Mission With Jewkes: 7 November, 2016

Us with Vicky!

Zone Picture. When I first got here our zone was 10 missionaries... now it's 17!

Us at the baptism with the Little Lake sisters who originally found her.

Dear Family and Friends,

This past week has been amazing! Lots of good happened and many things learned and new things experienced as well as miracles witnessed. Anyways...

TUESDAY- was a great DDM! The amazing thing happened afterwards. So flashback to when Elder Briggs arrived. That night we were to drop off a car for the Little Lake Sisters and the other Elders drove the truck with everyone's bikes home and we were to meet up afterwards. During that time while the other Elders were unloading a companionship, Elder Brigg's bike was stolen

. Some guy cut the tie-down used to keep the bikes and only took his. Anyway, today we saw someone riding a bike that looked a lot like his, so we followed him and called the cops and long story short, it was his bike!!!

He also had a receipt so that we can prove it and went home with his bike! Miracles!!! Then later that day we found a new investigator, Joyce, and had a good night of work. The other miracle of the day because we didn't get out until 5pm that day.

WEDNESDAY- we had a luncheon with the stake president and went seeking until it was time to fill the font for Vicky's baptism! It was a super amazing experience! That was basically the day.

THURSDAY- we did our weekly planning and then we did service at the Historic Hemet Theatre again. I spent 2 hours vacuuming seats. Not the funnest thing we did. Then we went out and about and had a slow leak so the night was cut a little short but that's ok,it was still a good day.

FRIDAY- us DL's had a DL training in Riverside so we were there for most of the day, but afterwards we had dinner at Jack-in-the-Box and went out with our ward mission leader for the rest of the night.

SATURDAY- we had service putting up 1,776 flags at Gibbons Park for Veteran's day Week. Then we finalized Vicky's record to send in on Monday. The bad part was that we had to drop an investigator because he got hung up on super deep doctrine that he didn't agree with, which is always frustrating. He knows the Book of Mormon is true but he's afraid to act on it. Then we had dinner at a High Priest Group Activity...I wasn't the youngest one there, Elder Briggs was

. Then we got another flat so we got a ride home.

SUNDAY- was great! Vicky got confirmed, her non-member husband was there. I think he enjoyed the classes. Kiah and Jaime were also there. Kiah is so close to baptism, just one more lesson and an interview and he'll be baptized in a week or two! Then we went seeking and had Jumbaliah for the first time. It was good! So was the shrimp. The only problem was that Bro. Herterich shared a story of how he got food poisoning from bad shrimp then he fed us shrimp

. Didn't get sick so that was good.

TODAY- we played soccer at a park and played a 10-person game of Uno or two or seven. Now we are going to E-mail and eat lunch and play more games until dinner.

This week was amazing! I love you all!

Until Next Time,

Elder Jewkes