tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91275197346346526412024-03-12T19:15:35.908-07:00Jacob Dyer Missionary BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629080752515161251noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127519734634652641.post-90040117235061051222016-08-01T17:53:00.005-07:002016-08-01T17:53:49.639-07:00August 1, 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
Whirlwind of emotions, last week ended with a bang. I
got to witness Rui's baptism. We baptized his father, Ryan last year
around the same time and now things are coming back full circle with his son's baptism
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It's been amazing to be out here these two years.
Going through the highs, the lows, the in-betweens of missionary work.
Met incredible people, made incredible friends. Learned to love the
Savior. Felt closer to God. Experienced a tiny fraction of what the
original Apostles experienced in the form of really rude "born
agains." Worked through the hot days, the cold days (yes 50 degrees
F. is FREEZING out here), the rainy days (when it rains, it pours). Had
crazy disappointment and inspiring success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think back to the start of these two years and can't
believe it has already come to a close. Feels weird. Feels
unreal. Time truly does fly, and I've loved every moment of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Gospel is true. The plan gives us happiness.
When we follow the Savior, we have greater peace and happiness than we could
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See you soon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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allan came to visit one last time, he'll be a missionary
soon!<o:p></o:p></div>
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With Elder Murray at a "dessert" visit at a member's home</div>
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last p day!<o:p></o:p></div>
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tired Elder Dyer<o:p></o:p></div>
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passing on the posterity gifts to Elder Zeng</div>
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With Brother Powers, the man, the myth, the legend!<o:p></o:p></div>
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With the Thompsons! Awesome family in a different ward. We
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Week 6 of the transfer here we go. Gotta make it
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There's been this huge thing about Pokemon Go
recently. The great part is, parks are some sort of hub for the game (goes
to show how much I know about the app). How convenient, because we do a
lot of finding at parks, talking to everyone and sharing about our free English
class. So it's been great being able to go from talking about Pikachu, to
our English class, to Jesus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We ended up doing taichi with one of our
investigators. We were waiting at a park with another member that wanted
to participate, then our 70-year old teacher walks up in full taichi garb - all
white. He looked very professional. There were some other families
at the park, and as he was doing a demonstration to teach us, one of the little
boys (probably five years old) started to do it along with him. Suffice
it to say, I feel very balanced now. We did another session with our old
taichi friends at a park on exchanges too, so I got my exercise in for the
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Our zone conferences were this past week. It was a
wonderful experience. I had to give my outgoing testimony which was hard
because my heart felt like it was going to beat out of my chest. I can't
believe how the time has flown this past two years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My official 24-month mark, I got to go on exchanges back to
my old La Sierra Heights area. It was bittersweet driving through and
seeing my old stomping grounds. We visited some recent converts.
One seems like he's grown a foot! It's really sad to see how family
situations prevent people from being able to get out of their situations.
It's really not fair on him and his siblings that his parents' choices hinder
their ability to progress.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had our Chinese sacrament meeting on Sunday which was
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We confirmed one of our recent converts in a different ward
on Sunday. He got baptized a few weeks ago, but his host family went to
the beach for a couple weeks, so we got it done. Elder Warren did his
first Chinese confirmation. It was awesome.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Had my last zone meeting this past week. It was lots
of fun and we all learned a lot together. As an object lesson for our
training on faith, we brought some pots, seeds, and soil so everyone could
plant their own "seeds of faith." Hopefully I don't kill mine
before I go home! It's sprouting! We had everyone wear floral stuff
for "Floral Fridays." We're making this a thing - adding it to
our "sock-tie Saturdays."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gloria got baptized on Saturday and confirmed at church the
next day. It was a great experience teaching her. You can just feel
a difference teaching those people that are prepared to receive the message and
those who are not. She was one that was very prepared. Her mother
passed away recently and she is excited to do her temple work. In her
testimony, she gave a very powerful witness of God's love and that no matter
what we do, as we repent and return to Him, he will forgive us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had a barbecue at a members house and had lamb meat-sticks
(I guess you would call them kebabs in the US - not everyone understands
Shanghai expat lingo). They were really good, better than the ones I
remember in Shanghai! Probably because the meat was of known origin and
they were really big pieces. No rat meat here!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I realized this past week that I am the "oldest"
missionary in the mission. By length as a set apart missionary, I have a
week on all the ones that came in with me because I stayed that extra week
waiting to come out of the MTC. That was a while ago, whew.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were at Costco to pick up some snacks for our zone
meeting (they don't call Jurupa paradise for no reason). I heard some
Shanghainese as I was walking down the aisle. I turn around and ask this
guy in Shanghainese if he's from Shanghai and he just looks at me, blown
away. Turns out he lives close to where we live at home! It's a
small world. He's talked to Elder Zeng at a park in Eastvale too.
It's always fun to freak Chinese people out with languages. Especially
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At church on Sunday, we had to translate for Relief Society.
Room full of women, but the lesson was on tithing. We did mostly English
to Chinese translation with the headsets, but it was awesome to hear from two
sisters from our Chinese group. One shared how excited she was when she
was able to pay tithing for the first time. They're both converts.
The other one is someone Elder Zeng and I baptized last year. She raised
her hand and said today was the first day her husband, representing her family,
paid a full tithing and how blessed she felt. Like that, other women
started clapping, cheering, and even crying. You don't get that in
Elder's Quorum. But it was amazing to see the faith of someone that I
have worked with since day one. She said about half a month ago, her
husband decided they needed to do it (he was baptized about a month after her
last year). It's a miracle to see people's true conversion.<o:p></o:p><br />
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the whole mission when Elder Christofferson came.
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When we were on exchanges this past week, we ran into some
of our senior citizen Chinese friends at the park. We got there just in
time to join their Taichi session. It was actually somewhat difficult and
strenuous controlling all my movement, but it was fun. The missionary I
was on exchanges with had never experienced that before. Some people
around the park were looking at us a little funny, two guys dressed up in white
shirts and ties doing Taichi with a bunch of older Chinese people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I attended my last Mission Leadership Council.
Bittersweet, but I'm excited for the path that the mission is on. Upward
trend! We always have this really good pizza at lunch at MLC, and I've
become addicted to eating it with ranch. A couple MLC's ago, they didn't
have salad, so they didn't have ranch! Travesty, I know. So for my
last one, I ensured I would be able to dip by bringing my own! Don't
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We had two awesome new members move into the ward.
Both the husband and wife are from China and joined the church there.
They served missions and attended BYU Hawaii, where they met. We're so
excited because it's an answer to our prayers. We've been praying for
strong members to come in to help bolster our group as we work to establish a
branch here. God answers our prayers!</div>
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daughter made a funny comment while talking about her 8 year old little
brother. She said, "Sometimes I hug my brother because I love him. Sometimes
I do it because I want to annoy him!" It reminds me of my childhood,
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Happy 4th of July! To celebrate, all the missionaries
in the stake got together and had a barbecue. Very fun stuff!
Hamburgers, hot dogs, and carne asada (because we're in Southern
California). Don't worry mom, I had my sunscreen on. The night was really
lit... because we headed to the church after and played glow in the dark chair
soccer! Pretty fun stuff.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had my exit interview with President. Everything
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I got to see Allan at our zone activity on the 4th of
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Amazing experience being able to see his conversion from the start to
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We had our Chinese sacrament meeting this past week.
It was amazing to experience. There was a total of 58 people in
attendance, crammed into the relief society room. It's such a blessing to
be able to take part in the building up of this Chinese group throughout the
past while. The members have really taken it upon themselves to actively
build the group through church invitations, investigators taught in their
homes, and supporting the missionary efforts in general. It was awesome
to feel the momentum that they have as we're moving forward trying to push for
a branch. Eastvale is great!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The apartment complex we live in has been doing construction
on the roads the past week. One night we had to park really far away
because the road we live on was being re-done. We were obviously bummed
because we like being spoiled and parking in our garage. However, we had
an awesome blessing as we were walking back. It was a little late and we
ran into a Chinese lady on the way to our apartment. We obviously started
conversation with her and she was incredibly excited to hear that we were
Christians and had church around here! She told us that she too, has a
faith in Jesus Christ and wants to attend. Blessings for walking!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The former Elder Murray (now Dexter Murray) came back to the
area to visit for a couple days in between trips to Taiwan. Very fun to
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While we were passing out our free English class cards at a
park, we got some water at a drinking fountain, and a little baby praying
mantis crawls out from his hiding place! We do the natural thing and
catch it in a plastic water bottle. He was not a very happy camper, tried
to attack us and did not succeed. We made a small terrarium out of a
peanut container and kept him for a night. In the morning we were
wondering where he was and find him shedding his skin! He was about 50%
bigger too! It was a very exciting moment to see him mature but
unfortunately we let him go afterwards. He didn't seem to be going after
the ants or roly poly we provided. I actually forgot to bring my praying
mantis encyclopedia on my mission so I was not equipped to provide for him,
even though he likes to pray too!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shout out to my mission dad, the former Elder Johansen (now
Christian Johansen). He's getting married! Two days after [the
two-year anniversary of when] I entered the MTC! Congratulations, so
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Eastvale had a huge city-wide event, "Picnic at the
Park," during the weekend. In our search to find more Chinese
people, we obviously went to the most crowded place in town. Our guess
proved to be successful as we ran into a ton of Chinese people walking around,
clearly attracted to the crowds and loud noises. We caught a bit of the
firework show as we were leaving. Felt right at home.</div>
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I took a trip to space and took some pictures of some other
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My last transfer in the mission! Going to finish in
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It was Elder Merriman's last week in the mission. We
found a lot of people to commemorate it. We unfortunately dropped from a trio
to a regular companionship early in the week because a missionary in the zone
went home. Elder Warren took one for the team and went English for the
rest of the week... on bike... in really hot weather... He got a good
tan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were meeting with our eight year old investigator and he
prayed that Heavenly Father would help him play less computer and read
scriptures more - from the mouth of babes. We got him some clothes to
wear to church - white shirt and tie and black pants. It reminded me of
the nine year old recent convert from La Sierra Heights. I was back in
the area last week and got to talk to his family. I think his example has
really changed them. The Dad found a job, everyone seems more
responsible, and some of his other family members are now coming to church and
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At the park the other night, we ran into this guy and got
talking to him. He asked what our Chinese names were. When I told
him my full Chinese name, he kind of looked at me weirdly, then looked at his
wife, grinned and said "that's a good name." Turns out he
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We had so much Chinese food this week because it was Elder
Merriman's last. His last meal was at an investigator's house full of
Shanghainese people. We had already finished everything, and the grandpa
goes back into the kitchen for a little bit, then comes back with "tang cu
pai gu" [sweet and sour pork chop]. Suffice it to say, I ate too
much. We had a hilarious conversation with all of them though. They
all seemed to have different opinions on Shanghai, China, and America.
Some seemed to love everything about Shanghai, some said China was just
communist, and some just loved America. We were talking about the
matchmaking parks in Shanghai, and one of the ladies admitted to going there to
try to marry off her 30 year old son a couple years back. They all had
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One was a retired cop and asked how my parents met.
Another one quickly interjected saying that that was PRIVATE and he couldn't
ask that. I didn't know that was a "no no" in China. He
said it's because he's a police officer that he asks those questions
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church. It was unique not only because of the fact that we were the only
guys in the room, but we were translating a lesson for a Chinese member going
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We had our AP exchanges this week. It was fun to go
back to my old area. Got to see some of the recent converts which was
fun. The nine year old that got baptized back in that ward is now going
to church with his whole family. His example and faith is amazing in
helping them change their lives and get out of their current situation.
Bishop and his wife took us out for Chinese food at this place that had tons of
awards. He made me order in Chinese so he learned how to say
chopsticks. I miss them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the exchange, we stopped at a potential
investigator. When we pulled up to the house, I said, "hey I know
this place!" I had contacted a guy that lived there six months ago,
with Elder Mock while we were on exchanges (back when he wasn't in the
office). Turns out his granddaughter is getting baptized in a couple
weeks into the ward, the sisters are teaching her. It was a pretty
amazing coincidence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were able to nab Elder Zeng for a little bit to do a
baptismal interview for us. Lunch was at this Chinese place and the
waitress freaked out when she heard all of us conversing in Chinese.
She's from Shanghai which was cool. Later, as more people came into the restaurant,
they also seemed incredibly shocked to hear out Chinese. One of the
groups was from Shanghai and started speaking in Shanghainese because they
didn't want us to hear them say, "those foreigners are speaking
Chinese!" Good thing I understood it. We're having a lot of
fun seeing people react to us "white people" speaking Chinese.
In Target last week, this older Chinese woman kept getting close to us and
walking away. She'd get about a foot away and then scurry away. It
was like being in China again (the lack of personal space). When we tried
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Transfers are this next week. Elder Merriman only has
a week left with us in the trio :(. It's weird because we got into the
field together - same plane. This week we have dinner with Chinese
members every day. I call it the gauntlet - hopefully I make it out
without gaining 20 pounds! Time is flying! What will happen at
transfers? Stay posted ;).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629080752515161251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9127519734634652641.post-30361393232149834952016-06-06T21:12:00.002-07:002016-06-06T21:18:31.717-07:00June 6, 2016Fun week that got really hot near the end. We had a
heat wave come in. I kind of liked it though. What has California
done to me? Don't worry mom, I had my SPF 100+ sunscreen on :). <br />
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We had our mission wide cross fit exercise today. Had
our Jurupa t-shirts on. They turned out really great. It's my last
cross fit which was sad but I still kept up with President. He's only a
few decades older so it's whatever ;).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Harry got baptized on Saturday which was fun. He's
returning to China in a week so he will be a great addition to build the church
up there. The Bishop spoke a lot about his duty as a recent convert
especially in China which helped me reflect on how so many of these recent
converts are pioneers to bring the church out there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had a fun Chinese barbecue at the park on Saturday.
Great turnout, 70-80 people. The majority were non-members which was
cool. I got to eat some lamb skewers, which were delicious - brought me
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One of the highlights had to be the baby blessing of one of
the recent converts in the ward. He is a BIG baby. I've sent
pictures before. We had fun bouncing him up and down in the circle to
keep him calm. He had a little shirt and tie on which was adorable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had a meeting with our Chinese members on Sunday to
discuss the future of the Chinese group. All but one was a convert to the
church. It's amazing to see and experience the fruits of their faith here
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We got our car back this week which was awesome. You
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Last week on p-day we played kickball as a zone. Proud
to announce that the Jurupa zone took the La Sierra zone down 14-13 in extra
innings (15 total) when a Sister made the game winning catch at second to close
it out. Probably the most intense games of kickball I've ever played in
my life. I left with the "W" and no voice because I was
shouting so much. I also got a lot of sun so I added "100+ SPF"
to my weekly purchases - you're welcome Mom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had my last regular interview with President. It was
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We had a fun experience when we were knocking a neighborhood
on exchanges. As we were walking we saw a big red Chinese character on
this person's door that is traditionally put on for Chinese New Year. We
decided, hey, might as well knock right? We knock and long story short, it's
a Christian Chinese lady who wants to learn more about Jesus Christ and feel
closer to God. Hey! That's what we do! Fun blessing.</div>
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show known as "Crossfit." We'll be the best dressed zone, and
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Wonderful week but also hard because we didn't have a
car. We've been on foot walking and walking and walking. I've
realized how inconvenient it is to live in America without the use of a
vehicle. One night, we were trying to get to a lesson three miles
away. We walked but needed to get there faster so we ran about 3/4 of a
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We went to the Temple as a mission this week, then, later in
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was the cutest thing ever when the five year old came into the sealing room
after her parents had already been sealed and just gave us a huge smile and
waved! We had our "Families are Forever" ties on (our Chinese
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We sat down to have a lesson with this eight year old
investigator and his parents asked what he had learned from church. He
started to sing the hymn "Praise to the Man" (he didn't have a hymn
book). I don't know how he remembered all the words because he's only
been to church four times. It was a very spiritual experience listening
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We were sitting in a class on Sunday, and one of the
member's sons (Peter) didn't want to go to his own kid’s class. I had him
sit next to me and asked him if he wanted to go to Primary. He replied in
the negative so I asked why. He then said "because I love to
cry" ("wo ai ku"). I couldn't hold in the laughter.
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During English class we were talking about food and how to
order at a restaurant. We decided to bring peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches for everyone to try. I expected everyone to think it was
gross, but out of the 25 students that came that day, only one of them didn't
like it! One of them asked us for the "recipe."
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add egg or cheese or something like that. I told her that would probably
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past week. It was an amazing experience to hear an Apostle speak to
us. He held a question and answer session and joked about how Mission
Presidents cringe during this session because they worry the missionaries will
asked "dumb questions." It went well though. He joked about how
the Apostles don't travel to Israel in pairs because of Revelations 5. It
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We had a very fun time preparing and setting up our zone
meetings this past week. Lots of food, lots of fun. We had a human
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back on a college campus and get to meet and teach college students. We
went to free lunch at the institute last week, and no Chinese people showed
up. We decided to go out and bring some in so we went out on the sidewalk
adjacent to the building and started contacting people. We managed to
meet this girl whose family is from Guangzhou and grew up in the Bay
Area. She was interested but had already had lunch! We just showed
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Fun last week of the transfer. It started last week on
P-Day with us getting a knock on the door. Some people were trying to
sell some service to come clean our carpets. They were going to do some
free cleaning first! We weren't interested, BUT we obviously had to take
the opportunity to turn the tables on them and teach and testify about the
Gospel. I now more completely understand what it feels like to be on the
other side of the door. We ended up getting the information of one of the
salesmen (actually a saleswoman) and sent it over to the missionaries that
cover the area. Always be persistent! I wonder what they were
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Serving a mission (particularly in Eastvale) is having a
weird effect on me. Members are way too nice and always seem to feed us
dessert. It's like Pavlov's dogs where after dinner now, I NEED to have
something sweet/dessert. It's bad, but sometimes we'll go to Chinese
members' houses and be thinking beforehand, what can we eat for dessert after -
because luckily they do not feed us dessert!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had this big two liter bottle of root beer a member had
given us and did not know what to do with it. Neither of us drink
soda. So, I had some baking soda and seemed to remember remotely that in
elementary school, when you put baking soda in things like soda was it? or
vinegar? they will explode! I got some baking soda and put a bit inside.
Unfortunately we were unable to cap it fast enough, and my thumb in the opening
of the bottle just made the pressure go up so it was spraying everywhere.
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the last one Elder Westenskow is attending. Transfers were also this past
week and he's no longer in the office :(. I'm going to miss his
training. We got a picture with some of the missionaries from our
outgoing group at the meeting. There's a lot that go home with us! Still
have ample amount of time though!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We visited an investigator while he was having a barbecue
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meat stick salesmen have. The long rectangular grill that makes it easy
to make lamb meat sticks. It reminded me a lot of home!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I did my last Skype call, got to talk to the family which
was fun but weird. Time is flying by faster than I can imagine.
Transfers this past week brought Elder Merriman to Eastvale for his last
transfer with Elder Warren and me. Getting that trio life again!<o:p></o:p></div>
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For our English class Friday night, the Stake was having a
big "Fiesta Latina." We decided to have a "Cultural Field
trip" to the Stake Center to let them experience Latin culture, because
there are so many Hispanic people in Southern California, so a group of 25-30
Chinese people descended on the party. The major consensus was that the
food was not good, but the atmosphere was awesome. They all seemed to
miss the crowds in China. All of them were not however, used to having
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the "Birth Centers" where Chinese people come to deliver their
children. You can tell them apart because they all have a little table by
the door where someone brings food every day. It was fun and now we know
where all the Chinese people live in our complex. Also, we got a return
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Today was Elder Fischer's last day in the mission. I'm
going to miss him, he's like a brother to me. He came up to Jurupa to
finish out his last P-Day. We started with golf. Got my baseball
swing out again. I'm slowly but surely looking more like Rory McIlroy
(and playing like him too). Then we moved to soccer and finally to
basketball. We matched for most of it. Last stop was In-N-Out (I'm
addicted). I strayed from my normal "healthy" "protein
style" burger (lettuce bun) and went crazy with a regular bun to
complement my fries and lemonade. Pretty cool. I'm going to miss
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We went to help a recent convert family move to a new house
and in the process met an awesome new investigator! We walked in and
started to speak to another recent convert who lives at the same house, in
Chinese of course. We heard a little scream and a lady ran over freaking
out about how us "white guys" could speak Chinese! She quickly
handed her phone to her friend and had her friend take a picture of us
three. She then told us she has a lot of interest in Church and learning
more about Jesus Christ! Pretty fun experience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Got fed a lot this week. We showed up at one of our
member and investigator's houses and it turns out they were celebrating a
birthday party! They quickly ushered us into their home to join in the
festivities. Lots and lots of food. This was after our dinner that
night, so we were already full! When I told one of the women I couldn't
eat anymore, she quickly put more in my bowl and said, "You have to!
You can't waste food!" Very typical Chinese hospitality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Had an interesting lesson at their house that night.
While we were there, another Chinese woman showed up. My heart
immediately fell because it was someone who really is not a fan of our church
and tells everyone else about it. We had taught her once before but she
does not really like us - just very passive aggressive behind the very smiley
face. She came in and was obviously surprised to see us. She didn't
know that the owner of the house was one of our members. I was expecting
her to bring something up about the church during dinner and she did not fail
to do that. She started talking about how crazy we were. I asked
her why and she said she didn't want to say anything because it would
"cause contention." I told her to say it anyway because I
wanted to clear up her misunderstandings. She went on to say that our
"Bishop has 40 wives." I just started laughing and told her how
ridiculous SHE was. She didn't quite believe me when we said there is no
polygamy in our church... Not a fun experience, but the family all still
came to church on Sunday anyway!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We volunteered at a Relay for Life in Eastvale on
Saturday. It was really windy, so we had to stop tents from flying!
It brought me back to high school days. Our Relay for Life's back home
were very well attended. We had fun, especially with the free
Chick-Fil-A!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had our Stake conference during the weekend, so for one
of the sessions, Elder Warren and I were in the translation booth looking at
the little TV. Translating is really tiring.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Stake asked our Chinese group choir to sing during the
conference. Naturally as the missionaries, we got roped in with everyone
else. I managed to get Elder Mock to come up on short notice with
us. It was hilarious, but he sang well. Hilarious because we sang
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It was a weird week that ended in a brother's baptism!
Always great to witness someone enter into covenants with Heavenly Father.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had multi-zone conferences this past week. Elder
Warren and I gave a training, Deja vu, except we only had to give it once, not
like what I call "missionary groundhog day." It was a big
blessing because we were with the Corona zone for the conferences. Elder
Fischer gave his outgoing testimony there. I'm going to miss him a
lot. He's been one of my huge examples in the mission. Our mission
is going to lose a powerful leader and incredible missionary, and I'm going to
lose one of my best friends out here!<o:p></o:p></div>
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ties that I gave to some other missionaries. Best part was, President
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tie picture, then sneak one picture of "the pod."<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had another training during the week about increasing the
unity in our zones. The Assistants related it to the film, "Remember
the Titans" – how we want our missionaries to remember the days they spent
not only in the mission, but our zones. Good thing Jurupa zone is also
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his key and snuck into his apartment to make a scavenger hunt. Maybe I'll
go into that field when I get home because it was fun. I'll be the person
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We had fun with one of our eight year old investigators,
acting out various stories in the Book of Mormon and the Bible, including the
story of Ammon and David and Goliath. His name is David, so he made a
very good David across from Elder "Goliath" Dyer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The funny 6 year old member came up with another comment
this past week. She asked if we still had to wear seat belts in the car,
because our shoulder bags look like seat belts on us. She never ceases to
crack us up!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had a Stake service project this past Saturday. We
had to make trails at a nature center. It involved literally pushing all
the plants out of the way. Very good workout that brought a lot of sweat
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Class registration coming up for college. Not fun at ALL!
Time flies...<o:p></o:p></div>
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The daughter in one of the recent convert families here who
asked about babies having jet lag from heaven made another fun comment this
past week. She was looking at this book full of pictures of Jesus and she
said to herself (but we heard), "Wow, Jesus Christ was able to be
resurrected, that's so great (<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">很棒</span>)."
She's only five years old!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We sat down and had hilarious conversation with some old
ladies at a park. They were going on and on about how we should go be on
this really famous Chinese dating talk show and find ourselves Chinese
wives. I always tell people Elder Warren wants to find himself a nice
Shanghainese wife who he can cook and clean for! They all had very
different opinions but they were all very good friends and hilarious. I
had to pull out a recorder and start recording the conversation because it was
so funny. One of them was very against China, another was very patriotic,
and the one in the middle was exactly that, the one in the middle between the
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We had exchanges and I got to bring our resident Canadian,
Elder Gulbranson into "Chinese land." It was cool because after
this specific lesson with an investigator that was 100% in Chinese, he said,
"I don't know what the heck you guys were saying, but it must have been
good because I felt the spirit really strongly in there." Cool how
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We had a dinner at one of our Shanghai investigators'
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We had another Chinese sacrament meeting this past
Sunday. We do it once a month - break away from the English group and do
our own with about 30+ members. The people who were supposed to give the
short talks did not show up, so with about 20 minutes to go in the meeting, the
time of course gets turned over to yours truly. I spoke on the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, in Chinese of course. It was kind of fun as I shared a lot
of stories. I managed to take up the time to the extent that they had to
skip the closing Hymn for the sake of time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On a "blitz" in Eastvale, we contacted these two
guys who were [doing some not entirely legal things] in their garage. One
of them had some family that were members of the church on the East coast and
had studied with missionaries before so he was very sympathetic. The
other was another nice guy who knew his Bible pretty well. We managed to
talk to them for half an hour. Early in the conversation, the guy who had
family who were members (Tom - changed the name) leaned over and said, John
(changed the name) you chose to come here...to earth", to which
"John" replied "What? That's crazy." He let it
sink in for a bit and you could see the cogs turning in his brain. We
showed them the Easter Hallelujah video to which he said, "so that's
pretty much saying we'll see our grandparents again." As if on cue,
Tom freaks out and says, "I don't know how you got that from the video,
but that's EXACTLY RIGHT!!! That's what they believe!!!" It was a
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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?<o:p></o:p></div>
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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!<o:p></o:p></div>
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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
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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
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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
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I misplaced my planner this week, so that was a huge bummer
because now I don't remember what to include in this email! Woe is me
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We got to watch General Conference this past weekend which
was great. Everyone should go watch it too, or else they're missing out
on a TON of fun stuff. I was readily equipped with all my snacks to watch
at the Church building. It's all online now, so General Conference at the
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Fun Easter week. It was the last week of the transfer
and we celebrated it with dyeing eggs! I hadn't done that in what's
seemed like a very long time. Where did the tradition come from? I do not
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We got to enjoy seeing a bunch of our investigators'
children in our Ward Easter Egg hunt. They all did not take to heart my
advice to come early because once the egg hunt starts it's over fast because, like I told them, "kids run fast." We had some very nice kids
re-hide eggs for our late Chinese friends though, which made it very fun for
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We're in with a group of pregnant ladies in our apartment
complex. A couple weeks ago, we had a zone activity playing tennis at the
tennis courts in the complex. A Chinese family came to watch, so of
course I abandoned my post at the side of the net as the Riverside Mission
Wimbledon Finals ball boy and went to talk to them. We sat down with them
and had a fun time sharing about the church. She was calling all her
pregnant friends to come meet us. We'll see how that goes!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had a lesson with Sunny, one of our recent converts and
she was telling us how she had prayed the other day when she got sick and asked
Heavenly Father if she could just go straight to bed instead of reading her
scriptures. She decided to read anyway but fell asleep during her
reading. It was fun to hear and discuss her experiences with prayer and
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We helped one of our investigator families level their back
yard. The Dad is doing his backyard renovations all by himself and so we
dug and dug and dug, and wheelbarrowed tons of dirt with him. It was a
good workout! My back is sore and my legs are still feeling it. We
had already eaten at one of our Sichuan member's house for lunch, which was
deliciously spicy, and ate MORE Chinese food for dinner. Suffice it to
say that I ate too much...<o:p></o:p></div>
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I returned back to Riverside to do another exchange in my
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contact younger adults. We get their information and so we ask for their
number. They always look at us weird like we're trying to take them on a
date or something and say "smooth"... My standard reply is to
just look at them with really bored eyes (just picture me doing that) and say,
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Great week because we had our first all Chinese sacrament
meeting on our group here in Eastvale. Sunny, who was baptized two weeks
ago, gave a short talk and shared her testimony. It's amazing to see her progress
in such a short amount of time. She's awesome! It was cool to see
some recent converts take more responsibilities at church, like blessing and
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Our Chinese group got volunteered by one of our very musical
Taiwanese members to sing in an Easter music devotional on Sunday.
Unfortunately, she had to visit Taiwan for a family emergency so that left us
without a leader! Elder Warren had to step up and lead us as we sang
"How Firm a Foundation" in Mandarin. It was a miracle because
during all the practices we didn't sound very good at all. The men kept
getting pulled away to start singing the women's part! Then when we got
to the devotional, we found out we were second to last. We went through
all the musical numbers just thinking how we were going to be able to sound
remotely as good as all these talented people. When it actually came time
to sing though, it sounded great! Elder Warren and I wore matching
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It's almost Easter time! The church recently put out a
very nice video on Easter, Jesus Christ, and the Resurrection. Everyone
needs to watch it! It's on <a href="http://followhim.mormon.org/">followhim.mormon.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wonderful week, ending in a couple baptisms. I got to
return to my old area to see the eight year old son of the Quinonez family get
baptized. It was awesome. His dad was able to baptize him. The
five year old daughter is excited to get baptized too in three years!
When the actual ordinance was happening, she was part of the crowd of little
kids at the edge of the baptismal font. She made sure to let everyone
know that, "that's my dad and that's my big brother, and he's getting
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We had a baptism in our area as well. Our investigator was the first Taiwanese person to ever get baptized
into our group. That's a big thing! It was awesome to hear her
share her testimony after the baptism. She said at the start, she just
met with the Elders because she thought she could improve her English, then she
slowly started reading the scriptures and coming to church. The turning
point was when we invited her to give up coffee and live the word of
wisdom. She had tried and tried before to not drink coffee but for some
reason could not. We gave her a blessing that day, and she said after
that she had no desire to drink it more. She's an awesome addition to the
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converts in the ward (she's eight years old) had a funny response to my
"homework" that I gave everyone. I like to ask them to do small
things like go to the supermarket and have a conversation with an employee to
help them improve their English. When I asked everyone to do that, she
got a concerned look on her face and said "Elder Dyer, do you think you
could give me less homework please? My teacher at school gives me a lot
of homework and I haven't finished it yet." It was cute, I told her
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They're back! We made chocolate covered strawberries for a zone meeting</div>
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The most beautiful output</div>
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Council and it was weird not having to prepare any statistics or trainings for
it. The night before I was thinking about what I needed to get ready,
which was NOTHING! It was interesting attending and receiving the
training from the other side. I learned a lot!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The other week, I was walking around eating the big
orange/pomelo/grapefruit thing that someone at their door who rejected us gave
me. Some guy runs up to us and in a raised voice starts going on about
how we're not allowed in the parks and we're not allowed to proselyte
here. I should have pretended I didn't speak English but instead I asked
him why I'm not allowed to eat my orange in the park (the park was
empty). This park janitor guy said we're not even Christian and we're
doing religious solicitation (To who? The trees?) and he was going to
"call the cops." It was an interesting conversation. He
turned out to be a Southern Baptist who was not a fan of our church and thus
reacted, or should I say ACTED so interestingly. I tried to shake
Bill's hand at the end, but he wouldn't have it. The people you meet
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grandma from one of the families in the ward. They're from Sichuan and
make really good "cold noodles" (really spicy!). We didn't have
a dinner appointment that night, so I asked her when she was going to make us
these cold noodles next. She said come back in an hour! I told her
I didn't want to be a bother and maybe we could set up a time that would work
for everyone. She snapped back, that time is now! Come in one hour,
and started walking away. She cracks me up. Sometimes it's hard to
understand her because she has a really thick accent (all of this is in Chinese
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year ago and found a whole separate family living there. The grandpa was
very excited to meet us and was wondering how we spoke Chinese. Turns
out, when he retired, he took up painting, and decided to give us a little
notebook of some of his paintings. He made sure to write, "for Elder
Dyer" on the inside cover. Must be famous or something :). It
was funny because he wanted a picture, but first went to get his glasses on so
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Wonderful week! We got to attend the temple which was
awesome. Then we got to go to Cafe Rio! (the temple's out of the
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The highlight was the baptismal service we had on
Sunday. I got to attend the baptism of the Quinonez family, who I taught
in my last ward. Their story is amazing, and the whole family got
baptized. The seven year old son, who turns eight on the fourth, will get
baptized by his father in two weeks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The whole teaching process started with my Bishop getting a
call from a member outside of the mission, saying there was a family that was
very interested in the church. We went over and met the amazing Quinonez
family of two parents and four kids ranging from five to 14 years old.
Long story short, after attending church and loving it, they finally got baptized
on Sunday. The father had an aunt in Brazil that got baptized a while
back who he had not spoken to in a few years. The Thursday before the
baptism, she decides to message him on Facebook, telling him she felt like she
needed to share her testimony about the church. He goes on to tell her
that he and his family were about to be baptized that weekend. Tender
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Claudia [name changed to protect the innocent], the five year old is adorable. When her
family was getting baptized, each time one of them entered the water, she said
"that's my dad," "that's my mom," "that's my older
sister," "that's my other older sister." It was an
experience that I will never forget for my entire life. They have started
along a path full of so much joy and happiness! I love that family so
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I got to return to my old area on exchanges in Riverside on
the University of California Riverside campus. Lots of fun talking to all
the college students and catching the Chinese ones off guard when I speak
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I got passport pictures taken, and it was a struggle.
The lady said I COULDN'T smile in it, or at least, show my teeth, which was
crazy because I'm smiling in my last passport picture. I complied and it
took me a couple of tries because I felt so weird doing it. Is that a
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I think I specialize in getting fruit from people that reject me at the
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following up on a referral) and she gave me this weird mix between an orange,
grapefruit, and pomelo. It was good!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wonderful week that ended in me being able to attend an
investigator’s baptism from my last ward! He is amazing. One day a couple
months ago, he randomly showed up at church and said he had met missionaries
the week before in some other part of California and was interested. He
grew up 7th Day Adventist but was searching for something more. We were
obviously incredibly excited at the time, but unfortunately he kind of fell off
the face of the earth and we lost contact. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He showed up to church again my last week in the area (La
Sierra Heights) and said he wanted to be baptized. We set a date for the
21st of February, and, long story short, he was baptized on Sunday! He
had been Skyping with online missionaries who had taught a few of the lessons.
Miracles. He requested his water be freezing cold so he wouldn't feel
comfortable as he left his old life behind and was "born again."
I can testify, the water was frigid. I was standing on the side as
he was in the water and usually you feel the heat emanating out of the
font. This time, the COLD was emanating out of the font. Elder
Westenskow was pretty cold. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We had a Chinese New Year party for the Chinese members in
the ward. There were various fun games that we played, but my favorite
involved a couple that are recent converts that got baptized when I was here
last year. The husband had to put a paper bag over his face and feel
various women's hand's and guess which one was his wife's hand. Elder
Warren had one of the hands in. He had a couple close calls - saying one
of them was the right one (when it wasn't) and saying a woman's hand was
clearly a man! It was all good fun though. It's nice to come back
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One of the lessons we taught, we were sharing about the
Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the investigator that referred
her friend to listen to our message stopped us when we started to talk about
Joseph Smith. She said she just wanted to talk about Jesus Christ, not
which church is His. I politely told her that our message is incomplete
without the Restoration and knowing which church Jesus Christ actually
created. She wasn't too happy about that but we ended on a good note.
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Our mission president came out with us to see some
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"Chinglish." I don't know if one of our investigators were putting on
a show or what, but he literally said everything and answered every question
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Another testimony of talking with everyone: We went with
some recent converts to the DMV to help translate and, after observing the
large waiting room, we navigated over to a couple with their baby.
Obviously picked them because they were Chinese, but they were incredibly
surprised when I asked them where in China they were from. She almost
dropped her baby! She said she would be interested in church though, so
we'll be going back!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We had our mission wide crossfit activity today.
President Mullen gets up there and burns everyone even though he's 65 years
old. My highlight was seeing Allan from Corona there! He came with
the Corona missionaries. He's excited to be serving a mission soon too!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First full week in my new
(old) area. It feels weird because I am not as busy and can focus more on
actually proselyting. Still get antsy sometimes about doing certain
things that I don't have to do anymore! It's interesting coming back to
an area though, my first time doing this. The smells all remind me of
things from 8 months ago! Especially the wonderful Eastvale cow manure
smell (there are a couple dairy's in the area).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I put my "Chinese
glasses" back on again. I talk with everyone, but now I'm
specifically looking for Chinese people! It's fun, playing spot the
Chinese person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only my first week back, and I
already made a trip to a government office. At least it wasn't the DMV
this time, it was the social security office. But remember, I'm a certified
"interpreter" (not translator) in the city of Ontario :).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I was back in China
the other day. It was around 8:15, and we were walking in the park and
stumbled across a group of middle aged Chinese women listening to some very
Chinese music, dancing in the park. It brought me back to seeing a huge
crowd of older couples dancing outside in Shanghai!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My Chinese is rusty, need to
get it back up to par! Luckily I didn't have to translate for Stake Conference
on Sunday because there was translation from Salt Lake. It was a struggle
in English class though. One of the students wanted to study how to take
loans out from the bank. Unfortunately my vocabulary on that is not
terribly extensive! Doesn't help that I've not spoken Chinese is eight
months. I made it through though! My handy dandy translator did its
job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Interesting experience:.
Sunday night we were waiting in a parking lot of a CVS for some investigators
who were coming to pick up a Children's Book of Mormon (they didn't want to
meet at their house). A younger gentleman starts to talk to us about the
church and, after we give the Book of Mormon to the investigators, we decide to
have an impromptu church tour with this guy. Already a little suspicious,
we head over to the church building. Long story short, after we give the
church tour, he asks about Mormon girls and how he can find one. I show
him a picture of the Salt Lake City Temple that is on my planner and he pulls
out his phone and shows us the background while saying "you mean like
this?" Newport Beach Temple. So yeah, we got played. He
served his mission in Fresno. Fun way to spend a Sunday night!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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With Brother Powers, my old Ward Mission Leader - I'll miss
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The sun was really bright! Elder Mock, my replacement.</div>
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