Put on your helmets, strap into your seatbelts, and take your protein pills because this email is about. to get. WILD!

To give you guys a quick overview, this may have been one of the most fun/most interesting weeks of my mission, and I've got lots to write, so lets get to it. 

We started this week off with our good pal Michelet and one of our favorite families here in the ward with a Family Night!! 

We talked about prophets and current revelation in preparation for the conference. 

We then stepped it up and made our own completos! 

To let you all know, whoever said that completos are gross, they're LYING! 

Completos are GREAT! 

I will bring it to the USA when my time comes. 

After that, we kept working as scheduled, until our mission president called us asking to bring a mattress from one house to another, a good 15 minutes away on the highway. 

So, my office buddy and CCM companion Elder Gumm and I took the call to action and hopped in the 2018 Toyota Yaris (we didnt have access to the van) and got to work. 

As we found the necessary materials to make the move (ie. string), we made our way to the house to get the mattress. 

We swiftly positioned it on top of the Yaris, and ghetto-tied it down to the roof. Let me tell you, God knew that we were a little too proud of our work, and made things a little more interesting for us. :) 

As we zoomed down the highway, with a mattress rigged to the top of the car, feeling good about our work, I glanced in the rearview mirror, and saw that our MATTRESS WAS SLIPPING RAPIDLY OFF THE BACK OF THE CAR! 

I sprung into immidate action, jumped into the back seat, rolled down the window, and hung onto the flopping mattress for a good 5 soul wrenching minutes. We pulled into the nearest supermarket, rethought our plans, humbled ourselves, retied the mattress to the car, and a little more slowly, made our way to the final destination. 

WHAT A NIGHT!

The next day, we had to help with the change of sister missionaries in the temple. 

One group was heading out and one was coming in. We had to bring a group of sisters to the bus station and drop them off there. On the way, we ran into a bit of public misfit as somebody had made a burning road block in our path!! 

We weren't about to let our sisters miss their bus, so we turned on the DareDevil mode and BLEW through the firey road block and made it to the bus station in time! 

One of the nights of this week, I was enjoying a nice carrot. One of my buddies, Elder Watts, is a carrot fanatic, and had told me that "the heart of the carrot has spines". I confirmed that statement this week, as I made the discovery of the spikey heart carrot.

 Very interesting stuff. 

As we were closing the week down, our president announced a MARATHON! 

We would gather all the remaining temple inviations, meet up at the University of Concepcion, and we would run as a mission to the temple, giving invitations to everybody that we passed on the street! 

We ran and ran and handed out all that we had. We all met up at the temple, and cried our battle chant with our President. It was a super fun experience, and something I will never forget. My legs might not ever forget it either, i'm still VERY sore. 

As we progressed into the weekend, we started CONFERENCE!!! On Sunday, we had Michelet come with us to the conference! 

It was a super cool experience to be there with him, and listen to the phophet and apostles speak. He felt the spirit, and was very excited to be there, learning so many new things. After the conference, he told us the talks that he liked the most, what he learned, and how he could use those teachings in his life. He sent messages to his family in Hiati about the conference and all the photos that we had taken together. 

On the bus ride home, we took the wrong bus and ended up at the bus station, 

VEERY far away! 

We hung tight, and the bus made a long loop and dropped us off at the house. It was an interetsing confernce weekend!

Obviously, there was a lot to take in this conference. I will be sure to adrress some of the things I liked the most and what impacted me personaslly next week. 

I need some time to study :)

Anyway, I hope you're all still with me and havent launched into space yet. 

To say the least, its been a real good week. I love you all and thank you for your letters and emails, thanks for the prayers as well, THEY ARE FELT!

Hope you all have a great safe week, see ya in 7!

much love,

-Elder Grant Lewis