Every week I write down the topic of my emails as "weekly update" but often times I find myself laughing as I have an image of Colonial Klink from Hogan’s Heroes coming out of his office yelling to Sargent Schultz "Report! Report!" Can you imagine Colonial Klink yelling at me asking for my weekly report of my mission. I can kind of picture my mom thinking "where is it, where is the report?" She's anxious kind of  like Klink is to get the report. LOL it’s a funny thought. Hogan’s Heroes is a great show, I'll need to watch more when I get home.

We had a couple great surprises this week. It was nothing like the disaster and chaos like the week before. On Tuesday I went on exchanges with Elder Santos. He is an Elder that just got transferred to the Ward. He is from Phoenix Arizona and has been out on his mission for 14 months. On Wednesday we were biking to an appointment that we had out East by the lake. On the ride out there [Pause: I should mention that Elder Norton got a new bike on Monday from a member] continuing with Wednesday, we were biking to the appointment and Elder Santos was behind me about 20-30 feet and all of a sudden I hear him yell out "is my tire flat?" I slowed down and to our misfortune his tire was very low. We checked it out and pulled out a small piece of wood that was no longer than an inch long. This tiny piece of wood hit the jackpot. It penetrated all the way through the tire tread (mountain bike tires) and it penetrated the air tube and blew out his tire in a second. What a lucky piece of wood. We walked to the closest bike shop and fixed the tire, then continued biking to our appointment. It worked out well; we weren't thrown off the schedule too much. It made for a good laugh actually.

Kenosha is the home of Americas oldest operating Velodrome (bike racing on a track). It is in our area, and Elder Norton and I pass by it all the time. So we took a quick minute and raced around the track. It is so much fun.

On Friday Elder Norton and I had the privilege of going on exchanges with President Cutler. He texted us a few days before and asked if he could come out with us on Friday. How could we ever say no! President drove us around in his car (which was a nice day of rest for our legs); we had an amazing time together. We had two appointments while we were with him and we talked to three other people who we met. One guy we helped put a fridge into his car, then we struck up a conversation about religion. He had met with LDS Missionaries in the past but it had been a very long time. His views of the Bible were a bit skewed; he was convinced that the Bible taught more about King David than it did about Jesus Christ. You could tell that President Cutler was "rolling with the punches" with this guy. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he gave us his phone number. It is always great being with President Cutler, his knowledge and testimony are such a great inspiration. At the end of our exchange, President Cutler was answering one of Elder Norton’s questions and President made a joke about me going home. Ha! He is such a great guy!

I would estimate that we biked ~60-70 miles this week.

Scripture for the week: Alma 22:13

13 And Aaron did expound unto him the scriptures from the creation of Adam, laying the fall of man before him, and their carnal state and also the plan of redemption, which was prepared from the foundation of the world, through Christ, for all whosoever would believe on his name.

Thank you all, have a fantastic week!

Elder Luymes