July 2, 2018

Family,

This week went pretty good. 

Monday ~

Fun P-ay we just drove around and went to a few different popular places like Brown's Point were there is an old lighthouse on the Sound.

Later in the week we did some service for a less active member and helped him move a giant walk in freezer to some other guys house. The thing was so stinkin' heavy. It was in pieces but still massive. But that's okay because we have some lessons lined up with him to start teaching him so he'll come back to church!

There are lots of people like that in this ward. We will talk to members who have had experiences in their life recently or they are starting to come back to church. We are hoping that we can start teaching some of them. Mostly those who are non-members and help them to join the church.

We had our Festival of Finding for probably the last time since the mission just split. It was this past Saturday and it was really good. We found 15 new investigators a Zone which is awesome. This week as a Zone we have had the best we have ever had and found 35 new investigators. We usually find around 21. Seven of those investigators were found in our area as well so we are super excited to start teaching some new people.

On Thursday we had our Zone conference which was very good. We got to hear from one of the Assistant's that was the Assistant in the Seattle Mission. It was cool to see the differences in the missions. The things that they are doing good at that they can help our mission with and the things that we are good at that we can help their mission with as we come together. I am excited for the combination of the missions and to see how things go. It's weird because now our Mission office is in Bellevue. We will get to drive up there and we will see a lot of new things.

We had a really good lesson with G. It is so much fun to go and teach her because she is just so awesome and understands all of the Gospel. Everything we teach her she soaks right up and she's always reading and studying on her own. We wish everyone was like that. 

After the Finding Festival on Saturday we also had a ward BBQ that was really fun. They had lots of games like volleyball, badminton, Frisbee, football and many more. We had the barbecue and then afterward there was a fire and people sat around the fire roasting marshmallows and singing songs. There are a lot of different ethnicities in this Ward. It was cool to see the Islanders who brought their ukuleles and guitars and played and sang, someone was playing a harmonica and everyone else was just singing. It was pretty fun.

That was about it for this week. Hopefully this all makes since because I did it all with the text to speech. But thanks for all you do and have a good week I love you all!

Elder Ethan Wayne Stucki

PS -  I need new jeans!!

sounds like good things are going on back at home. So that's exciting.
Things are going good here. My companion and I get along really well.
The best part of the week was the Festival of Finding because a lot of new investigators were found. and ya there are always spiritual experiences on missions.

Also!! we will be going to see President Nelson speak!!! I am so excited. September 15!!

The mall here has a sweet hat store that makes me want to add to my collection!!
There will be tickets but the General Authority over this area talked with our Mission President and said they will reserve seats for all the missionaries.

… about girls camp. My ward just had girls camp this past week and some girl went there with lice and it spread like a wild fire! So they had to come home early. Then we had a ward party the next day and I think someone gave me lice!!!!! My head has been tingly and there are little white things but they don't move. idk if it's just skin cause I've never inspected my head before and idk what lice are like. I'll be ticked if I have lice. I think I might just be paranoid but I swear I feel little tingling's on my head. We talk to and touch so many people and all the girls and the leaders got it so idk man but I better not!!

Have a good week. I love you all!!

I think I'll shave my head!!