Tuesday, Aug. 26th: My first P-Day in the field. We started the day off by going to the laundry mat. While waiting for the clothes to get cleaned and dried, we studied. After that we went to the library to email you guys. Then we went shopping so we could have food to eat for the week. Then after all that fun and exciting things, we started the real fun. All the missionaries in our area met up at a park. We got our mail and then played games. We started the games off by playing Zombie tag on the playground....just imagine a bunch of misisonaries playing on a playground running away from the zombie....yep things were interesting. After that we played a game of basketball. It was fun. After that we went back to the apartment where we changed and ate dinner. We then at 6 went to go find more people. We got a refural and we checked it out. The guy was hard of hearing, but knew sign language. We talked to him for a while. Got him to want to go to a church.....only problem is he would rather go to a hearing ward then a deaf one. We set him up with the english missionaries....so hopefully good came from that. Then we went and taught a member named James about the BOM. Then went and tried to contact people....where did we go you ask? Right next to the boarder. It is crazy down there. Lots of people there.
Wednesday, Aug. 27th: We went to chech up on a member named Chad. He has been sick for 4 months and finally went to see the doctor and is waiting on the results of that. Then we went street contacting for a while until our next appointment. While doing so...we went to an apt. complex and most of them are locked with a code. You have to type in a code and the gate opens.....anyways i was just playing around with it and the first code i typed in was 1,2,3,4,#. it worked and the gate opened up. IT was super funny and when we tried it again it worked. So if anyone needs in a gate try that code see if it works. the next appointment was with a man name Miguel. He is a member and super cool. He is hard to understand because he uses half Mexican Sign Language....which i dont know. But i do learn a little bit from our members, they teach us lots. After that we went to the Isais's- The deaf and blind brothers. We were only at there house for 3 1/2 hours. Well......really only 2 1/2 if you take out the hour for dinner with them......anyways they fed us thes amazing mexican food called sopes (which is basicly a mini navajo taco-mexican style) they were really good.....and i only had 6 of them. Then we taught them a lesson and then spent the last hour learning brail-so cool. They have a brail type writer-which is so cool. So basicly we can use brail also.....its hard to understand and read, but i am learning still.
Thursday, Aug 28th: We started the day off with having Lunch with the Macias family. We had spagetti and salad. It was really good. We taught a lesson with them and then went on our way. We went to check on a girl named Elizabeth. Who has had missionaries in the past. She wants to hear (well...be taught) more. We are planning on teaching her more. Only problem is she has very low education.....and is a slow learner. But we will continue to meet with her and see how things work out. After that we went to Golden Spoon (which a member owns and misisonaries get the icecream for free) for only the 3rd time since i been here. It was delicious.
Friday, Aug. 29th: We traded in the old malibu we had (it got sold) and got a temporary malibu until they work our car situations. (all the malibus are being sold so we will get a different car in a few weeks). Then we had a lesson with Donald, his fiance, and his roomate/trailer house compaion personel. It went really well. This was one of the hottest days of the year...and to make it worse we were in a town called El Cajon....which is the hottest place in the area. It was fun and in the high 90's.Later that night we went to a pretty ghetto place. The first people we talked to (two elderly women) said to us "You better not stay around her too late after dark....it's not the best of places to be at night. It's pretty schetchy here!" Well that made us feel like we needed to leave, but we continued our walk around the block.
Saturday, Aug. 30th: we had our district meeting, where we had a fun talk for 2 hours. Then we went and taught the Plan of Salvation to a lady in 10 minutes. It was a great and short lesson. Later that night we went to an area....we now call it muslim country because everyone there was muslim. No luck there. Then we met a lady who wants us to come back on tuesday night...well tonight....so we are going to do that.
Sunday Aug. 31st: Went to church...tactiled(signing for the deaf and blind brothers) like a boss. Then with second hour interpreted for the deaf girl. Then during the 3 hour we had a rootbeer float party with the whole branch. It was super fun and relaxing. Then all the people we had lessons with decided not to have us come over because they had other plans so instead we went to find new people. That night we helped our new neighbor move in. It was great service opportunity. Then Juan (one of the deaf & blind brothers) texted (him through his email/ brail hooky up thingy-super cool) us. He told us he was eating chocolate icecream and asked if we craved his icecream i replied "We crave icecream, but Elder Betts says, never that discusting chocolate crap, But yes icecream is wonderful" ( He knows i hate icecream and makes fun of it. not nice. His reply is "you are crazy. You vanilla white face boy" i told him he was going to get it next time i saw him. He said i was fired and couldnt come over for 5 years. But then later texted and said he was kidding and i could still come over. He is the funniest person ever.
Monday, Sept. 1st: We had a labor day bruch with all 40 missionaries in our area at a members house. We ate food and then had a couple of spirtitual thoughts. Then we taught members emillio and estella. Then we went contacting where we found a deaf boy whos family is catholic. they were not interested. bummer. then on the way back to our car a mexican man came up to us and talked with us and applauded us for sharing the gospel with others. Then that night we went to find a deaf man. Half way there the gps died....so we had to go back to the apt to get the charger cause we forgot it. Then we find the house and we get out. There were two black ladies there who the older one was crying. We talk to her and she told us what was happening. We had an hour conversation with her and her daughter. They were southern baptist, and the nicest ladies. They also had a family language....completley made up based on different languages. refered them then went home
Thats all this week. Take Care.
Love Elder Betts
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