Naranjas from an Ex Drug Lord

 Aloha

So Elder Cotterell and I were walking the streets of Dorchester and this man, Omar, stops us and asks who we are. We explain we are missionaries and then he proceeded to explain his life story about how he used to run the streets and now people are really gangsters. It was so funny, and then he gave us oranges and said,"God decided to give you oranges today." The end.

Now for the series of fortunate events...

• A car drove past us and yelled at us for thinking that "being black is a sin". Just for those of you wondering, it is not. 
• We had transfers on Wednesday and I was reunited with The Framingham Caballeros, the Spanish elders from my first district.
• I got a new comp, Elder Ifopo and he is so legit. One night he had a sore throat and I had just thrown away cough drops earlier that morning. So we started digging through the trash and we got all the way to the bottom before I remembered that we took out the trash. Yeah he wasn't the most excited about that HAHA.
• Had a fun service at TGBFB with Kelly.
• Elder Ifopo and I got some fuego pics of the Boston Skyline from our parking garage. 
• First DC was good, I was reunited with my first ZL, Elder Ridenour. He is a party and a half.
• This Sunday there was a child who was screaming during sacrament meeting, loudest kid I have ever heard in a sacrament service. Legit sounded like the kid was getting her fingernails ripped off.
• District Pday in Downtown Boston because it is S.Schraft's birthday! 

We had an amazing miracle with Maria, it was a pass-off lesson with the STLs and I was the only one who really knew Maria so I got to lead that lesson. She has always expressed a desire to stop smoking but has never really been willing to give it up. I have asked her several times if she will give us a pack and we can throw it away and she would refuse. BUT this last time I felt prompted to ask again and she said "No". And immediately afterwards said "Yes, I want to stop". She gave us a pack!! Isn't that just amazing!! Her faith is inspiring. We also put our friend Ashley on date! She is a young mother who wants to learn so that's super cool too!

Two things I learned this week:

• The Spirit will do all the work I just need to speak.
• I can not eat as much as my Samoan comp.

Lots of pictures...

1. Classic Boston picture
2. I'm a flag 

3. Maria's cigarettes

4.  Ridenours editing skills

5. First DC
6. Modeling is my future career no cap
7. Distrito

8.  Dang who is he?
9.  Boston Clam Chowda 

10. Maybe one day...
11. No explanation needed
12. Get on my level
13. Maybe one day...
14. I GO JIM 

15. First night together 

16. Boston Skyline 

17. Food Bank service w/Kelly

18. Sexiness 

19. Framingham reunion 

20. The Book of Mormom is true