“Utah's got a squad this year.”

“I think I'm gonna stay away ”

Quote of the week explanation 

We were tracting one day this week. That's not too unusual; it's a pretty common finding activity around here, and I've gotta say, we've seen some pretty good results from it. Anyhoo, getting back to the account, we knocked into one fellow, and upon introducing ourselves as missionaries he lit up and told us that he would be traveling to Provo for work in a few weeks, and, in fact to the very heart of Mormondom BYU itself. We asked him what he did for work, and he told us that he was a west-coast scout for the Packers. Elder Kendrick and I are both pretty into football, so we thought that that was one of the greatest things we'd ever heard. He said he was going to scout a few players at BYU, but (and no offense to those of you who happen to support the team down south) he said that their team has “pretty slim pickin’s this year.” He then asked us what our favorite college team was, and, again, both Elder Kendrick and I responded by saying Utah. Well, he got pretty excited by that remark as well, and he looked right at us and said “well that's a much better football team. I’ll be going to watch them the week after. Utah's got a squad this year, multiple draft ” And I'm sure the fact that the Utes creamed Cal this week doesn't hurt their standing in his view.

Anyway, I hope you aren't about to kill me because I talked about something as unholy as football in what's supposed to be an uplifting, spiritual lecture on righteousness. I suppose you can pursue legal action, if you wish. (Just know that you would lose because I've got legal genius President Paul Durham on my side).

How's the week been for yeh?

Our weeks been pretty good, another seven days logged in the books.

In terms of the happenings, we can start right off with an interesting one.

As you may be aware, due to extreme fire danger in this part of the country they have been shutting off electricity all over Oakland and even beyond. This is in an effort to minimize the danger of electrical equipment getting blown in the wind, causing a spark, and starting a massive, explosive inferno that moves at sixty miles per minute. Therefore, this Sunday the power on temple hill was down. Most units that meet there just cancelled church for the day, but not the Oakland first ward. No sir, we met in... a nearby park. Yes, you read that correctly. We held a church meeting and partook of the Holy Sacrament in a park. It was an interesting experience. Everyone just brought their own lawn chairs and such, and we had the sacrament and one short talk, sung a few hymns, and adjourned the meeting. It was pretty fun, actually, even though I almost killed myself and a guy in a wheelchair when I was helping walk them down the hill and the dirt started sliding from underneath us. Don't worry, everything was fine, we didn't meet an untimely end. We just had a fun little three-foot slide, that's all.

Not much happened in terms of teaching super solid lessons. It seems like everyone we are teaching is out of town. Not much we can do about that, I'm afraid. It's like the old Laotian proverb goes: You can't eat the fish you catch without seasoned salt. 

On that note…

Bye

-Benny

P.S. “I don't know how many ”

P.P.S. “Take these clothes, they're obviously real. It may be a fraud but there's real clothes.”

P.P.P.S. “THOSE things for a while!”