March 7th 2025

☆ The most Rewarding day of my mission!!!

☆ Bar Crawl

☆ Departing testimony 

☆ Last zone conference and MLC with Elder Goury 

☆ Kirtland core and Joe Jackson  

Okay let's jump into this

What a fast fast week. My goodness I feel like the time is slipping through my fingers. Tuesday was mostly normal we had a mission devo where we met Elder Goury of the seventy. Wednesday we had mlc at 8am I got to say the Opening prayer for it and enjoy Elder Goury. Shared lots of opinions I was pretty yappy. Zone conference was Divine. So good. Bore my departing testimony. Almost pooped my pants of nervousness. Hugged everyone and their mom. Thursday we drove up to Kirtland and again hugged everyone and their mom. It was so fun to see everyone. Yapped it up with thee Joe Jackson and he said mmm let me do your departing testimony… I'll get approval for you to drive up to Kirtland for it. Hahaha My dream coming true. Sat through a quick last mlc. Then drove back. Hit up institute…. Leondrae, Tania, Joshua, Miles, Samaju all came!! So, so fun. 

Friday was a zoom. Lots of oyming (open your mouth) but pure craziness on campus. The bar crawling has begun. A weekend dedicated to bar hoping with a t-shirt to check off for each bar. We had girls dancing around the light poles, running and falling over, throwing up, kissing people, basically everything you can imagine we saw. Something about 3pm getting absolutely wasted seems bizarre to me. To top it off there was a hockey game on Saturday. Hard week for key indicators but honestly such a good week. 

Elijah got baptized on Sunday and it was just wonderful. Most rewarding moment. After 6 months of him being on date he finally did it. So much excitement. He was glowing with joy. He's very excited to go to the temple. I bore my testimony in both church services. First one I volunteered for. The second I was asleep until they invited me up. I was very calm giving that one haha. It was my last Sunday in the New Albany ward due to stake conference next week. Said some goodbyes. Had a blast filming two social media videos this week. Really, I have no idea where the time is going. Everyone keeps talking about how and that really is a dagger. Very few brief moments do I feel excited about it. Mostly I'm just filled with sadness and anxiety. Bishop really chopped it up with me about how I can't leave and that I've changed the ward. Really had me choking back tears.