"Give my best to the Salt Lake, baby. I've been missing her lately."

This week has been average. Nothing new going on. Grant and Gavin didn't come to church this week and instead went with their Grandma to her church, so that's a bummer. We had a talk with Thu Ha and realized that she wasn't taught correctly in the beginning and that's where a lot of her concerns come from. She keeps listening to her friends instead of the spirit.
We're moving today to a place that is literally the bottom of the mission. If we go too far South or miss our exit, we leave the mission. It's fun because the place is brand new with brand new beds and stuff like that. It'll be fun. I like two mans better.
Cody 

MY HAIR IS THINNING AND I CAN'T MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!!!

(I told him not to worry, my dad still had some on top.. he will too, and when he is old he can look like a troll like Grandpa DelMar did while waiting for his daughter to visit and give him a haircut)

Just dem kicks

 Elder Waldron cleaned the fridge.It was kinda gnar. 

My life in District Meeting

Talking with the zone leaders 

 Explaining new finding ideas with other missionaries

 We're moving today. This is the cleanest my desk has been. We're getting a brand new apartment. 

Let the world collapse on it's own behalf, it doesn't need our help

This week was up and down. Thu Ha didn't get baptized yesterday. She sent us a 3 page text us on Wednesday or so and laid out that she wasn't ready, that she felt pressured, and she's been baptized twice in the past and really wants to know if this is the true church. Noble reasoning, but at the same time we know that she knows it's true, and when God reveals true to you, you are expected to act on it.  She's been anti'd a bit and was given a book from the early 80's about how we're a cult and Joseph Smith said that God was a man and a Christ on His own planet before He was God and that we can be God and yadda, yadda, yadda. Same old, same old. She brought up that Joseph Smith wasn't prophesied in the Bible as a foreordained Prophet and that was a big concern from her until we pointed out that the Bible is pretty much broken up into two parts: the Old Testament which foretells of Jehovah's coming in the flesh and His dealings with His people, the Israelite's. The New Testament deals with the birth, ministry, and Atonement of Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah in the flesh, and the missionary efforts of His Apostles. In other words, the Bible is a collection of prophecies concerning Christ. It doesn't really talk about anything other than Christ and a ton of Prophets weren't mentioned by name. Anyway, she understood that, but the missionaries who taught her before us didn't do a very good job of setting expectations or really teaching her the basics.

Grant and Gavin are doing alright. We're trying to get them baptized and all that. They're just being sixteen year old kids. 

On Saturday I got to go back to my greenie area in Woodcrest and see Riley, Lexi, and Steven Bishopp get baptized. I worked with them for 7 1/2 months, my whole time in Woodcrest. I honestly thought that I wouldn't see it happen. I hoped, but was afraid that it just wouldn't happen. When I started teaching them, Sister Bishopp wasn't pregnant. Now all they have to do is get the dad, Steve. He's so cool. It's just awesome to see how the Lord prepares people and how much He's involved in their lives. They're just a great family.

"I'm just trying to say the way schools need teachers, the way Kathie Lee needed Regis, that's the way I need Jesus."

The Bishopp family

Sister Michaelson and I. She came to the baptism just to see me. She's great.

Steve Bishopp. He's so dope. Has sleeves of tattoos. He was in a motorcycle wreck a couple of months ago.

In Cali it's legal for motorcycles to split lanes rapidly, especially in bumper to bumper traffic. He was lane splitting and a guy in a crappy car just pulled out of a lane and clipped him. His shoulder got a messed up and he was worried that the guy didn't have insurance. Turns out the guy that clipped him owns a Ferrari dealership. Lucky. Everything was taken care of and he got to spend more time with his kids. 

Riley Bishopp and the photo bomb!

Lexi Bishopp. She's a punk rock girl, doe. She's trying to go to Warped Tour and she's only 12. Her parents told her no. She should...probably stay away for a couple more years. Hahaha. 

I sure do love my mini DelMar.  I love my Elders and how different they both are, but have the same goal in mind! I am truly blessed to be their mama.  #Lovemyboys!

Week 2 of kidney stone in the stead thereof

This week was hard. Nothing got done because we were trying to figure out what to do with Elder Felix so that I could go out an work and a lot of the time we were just chilling at home waiting for him to pass his kidney stone. So our numbers this week were just terrible. I expect a call later tonight from AP McConkie asking what the freak was going on. It's funny Preach My Gospel teaches us on page 10 that we're not suppose to compare ourselves to other missionaries, and that in the end numbers don't matter as long as you're trying your hardest, which is 100% true. But it's hard to tell people that when you have a bad week and get a call and told to do better. It's just annoying. 
Thu Ha didn't get baptized yesterday because she wanted her daughter to be to her baptism. The only real reason we moved it was because I felt the Spirit to tell me that we should move it a week to the 22nd. We want want her non-member daughter to be there at her baptism because that would greatly increase her daughter's interest in the church and may even lead to her own baptism. She was originally going to get baptized on April 5, but that was way far out. She's been meeting with missionaries since about November. She should have been baptized before I even got into the area. We might even drop her, because if she thinks that she can just keep pushing it off, she will and we'll either never get baptized or it will be when it's most convenient for her. Heads up, Thu Ha. GOD DOESN'T DO THINGS WHEN THEY'RE CONVENIENT FOR YOU. THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT A SACRIFICE AND BRINGS BLESSINGS. Elder Jeffery R. Holland taught: "I am convinced that [membership] is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are The Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him? It seems to me that [members] have to spend at least a few moments in Gethsemane. [Members] have to take at least a step or two toward the summit of Calvary". It's just hard to see people not get that even when you've taught it the most plain way you can. It's hard because people out here having been halfheartedly been going to church their whole lives. They've been living the Gospel to their understanding and that understanding is deeply rooted in them, so it's hard for them to wrap their head around being asked to take more steps, be more committed, make real sacrifices. Same with Grant and Gavin. Their mom has pretty much given us full permission to teach them and baptize them, but they're just not sure and aren't willing to take steps to be sure about it. 
So this week might be a drop week where we drop our entire investigator pool. It take a lot of faith, but it sometimes needs to be done.

Cody

I'm not counting the grays on my head, I'm calling them silver linings instead

This week was...interesting. First and foremost, Elder Felix and I were in the ER last night because we thought his appendix was about to explode in a manner that would put Michael Bay to shame. Turns out that he just had a kidney stone in the stead thereof. So he's been trying to pee out a grain of salt 3mm big. If I could sum up Elder Felix's trip to the ER, it would be, "Shut up! Give me morphine!" Like so: 

"Hey, Elder Felix. Would you like some water?"  

"No! I have to pee! Shut up! Give me morphine!"
He was soooooo high. It was great. He was twerking up a storm. We told him that all that twerking was what gave him a kidney stone and was said, "There's no scientific proof of that!"
Like that, but for 3 hours. He still hasn't passed it. They gave him a jug and a mesh filter. He's going to mail it home to his mom. Other than that, nothing happened this week. Thu Ha is going down this Sunday, though. That's good. 

Cody

We moved a couch into our district meeting, cuz screw plastic chairs. 

A drag queen that Elder Mall taught. 

Elder Mall and the Homies.

I am so blessed to have this kid as mine as well.  He isn't a mama's boy like Jared, but his love runs deep.  I also watched him go through the refiners fire. The Savior is so proud of us when we use the Atonement.  That's what he died for. #Atonement #lovemymissionaries #blessedtobetheirmama!

Transfer 9, week 5

This week was alright. Elder Felix got sick a couple days ago and we've been in, so we kind of lacked on working. We committed 5 people to church and only one actually came, which is good. But it's frustrating still. Oh, well. March is going to be a good month. We'll keep going. Nothing much is new here. Missionaries are retarded. For real. They breaking things, never clean, are totally fake, and aspire to positions that are completely out of their control. Won't really miss that. 


Elder Greenburg