Week 5 Letter!!!!

Hello Everyone. I hope you have all had a fantastic week this week has been busy and we have done so much. We have been on so many adventures this week. It has been great.

On Tuesday it was P-day. When we finished with laundry, emailing, and shopping, we hurried up North to have our P-day activities. Because it was Sister Ueno's last day in the field before she flew back to SLC to finish her mission (she is a temple square missionary, so they go somewhere for a few months as a break) we decided to do a BBQ. So we barbequed and had a wonderful picnic with a group of us. Then afterwards we played rugby. Because it was so hot that day, we ended up not playing for the full 4 hours, but we still played for a long time. Afterwards we hurried home and got ready to go out and teach people. We had a lesson with a member named Miguel. He really enjoyed it. Then we went and taught a LA named Marilu. She too liked the lesson. Then we went around and tried to visit deaf people, but didn't have any luck with that.

On Wednesday we went to the Mormon Battalion with the new missionaries who came on Tuesday, because we had not gone to it yet, so they had us go too. That was such a neat experience. It is a little museum about the mormon battalian and their adventures to San Diego. You go through a bunch of rooms that tell the story, then afterwards you can get pictures, and then go "Pan for Gold". After we did that we went to transfer meeting, which is where every missionary in the mission meet together, people who are getting transfered stand up and meet their new companinon, then we have a few spiritual thoughts and go on with our day. Both me and my companion are staying, which is nice. Then afterwards we got a new car. Instead of the "mali-boat" (really malibu) we now have a cruz. Oh and we got a new designated driver....which ends up meaning it was me. So i have taken over the driving. It was weird getting back to driving after not driving for 10 weeks....don't worry though i didnt kill anything or anyone. So we are good. Once we got done with all that we had a lesson with Chad (LA) about the Plan of Salvation. It went really well and he was looking so much better. He was having a great day. Then we went to try to visit people, but they didn't answer.  Then we went back to our apt and had our studies for the day.

Thursday rolled along and we had our usual 4 hours of studies. But to top that off we had our weekly planning for another 2 hours. Luckily we decided to do the computer part of the studies that day. We ended up being able to get out of the apt for a while to do those things. Then we went to district meeting and was sitting inside for another two hours. Then we went to visit Elizabeth our "investigator". She wasn't doing good. We then got a feeling that we needed to drop her and focus on other people that are ready for the gospel. We will continue to visit her, but not like we have. Then we went to branch council for the night and had a good meeting with them all. During branch council we got a call from the Mormon Battallion sisters, saying there were deaf people there, who wanted to meet with us tomorrow, so  we set that up.

After studies on Friday, we went to the Mormon Battalion site again. This time to meet with those deaf people. We met them. The wife, Allysin, is a LA member. Her husband, Steve, is not. So we added him as an investigator. They also have a son named Caleb. The only problem with them is they are currently homeless. But in Oct. they are getting a place and settling down. But for now we are teaching them and helping them get back to church. After that wonderful meeting we went over to Cathy (member) house. We taught her. Then went on to visit Donald. We taught Donald about the Armor of God, so we had our demonstration guy to help us. Donald took the sword (cardboard cutout-not full sized) and tried to kill us. Luckily I had the shield so i got protected. There was no death for me. After that we went to deaf coffee night again and mingled with all the people who came. There was a lot there again, but no one was interested in learing about our church.

On Saturday we spent most of the day trying to visit with people, but we had no luck. Then we went street contacting, and the same results happened. Then we went to Golden Spoon and enjoyed a refreshing treat on a hot day. Then back to trying to visit again. With the same results. Then we went and visited with Juan and Jose. That was once again a very fun time. This time they taught me how to use the brail machine. I learned the alphabet, but i have to still use a key to do it. It's hard to remember the buttons you push for each letter. Because there are only 6 buttons. You push multiple buttons for a letter. The only one i rember is A- thats because it is just the number one. After they taught me how to use the machine, i had to type the message up for them, because they like a copy of what we teach them. I only made 3 mistakes and it only took like 20 minutes to type the paragraph. But is was all good. I loved it.

On Sunday we went to church and Steve, Allysin, and their son came to church. That was so cool to have our investigators there at church. They really enjoyed it. We also taught the gospel doctrine class because the new teacher wont start until the end of october. after church we went to try visting people again, but had not luck with the people we went for. however, at one house we met a phillipino lady who was a LA. We taught her a lesson, and then gave her a book of mormon because she left hers in vegas. Then we gave her the tagolic missionaries number to help her get with them to get a b.o.m. in tagolic.  Then on the way to our car a man who was a christian stopped us and we shared our beliefs with each other. Then we gave him a book of mormon. Then we tried to visit Chad, but he was asleep. Then we went and had dinner. and set up appointments for the week.

Monday we tried to visit Chad again, but he was in his class. Then we tried to visit potentials, but had no success. Then we had a lesson with James W. and that went really well. Then we went street contacting for the last 2 hours of the day. Then during journal writing i kept getting distracted because we got a new ringtone.....which made the journal writing not happen until the next morning.

Well thats what i did this week. I hope each of you had a great week. I hope you continue to have a great week.

-Elder Betts :)