Tuesday! We went to the mall, this soft pretzel place. They were free! They were good!  I made some swimmy pigs for lunch on Wednesday! T...