October 26,2015

This week it felt like we were just spinning our wheels. It was hard to meet with people. Javier didn't show up to church yesterday because he got sick, and last week he didn't show up because his car wouldn't unlock. Satan just don't want that kid to come to church. We'll get him, though. S'all good. Sister Cruiz is progressing as well and comes every week. She just needs to get a witness for living prophets. 

Anyway, have a good week.
Cody

Elder Calvert Quote for the week. 
"There are only two people in the world that rock a middle part in their hair. Do you know who those two are, Elder Greenburg?"
"No, Elder Calvert. Please tell me. Who are they?"
"Jesus Christ and Brad Pitt. No one else should even try."

Elder Ferrin bought a huge Zebra portrait for $5 at a yard sale. It's tight

Dat smolder, doe. 

Two in one... Yeah, I'm a slacker October 19,2015

This week was blah. I had zero motivation to do anything. It was a long week for me. Javier and Briana didn't come to church and we don't know why. It sucks when someone isn't as gold as you thought at first. But we're going to keep going and trucking on. 

This friggin' dog house has a solar panel. #CaliLyfe

This one is filthy, doe. It has a hot tub. #Dawgs 

Moonlight huunies

Elder Mecham...that's just...I don't even know. 

Macky Derald Ferrin. My boy Ferrin. 

The jerks I live with (Ferrin, Mecham, and Calvert) found out I hate the Christmas season. Jerkwads. 

We were playing Hearts last night and Elder Calvert just gets up and leaves in between hands and just decides to get in the tub and eat his fried chicken. I...just...whatevs

Hey, guys. This week was kind of a hard one. We had to end up giving our golden investigator to the YSA Elder's because he's single and 19. That sucked, then we had Stake Conference so not a whole lot got done, but we're pushing through. Sometimes you just have the thought, "The only way that we're going to baptize in around here is if I burn this place to the ground and start doing baptisms for the dead. Whelp...better get the matches." But you just keep going. I hit twenty months yesterday. That was weird. On November 1st I'll have 100 days left. Crazy. 

Keep it tight

Calvert Quote of the Week ( For the record, Cody really does LOVE Elder Calvert)

So...Elder Clavert ...He's a goof and says really goofy things.
Case in point:
We were just talking and I said, "If I train next transfer, I'm going to make my Padawan Learner share a bowl of cereal with me. That's some comp unity!"
Then Elder Mecham said, "Nah, we should all do that as an apartment. We'll get one big bowl for all four of us to eat out of."
Elder Calvert then said, "Screw that! I'm just going to have a cereal orgy."
"Elder Calvert, what is a 'cereal orgy, pray tell?"
"Duh, it's where I take like six different cereals and throw them in a giant bowl and eat them all!"

"Elder Calvert...did you live under power lines as a kid?"

Hey, all. We have transfers this p-day and I haven't been transferred. I am staying in Corona for a least 6 more weeks. Conference was great. I met Elder Rasband about this time last year when he came out and called a new stake presidency in Moreno Valley, and that is super cool that Jared was interviewed by Elder Renlund. Cool story: We had a lesson with that kid that we found last week after he was lost by other missionaries. We asked him to be baptized and he said, "Just tell me when and where". What can we gather from his words? When the Lord comes to us and asks us to do something, do we say, "Lord, how hard is this going to be? How long do I have to do it?" Or do we say, "Lord, just tell me when and where. What else can I do?"
My new companion is Elder Calvert from Riverton, Utah. 
Love, 
Cody 

"'Twas I, but 'tis not I."

I asked why he always looks so thrilled in photos... his reponse? "I'm so over group photos" Love this kid of mine!

Sept. 21st and Sept. 28th

September 21, 2015


We found two new investigators this week and they're on date for October 17th. They're a part member family. The Aunt and Grandma are less active and they called us last Monday to come over and see them. So we went over and saw how they were doing. The Aunt Melissa suffers from depression and hardly makes it to church, and the grandma Dephina is morbidly obese and doesn't come to church much either. But we met Javier and Breanna, Dephina's grandkids and started talking to them. We set a return appointment and came back and started talking about baptism and Breanna says, "I've always wanted to be baptized, but my mom just hasn't ever done it." So we said, "Would you like to be baptized?" And she said, "I'd love to!" and we asked Javier if he wanted to as well and he said, "Yeah. I would. I was baptized when I was younger, but I feel like it didn't count." So they're on date. That's pretty much it. 


September 28, 2015

This week was really good. We went over to a Part-member family who has been worked with a ton in the past and was kind of dead in the water. So we went over and she was like, "I want to start over and really get involved." And now she's progressing towards baptism. Then Elder Frost and Denning talked to a kid at a bus stop and the bus came right as he was about to give his info. So we were like, "That sucks. Better luck next time, dude." and then we were contacted some old potentials from a year ago and this kid answers the door and is like, "I know you guys. I talked to two of you guys a couple days ago." And we're like, "Huh? Not us." and we found out that it was Denning and Frost, and we found him! We're going over on Wednesday. This week has been good. We just hiked a mountain and it hurt. A lot. Ouch. 

Peace.

Cody and Elder Vang Hiking.... Don't even ask what Cody is doing.....