Week 24

Monday 4/10/2016

We stopped by Acacia Park to pickup my laundry. We went to Ross then Sears with the zone leaders. The zone leaders heard from a member that they are going out of business, but the prices aren't that discounted yet. We went back to Ross and had lunch at Wendy's. Elder Sparacino got a hair cut from one of the Samoan Elders at our apartment. We went to P-Day activity, we played nerd wars with the whole zone the last game was a few hours. We picked up some Chipotle for dinner. 

Tuesday 

We went and saw Josie we shared the restoration with her, she showed interest in learning more she couldn't believe how young we were. We setup another appointment so here grandsons wouldn't be there. They kept running out the door and then back in. We did some other things we didn't get done on pday. We had lunch and then finished weekly planning. We had dinner with the Browns they have a parrot named Mango. It was cool to have Mango climb up and sit on us. We went and tried to have an appointment with Jesus but he wasn't there. Stopped by the Browns and picked up some fruit that we forgot to grab on the way out the door. 

Wednesday 

In the morning we went to district meeting. We focused on getting people to come to church. After district meeting we grabbed lunch at Wendy's and brought it back to the church building. After we went and saw Kim she is a potential investigator that has been really busy. The La Habra elders needed to use a computer so they came over and ours was being used. We took them to the pinnacle and got them into the lab there. We had dinner with the Davis family. We went and saw Tamara and setup an appointment for Friday. We saw Sister Hozner and setup and appointment for Friday too. We met Homer who served in the Navy he told us a lot about his life story. He said we can stop by most days and was intrigued by us offering service. One of his stories was how he took down a large guy with two Bulldogs that was in his yard a few days before. Now Homer is around 180 lbs and 80 years old. He taught us the tuck, grab and roll which he used on the guy in his yard. We saw sister Mierelez and setup some service with her on Saturday.

Thursday 

We did some Tracting between studies and lunch. We met a woman named Aria and we will go back to see her. After lunch we went to the church building for president interviews. We went back to the apartment and planning for our lesson with Adam. We went to Craig park and met a kid named Ernie. Ernie was certainly under the influence of some drugs. We tried to see Brother Fisher no luck. Dinner was at George's one of the optometry students in the ward. Their baby Landon is quite the hand full. We headed to the church for our lesson with Adam. Brother Bennion came Adam is really starting to grasp it.  

Friday 

After we finished in the morning we picked up Elder Sparacino's clothes for the Taylor. The Acacia Park elders came over for lunch. We did our weekly planning. After weekly planning we got a referral to go bless someone at St. Jude. It was Mary Thompson, I remember when I first got into the area we gave her a blessing. She had just come out of surgery and was not her regular self. After we blessed Mary we went and saw Michael a recent convert. We taught him about the importance of church and why we go. We got a referral from the zone leaders. We went to check it out, but no one was home so we will be back. We checked out the named we received for district finding. We knocked on the door and this giant pit bull slams into the screen door. I thought Elder Sparacino was just going to start running when he jumped. We grabbed dinner at the apartment. Quinn a youth in the ward that is going to be going on a mission in October came out with us. We went and saw Tamara, she has been feeling better recently. We have her a blessing and shared a quick lesson with her. We brought Quinn back after we tried to see everyone we were going to see. They made homemade tortillas and some awesome sandwiches.   

Saturday 

After studies we cleaned for the apartment inspection. Acacia Park came over since Elder Henderson grabbed their phone by mistake. We passed with and all clean on our inspection. We went over and picked Quinn up and headed over to do service for sister Mereliez. She made us lunch after we were done. We changed and went over and saw Homer. It is kind of hard to teach Homer he will start talking about something and he will go. They are great stories, but our lesson was three hours. We taught him the restoration and he accepted baptism. He wanted to know when the happy feeling he was having would wear off. We got him a ride to church for the next day. We took Quinn home. We grabbed the 5 for $4 at Burger King, we decided that we will not do that again. We walked to Liza, but she is out of town. We walked to Krystal's and setup an

appointment with her. 

Sunday 

Went to church and Brother Bennion picked up Homer. Adam also came, but he still hasn't stayed for the three hours. It seemed that quite a bit of people knew Homer. He was able to get along with the members in the ward. After church we went to Acacia Park for lunch. After we went and saw Cecilia she is not interested at this time. We had dinner with the Miller family. After dinner we tried to see Tamara, but she was not feeling well again. Then we saw brother Fisher and setup an appointment for this week. We went to the closest church building and fixed elder Saparcinos I Pad. We went back to the apartment to pickup laundry. Went back to the apartment and called it a night. 

                                                Elder Caleb Smith Bailey with Mango

Elder Sparacino with Mango

Mango

A Snail