Called to Serve: Week 26

Monday 4/25/2016

We headed out to Ross and Burlington, Elder Sparacino needed to get somethings. We did some emailing back at the club house for a while. We headed over to the zone leaders apartment and did our laundry. We went to the barber shop, Elder Sparacino got a hair cut. After we went to the church building for nerf war. We played a few rounds then headed out. We did a mini exchange with the zone leaders to do a pass off lesson. We got to the house and person doesn't actually live in our area. We exchanged back to our regular companions. Then we exchanged with North Hills. I stayed in the area with Elder Durney.

Tuesday

After our studies we went out to do some finding. We did some tracting, we were able to talked to a lot of people no one was interested. We went back for lunch I made some pasta. We tried seeing some less actives no one was home except for one Brother Cannon. We went and saw sister Merilez we talked about temples and family history with her. We went to Craig park and talked to some people. We met a guy that showed moderate interest, but didn't want to meet. We went to dinner at the Olive Pit, it is a Mediterranean grill. While we were driving there we realized that it is just out of the boundary of the ward. We ate there and it was some good food I tried the Lamb Gyro meal. We went and had a lesson with the Weske family. They still feel that church is a big commitment. We finished by doing district finding we weren't able to find anyone. We went back to the apartment and Elder Durney packed and we exchanged back.

Wednesday

After studies we went to the zone leaders so Elder Sparacino could pickup his laundry. We left and picked up some soup for lunch since Elder Haynie was sick then had lunch with the zone leaders. We went to Craig park we met Josh who was reading his scriptures when we walked up. We talked to him for a while he didn't believe in organized religion or in seeking if the Book of Mormon is true. We taught Michael a quick lesson on prayer. We met a guy that was loading some things into his truck. We to talked to him for a while and taught him the restoration he liked it. He had a heavy Spanish accent so we referred him to the Spanish Elders. Sister Anderson gave us a blessing referral at St. Jude. The referral was Mary again she was receiving dialysis this time. After we gave Mary a blessing a boy walked up to us and asked if we could bless his mom. We went in and saw her we found out that she lives in the Acacia Park ward. We went to a smoothie place for dinner, probably will not go back. We tried seeing a variety of people the rest of the night, people were either busy or didn't answer. We brought the Jernigans some tres leches cake and talked to them, then called it a night.

Thursday

In the morning we had zone training. At zone training we learned that we have the two new church pamphlets now. The training focused on why we are on our mission and why we stayed. After zone training we went to Mary's kitchen with La Habra and North Hills. When we finished Mary's we went to Wendy's for lunch. We stopped at the mission home to get a new phone then headed back to Fullerton. We did some tracting for a while before dinner. We had dinner with the Bertichinis, we rode in their 55 Chevy and ate at a place called Monkey Business.

Friday

After our morning studies we went to the pizza press with Acacia park and the zone leaders. The place was good you make your own pizza there. After lunch we did some of our weekly planning. We had to cut weekly planning short then head to a zone service. The zone met up and we painted some of the equipment at a elementary school. After we were done helping with the service we went over to the Schillings for dinner. The Schillings needed some help with a tree in their backyard so we helped them out. After dinner we went and setup an appointment with Jesus.

Saturday

We woke up and got ready for service. Fullerton was holding a big city wide community service. We headed over with most of the zone for the morning rally. There was breakfast and t shirts at the morning rally. After the rally you headed to the college where we assembled bikes. The bikes that we assembled are going to foster kids in the area, so they can use them as their transportation. After we were done assembling bikes the zone met up on a parking garage. The last part of the service is where all the people meet up for lunch college. We got there and found out that all of the surrounding cities were doing service too. Some of the other zones showed up to the lunch. After the service event we went to the cloud to hangout before we got transfer calls. Transfer calls came I will be staying and I'm going to get Elder Hamby from Garden Grove.

Sunday

We went to church it was fast Sunday it was great they just had a continuing line to the pulpit. It was a shame that the meeting had to end. After church we met with brother NorthGrave our new ward mission leader. I'm excited to work with him he is really engaged and ready to help this ward progress. We went back to the apartment and Elder Sparacino packed. We stopped by the Jerigans so he come say goodbye. We had dinner at the Bertichinis. We planned settlers Elder Sparacino said his goodbyes and we called it a night.

The pictures with colored shirts are the big service event