Mission With Jewkes: 15 August, 2016

Dear Family and Friends,

It has been a relatively cool week. It rarely went over 100!!! It will this week though...not looking forward to that. It was a rather slow week, but you get those every once in a while. As long as you work hard the next week, it don't matter. Anyway, this was how my week went:

MONDAY- was Elder Rose's first P-day. We played kickball at the Park Hill building (our building). It was a ton of fun. Then, we E-mailed, shopped, and hung out with the Valle Vista Elders. I got a sick deal: 24-20oz bottles of Mountain Dew for $6.99! I learned that I knew Elder Frisby (who came in the same time as Elder Rose) before the mission! He was on the track team my sophomore year, but didn't really see him since so it was kinda awkward because he remembered me but I didn't remember him

. Anyway, the Valle Vista Elders didn't have a dinner appointment we we were just given some money so we got some pizza and ate at their apartment. It was fun. That was about it for the day.

TUESDAY- we had DDM. First, we had a training by the Just's (office staff) on how to contact and report referrals. It is fun to see the office staff because everyone misses me from when I was an Office Elder. Then, I did a training on Diligence, which explains the Nike Shirt on the Piano. I thought it made it fun. And then we contacted a referral/investigator named Edward who lived in Utah and went to a ward in West Valley for a while. Don't know why he isn't baptized but we will solve that concern soon. We got a list of Less Actives we can visit from the Moehle's at dinner. Bro. Moehle being in the bishopric and Sis. Moehle being the Relief Society President. Then we tried by referrals and went finding all day with not much luck.

WEDNESDAY- after studies, we had a luncheon with Bob Davis, the stake missionary something. It was fun to be there with 24 missionaries serving in the stake. Then, being the Elders that cover the Hemet Valley Hospital, we got called to give a blessing for someone there. The person was subdued when we got there but we did it anyways. Then, we had the Tanuvasa's drop off dinner then we saw a Less-active named John Gonzales

THURSDAY- we went seeking in g the morning, had lunch and did our weekly planning session. With Elder Rose knowing the area a bit more, it wasn't as one sided. We had dinner with a member of the Valle Vista ward and the Valle Vista Elders were there too. After we went seeking some more and that was it.

FRIDAY- we went out in the morning with Scotty Campbell and had 4 appointments... that all fell through!

But we had lunch and then we were in a trio for a few hours. Elder Porter had a doctor's appointment in Riverside so I had Elder Frisby...and their car... for a few hours. We tried by a ton of people with no luck at all. Then, I gave Elder Frisby back and had dinner with the Newman's. Then, we started my first exchanges as a DL! I stayed in Park Hill to be with Elder Frisby.

SATURDAY- was exchanges with Elder Frisby. We had good studies and had a service project to help the local Elementary School plant their community garden. It was a lot of fun. We even got lunch there! Then, we went with our Ward Mission Leader to try by some people. We got to talk to Judy for 5 minutes and gave her a Book of Mormon to read. She hasn't been feeling well for the past month so some reading material will help out

. Then we went seeking for 2 hours with only one potential. Then we had dinner with the Gonzale's which is always fun. Then we exchanged back at the end of the day.

SUNDAY- no one came to church!

Alec was sick so that was it. It was Sione Ika's farewell and John Gonzales was ordained a priest so the chapel was packed with Mexicans and Samoans. It was sick. I gave a baptismal interview with one of Valle Vista's investigators during the second hour. Then after church we did our studies and ate dinner with the Ika's : a feast galore to celebrate Sione. So...much...food. It also sucked because we went biking afterward and I might have eaten too much. We saw Alec that night and we put him back on date. Then we reported our numbers.