Mission Tour and the best Prank Ever!!!

5/22

Alright so this is how this week went down, it started off pretty busy and then declined from there.

So we start off on Tuesday driving down to Helena for a mission tour with a member of the seventy.  We left Kalispell at some time that I can't remember but I know that we got into Helena at around 9 so I think we left at about 5:30.  It was a bit of a drive.  It's all good though, I just napped the whole car ride basically.  The mission tour was really awesome!  I learned a lot and it helped really clarify some things I didn't even know needed to be clarified!!  It was really cool!!  We did that basically all day Wednesday then we had a later lunch and I got to see a lot of missionaries I have been able to serve with and so that was really awesome!!  It was good to see them and see how their mission was treating them. 

After that we left Helena a bit late so we got into Kalispell at around 9:30 or so and decided to stay the night with our district leader and his companion… this obviously means that some shenanigans went on 😅  We tried finding those charcoal masks that rip off your face basically and we were going to do that but we got the wrong thing or something but we did get a picture of that.

Then the next day we had service in the morning so we went back to Bigfork and helped out a lady in our ward with this farm day thing.  Basically she has elementary school kids take a field trip to her place and they see the animals and have fun.   

So we helped her with that and we have more lined up this week!!  It was a ton of fun!!  I really enjoyed it.  Then the next day we got pranked hardcore... 😂  We went to our dinner appointment with the Livingstons and I really like them.  We get along with them really well.  Anyway so we pull up and see one of them lying down in the driveway on his stomach and I'm like "what the??"  And then we get closer and his two brothers (one older, one younger) come running on the roof to right above him and start freaking out and I look at his arm and from my perspective it looks like it's covered in blood and dirt.  So I'm thinking he just fell off the roof... great... so like as soon as Elder Anderson puts it in part I'm out of the truck and I'm feeling my pockets for oil to give a blessing because that's honestly the first thing I thought!!  I was like we need to give him a blessing.  So I get up closer and the two brothers come out from behind the house after they climbed off the roof and I'm talking to the one on the ground and I'm like "are you ok? Did you just fall off the roof?"  And when the other two get around to us they hold it together for a few seconds then they start dying laughing and I'm like "why the crap are you laughing!?!  Your brother just fell off a roof!!"  Then I look at his arm closer and I realize that it's ketchup on his arm and that they totally roasted us 😂  It was the best prank I've had on my mission so far!!  They got us soooooo good!!  

Then at dinner they were talking about this Joseph smith statue they have in their basement that this old guy who used to live with them got... creepiest thing ever.  So naturally I took a picture. 😅  Afterward they asked if we wanted to play rugby and we were like yeah sure!  That sounds like fun!!  Honestly I totally forgot the no contact sports rule and I think the Lord wanted to remind me a little and so we were playing and I had the ball (I'm in my church clothes by the way) and I'm running and the oldest out of the Livingstons goes to tackle me and I keep running.   Anyway my foot slips out from under me and goes one way while my knee goes another and so my knee pops and hits the ground and I thought "this is it... I broke my leg and now I have to go home..."  then I realized it wasn't broken and that I just hyper-extended it really bad!! 

The next day we did some service for a guy who lives up a mountain road not too far. But we wanted to see how far the road went!!   So we started up this trail and it was pretty clear!!  No snow or anything like all the way up almost.  Then we turn a corner and see all these people surrounding a truck that's stuck in the snow, trying to get it out.  So we put our truck in park and went to help them out.   Turns out it was a group of Mennonites on an afternoon drive.  So eventually we got them unstuck.  But it was a miracle they didn’t fall over the edge!!  It was way too close.  We thought it was probably best that we didn't even try making it up the rest of the way 😅  But we found a really awesome place with a really great view of the Flathead Valley.  

Sunday was really awesome as well because our recent convert Walter was given the priesthood!!  He's such a great guy and has so much desire to serve the church at 100%!!   He's the coolest guy and I really enjoy talking to him!!  But it was really awesome to see him get the priesthood!!

Well that's been my week!!  There have been a lot of things going on, but despite everything I know that God is good and looks after all of us!! Love y'all!!

Love,

Elder Zeller