Բարեվ բարեվ! I would write more in
Armenian but it takes too long to figure out where all the symbols are on this
keyboard! But anyways! hello after another beautiful week here in California!
It was a long one for some reason but good nevertheless.
Last monday we had FHE with the group. And somehow with very little to no
planning, Elder Dicus and I pulled a lesson out of no where. The mood went from
fighting/hungry members to a happy group wanting to do more family history
work. Which is what we taught about. So that was good. Even though I was
exhausted after our super early morning hike last Monday.
Tuesday
started out busy. Elder Fochs and Elder Tovey had a couple lessons planned at
the same time so Elder Dicus and I went on splits with them. I got to stay work
the booth up at the glendale community college while Elder Dicus went with
Elder Fochs to do the lessons. It was a hot day and we just so happened to set
up the booth at the time that everyone was in class but we still got a good 15
ish contact information with only an hour and a half. Pretty solid if I do say
so myself! Later that night for Elder Crumrine's Birthday, we went out to
celebrate at BJ's for some pizza. A guy from the singles ward came with us,
Cody Owens, who is going to the Leeds England mission speaking Polish. He left
for the MTC this past Wednesday. It was super fun. good food. Even better
because the La Liga Championship game between Barcelona and Real Madrid was on
the TV while we were there. Unfortunately Real Madrid was up when we left 1-0.
We got another 4400 calorie pizzookie. super delicious. But then Later that
night we all said good bye to Cody because he got set apart that night. he was
a pretty cool guy even though I only met him a few times.
Wednesday was Zone Conference from 10-4 and it was awesome. Our Mission
President is the man and really knows how to talk to make things seem so easy
and do-able. So I got a lot out of that including a sort of 'Missionary
Elevator speech' that Elder Dicus and I have been doing this week since then
and it has worked magic! Later that night we had a lesson with Elizabet/Sona
and we brought Minas along with us. I love Minas but sometimes he really isn't
much help in lessons but it turns out that we have to teach him instead of the
person we are there to teach. But his heart is in the right place. He is just
really unsure of some major doctrine and it caused some problems! good thing
that Elizabet and Sona knew there basics. You gotta love him though. Especially
because he is the only one who continues to come to our Bible study class...
Thursday we had quite a few no shows on appointments that we had set up
previously. Which is really frustrating because it makes it seem like we run
around in circles trying to catch these people when they are home. If only they
would just give us their numbers so we could call them to confirm! We had a
great dinner with the Bradley's and Ashot and Adrineh that night. It was so
awesome that the lesson was going well and in the direction of us being able to
pick up Adrineh as an investigator but then because our dinner appointments
take so long, we had to leave for our ESL class and the other Elder picked her
up instead... not too happy about that. Especially when we show up to class and
no one was there! GRR! But we got to go meet up with Mike and Bridget instead
and had a great lesson with them about Alma 7. If only they would actually read
so we could teach them! But we decided that until they read, we are just going
to read with them.
Friday was a typical biking/weekly planning Friday. we had an awesome
session of contacting at a park where we were planning on just dropping off a
French BOM to a Armenian guy from Lebanon But it turned out to be a
BBQ with a bunch of friendly/random Armenian guys who were drinking some hard
stuff and cooking some delicious meat on a barbecue! It was awesome and I
love the Armenian culture. They look kind of intimidating and not so friendly
at first but once they find out you learned their language they open up and
offer you whatever they have! Literally! It was funny and we even got an
appointment to meet with the Lebanese guy Tuesday. However, the night was
finished on a lower note when we went and taught Hambarsoom. He has been doing
so well and understanding (or so we thought). We were talking to him about the
baptismal service he went to and he said it was good and we tried to set him
with a date. But that doesn't really interest him. He just wants to wait until
he is ready.... not only that but when we were about to leave we followed up
with how he had been doing with the W.o.w. and he said "What is
that?" if that explains how well he understood our last lesson. Just don't
know what to do with him!
Saturday was pretty awesome. We had a mini missionary (a priest age young
man from the la canada stake) for the morning and afternoon. Our guy was named
Aaron and he was a quite humble guy who was really cool. He got to experience
quite a bit for only being with us for a few hours! We had some good street
contacts and some faulty lessons. He even tried to give a armenian bom to some
armenian lady while Elder Dicus and I were talking to her neighbor. Quite funny
to watch and listen to what she was saying. All the time he had no idea what
she was saying.
Sunday, yesterday, was packed full of food. Right after church, which was
really good and we had both of our progressing investigators there, we had a
lunch with Minas, His wife Sonik, the other Elders, and the Filipino Sisters
who have built a relationship with Minas' wife. they made some Parshkahi dishes
including some lamb, some khash like soup but not as dense, and a lot of
pickled veggies. Not a fan of pickled veggies even though I tried them all. Not
even half an hour after that we went and had dinner with Mike and Bridget at
the Townsend's house which is amazing and nice up in the la canada area. my
first and probably one of the few times i'll have some steak on my mission!
After dinner we read more out of Alma 7 with Mike and we actually had a great
lesson on Faith. Hopefully that will help him build up enough to keep reading
and keep his date of Mar. 31! And then the night ended with the best street
contact I've had yet. His name was Pablo and long story short, he is going to
come to church, he asked for our information to meet up with us, and he was
SUPER grateful for the BOM we gave him. Super awesome. even though we will have
to pass him off. still stoked.
WEll I love you all
and hope you have a great week! talk to you all soon!
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