Well, how’s the fam’ doing ya’ll? Ok so this week has not a lot of cool experiences but I still have some cool stuff to tell you. We had Pres interviews and Pres told me a few things; in the next two transfers there will be over 50 new missionaries. In the next two transfers, Elder Marks is going to be going home and I will be hitting my year mark and may be training a brand new missionary! Crazy, huh? I am a little scared but I will do what the Lord wants. If I had my choice I would never be in a leadership position and always be a junior companion but most likely that will never happen.
You know what? I don’t know if I ever told you this but did you know that elder rose is my zone leader? How cool is that?
Great news, I totally forgot about this; our awesome investigators, Roger and Sunshine are getting married on Nov 16. Sweeeet! I can’t tell you how cool this family is. They are so sincere and have an awesome testimony; I don’t know why I would ever forget about that.
Oh yeah I got bit by another dog this week. It was just an overly protective PIT-BULL yea a pit-bull, gosh it scared the bageesers out of me!! But luckily he only got my paints wooo-weee close one.
One thing you got right Dad, it is way hot and dry. All the houses that got foreclosed, their lawns are dead in about two days and because the economy is so bad we see a lot of dead lawns, it is sad that on one street of 20 homes only 8 are being used, yes we had a street like that. I mean if the people would just listen to the prophet they would be fine but nooooo they don’t want to do that they say there fine were they are at..... Anyway hopefully this humbles the people.
Well fam I do love you and will talk to you next week.
Temperature: ~93 degrees
Monday, October 27, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Yo Fo Sho
Hey Family,
Sorry you didn’t get my last e-mail, I thought you got it, but I guess not. I thought it was a good one but oh well, I guess it was not meant to be- ha ha. So, this week has been pretty interesting. Our new transfer focus is Eternal Marriage, weird huh? That is odd that they want missionaries to focus on marriage but I guess it is a big deal here in California with Proposition 8 and all.
So I had my first problem with cops this week. Well I guess first real big problem with them, we were just tracting and this man comes out of the house next to us and starts to yell and curse (way to break the 3rd commandment and all kinds of bad stuff) and told us if we didn’t leave the neighborhood he is going to call the cops. Now I don’t know if I am getting to bold or if I was just having a bad day but I told him no....... plain and simple, I told him, ‘We are going to continue tracting. Go ahead and call the cops on us, they get those calls all the time.’ So we continued and the cops came and yelled at him instead of us for wasting their time, it was great! But still we went back to apologies after the cop left and he still was rude, but oh well. Not everyone is cool. I think the key thing we learn as missionaries here in so Cal is that we can prove anyone wrong and make them fell dumb and stuff but we need to be Christ like because that is where the spirit lies.
I love you!
Temperature: ~81 degrees
Sorry you didn’t get my last e-mail, I thought you got it, but I guess not. I thought it was a good one but oh well, I guess it was not meant to be- ha ha. So, this week has been pretty interesting. Our new transfer focus is Eternal Marriage, weird huh? That is odd that they want missionaries to focus on marriage but I guess it is a big deal here in California with Proposition 8 and all.
So I had my first problem with cops this week. Well I guess first real big problem with them, we were just tracting and this man comes out of the house next to us and starts to yell and curse (way to break the 3rd commandment and all kinds of bad stuff) and told us if we didn’t leave the neighborhood he is going to call the cops. Now I don’t know if I am getting to bold or if I was just having a bad day but I told him no....... plain and simple, I told him, ‘We are going to continue tracting. Go ahead and call the cops on us, they get those calls all the time.’ So we continued and the cops came and yelled at him instead of us for wasting their time, it was great! But still we went back to apologies after the cop left and he still was rude, but oh well. Not everyone is cool. I think the key thing we learn as missionaries here in so Cal is that we can prove anyone wrong and make them fell dumb and stuff but we need to be Christ like because that is where the spirit lies.
I love you!
Temperature: ~81 degrees
Monday, October 13, 2008
Elder Stones with Jennie Gunther
This is Jenni Gunther, "Elder Stones was in my family's area for around 5 months and he is definitely our favorite missionary. He's gone now though. I miss him already."
*Notice the "I can't touch you, you can't touch me, let's give an awkward thumbs up" pose. Claaassic.
CTR Ring; Serious Bling
Hey, how are you doing? How’s life in the cold (except for Andrea- I know what kind of weather you are getting)? No but really it is getting cold here, it is like 65 degrees and I am wearing a coat- burrrrrrr just joking. The weather is kind of nice, I actually get the ocean breeze around 4 or 4:30 and it is amazing. This week went awesome. I love working here. It is strait up country, if you go on Google earth and look up Elsinor High School- I live right next to that and you can see were I work. Then there is this other place that is a gated community and hard to get into. But the reason it is gated and so heavily guarded is because it is full of celebrities but no joke- full of them. I haven’t had the chance to talk or see any of them because we aren’t aloud to tract in there or any thing like that. It is called Canyon Lake Community and of course has a lake. There is also a Seventy that lives in there and I will get to meet him soon. It isn’t my most favorite place because the people aren’t that nice- but the members that live there are super nice.
So to answer you questions, well my companion is from Hawaii and does not snore (unless he had a big day). He eats way way more than me, yes it is possible. Our feet are similar but I don’t let him touch my shoes. He knows English very well, maybe even better than me. And one cool thing is he sings in his other language and plays the... oh man I am going to butcher this, the u-ca-la-ly (you know the small thing). Anyway he is way good at it and is teaching me. It is sweat! I am going to come home a Polly (Polynesian).
Well love you and will talk to you next week.
Elsinor High School (http://leusd.info/ehs/index.html)
Temperature: ~73 degrees
So to answer you questions, well my companion is from Hawaii and does not snore (unless he had a big day). He eats way way more than me, yes it is possible. Our feet are similar but I don’t let him touch my shoes. He knows English very well, maybe even better than me. And one cool thing is he sings in his other language and plays the... oh man I am going to butcher this, the u-ca-la-ly (you know the small thing). Anyway he is way good at it and is teaching me. It is sweat! I am going to come home a Polly (Polynesian).
Well love you and will talk to you next week.
Elsinor High School (http://leusd.info/ehs/index.html)
Temperature: ~73 degrees
Monday, October 6, 2008
Spanky
Hey Family,
How’s it going? Well, it has happened again, I am moving to Medafee; covering two wards with Elder Marks, he is a Polynesian. I have served around him in Riverside, so I kind of know him. He is way cool and yes, I am sad, very sad, because I love these people and this past week we got 3 baptismal dates. I am so exited for them, I had the chance to teach them from beginning to end but I wont have the chance to see them get baptized; so that is a little frustrating but at least it is happening, everything should work out. The new elder that is coming in is Elder Lords and he is a good elder in some areas, so I am not to worried. To answer some of the questions that were given to me, I teach around 35 lessons a week; and we teach from the restoration to the commandments, plan of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ- pretty much everything. I have had a little time to talk to my Mission President in Pres. Interviews and stuff; he is a truly inspired man and is great. We all love him. Well family, love you tons and will talk soon.
Temperature: ~75 degrees
Melissa Dietzel (from CA): My family was SO SAD when Elder Stones told them on General Conference morning that he was getting transferred. My mom was so upset, and my little sister even started crying. We really do love him, but we know that he is going to go and bless other people's lives. As much as they would like to, my family can't keep him all to themselves. He is going to continue serving as a great missionary wherever he goes. :)
How’s it going? Well, it has happened again, I am moving to Medafee; covering two wards with Elder Marks, he is a Polynesian. I have served around him in Riverside, so I kind of know him. He is way cool and yes, I am sad, very sad, because I love these people and this past week we got 3 baptismal dates. I am so exited for them, I had the chance to teach them from beginning to end but I wont have the chance to see them get baptized; so that is a little frustrating but at least it is happening, everything should work out. The new elder that is coming in is Elder Lords and he is a good elder in some areas, so I am not to worried. To answer some of the questions that were given to me, I teach around 35 lessons a week; and we teach from the restoration to the commandments, plan of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ- pretty much everything. I have had a little time to talk to my Mission President in Pres. Interviews and stuff; he is a truly inspired man and is great. We all love him. Well family, love you tons and will talk soon.
Temperature: ~75 degrees
Melissa Dietzel (from CA): My family was SO SAD when Elder Stones told them on General Conference morning that he was getting transferred. My mom was so upset, and my little sister even started crying. We really do love him, but we know that he is going to go and bless other people's lives. As much as they would like to, my family can't keep him all to themselves. He is going to continue serving as a great missionary wherever he goes. :)
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