We are
playing basketball with a less active today and with Jedi. Jedi is
planning on serving a mission in the near future. Also I got to meet a
member of the seventy in Goleta. Which is just south of Santa Barbra.
On the ride back my car and another car were racing. We were constantly
at 80-95 mph and same with the other car. Our Mission President found
out and the people who were driving can no longer drive for the rest of
their mission. We also have a device called "ti-wi" which monitors our
driving and tells us when we are speeding, brake too hard, or are
driving to aggressively. Us boys will be boys I guess.
My
area reminds me of home so much. Except for the fact that where I live
in Washington is 15 degrees cooler. We are constantly finding new people
to teach and reaching out to those that are less-active. The Hill
family has came to church for about 5 or 6 weeks in a row now. They are
less active and are coming back. One of our investigators at church told
us that she wanted to get baptized. But she lives outside of our area.
We are planning on handing her off this week with the Paso 1st Elders.
My
companion is great! He is constantly pushing me to work harder
everyday. Whether it be during exercises or scripture studies. He helps
me a ton with teaching me new rules and shares incredibly good insights
during companionship studies. He's starting to get the area down more
and more everyday.
My testimony has grown so
much this weekend. Just with something so simple as prayer. Elizabeth
wanted to read the entire BOM before she wanted to get baptized. But we
taught her about the power of praying to know of the truthfulness of the
BOM. Her husband was a huge supporter in praying and asking God to know
if it's true. She only read to 1 Nephi 25, then she asked us to set up
the baptism. We've been praying for her for many weeks. It's been about
a month since we taught her a lesson. But we saw her every Sunday at
church. Her husband who is less-active bore his testimony 3 weeks ago
and brought her to tears. The spirit was definitely present during his
testimony and for the rest of the meeting.
For
service this past week we picked peaches for good ol Cowboy Larry. We
have more service with him lined up this week as well. Also this was the
Willardson's last week before they move to Utah. I'm going to miss this
awesome family.
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| Best place for a Jag |
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| Late night smores |
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| With Elder Tufts at Olive Garden |
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| Willardson Family |
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| Barber Dan & wife treating elders to Olive Garden |
