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....