Well this is the last week of my first transfer! Because of the new training program we are 100% guaranteed to stay in our area and with our trainer for 2 transfers so I’ll be here in Colton for at least 1 more transfer.
This week really wasn’t the best as far as mission work goes. So I’m not going to do the day by day because not a whole lot happened. I did get to see and talk with Elder S last Monday for a while during our zone football game and a little after and that was really good. Our FHE appointment canceled when we got there so that was pretty disappointing. As the dad was telling us that he would have to reschedule his little girls started to cry because they wanted us to play games with them haha it was cute. Tuesday we did absolutely nothing. We had district meeting, a big meeting with President G to see how the new missionaries are doing, went to pep boys again to get our brakes fixed and that took almost 3 hours, went to dinner kinda late, and by the time dinner was done we had to be home. It was lame. Wednesday we had a couple of good lessons. We taught the older lady J and asked if she wanted to be baptized and she said that she’s getting there she just doesn’t agree with a couple things like how "we don’t accept gays" sooo we are going to have to help her see that there’s just some things we kind of frown upon. After her we went to see the 9 year old S who is getting baptized and we taught her the 10 commandments with hand symbols for all of them. They changed the date of the baptism to one day earlier! haha yay! After that we went and helped an older member move from Colton to Grand Terrace. Everything was going pretty well except one lady was wearing sandals and she went to push the garage door up but it was one that comes out first and then up and it caught her toenail and ripped it straight up in the air. It was realllly nasty. Thursday we got to meet with a referral we got that was supposedly golden. Turns out they are in the Bloomington ward boundaries though. We went and met with them anyways because we had an appointment and they were pretty neat but had a couple weird experiences. Such as there is a ghost living in their house but don’t worry it’s a nice ghost. haha We told them about conference and hopefully they got to watch it. We then went to go see the recent convert that has been struggling pretty bad and it turns out he got locked up for a night and it had kinda turned things around. He got into an adult school so he can finish off getting his credits to get his diploma and he asked if we could come see him again this next week. Hopefully everything is still going well. We had dinner after and then went to see T and her husband. T being the one that was baptized last month. And taught a little more about the restoration and cleared up anything that was unclear and went a little more in depth on it. She really enjoyed it and it’s really fun going over to see them because they are so neat! Friday was a great day! Elder T and his trainer got to go to the LA temple and see someone they baptized get married. So I went with Elder T from Salt Lake to some visits. He is in the Samoan Ward and it was super awesome! We met with these 3 guys who are all pretty close to being drafted into the NFL and met with a recent convert who was really awesome. He is also the zone leader so we had to go pick up supplies and take them around to each companionship which took up a lot of time. But it was a really fun day. After we switched back companions we ate dinner and then went to see a lady who’s been really nice to us and we are trying to work with. When we pulled up she was outside with all her neighbors sitting around and she was preeetttyyy tipsy from her wine. Everybody else was fine and she came and had us sit down with them. All the neighbors were really nice to us but one and she just pretended we weren’t there. Oh well though hah we had a good talk and then left and went home. Saturday and Sunday were devoted to conference ha. Saturday for both sessions we were at the stake center with a bunch of missionaries and then for Priesthood session Brother J gave us a ride along with two other young men in the ward and then after that he took us to dinner along with two other people from the ward and it was really fun. Sunday we watched the first session at the house we are staying at and the second with a really cool member. Conference was definitely amazing and I got a lot more out of it here on the mission. I loved Elder Holland’s talk in Priesthood Session it was sooo good! I also loved Tad R. Callister’s talk on Sunday morning about the Book of Mormon and also Elder Cook’s talk about tragedy on Sunday afternoon. It seemed like the general focus of this conference was service, missions and being worthy/sticking to our morals. It was really good and I got a lot of notes! Well that’s really about it for this last week! I love you so much and am so glad to have all the support!
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