Camp Wildwood

Zoo

From 3/1/2016...

Hey family and friends. We went to the zoo today it was a lot of fun. Elder Pimsuwan was really excited  to go. The bad thing is now I'm really tired and don't feel like writing a long email.

Last Tuesday we were supposed to go to the Mormon battalion but it didn't work out which is disappointing.

Wednesday we went on exchanges with the La Mesa 1st Ward elders. I was with elder Vance for the day. He is in training. We had a pretty good day though.

Thursday was fun. We played tennis in the morning with some other missionaries in our zone. Afterwards we did a service project for another missionary. His girlfriend broke up with him and then got married so he wanted to get rid of the letters he got from her so we burned them in a metal can.

Friday we did service for a bishop in a different Ward. We helped him move boulders to make a wall out of the boulders.

Saturday a former investigator called us and told us that he needed our help so we go to his place and he his sitting on the sidewalk with an autistic girl that's crying. The girl left her house and went and banged on the guys door. We went and talked to the girl and her mom came out. We added the mom though!

Sunday we called the mom and she told us that she needed our help. So we show up and and the autistic girl was laying on the sidewalk and was really upset at her mom and sister. She started screaming and cussing about her mom and sister. Elder Pimsuwan somehow convinced her to get off the ground. We ended up having to go to another appointment before we could get her to go inside. Right before we left she got really mad and started chasing her mom around and was trying to hit her. It was pretty crazy. So please pray for her and her mom. It's pretty sad actually, no one will help the mom. She isn't allowed to take her daughter to the hospitals and the police and fire department won't help her when she wont go home.

Yesterday we had MLC and watched the new Easter initiative video! Ok that's it for this week bye love you guys.

Elder Chris LaRochelle

Working Hard or Hardly Working

From 2/23/2016...

This week was awesome! I love it down here! I loved being in Ramona but it was kinda killing me that there wasn't very much work! Elder Pimsuwan are working hard and we are so busy its awesome!!

Recently our Mission President set a standard of excellence for us. The zone has been struggling to reach the standard of excellence so Elder Pimsuwan and I are working hard to lead by example and its working. 

Last Tuesday after P-Day we were trying some potentials and this guy walked up to us and asked us if we believed in Aliens haha . he then told us about all these weird theories he has and we quickly ended the conversation and asked him who he knew that could use a message and he told us that his neighbor could so we went and tried his neighbor and she was super nice her name was Melissa and she lives with her mom and she has an autistic sister but they werent home.

Wednesday we did service most of the morning and then later that day we met with Dayle who is a recent convert with a lot of health problems. We brought our ward mission Leader with us whos name is Brother Eggett! Brother Eggett is pretty awesome and loves to do missionary work!

Friday we went to the other districts district meeting which was good. Elder Pimsuwan and i brought Pizza for them. after dmeet we did service at mount Helix which is just a park. We picked up trash along a trail and on the side of the mountain. I found some homeless persons home i think. I didnt see anyone living there but there was a lot of trash and beer bottles and stuff it was pretty crazy. 

Saturday morning our bishop asked us to fill the baptismal font for a family that was visitng san diego to baptize there daughter so family could be there. Later we had our District meeting, Elder pimsuwan taught this week but it was a rough meeting because the A.P.s were on exchanges with a missionary that was struggling a little bit. THe missionary that was with the A.P.'s is from the south and is very loud haha so it was hard to keep him focused but its all good.

Sunday and Monday were both pretty normal though. Elder Pimsuwan and I are great though we are getting members at lessons and talking to everyone and seeing a lot of miracles.

I think thats it for this week!

Love ya

Elder Chris LaRochelle

Enjoying Life With Elder Kim

From 2/16/2016...

Hey everyone! This week has been pretty good even though we still had a lot of meetings.

On Wednesday we spent a big chunk of the day filling out "Stake Packets". They are papers that we hand out to the missionaries in our zone asking about numbers and of lessons and investigators at church and names of investigators and recent converts and all that stuff. We then collect the packets and put the information on the computer and then we meet with the mission presidency, stake presidency, the high counselor over missionary work and the ward mission leaders of all the wards in the stake. It takes a few hours to put all the information in though.

After we put all the information in the computer we had to plan for Zone Meeting which took an hour or so. Wednesday was pretty long though haha.

Thursday we had weekly planning and we had the meeting with the stake and ward leaders and stuff

Friday we had Zone Meeting which was good. This wasn't the first zone meeting I have taught at but its the first one I have planned so it was interesting but good.

Saturday we went to the Mormon Battalion with Rose and Eddy which was awesome. We also stopped by this guy that our Ward mission leader wanted us to stop by to offer service. We stopped by and met max he was totally down to let us do service for him.

Sunday we had stake conference that was a broadcast from salt lake it was really good. We didn't have anyone at church though which was a bummer.

Yesterday was a really good day we had a lot of lessons and had some members come out with us.

That's it for this week! Love you guys!


Elder LaRochelle

Elder L.A. and Elder Thai Boy

From 2/9/2016...

Hello Everyone!!

This Week has been Great!! Elder Pimsuwan and I are getting along great and I love serving in the Del Cerro ward. 

We had a TON of meetings this week so its been crazy busy but its all good!

Last Tuesday after P-day Elder Pimsuwan and I had to go to the mission office and pick up a new missionary. At the beginning of every transfer when we get a new group of missionaries in, the zone leaders are responsible for taking one of the new missionaries out that night from 6-9 pm and showing him what it's like to be a missionary and also housing them that night. So Elder Pimsuwan and I had Elder Thomson for the night and we went and saw one of our investigators named Rose. It was probably an interesting visit for Elder Thomson because Rose is in her late 20s and her house is super super messy and they just like to party and all that but we tried to make him as comfortable as we could. At the end of the night we went home and Elder Pimsuwan called a recent convert. There was some miscommunication and the recent convert got really upset and it kind of freaked Elder Thomson out but we assured him that things like that don't happen very often and the recent convert eventually calmed down and apologized for freaking out haha.

Wednesday was super super good! We started off the day by taking Elder Thomson to the Mormon Battalion. All the new missionaries go to the Mormon Battalion when they first get here. 

Also last P-day I emailed one of my previous zone leaders, Elder Arntsen, and told him that I was serving in the ward he served in. He replied back and told me that he just got into the area and was planning on being up where we were and decided to take us out for dinner so that was way cool! 

Thursday we had a conference call with some other zone leaders in the surrounding zones to plan MTE's (Missionary Training Exchange). During MTE's a couple of zones get together and we receive training then go on exchanges between zones. The Zone Leaders plan who goes with who and then we send it to President and he changes everything to the way its supposed to be haha! 

That night we also had a JustServe meeting for the stake which was alright haha. 

Friday we had MLC (Missionary Leadership Council). During MLC all the zone leaders and Sister Trainer Leaders get together and receive training from President Schmitt and then we as Zone Leaders present that training in Zone Meetings to the rest of the zone. MLC was really really good though.

Saturday morning I taught our district meeting. Since Elder Pimsuwan and I are Zone Leaders and District Leaders we also have to teach District meeting but we switch off every week. We also went the other District's meeting haha.

Sunday I got to meet the ward and I found out that there are a couple of families that were in my first area that moved to this ward so it was good to see them again. I also found out that I am serving in the Riewerts ward! That is Brother Riewerts parents, so that's pretty cool!

Yesterday I was in Spanish work with Elder Browne for the day because of MTE's. Elder Browne is a super cool dude and an amazing singer! we had a blast yesterday and got along super well! Yesterday we went to go see one of their investigators named Leo who is 10 years old. While we were trying to teach him, his friend kept interrupting and saying that he had a question. It was really funny because he would like "I have a question... I'm a really good drawer." haha we tried to tell him that those aren't questions but he kept doing it so at the end of the lesson I was like "I have a question.. you should read the book of Mormon with Leo haha."

Lots and lots of meetings! And more to come! But its all good! Life is good and our zone is on fire! We had 3 baptisms this past weekend and one more this next Saturday in the zone!

Hope you are all doing great!

Love you,

Elder Chris LaRochelle