Side story before the big email. I
went on exchanges with the APs this past week and I got to go to visit Boyle
Heights. We were teaching this guy who is about in his 20s named Jorge. He is
originally from Boyle Heights, but for the past year almost, he was living in
San Francisco due to work. A friend introduced him to the church and he was
right about to get baptized, but he had a setback and ended up moving back to
Boyle heights. So where am I going with this? In that past year or so while he
was investigating the church, he visited his family in Boyle heights for a
weekend and decided to go to church on Sunday (this was in December when I was
there). He went to the Boyle heights sacrament and after I talked to him! In
the middle of the lesson he stopped and said: Hermano: you look really
familiar... Were you at the church in east la in December? And I said yes, of
course. And then he explained how he visited that day, but no one talked to
him. Apparently I was the only person that had talked to him at church and that
made his day haha! After the lesson he gave me a big hug and we took a picture
together, I will send it in a bit. Pretty cool!
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| Temple visit with the Nava family |
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| Someone is taking a nap! |
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| With the Nava family at the Temple |
Dear home,
This week went by pretty fast and at
the same time pretty slow. We
had 2 exchanges, one with Elder
Tovar, the Pomona district leader. The
other one was with the assistants in
Boyle Heights.
And then on top of that we had zone
conference towards the end of the week.
The first exchange went alright, I
stayed in my area with Elder
Stuart, Elder Tovar's trainee, in my
area. We had to do a lot of stuff
on the computer so it wasn't super
eventful. Then that night as we
finished that exchange, we started
the exchange with the assistants.
I got to go back to my hometown Boyle
Heights haha! The Assistants cover
the one Spanish young single adult
Ward in the mission as well as
Boyle heights. But this day we got to
teach just all YSAs. It was
definitely a lot more different than
teaching the older people who are
stuck in Catholicism and refuse to be
open. It was a pretty great day
full of finding prepared people.
We
contacted a 21 year old guy fixing his car. We asked him when we could
come by and he said right now, but we had an appointment to go to so he
said we could come back after we finished. The appointment wasn't there so we went back and he
opened the door and said "where do you guys want to go to
lunch?" You can imagine how happy I was since I was getting hungry. But he
just took
us to subway and paid for us! We
talked to him as we ate and he said he is looking for a church where he
can belong to and develop family values in which he can start his own
family. For those of you who are not familiar with the people of east
LA, that is extremely uncommon for a 21 year old guy to have desires
like that hahah.
The day just kept going like that, which was
pretty fun haha.
The day after that we had zone
conference. It was pretty good to get
to hear from president and his
counsellors. The main focus was on
obedience. Recently, president took
away sports since a lot of people
have been getting injured and have been going home because of
that.
Even though he said it's just
temporary, a lot of people sent him some
less than kind emails because of
that. So he just helped us understand
that we need to realize why we have
rules. (A lot of those came from
English work).
Then in the weekend we had a temple
visit with Sara, Jenny, and Luis.
It was pretty cool to see Luis come
to even though he had just gotten out of work and was super tired. It went
pretty well, it was great to see all the family together. Jenny and Sara got
confirmed this Sunday as well. Elder Merrill gave
Sara a really powerful blessing. It
seemed to had made such an
impression on her that this morning
she called us asking if we could
write it down for her so she can
remember it and share it with Luis (he wasn't able to go to church).
So all in all, it was a pretty good
week. This is the last week of the
transfer, so we'll see what happens!
Love you all!
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