Hilarious moment with one of the recent convert families in
the ward: They have a new baby that's about a month old. Thomas Spencer
Li (the baby - named after Thomas S. Monson) sleeps a LOT, as babies tend to
do. The five year old in the family asked a hilarious question. She
said "Mom, Tommy sleeps a lot, is it because he hasn't gotten through the
jet lag from coming all the way from heaven?" We couldn't help but
laugh. I suppose he does have some jet lag to overcome! I wonder
what time zone heaven is in?
Had a nice trip to the good ol' California DMV this past
week to translate for a recent convert. Advice for everyone, go in the
afternoon - you don't have to wait five hours! We ran into another member
there, the one who asked us about year ago (as we were waiting in line) if he
could help us with anything. Memories!
During a zone "blitz," where the whole zone goes
into someone's area and walks/talks to people for an hour and a half, the Elder
I was with and I ran into a very interesting guy. When we contacted him,
he said "I would never talk to you guys, do you know all the terrible
things you do?" Somewhat surprised I asked what he was talking about, he
then told us "GET OUT" repeatedly many times. It's nice to have
the random mean contact mixed in with everyone else. Brings us back down
the earth! It got me thinking about how mean people are to us
sometimes. Shouting/throwing stuff from cars as they pass by. I
thought about it and who on earth else would they do that to? I figure,
if Jesus went through worse, I can get through random old Joes who think they
know their Bible so well. Highlight was our Capri-suns after the
blitz. It brought me back to soccer games as a six year old!
We had to translate for an investigator at this Christian
pre-school. Their son was biting other kids. At first I was a bit
apprehensive to go to this Baptist pre-school, because they don't seem to like
our church that much, but the lady was SO nice to us. She said
missionaries even come by her house sometimes and help her around the
house. Nice breathe of fresh air.
Every morning we'll pray to find the person that Heavenly
Father would have us find that day. It seems like, without fail, we
always run into THAT person that has been prepared for us to make contact
with. We might run into this really mean guy, then talk to that one
person. It helps us to keep moving forward knowing that we have to talk
to EVERYONE to find that one person. Very rewarding work.
Capri sun selfies with the zone
The zone got headbands
Selifes with a really big pug!
We had dinner with a
great member family who have a really fat Puggle. He just had his hair
cut, so we had to get pictures.
He's eating my ear!
The missionaries in the stake, in between Conference
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