Hey Everyone
There's so
much I want to say, but I just say Los Angeles is a blast! Yeah it was an eye
opening experience just seeing the crazy and different atmosphere here. However
all the people here are awesome and super nice! And I've already witnessed 2
baptisms! It's a great start. I'll to cover everything you all need to know.
Well the plane ride here to LA was great. I was talking to a Hawaiian man named
Brother Hugo who lives in San Fernando, the mission north of LA. We had a great
gospel conversation and he helped me get pumped for the mission. So there was
Sister Snyder, from my district, Elder Baich, from Argentina, Elder Rodriguez
from Mexico, and 4 other Elders who didn't get their visas to Mexico came out
to LA with us. President Baker, his wife, and the APs came and found us by
the baggage pick up and we drove off to a ward building right behind the LA
temple. OH MY GOSH, the temple here is huge! I can't wait to go inside it.
Anyway. The president is a very stern, bold guy, but he shows his passion for
the mission work. Basically is a business man, and wants to get things done. I
enjoyed the interview I had with him, and I hope to get closer to him. His wife
is very serious and quiet, but has the same attitude, business is business. But
yeah I loved the first day. They broke us off into our "temporary
companions" (even though ended up being my companion) and we when off to
do work, so I was in my first apartment the first night. My companion's name is
Elder Ditton. It's funny to hear that you got to see Elder Ditto again, but
he's different than Elder Ditton. He's from Logan, Utah and he's been here for
about 8 months. His Spanish is really good and I'm looking forward to speaking
like him. He's one of the friendliest people I've met, he's a great singer and
plays the guitar very well. I'm in the South Bay Zone and serving in the
Centinella area. It's in Lawndale and it's probably in the center between
Torrance and Inglewood. The area, as my companion would say, is ranked a 6 out
of 10 on how nice it is for LA. We have a pretty nice apartment on the very
north border of our area. So don't worry Mom, I'm pretty safe where I am. Elder
Ditton has told me some funny stories of some places in our area where there
are drug deals and stuff like that. It's funny that the ice cream man is one of
the "dealers" here and here he came down our street at 9:00 at night
with the jingle playing. It's just so funny down here. I love it. About the
mail, just send everything to the mission office and they will give me all the
mail on Fridays and I will read them on Mondays. The Spanish here is common,
but I still hear English everywhere too. It was hard picking it up at first,
but I can get a jist of what is being said most of the time now. I'm not
speaking as much as I should as I'm trying my hardest just to listen, but it I
though it was going to be a lot difficult than it is. But starting this week we
are going to try to find more people to teach other than just visiting
investigators, potentials, and members. The first lesson I actually was
involved in was with a 15 year old boy named Alexis and he's totally ready to
be baptized but he just doesn't feel "religous" enough. We are not to
concerned about him, and he's going to get baptized hopefully pretty soon. I
was just awesome to actually be in that situation in an amazing lesson where
the Spirit was there and he was actually seeing and understanding everything.
Anyway, the Hermosa Liahona ward here are just amazing and as converted as can
be and its a fairly big ward. Sunday was great. We went to a stake priesthood
meeting at 7 in the morning, had chuch at 9 and had a baptism at 4:30 of a 9
year old boy Micheal. His family just started to be active again and I was
awesome to see. We also had a baptism on Saturday for a little girl from a
family that started to be active again too. But yeah the people here are great.
Today was Beach P day, and we got to go play on the beach with volleyball and
soccer. I was just awesome to play outside again after a really long time.
Anyway I have to go, things are great here I love it, and keep up the prayers
and hope that the Spanish comes faster haha. Thanks for everything
LA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Os amo tanto!
Elder Marrott
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