Season 10 episode 4 - birthday week

So my boy turned 20 last week.  That blows my mind that he could be out of the teens.  We have been so spoiled by our cute  lovely friend Angie, with her pictures and updates.  She threw Alex a birthday party and went completely crazy spoiling him.  I completely love it, of course!  It is so nice to know he is loved and taken care of while he is away from home.  It is such a blessing to have people like Angie loving on my boy!  Super happy momma here!

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Angie asked me what Alex liked, apparently she got the lot!

Garrett Snell and his fellow batmen.

The cute Snell batcave!

There was a text about a recipe for Alex's requested Turtle pie...it's really hard to make.  Marie Calendar's frozen pie...  He looks happy!

Now for the actual letter from Alex:

This was a really good week. We put in a lot of time this week. On Monday we had a good P-day. We went shopping then played sports.
Tuesday-
We had a really good zone conference. President talked about faith. They also talked about ways we can improve our teaching skills. It was a really good meeting especially when we talked about prayer. Something that stuck out to me was to pray to know how to pray. It was really good meeting. I learned a bunch. That was good day. The pizzas came nice.  (we sent pizza for his birthday). We had a bunch of cake, and partied a little bit.
Wednesday-
We had a zone service project. We went to this sketchy summer camp to help a lady out. We just moved branches from the middle of the camp into the forest. It was really easy. Not too much work. Then the miracle of the day- we have been inviting our investigators to come to scouts. There was a court of honor. So the Ward missionary invited them and we were just at the church for a minute and t we saw these investigators walk in. So we went to the court of honor with them. That was really cool ! We have been trying to get them to the building for the longest time. They finally came, and they are interested in scouting.
Thursday-
We had a really good day. We went down to the river to talk to a less active. She is really hard to contact. And  this day we made contact with her. Then we went out with the Ward mission leader.
Friday-
We planned for the week for the first part of the day. But the later part of the day was awesome. We took out this guy who is about to leave on his mission. We went to a couple places and had him pick where we go. We found some sweet potential people to teach. They were really busy, but they were positive. Then we were heading up the street and Elder Brown had a prompting to go by to visit a lady named Quintessa. She is usually home in the afternoons and this was around 8:30 pm. So I was like, we might as well try. We went over and scared her half to death, but found out she is a really nice lady. She told us to come back to visit after we shared a quick message with her. So that was awesome! Just another example of following the spirit.
Saturday was tough. It was pouring mist rain all day. So we were wet from the beginning. We had a good meeting with some people.
Sunday-
It was a really good day. Church mostly.

Elder Astle