That's awesome that there was a baptism in Southgate [ward]! I'm glad you got to see and be a witness of the light that is brought in from living the Doctrine of Christ! It is truly awesome to see.
We found a ton of new people to teach this week. One of them is on date for June 29th! His name is Javier. His son, who is married to a member, just got baptized in the Gardner ward. Javier only speaks Spanish, so that's where we come in, and he lives in our area. He has a lot of health problems, so he is forced to stay home all day and not work, which makes it really easy for us to meet with him. After inviting him to be baptized and an awesome lesson, we started walking out the door, when all of a sudden, we hear a loud thud. We turned around and Javier was on the floor having a seizure. He has them all the time, so people came out from a bedroom and helped him. He keeps hitting his hard pretty hard too when he falls, so that's not good. Our next lesson, he didn't remember anything we talked about, which is pretty understandable. Good dood.
I got to go on exchanges with Elder Verdoorn on Wednesday. I went to the Stanley area, which is the extremely wealthy ward. It was awesome!!!!! I loved it. Their apartment is crazy nice, even though the AC was broken and so it was super hard and sticky the whole night (the humidity here is so weird). But there were a ton of Spanish people mowing lawns and working construction and stuff, so that was fun to be able to talk to them!! Then we had dinner at this family's home, named the Parkins, and they were super nice and had a real nice home. We had some Traeger cooked chicken that was really good.
This week a member brought us the best ribs I have ever had in my entire life holy SCHNIKEYS. She also brought us a cookie that was the size of a basketball. We ate it all in about 2 days. #health
The Chavez family did come to church! It was so good to see them!!!
We got to go on team ups again with Porter, a youth in the ward who will be going to Brasil on his mission. He and I are pretty tight and get along real well, so it's always fun to go to lessons and stuff with him. It went really well and we saw some miracles from it.
We started teaching this guy named Carlos who lives with a less active member. It is so humbling. The basements out here are not like they are in Kennewick. They are just cement dungeons with a drain. Idk why, but that’s how it goes. Carlos rents a room in this basement and literally has a dresser and maybe a bed (and some beer) and is the nicest guy in the world. He is awesome and seems to have some real intent.
I will tell you more later, but I love you so much! Thank you for everything.
Elder Ogden
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