Elder Jonas Gridley's mission

  From a man with a guy to a friend being baptized it's been a busy lovely week! I'll have you know to whomever it may concern I rarely if ever find myself scared as a missionary. Tuesday we were walking around doing some knocking and were on our way back home. When walking on the road headed back home we heard someone in their backyard going into an ally where some cars were and his fence made a lot of noise and that's why we looked over. Well, we saw a man holding a rifle of some sort we made eye contact as we walked and then he walked back into his yard. It was interesting. Didn't phase me hardly at just kept walking could have been different but that was fun. So the funniest thing we had this week was going up to Hampton. Now, why would we have done this? Well, Rebecca, our friend in Hampton I helped teach was getting baptized Saturday and I asked President if we could go he said we would if we had the miles. Well, we didn't tell anyone we were going to be there

  Howdy folks so this week we had to kinda just find things to eat we didn't go get groceries last Pday because we didn't make the time and felt like we would be fine and we were but it was very nice to go and just restock!  Thanks for all the Birthday wishes very kind and so interesting to be here away from family for a birthday that's a first. I hit 6 months today! Super cool I've learned so much and grown a lot, just super happy to be here very content with how things have helped me get here. I had an opportunity to look back on a lot of things that helped me get here on a mission and well none of it was easy not at all but the things I learned have helped me out here so much I was able to relate super well to someone who is a member just going through some hard things and it was interesting to look back on how I overcame the things that seemed to control me and just helped answer their questions. Super weird but it was nice honestly was good to just look back at how

  Well well well I've had a great week! Went by much faster than last week for whatever reason. So today (the 4th) we went to the beach for district Pday and had a blast we went out to the outer banks I got a nice hoodie because I need one out here for whenever I might need it haha. At the beach, I collected a lot of shells and just enjoyed it. I brought a jacket but didn't want to put it on haha everyone else was wearing warm clothes I refused it was about 55 degrees and the sun was out so it wasn't too bad but it was so fun.  For General Conference, we went to a member's house for the Saturday sessions we just watched the first two and in between went out finding it was sweet. We ate dinner there and they had a Jesus dinner with us had lentils and all sorts of food Jesus had super fun. The Starkey family who we visited with have so many GC traditions its super fun had a blast over there all day.  I'm not usually the best with my time especially for working out so