Hey Everyone!
This second week was great and its so crazy on how much
things have happened during that time. It was a busy week with a lot of
meetings and crazy mix ups, but everything turned out fine.
Tuesday
In the morning
Elder Ditton had a training meeting because he's serving as district leader. So
I went on splits with two other Elders in our zone. In our zone there's 4
spanish speaking comps 2 ASL companionships and the rest are english speaking.
So I was with Elder Bushager (English) and Elder Finnell (ASL) We had an
interesting conversation about the atonement as week were tracking in area
called torrance. My companion and I got back together and went tracking some
more. We had dinner twice and one of them was with Griselda and her kids
Connie, Manuel, Daisy and Little Joey. They are absolutely hilarious, and they
like to take advantage of my little understanding of spanish. She made Posole
which is basically a slab of beefsteak cooked in some really good latin soup
recipe. Griselda and her daughter daisy are recent converts that Elder Ditton
had a couple transfers ago. He's been here in this area since December so he's
gotten to know the area really well, especially with the members. Then we went
to a members home, Sanchez's who just started being active again, and Brother
Sanchez got to baptize his daughter last week. We got alot of referrals from
that baptism as many of their family came to see the ordinace. It's awesome to
see how they all are doing the best to get active in the church again. It was
sister Sanchez's birthday, so we had some really good pastel. Latin cakes are
so delicious.
Wednesday
EXCHANGES! I got
to do exhanges with some other Elders in our district and I was able to serve
with Elder Olsen in the Compton area. He's a really great guy and he works
really hard. I was my first day on a bike, but I was using Elder Shumway's
bike, who was exchanging with Elder Ditton. I was quite the long commute to get
to everyone we wanted to see. We found a new investigator, and we taught an
investigating family about the word of wisdom. They were so awesome and I wish
I was still able to teach them. They also served us this really good guacamole
chicken breast meal with cucumber juice. I was great to see another part of the
city.
This week we also had the privledge to have a mini
missionary come out and work with us. His name was Jose and we got to do a lot
of tracting with him. He lives downtown and we got to have him from Friday
night to Sunday Afternoon. We had some funny things happen to us during that
time. The Zone Leaders car broke down so we were having to go on a lot of
splits with them to go everywhere. We transported a crib from a members house
that we could give to one of investigators that the Compton elders have. I was
hard as they had to stuff me and the whole crib in the back seat of a little
sudan. It was pretty incomfortable having massive planks of wood pounding
against my whole body. I was laying all across the back seat basically. I
thought that once I got on a mission wouldn't have to do that kind of stuff
again, oh well.
To answer Mom's questions
The weather here is always nice, but the sky is usually very
gray and foggy. Something to get used to
Apartment is nice and its just me and my companion. We don't
try stay in there too long so its a little cluttered at times.
I'm sleeping fine.
we will usually do email at the library
I've only biked twice, but we plan on biking more this week.
My bike is really nice and everything seems to be working ok
I'm not sure on the temple, but it will be one of the next
to transfers
I hope Dad and Kurt get in alright
It's exciting to hear that Aubrie is doing better, I hope
she's able to go back out soon
I'm sorry that you and dad couldn't be together for your
anniversary.
Anyway I doing great I will look forward to writing you
again
Os amo tanto!
Elder Marrott
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