It has been both a long and short week. I don't know how that works but it did. Anyway...
Monday- After
I had E-mailed last, We went shopping and had dinner with the other
University Heights Elders (We call them Dixie because they are the south
side) and the Chinese Elders in their apartment. After dinner, we were
able to pick up a new investigator named Johnathan Vasquez. The thing
about this mission is even though it's California, I feel like I have
been called to serve in Mexico English Speaking. It is ridiculous. I
have never met so many Jose's and seen so much Mexican food in my life.
So Johnathan's girlfriend is Patricia, who happens to be the sister of
Sis. Pasillas, a LA we are working with. Small world.
Tuesday- Today
was the Multi-zones in Corona so that was a good 30 minute drive. As
office elders, we were there to inspect the car. We ran out of coolant
so we had to hurry and get some more before we had to leave. After the
Multi-zones, we had our monthly ZDM meeting. It was super good. Long,
but good. After that, we had time to try some people with no luck
but
we did have the chance to eat dinner with our home-share people, the
Wards. That was awesome. They do so much for us. Then we went walking
for a bit and visited the Pasillas for a little bit.
Wednesday- we did basic office stuff like cleaning the office
and all that boring stuff. Then we went walking with no one really out since it was 2pm
and WAY TOO HOT! I hate California heat! The AC is at max 24/7 but my
Cali-native companion hates it when I do that. We were able to meet up
with Mike who became a new investigator. He is so cool and wants to
learn from us about the church. Then, we had dinner at Farmer Boys with
the Brown family. The 12 yr old named Andrew is a total goof-ball and
bouncing off the walls. It's awesome. We had an investigator named Josh
go the the Chinese Elder's English class so that he can learn some
Chinese. After about 30 minutes he got totally lost so we had a chance
to talk with him 2 to 1. We usually teach his mom at the same time and
Josh doesn't really talk much so it was good to talk with him
individually.
Thursday- There was a ZL
training and we had to be there to set up and clean up. We were planning
to see Bro. Chavez but he cancelled. Apparently, he has been going to
church for a long time and knows a lot but for some reason he won't get
baptized
.
We wanted to go over and find out why. Then we went walking after lunch
at the same time as yesterday so no one was really out. We decided to
walk later on like 6 or 7 so we can find more people out and about.The
Tippetts brought us Pizza and I got to try the Deep Deep Dish Stuff
Crust from Little Caesars and it was pretty good! Then we went on splits
and got to ride in Bro. Darrington's Dodge Challenger. Nice Car.
Friday- Was
the last day of multi-zones. We read the schedule wrong and thought
they were in Lake Elsinore when it was really in Menifee.
ooops. Well, we got done in time so it was alright. Then we had our
weekly planning session. Then we went walking met with Michael who just
asks a bunch of random questions that don't pertain to our salvation. We
are trying to get him to CPR (Church, Pray, Read) so that he can answer
his own questions so we can actually teach him.Then we had dinner with
the Dillman's... and dinner with our investigator, Hoy. He surprised us
with homemade tomales and they were delicious! It was a great lesson as
well.
Saturday- we had a big service
project at the Trijillo Adobe, which was the first house built in
Riverside and Southern California. Riverside had some deep, rich
history. We spent about 3 hours cleaning the weeds, painting the
dwelling and cleaning up the plot. Then, we tried a bunch of people but
only really got to meet up with Jose (like I said: Mexico, English
Speaking). Then we went walking for a while and talked to a ton of
people and got a few potentials. Then we had a late dinner and planned.
Sunday- was
a good day at church. Yvonne Chavez came, that was it. She also got her
baptism interview done and was found worthy for baptism next week!
Now we just need to finalize everything for that. We also learned that she was moving
. It is still in the ward, but not in our area. Then we had dinner since we have 1pm church with the Crocketts. Then we went walking in the evening and found 8 people in 1 hour and then reported to our DL and ZLs.
Today- was
unusual. We got a call to help some Elders in Jurupa move to their new
apartment and missed the Zone Activity, but I got to meet up with Elder
Olsen so it was totally worth it. After that, we ate lunch, got cleaned
up and got to E-mailing.
I guess the week was
long and short because of the unexpected things from waking up early to
drive to Menifee or having a person we had come to love found worthy for
baptism to come into the fold of the Lord. This transfer is coming to a
close in a couple weeks but I have learned so much in the past 10
months and have a lot more to go. I love you all. Until next time...
* First of all, thanks for sending pics. Especially the selfie. Oh how I
needed to see that face! Then to have it pop up on Facebook! Elder
Stabler's mom put out a plea for someone to find her son and take a
picture...and since your companions, it benefited me, too:] Is Sister
Cook who put them on facebook the Sister Cook who replaced the Puskas'?
Then yesterday I got another one from your service!!! Such a great week
for pictures:]*
Yeah it is so funny. We have the Cook's (The Puskas' replacements),
Isabel from the YSA and others randomly taking pictures of Elder Stabler
and he is totally embarrassed from the attention. I keep telling him
that if he would just take pictures this won't be a problem.
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