Derry (Londonderry), Part 1

A certain man passed by us the other day as we were coming back from visiting a member. He asked us for directions, and then noticed our badges. He identified us as missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and then walked away as he announced to us: ''I'm church of Ireland.'' So remember family, the Irish have their church, the church of Ireland, and it is run by the Irish. Roman Catholics have their church, and it is run by Rome. Protestants have their church, and it is run by protesters. Catholics have their church, and it is run by...Cathool. We are the church of Jesus Christ; we are run by the Master. I've come to rejoice in that fact. I've come to love and rejoice in my Rabbanah; my great and powerful king. It's been a spiritually charged week; we got 4 new investigators. One of them already dropped, but still! 

Elder Riley Price is from Mesa Arizona. He's a cool guy too, he used to do a lot of cool (albeit typical) Arizona stuff back home, like mountain climbing and dune riding! 

*gasp* Nooo! Not wholsale sports! What a suckfest. At least you got a consolation; three deer ain't bad at all. The Lord has blessed your storage with meat! YEAH! 

I can't tell how soon I'll need boots. I should be good for the rest of November/December, but I'm walking holes in my shoes. We walk everywhere; no car. The Derry area is actually pretty far reaching, over to Donegal, but we stay in the city. Our flat is pretty much right in the city center, so it's really good. Our address is 25 Fountain street, I hope you can get a postal code from that. 

Seeyoulaterloveyoubye!

By the way, have you ever seen a really old movie called Buffalo Rider?

Dundalk, Finale

[Last week there was no letter for "everyone". Just individual ones.  Elder Lybbert was feeling pretty homesick and had to work out some issues. This week was Cody getting back up on the horse!] 

I'm excited for what's to come! I have a chance now, in a new area, to be a way better missionary. My new area is Derry (Londonderry) in Northern Ireland (Belfast Zone). My companion is the district leader Elder Price. I don't know a whole lot about him yet. Elder Milburn has gone to Limerick, and Dundalk is getting Sisters. Which is gonna be cool. I never actually saw any baptisms in Dundalk, which was not very good, but big whoop. What the diddlewhopper. Obladi-oblada. Hakunamatata. Gabba-gabba-hey! 

Wanna hear a funny story? Every transfer (6 month period of service) I eat a whole, raw onion. I don't know why! It's just a stupid tradition. It leaves my breath in poor condition, and my...other functions...function even worse! But I do it anyways. This last time I ate an onion, it was way bigger and way juicier than usual! It hurt so much to eat it! But I did it. I ate the whole dagnab thing. The next morning I realised--and I don't even know how--the onion had, like, burned off my tastebuds. My tongue was smooth. And also very sensitive. Later that day for lunch we got some mexican food for lunch. I got a bowl with lime and cilantro rice, black beans, chorizo sausage, EXTRA chorizo sausage, jalapeno peppers, spicy salsa, sour cream and cheese. It's sooo good! It's what I always get. Only I had forgotten that I couldn't taste at all! So when I started eating it, I was just disappointed. I discovered something else though. I couldn't taste all my delicious food, but I could still somehow feel all of the spicyness of the chorizo, peppers, and salsa. And my mouth was 3x as sensitive as before. So it was thrice as hot (very painful) with none of the flavour. Needless to say, I didn't even finish it. But I didn't want to throw it away; it was almost 10 euros! So I was just holding it while we were contacting. Then there was this lady who (looked Romanian) came up to me trying to sell a magazine, because she needed money to buy food. I told her I had no money to give her, but I had food! So I gave her my expensive, delicious, and very spicy burrito bowl! 

That's all I got. This time. I love you all, but you're gonna have to wait 'til 2019 for me to come home again. Ask the Bishop to send me some advice about Derry (Londonderry). 

Love y'all!