Bashing with Gang members.... probably not the best idea!

Hey, this week has been...fun. We (Noorda, Petey, Hall, and I) were heading home after the night was done and got into a drunk bash last night with a Crip named Augustine in the parking lot of our apartment complex. He was faaaaddddeeedddd. He kept asking us if God wanted to tell him something, so we'd start telling him about the restoration, but he'd just cut us off and tell us to "be real with him", so we got fed up with trying to find a nice way to say it and told him that when he drinks and smokes weed and is sleeping around, he's breaking God's commandments, he's breaking God's trust, and he's breaking God's heart when he treats women the way he's been treating them, and if he doesn't knock it off, his life is never going to get better. It struck with him...for about 2 seconds and then he was back to rambling about how all he has to do is be a good person and God is going to love him. Well, no duh. Of course God loves us just the way we are. That was never in question. But that doesn't mean he doesn't want us to improve. We've talked with him before and he claims that he has to be drunk to say anything that he's been saying. Him and his girlfriend were so wasted and got in their car and drove off, so I had to call the cops. That was fun. Reminded me of my days as a mall cop. Haha. It was frustrating because every person that reaches out to us in anyway they were put there for a reason, so we have to at least try. But we picked up a new investigator this week named Breanna. She grew up in Long Beach which is a pretty bad area. She's 20 and has two kids and no high school diploma, but she's starting classes. It's so amazing to see how the Lord has directed people into the Gospel and prepared them. Put your application in. It'll all work out. We heard from two General Authorities yesterday for Stake Conference. Elder Rasband who is the senior Seventy of the First Quorum of the Seventy. That was really cool. He's a really good speaker.
Things are doing okay out here. It's all good.

Love you guys, I've split my time in half, so I'll email a little later too.

Cody is proud of the new arms he bought for his glasses. and then just some silly picture....

First Week as a trainer

This week has been fun and filled with tons of work. We're working with Serena still. She's doing so well. She actually understands the point of the Atonement and how it applies and has felt just a taste of Christ's love for us. She has noticed that since she has started to follow the commandments and come to church and read and pray, that her life has improved drastically. She was so prepared and ready for the Gospel. Reyanna is doing okay too. She came to church yesterday. All we have to do is get her a testimony of the Book of Mormon and it's pretty much a done deal. After that she's golden. We've had a ton of street lessons with drunk people and it is so funny. We came up with a little Proverb about teaching in the Lasselle North area. "It's better to teach a drunk person than a sober idiot." Haha. Elder Hall is doing great. He's teaching is getting tons better and he's understanding how to teach to people instead of just teach lessons. It's really cool to get a comp that I really get along with. I haven't really had that since McClain. I'm glad that he's willing to actually teach instead of just sit there. What's been going on with Bishop Spearman? What's been going on with Jared? It's good that Teague is getting blessed soon. Who's doing it? It's good that Jared is receiving his endowment. Tell him to go a lot. The more he goes, the more he'll learn. Also, I rode in a Pinto and a Maverick this last week. So that's a thing. We're just working hard and trying to find people and riding our bikes a lot.
Love you guys,
Cody

I bought a sick Elsa watch today. #NoShame

Elder Hall and I

Elder Foster and I

The day I got my Greenie

Me and my Brother in the mission Elder Hugie

Elder Greenburg becomes a trainer.

The time change is dope because I wake up at 6:30 and it feels like 7:30. What does Jared need exactly because I only use a little bit of the stuff I brought out. But then again, I don't have to deal with winter clothes. Are you moving to Gunnison? If so, let me know so that I can update with my mission president on where my records are and all that jazz. This week has been pretty good. Elder Rampton is being transferred to University Heights with Elder Alex Snider. Yep. There are two missionaries from Grantsville and he's gets them both back to back. Haha. I got my training call, so the next two transfers are going to be me teaching a fresh greenie how to do missionary work. Hopefully he's cool. If he's not, he's going to hate his life, because no one in our apartment takes anything seriously. Haha. Our apartment is so dope. The Moreno Valley Zone is so cool. It's seriously the chillest zone in the mission right now. There isn't one missionary that I don't like, there is zero drama because everyone is minding their own business and staying out of trouble. Halloween is crazy in California. Last year at our ward's trunk or treat, they served over 1,000 hotdogs. They really cut is down this year. We had it on the Tuesday before Halloween. On Halloween we just chilled at the Stake Center and watched The Best Two Years with the whole zone. It was kind of weird to sit down and watch a movie. Haha. It's good that Andrew is almost walking. Everyone has taken to calling me Greenburgundy, or Burgundy. I'm really excited to train. We have a ton of work to do, which is 100% better than when I was trained. Me and McClain had nothing to work with. Christmas? I can't think of anything, really. Maybe just some cash as a buffer. If the iPad works out then that will do. If you can't make it happen, don't worry about it. For real. I'm an adult, Christmas isn't something that really matters to me, it hasn't for awhile.
Love you guys,
Cody

My whole life in one picture. Deep doctrine books, Uke's, Camera's, Arizona Lemonade, cards, Daft Punk. 

The funniest Dilbert Comic I've come across

The Lassell boys. Elder Carr, Me, Elder Rampton, and Elder Andrus. 

Wingstop with the Lassell boys, Moreno Valley dudes, and the Spanish Guys

Cali Sunset

We "inherited" a couch this week and put it in our bedroom. Hangs happen with the Spanish guys who live in the same complex.

There was a bobble head of baseball player Joe Saunders in our apartment that we beat the crap out of and blamed for everything that went wrong, but we don't know what happened to him. So we've renamed this painting Joe and blame him for everything. You may or may not want to publish this one. That's my ring finger, by the way. 

That's me and my step-brother in the mission, Elder Carr. He's dope. He got his Zone Leader call and is going to Corona. Maybe he'll train me to be a ZL. That'd be cool.