Kenny’s Week 17: All is well!


Yet another week gone by, only a few 90 something more of these emails, I'm not certain haha


All is well! The weather is fluctuating like crazy, it started at mid 80s on Monday, then jumped to around 100 yesterday, and now its back to around 90... nothing makes sense here haha


- Had an epic service project, our friend Nazareno was literally pulling branches off the trees we needed to remove with his bare hands ... I don't want to be on his bad side :)


- Had a fun English class, as per the norm


- Oh this was actually really interesting... Let me take you back to Saturday night. 


Approximately 9:30PM. Elder Monson and I just got back home after a solid day of work. Elder Monson finished writing his talk for church on Sunday, all is calm as we report the day. 


*RING RING...* 


We get a message from the bishop. Apparently one of the members that was giving the talk the next day couldn't make it, so he goes: "Elder Chalk we're gonna need you to give a talk."

Haha. That's so funny. The one thing I cannot do is give a talk with zero preparation. So I spend the last hour of my night, and my time from 6:50am-8am writing a talk to give. And it is amazing, Elder Monson loves it, it has epic stories, great principles, and I'm ready to go.


Sunday 9:30AM, 30 minutes before church starts. The Bishop comes and finds me, makes sure I'm ready to go, everything is set for the meeting. Then yep, you guessed it, the sister walks in with her talk all ready to go.


Moral of the story? I'm not certain. Trust no one? Who knows.


That was about it... enjoy the pictures! ~ Kenny


















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