A Staged Failure

  First off, I will begin by apologizing for the lack of an epic
letter last week. Things have peen super busy. We got caught up with a
huge conundrum with medication for a missionary out here and they
didn't have anyone to drive them around, so there was that great part
of the day. The perks of being in a car area, right?

     So this week was pretty sweet! We had brother Jim Shanahan and
Ms. Marope at church yesterday! It has been a bit since I have seen
them at church and it was superb to see them there! So let me tell you
why I chose the title that I did.
     It all began on a Friday night. We were helping one of the youth
with his eagle project. Now, this was probably one of my most favorite
eagle projects because it required much creativity and tons of fun.
The idea behind it was to have a food drive and a talent show type
dealieo going on. You bring a can of food, you get in to see the
performance. Evan, the youth doing the Project, asked us to stand
outside and make sure that everyone donated before they entered. That
went rather quickly, so we helped in other ways. Now for a little back
ground... The day prior, I had just barely figured out the chords to
"We'll Bring The World His Truth" on the uke. Back to the story. I
look at Elder Babb (my new companion from Snowflake, AZ) while a
performance is going on and give him that look like I have an Idea. He
laughs a little and asks what I am thinking. "Do you know what we
should do?"
"No...?"
"We should totally go back home, snag the uke and sing a duet!
Remember, I learned that song the other day!"
"Uh... No."
"Yeah! It would be so epic!!" Sadly, my attempt to pump him up to sing
in front people was unsuccessful. "Come on!!! It would make such an
awesome story. Picture it now!" It was then when he probably
visualized us singing and sounding terrible being boo'd of stage.
"Come on! Let's just ask Evan if it would even be a possibility."
Finally, he caved!
     We went and asked Evan and he said it would be awesome! That
convinced my companion for sure. We booked it to the car, went home,
snagged the uke, and went back to the church. On the way in, my
companion informed me that I would be a one man act. Lame..... We
walked into the gym and Evan saw us and said, "And now, I have a
surprise for you!" I walked up stage with little to no practice of
this song I learned probably 18 hrs ago. I, being used to on stage
performances collect my cool and perform. And the rest is explained
through the title.... Haha! I will send you all a video of how I did.
Just promise to laugh at me. A whole bunch of people came up to me and
told me I did a good job, but I felt like I could have done better. Oh
well. At least there are a bunch of people who are now coming to the
youth activity we do every Friday night. Huzzah!!

     That's it for now! Love you all!

   ~ Elder Zac Snell :)


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Elder Snell and Elder Babb

A Mom's Favorite Day

So, not much time to write today. we have an awesome zone activity. We are reserving a super sweet park. Sweet!!!!!

     So, yes, I was able to Skype my family and I learned that they are doing great! Lexie is First chair and Caden is a drum major and will be coming to Indianapolis for a clinic. He will just have to come a little farther and I could use him as a member present lesson. ahahha! XD So proud of those two. I also was blessed to see my Grandma Wood. She is so sweet to have come to see me. I really appreciated her being there. 

     On the home front, we are doing well. We are setting BOLD goals to become better missionaries and truly become consecrated through our service. Deairdre dropped us then apologized and set up an appointment for Tuesday. So things are going good. I was able to participate in conferring the Melchizedek priesthood and ordaining to an Elder. It was a less active man that we have been working with. Great experience.

Happy Mother's Day to all who fit the criteria. Love you all!

~ Elder Zac Snell

Play Matters

May 4th, 2015 Letter..............

 So, not much to talk about this week. It was sorta sad because all of our our teaching appointments fell through, which was sorta disheartening.... Those people and their darn agency! As wonderful as a gift it is, people tend to use it in ways that I wish they wouldn't, but there are situations that are out of our control. What we did do, though was take advantage of everything that we could control! It was pretty sweet because we have been planning this huge service project for our district that our sisters found, so that happened this week.

      We built/ put together a huge playground for a rather ghetto community. Haha! It looked super good by the time we finished it. With about 200 people there, we built it in about 4 hours or so. There were team of people working with cement, some in mulch, some on the big toy, some on the hopscotch and four square, and some in the woodworking part where we built benches, planters, picnic tables, and pavilions. I was in the woodworking section with Elder Nielson. We built a bench by ourselves, so there is a wooden bench there that just the missionaries built. Coolieo, huh!? My group was the mustache group, so we had mustaches on our name tags. After it was built, we had some kids do a presentation on why playing matters and he educational benefits to it all. Really cool.

     That is probably the highlight of the week. Stake conference was awesome! President Riggs spoke with Sister Riggs, so that was cool. Great talks and things pointed out. The theme for it was all on missionary work with the Ward Council. I really liked it. We also had Duty to God, Dodgeball, and Doughnuts! I don't know if I wrote about that yet, but it is a young men's dealing that we are doing to ultimately get them worthy to come pass/bless the sacrament. Anyways, that went super well, so that was awesome! 

     Not much else to write about, but I do love you all and hope you have a stellar week as well! Happy Star Wars Day!!!

~ Elder Zac Snell :)

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