What did the donkey say when you took his pants off? "Who put these pants on me!" :D

To be completely honest, this past week has been a butt kicker! Maybe I'm just soft, but rejection after rejection after rejection.. Normally, by this point, I'm at least able to shmooz someone, but it just hasn't happened! It was a rougher week for whatever reason!

Something fun though was two accounts of children that were hilarious. The first one was at our Ward Mission Leaders house- Brother Black.. He has a man of a beard, and is just super awesome.. His son, Bridger, is about 4 years old and is a cute little kid.. We went over to talk about the missionary work at his house, and while we talked about it, they invited us to have some ice cream. Me being the turd that I am, decided to get their son all hyped up on sugar by sharing my ice cream with him.. It started out with a shyly accepted bite from my spoon. Then, as it came time for business, we started with a prayer and he was right next to me looking down into my bowl in my hands.. During the prayer, I fed about 4 spoonfuls of ice cream to him while everyone was reverently bowing their heads for the prayer.. Probably not the best decision in the world! But it was funny :D

THEN we went to visit a family who had 3 little kids. Age 3, 6, and 7. We were teaching them about the Holy Ghost, and did so by blind folding one of the little girls and having the voices of everyone in the room yell where to go. When she was blindfolded, we picked one person to be the Holy Ghost to lead her in the right direction, but everyone else would lead her astray.. We started and the voices started yelling where to go.. THe whole time she was familiar with my voice because I told her where to go.. So I told her to start moving ahead and she took off on a fast sprint and ran face first into the wall and fell down! Luckily, she was laughing. Even better, she now knew that my voice was not the Holy Ghost :D

I love being out here.. Some more brutal honesty, lately I've been super trunky.. BUT I have not been trunky for home or anything of the sort.. I'm trunky for Crownpoint.. Lately there have been members out here who have had some kind of connection to people out there and it is just AMAZING to hear about the growth of certain individuals! I miss the people out there dearly..

Then there is Monticello! Where do I even begin? Monticello is like a second home.. I honestly might retire or move there someday.. There are many people that I wish I could call and connect with again, but can't right now..

Most recently, Tuba City! I didn't even know at the time, how much I would miss Tuba City.. It was a tough area for me due to personal challenges, but getting to know the people out there, and thinking about them, I miss them dearly.. Especially ELder Ah CHee! Love that guy.. BUt also the people there.. I feel there was a deep connection that I made with quite a few.. Many of whom are receiving this email..

I've learned from this "trunkiness" that my life is forever changed because of the people in the four corners area.. The thing I look forward to most upon returning home, is being able to stay in contact with everyone.. WHAT A WONDERFUL BLESSING IT IS TO HAVE YOU ALL SO CLOSE!!!! I love it! None of you will ever get rid of me.. It's just how it is...

Below are some pictures of our zone BBQ! Elder Sandberg- the grill master doing his thing!

Love you all!

Elder Brayden James Sandberg