Hey Yall,
Wow, what a week that just flew by. It is amazing what happens when we work hard in our sectors. I feel as though just a couple of days ago I was in Millahue with Elder Garcia. Now here I am in Santa Barbara, the Zone of Southern Los Angeles with Elder Bustos. He is from Columbia and he is really funny. He is always making jokes and getting the people around him to smile. He, like Elder Garcia in the last cambio, has two cambios left; this one and the next. So we could stay together for two cambios or split off. This cambio anything could happen, really.
First of all, Happy St. Patricks day! It didn't cross my mind on the 17th, but the next day I realized what day it was. Luckily, nobody here knows anything about that holiday, so nobody pinched me. When I explained it to Elder Bustos, I realized something else. I could very well be the only person who speaks English here in Santa Barbara, a little pueblo of a few thousand people outside of Los Angeles. I could be the only North American in miles around. Los Angeles is about 40 kilometers west, and there are 2 gringos in that city. Neat, huh?
We are slowly finding the members of the smallest branch I have ever been in. Yesterday we had 16 people in sacrament meeting. 16! That includes me, Elder Bustos and the high council member that was there. Elder Bustos and I did almost everything. We are the counselors to the president(President Contreras) so Elder Bustos directed the meeting, I directed the music, Elder Bustos blessed the sacrament with another Brother of the branch and I passed it. I also gave a talk yesterday. Yeah, I am learning lots about the world where the church does not exist. We do not use the piano, either, because it is super old and nobody can play. (Yes, I know. I should have taken piano lessons before the mission).
Like I said, we are slowly finding the inactive members. We found one guy named Sergio, who was drunk when we found him. It was really funny when we brought up prophets. The conversation went like this:
Sergio: There are no prophets today.
Me: God is the same yesterday, today and forever and he had prophets in the past. Why not today?
Sergio: Because there are no prophets.
As you can see, he is not the brightest lamp in the room. He is one of dozens of inactive members, a lot of whom we find while knocking doors. We found one while knocking doors yesterday and we are going to visit her later.
We see all sorts of things weird in the street here. I saw Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean downtown my first day here. He even greeted us. Not to mention, we were knocking doors the other day when we saw a sign on the door that said: this door opens for Christ. And what happened? It opened before we even got there and the people rejected us. Yeah, good thing it did not say: This door accepts Christ. Because they didn't.
Yeah, we are working hard still and we are going to have lots of success here in LA.
Wow, what a week that just flew by. It is amazing what happens when we work hard in our sectors. I feel as though just a couple of days ago I was in Millahue with Elder Garcia. Now here I am in Santa Barbara, the Zone of Southern Los Angeles with Elder Bustos. He is from Columbia and he is really funny. He is always making jokes and getting the people around him to smile. He, like Elder Garcia in the last cambio, has two cambios left; this one and the next. So we could stay together for two cambios or split off. This cambio anything could happen, really.
First of all, Happy St. Patricks day! It didn't cross my mind on the 17th, but the next day I realized what day it was. Luckily, nobody here knows anything about that holiday, so nobody pinched me. When I explained it to Elder Bustos, I realized something else. I could very well be the only person who speaks English here in Santa Barbara, a little pueblo of a few thousand people outside of Los Angeles. I could be the only North American in miles around. Los Angeles is about 40 kilometers west, and there are 2 gringos in that city. Neat, huh?
We are slowly finding the members of the smallest branch I have ever been in. Yesterday we had 16 people in sacrament meeting. 16! That includes me, Elder Bustos and the high council member that was there. Elder Bustos and I did almost everything. We are the counselors to the president(President Contreras) so Elder Bustos directed the meeting, I directed the music, Elder Bustos blessed the sacrament with another Brother of the branch and I passed it. I also gave a talk yesterday. Yeah, I am learning lots about the world where the church does not exist. We do not use the piano, either, because it is super old and nobody can play. (Yes, I know. I should have taken piano lessons before the mission).
Like I said, we are slowly finding the inactive members. We found one guy named Sergio, who was drunk when we found him. It was really funny when we brought up prophets. The conversation went like this:
Sergio: There are no prophets today.
Me: God is the same yesterday, today and forever and he had prophets in the past. Why not today?
Sergio: Because there are no prophets.
As you can see, he is not the brightest lamp in the room. He is one of dozens of inactive members, a lot of whom we find while knocking doors. We found one while knocking doors yesterday and we are going to visit her later.
We see all sorts of things weird in the street here. I saw Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean downtown my first day here. He even greeted us. Not to mention, we were knocking doors the other day when we saw a sign on the door that said: this door opens for Christ. And what happened? It opened before we even got there and the people rejected us. Yeah, good thing it did not say: This door accepts Christ. Because they didn't.
Yeah, we are working hard still and we are going to have lots of success here in LA.
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