I Was The Judge At Our Ward's Chili Cook Off (Not Clickbait)

This week was pretty interesting. I went to the fanciest luncheon ever on Thursday. I also went tabling at UCF again, and I got to be a judge for the ward's chili cook off. Pretty interesting week overall.

     

So I'll start with the most unusual thing. We do service at this homeless shelter called Rescue Outreach Mission. Usually we help feed them when we go over. Anyway, they invited us to this luncheon where they were going to give us an award for our service. So we decided we should go.

     

He texted us over the address a few weeks ago when he told us about it, but we didn't look at it until the morning of. It turns out it was at the Marriott Hotel convention center. We showed up there with the other Elders we do service with and walked in. They had a guest list there that we had to say our names to be let in. We walked in and the room was sooo fancy we couldn't believe it. Everyone was all dressed up and everything. We went to our assigned seat and there was President Ashcraft and his wife. Apparently he was invited also. Anyway, the food was super good, but we felt so out of place the whole time. It was weird being at a nice event with just us and the mission president.

     

This Wednesday was MLC, which is a meeting for all the mission leadership. Elder DeMoux had to go, but I didn't. So they dropped me off at college park for the day and we went tabling. We talked to a bunch of college students and got lots of numbers to go give them Books of Mormon. It was fun. One of the college park elders was on his very first day since transfers were Tuesday, so that was fun being there for his first day of missionary work. He was a stud though, he was talking to everyone. 

The last fun thing from this week was our ward chili cook off. Apparently it's tradition for the elders to judge. I'm actually not a big chili fan, but it was OK. Most of them were pretty good. The winner was two 10 year old twins. They put bacon in it, so naturally that was the winner. That made their day beating all the adults.

   

We also met someone named Amber this week who is super cool. She has met with missionaries in the past, but they were super pushy so she stopped. She is a senior in high school and is super smart, like she's in all AP classes and trying to get into one of the top schools. She understands what we teach, which is super rare here, and she has good questions. She also wants to start coming to church. Maybe golden? We'll see.

  

That's about it for the week. Cameron may be getting baptized in a few weeks, we also have a baptism the end of November, plus lots of investigators that we are meeting with. We stay busy, which is a really good thing. I hope you all have a good Halloween, and if you want to talk to me on Halloween just swing by my place 'cause I'll be calling that day.