Sand Bags and Degraded Granite

From 1/19/2016...

Hey everyone! This week was pretty normal. Nothing to exciting happened.

On Wednesday we went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders. I went with Elder Cloes to his area. He is a Spanish missionary so I had no idea what was going on all day haha. We had a really good day though, Elder Cloes is a super good missionary. The cool thing is that he grew up in Escondido which is right outside our mission so he already knows a lot of people.

We also did a lot of service on Wednesday. We helped the guy we met last week. We ended up climbing up the canyon and pushing boulders off on to his property to help keep the water and "DG" (degraded granite) off his property. We also did service for him yesterday and we filled sand bags for him. He told us that after we filled the sand bags that he has a total of 1950 sand bags on his property! It's pretty crazy! He needs a lot of help.

After service we were going to go sing in their branch choir. Before we went we stopped by their recent converts house because we were going to walk with her to the church because she wanted to listen to us sing. When we stopped by the lady told us that she couldn't come yet so we decided to walk around until she was ready. We were talking to people and we said hey to these two guys that were smoking, they didn't look like the best guys so we just kept walking but then I felt prompted to go back to talk to them and I told that to Elder Cloes and  he said he felt the same way so we went back and talked to him, he told us that he didn't want to hear a message. He said " I can't focus on anything because I'm so hungry."  After we finished talking to him we went into the store and bought them some chips and a drink. When we gave it to them they were so surprised, they looked like they were about to cry. I know God led us to them to help them. There's a quote that I like that I heard on my mission it says "you can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone that they can't repay you for."

Gerald our investigator is doing good! When I was on exchanges Elder Barnes and Elder Matos had a lesson with him and President Collins (he is in the mission presidency). They set him with a baptismal date for January 30th! Please keep him in your prayers! So far he is doing great! President Collins promised him that if he read the scriptures and prayed everyday that he wouldn't smoke.

On Saturday our bishop came with us to see Gerald as well. As a mission we have a new rule that whenever an investigator accepts a date to be baptized the bishop or one his councilors has to meet with them within 48 hours. I love the bishop in this Ward! He is a stud!

On Sunday we went to a mission presidents fireside in PQ (Penasquitos). It was pretty cool, we had a lot of fun!

I think that's it!


Bye bye!
Elder LaRochelle