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| East L.A. |
Howdy folks.
I'd like to start this
email off by letting you guys know that the Arcadia mission is a pilot mission.
This means the Bretheren try stuff out on our mission to see how successful it
would be. That being said, we are going to have our cars taken away and only
ride buses and bikes. AND we are getting iPad minis sometime in the next few
months, so that's pretty cool.
Well, my companion and I have been having a tough
time finding investigators. Since we're both new to the area, we're kinda
trying to meet everyone and pick people up. BUT we had last week this golden
family who is so ready to get baptized. They even went to church and we hardly
taught them a lesson! The problem is though, they feel more comfortable going
to English... so we had to pass them off.
And Guess what happened last night?
We visited this nice lady who had stopped us in the middle of our road and told
us to go and visit her. And she is just as golden as the last family. BUT she
would rather learn in English with her family as well so we have to pass her
off too.
My companion and I came to the conclusion that we are not being
specific enough in our prayers. We always ask to be able to teach those who are
ready to hear the message, but we never include in Spanish. So we're gonna be
working on that. We spend pretty much all the time looking for people and
finding them in the projects. And there's some crazy stuff that as parents it
would probably be better you didn't know happened here haha. But the people are
generally pretty cool.
We had zone conference this past Friday and it was
amazing. The president and his wife spoke to us and they commended our zone and
the Spanish missionaries for basically being better than the English
missionaries haha. From what I've noticed (at least within our zone) we don't
really have any bad missionaries. Everyone is pretty humble and hard working, which is fantastic. They all tell me that the English Elders are just awful and
rude. Another reason I'm glad I'm in the Spanish mission haha. But I think the
reason we are generally more humble and all that is because a lot of us are
still trying to learn the language and also, because of the people we deal with.
Dealing with the people of the projects who don't have so much, really
brings us all down to earth level. And a great quote that our
president shared that I thought you would enjoy is:
"The enemy of best is
good"
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Oh and I forgot, some fun facts I
learned. Belvedere 1, we just call it Bel 1, is the first Spanish ward to be
founded in california. And I also found out that I am the first 18 year old to
be serving in the ward. So that's pretty cool
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