Hola amigos y familia!
Thanks Danielle for
the letter! I wrote you back so it should get there soon!
Transfers are next
Monday! I can't wait! I'm not ready for a new area, but I'm starting to get
ready for a new companion! I've been spending time trying to learn Spanish and
I've learned a lot, so President might let me go Spanish sometime? The
assistants (the missionaries in charge of helping with transfers) said that
they were going to bring it up when they have their transfer meeting with
President. I think it would be really cool!
This week was pretty
awesome! We had a few really great days!!
Monday: Maria fed us
dinner tonight! I'm not sure what the dish was called, but it was a Mexican
meatball soup! It was soooo good! She also made rice pudding. The texture is a
little strange, but once you get used to it, it's delicious! We had an awesome
lesson with Lizette (Alfredo's fiancee) and talked about how she can recognize
her answer of whether or not this is the true church. She said that she wants
to believe it because it feels good, but she needs to put in the effort and
read from the Book of Mormon.
Tuesday: We taught the
Ostler's the Word of Wisdom today! It went really well! There were zero
problems that came up, so we're just going to keep moving on! They told us that
they have 30-40 family members that are coming into town for the baptism! There
are going to be tons of people! We may have to do part of the baptism in the
chapel! We taught Matthew and they are still trying to figure out the trip to
Hawaii... We think his dad is purposefully trying to postpone so Matthew won't
be baptized. If Matthew's baptized, then the dad will have to become active
again and start taking Matthew to church! We're going to talk to the mom and
see if we can work something out! Bob finished the Book of Mormon this week!!
He's reading Doctrine and Covenants now!!
Wednesday: We went on
exchanges today! I stayed in Mira Loma and Elder Dalmer took Elder Bangerter's
place. We had a lot of fun! He's been in the mission for about six weeks now
and is leaving next Tuesday to go to Taiwan! We picked up a new
investigator named Jesse. He used to live on our street but moved away because
people didn't really like him. He was another person who legally grew marijuana
and our neighbors weren't too happy about that. He's super nice and friendly
and wants to learn more about our church!
Thursday: Today
was weekly planning again... President Mullen asked us to do it a different
way, where we use a whiteboard and it's MUCH more organized! I like weekly
planning now! Even though it takes three hours :P We also went shopping with
Brother McDowell to get all the supplies to help Veronica quit smoking! So we
were basically inside until dinner time today. Monday (today) night we'll have
a lesson with Veronica and get her started on quitting smoking!
Friday: Today was
awesome! We had about 9 lessons today! On an average day we get about 4-5
lessons! We talked with Kathy H. about going through the temple. She's taking
the temple prep classes and should be going through the temple in May! I'm so
excited for her! We had lunch over at the Verdejo's and they invited their
cousin, Lupe (who isn't a member), to come over and meet with us. We had an
awesome lesson with her! The spirit was so strong! Towards the end, I felt like
I should invite her to be baptized, but something felt different about it. I
asked her and she got really quiet and told us that she can't do that right
now. She said that she believes everything we said and that she knows it's
true. Her husband is really Catholic, though. And really drunk, too. She said
that when you're married, you have to go along with what your spouse wants.
We're going to keep working with her, though. Hopefully she'll see that she
needs to be baptized and her husbands heart will be softened! We brought Sister
Smith with us over to the Ostlers today. We talked a lot about their baptism
and their family that will be coming in town.
Saturday: Today we had
tons of people to go see and nobody was home! We went over to Eastvale and had
a "blitz" with all the missionaries in our zone! Each companionship
was assigned a portion of their area and we walked around and talked to as many
people as we could, so that we could find the missionaries there some people to
teach! I went with Elder Murray, who speaks Chinese, and we had a lot of fun!
It was cool to listen to him talk to people in Chinese and I was able to follow
along with most of what they were saying!
Sunday: We had an
awesome lesson today in Gospel Principles. We taught about the Atonement and it
went really well! Sometimes I enjoy teaching the class! But next Sunday we
are going to ask Bishop in ward council to find an actual teacher for the
class. We just don't have any time to prepare the lessons and the people in the
class need a ward member to teach so they can get to know more people in the
ward. If we bring an investigator, they don't want to sit and listen to us
talk! We teach them all the time! Hopefully they'll get us a teacher!! The
Ostlers came to sacrament and we had asked a couple people to go sit by them,
but they didn't want to leave their little group. Sister Smith decided to leave
her group of single old women to go sit by the Ostlers! I love her so much!
She's as close to exaltation as anyone can probably get on this earth! If I get
transferred I'll miss her a lot!
I love you all and am
so grateful for all the letters, packages, and prayers! They help a lot! Have a
good week and end each day with no regrets! Te quiero!
Elder Warren
P.S. I don't
remember if I put this in my email, but if anyone wants to send me mail, they
should sent it to the mission office since transfers are this week!!!
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