Week 35

Monday 6/27/2016

In the morning we got our shopping done. We stopped by a computer lab so we could do some music things and backing up of pictures. We did some more shopping, then headed for zone activity. We met up at one of the church buildings and walked down to the park that is at the bottom of the hill. We played some volley ball and everyone relaxed for a while. When it was finished we got ready for dinner at the Jorgensen's home. They made a great meal. The Jorgensen's are awesome at sharing the gospel with others and are great at doing member missionary work. We had them setup their family mission plan and left. After dinner we went to the Douglass's home. We met up there with brother Capaloto, Tamara and the Douglass's. We went over to the Torres family and brother Capaloto who is a surgeon, talked with them. Joel the dad is getting a cancer surgery in the next week so brother Capalato was answering some questions. Brother Douglass gave the Torres's a Book of Mormon he wrote in. We also gave Joel a blessing before we left. Then we ended our night after that. 

Tuesday  

We went out and tired to see potentials for the majority of our day. We saw a less active Anna, she was a little busy so we setup another time with her. We park the car at the Deaf church building then walked around to try and see some members of he ward. We didn't have any luck on seeing anyone. We headed back to the car and went to Lucille's for dinner with sister Smith. Lucile's is really cool they smoke all of the meat they use in a giant smoker in the restaurant.  They had a lot of great food. After we headed over to Tamara's and met brother Heiney. We helped Tamara setup all of her accounts and get started on family search. She was really excited about finding her family. We made a lot of progress with her account. When we were done we started back for the apartment. 

Wednesday 

In the morning we had zone training, President and Sister Taggart came. We focused on the spirit and prayer. It was a great zone training. After zone training we went back to the apartment for lunch. We went out and did some finding and got no interest. We met the zone leaders at a church building. They needed us so they could teach a single sister. We went back to the apartment for dinner. We tried seeing potential investigators for the rest of the night. At the end of the night we exchanged with North Hills and I went to North Hills with Elder Lindsey. 

Thursday 

We had a service at an investigators house with our companions. After we finished cleaning up the yard we grabbed some lunch. We had an assignment at Mary's so we went down and helped pass out food. After Mary's we went to Joe's and on then way there we saw two deaf people in a car. We tried getting their attention Elder Lindsey even honked the horn, but their deaf. When we got their attention we were doing our terrible basic sign language that we knew. We wrote down our number for them to text us and handed it to them as we were driving down the road. We came to a stop light and we were signing them then we lost them after that. They didn't text us, but it was a pretty interesting experience. We got back to the area and had dinner. After dinner we taught Ralph. He was cool he really liked the message we shared with him. While we were having the lesson we heard a live band playing not that far from us. We went to  checked it out after the lesson, it was a journey tribute band playing in the park. We saw a few of the North Hills members there. We went back to their apartment and exchanged back at the end of the night. 

Friday 

We had service at Stop Hunger Now with Acacia Park. We helped stack boxes and fix pallets from events that they had. After we were finished we stopped by Joe's ice, on the way back up to Fullerton. When we got back we had dinner and weekly planned, which took up the rest of our day. 

Saturday 

After our studies we went out and did some more member hunting. We were not able to catch anyone home. It got to be time for dinner, then we headed back to the apartment. After dinner we went to the mission 50th anniversary celebration. We got to see all of our mission buddies since almost everyone from past and present were there. The first hour was an hour of mingling. Then we had a program, the Polly language programs did some cultural dances, then the Spanish did some cultural dances. Four previous mission presidents spoke. Then Elder Ruben Acosta an area seventy, that was a convert from the mission spoke. It was also filled with other musical numbers and talks. What is cool about his event is it has never been done before. President called to get approval and the missionary department said it has never been done. That is cool that we are making history here. After the program we went out again and did some more mingling until the end of the night. 

Sunday 

It was fast Sunday at church we had a lot of great testimonies in sacrament meeting. After church we had a lesson fall through. Dinner was with the Yauney family then we called it a night.