Wednesday was awesome! We knocked all day and met some awesome people! We got a lot of potential investigators! It got up to 95 at like 1:00 which is like the most non productive time of the day. Nobody is ever home, but we knocked and knocked and knocked. . . then did some more knocking. It was fun! It's interesting. I'm finding that the more I work, the greater desire I have the next day to do it again! Faith starts with desire and my desire is increasing, so therefore, my faith is increasing also! I love it!
Thursday we taught our new investigator named Sandra. She is a friend of a member in our ward named Sister Collete. Sister Collete gave her a book of mormon and has been inviting her to church for the past like month. She had us over to her house to teach Sandra the Restoration. Sandra is Catholic, but told us that she believed everything we said. It was a good lesson. There is a bit of a language barrier though. I don't think she understands English very well so we might be passing her off to the spanish missionaries. She is pretty solid though. The rest of the day we knocked and did weekly planning.
Friday we knocked and knocked all day! We officially got kicked out of an gated apartment complex that we snuck into. We sneak into it all the time. We only knocked two buildings before we got kicked out. It was fun! there goes something off of my mission bucket list! It was kind of lame how we got kicked out though. There was no fight or any degree of chaos involved. They just drove up to us on a golf cart and told us that we can't knock in here. So we left. We taught the Ramirez family again that night. We taught the Plan of Salvation for James since he had never heard it before. it was a good lesson.
Saturday we taught two of the most solid new investigators I've ever had. The Ricaldi family. They're a ref feral from bishop. They live in the house of som members who moved out to Utah. Those members gave them a Book of Mormon and told them a little about the church. Greg and Michelle Ricaldi have three kids and they have been going to Real Life Church for the past couple years, but stopped going because one of the child workers was arrested for child molestation. They are now looking for a new church. They had so many awesome questions and were super interested! The thing is, they act exactly like members already! They are so cool! The only concern they have is church being at nine. They loved the Restoration lesson and they asked us if we could come back. usually we have to ask them! It was so cool! They're so solid! I just hope I don't get transferred so I can teach them some more! We then knocked the rest of the day as usual.
Sunday was one of the best Sunday's ever! The Ramirez family came to church and Selvin gave a talk! He told us his conversion story which is so cool! Also our Elders quorum president Brother Baker gave a talk on family and marriage and the temple that was super good! Lucy and Laura were bawling! I think Laura is starting to realize that she should be baptized with her family! Gospel Principles was really good for once too! We talked about the fall and everything was super simple. Every weird comment that was made, Bro. Howard shot down. Also Jason Crosby got the Melchezidek Priesthood in Elders Quorum which was so awesome! The sisters investigator Linda got her answer that the church was true in Relief Society too. It was an amazing church meeting. After church we studied and visited a couple potentials. We visited this old couple, Don and Joane who let us in. Both of them are Catholic and they're interested in learning about mormons because their granddaughter is marrying an RM in Vegas and is starting to read the Book of Mormon. We taught them the Restoration, and they told us that they had no intention of joining the Mormon church. (That'll change.) They said they would read and pray about the Book of Mormon. We explained to them that either we're lying to their face or we're telling the truth. They told us that they thought we were telling the truth. It was pretty cool. They are so nice! Both of them lost their previous spouses to cancer and they have only been married for 3 years. It was fun teaching them. They had a lot of questions.
Anyways, that was my week! It was amazing and full of miracles! Elder Davidson and I have been experimenting with food for the past couple of weeks. We don't get much interesting food here in California, so every week we go to the canned food isle and buy something really interesting. We've tried canned raw crap that we thought was cooked in Mac and Cheese (Yellow Death) and Sardines and a couple of other things. We're going for anchovies or xavier or something this week. We experiment a lot and so far none have been very good. There has been one good experiment though. Put siracha sauce on a PB&J to make a sweet and spicy PB and J! It's interesting! P-days we do fun stuff like Ultimate frisbee with the zone. Last week we had a nerd war with the whole zone in the gym of our church. It was epic! We had bishops permission so don't worry! Know that I'm praying for all of you! Thanks for everything you do! I love you all!
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