You should have just sent some of that rain off this way! We need it here in B! Sounds like you all had a great trip though. That’s too bad Michelle wouldn’t go on Tower of Terror! When I went to Disneyland last year we went on that around 17 times I think. It was super fun! I know I didn’t used to like it but when you get older it’s not so bad. I’m sorry to hear that dad is sick... get the home teachers over to give him a blessing! Tell him I hope he gets better soon and that I love him! And just to clarify. It’s mormon.org not lds.org. mormon.org is focused on nonmembers and lds.org is for members. My profile isn’t up yet because it wouldn’t let me use my picture that I wanted to so I’m going in to fix it right after I’m done emailing you.
So this week’s email is going to be kind of short because this week was pretty much shot. Tuesday I took Elder U down to V to get an MRI for his knee and by the time we got back the day was pretty much over. Wednesday I had exchanges with Elder B my zone leader and it was pretty good. We didn’t have any scheduled appointments but we just went and tried to visit less actives and just meet with people. Thursday Elder U, his companion, and I all went down to Ro for a training meeting. It was a really really great meeting! There are about 18 missionaries going home this transfer and the group that is going home has been a major leadership group. 5 of them are currently zone leaders, a couple of them were past zone leaders, and one is an AP. so they had each of the missionaries that has spent a lot of time in leadership give 30 minutes trainings on different topics and give advice on how to best fulfill your mission. It was really sad though because a lot of the missionaries going home are the ones that I’ve looked to a lot and been friends with and now they aren’t going to be here! But it really was an amazing meeting. They mostly covered being obedient, working hard, and about making your studies effective.
Friday-Sunday was also pretty slow. It was just a dead week. We did meet with the L family the one with the 4 kids we are teaching and it was a little crazy. The 14 year old son wasn’t paying much attention and distracting the 2 younger girls. We found out he has ADHD so that explained it. But the mom was a really big help in helping us teach them and the 16 year old daughter was really paying attention pretty well. Sadly they didn’t make it to church again. I’m not sure what happened but it was definitely a bummer. We didn’t get a chance to see J because he was out at Yosemite for the weekend so that was a bummer and we haven’t met with S and A at all this transfer. They were at church though this week so I at least got to see them!
We did have a really neat experience on Saturday. The other 2 elders had a baptism of a 13 year old boy and a 12 year old girl and they had a ton of non members there so after they got baptized and we were waiting for them to get dried off and dressed we turned on a video about Joseph Smiths first vision. After it finished I got up and talked about it and I wish I could tell you more of what I talked about but as soon as I sat down I had no idea what I had said at all. I know it wasn’t even me talking. I know I did say a little bit and then I bore my testimony of the church and Elder N bore his testimony also. Afterwards we had a few of the non members thank us for our testimonies and we went to a lunch at the family’s house where most people went and Elder N started talking to a family there from South Africa who moved up here and found out that they are on our side and that they are interested in hearing our message! We are going to go try and see them this week! I sat down and got to talk with them a little bit and they were really friendly and were asking a lot of questions about missions and we just had a really good talk. This next week is looking to be a better one. Hopefully not so empty so we can get our numbers back up to where they were the week before.
I hope everything goes great for you all and that you continue to have a great summer! I miss you all like crazy! It’s insane that it’s coming up to a year in just a couple months! It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long at all. I love you all!
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