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Happy Easter and General Conference and Left the Mission - 4/6/18

Hey y'all!  Tuesday, we did our laundry and went shopping. Then we went to get a car wash and came back to the flat to change and email. Then we went out to lunch with the zone leaders and played basketball at the church building. And the YSA Sisters came too. We got a call from a member to come over for dinner at the end of the p-day. So we went to have dinner with the McBrides and they are super cool, chill people. Then we exchanged with the zone leaders. Wednesday, we did our studies and went out to lunch. Then we had a really good lesson with our investigator Chloe who has a baptismal date for the 14th and helped a women packed her car because someone told her to leave California and NEVER come back since she testified against her cousin's ex-husband for a restraining order and restraining order against his son and is now going to kill her for testifying against him. Anyways the whole thing is just a big mess and crazy legal stuff. We went to help a member in the Mandarin ...

Kisses By a Member - 3/27/18

Tuesday, we did our laundry and went shopping. Then we came back to the flat to change and put stuff away and dropped off our car at the shop to get 4 new tires and a oil change. The zone leaders picked us up and went to Sea World! I haven't been to Sea World since Blake and Kenzie's wedding. We had a blast at Sea World! Our mission president gave us permission to ride the rides too! Then we went to the mission office to get mail and needs. Then we went to pick up the car and got ready for the evening. We had an interesting but good lesson with a less-active member and went to Balboa Park to do some finding and played badminton while finding too! By the way, I'm pretty terrible at badminton but it's fun and pretty intense. Wednsday, we did our studies and Elder Chen did MyPlan and had lunch. Then we did some finding until dinner with the Speeds. We visted a few members in the ward and did call-ins. Thursday, we had district meeting and lunch. Then we did language study ...

Uber Drivers? 3/20/18

First I would like to say, thank y'all for all the birthday wishes, packages and letters. I'm an actual adult. I had a great birthday! Tuesday, we did our laundry and went shopping. Then we came back to the flat to change and put stuff away. I got a haircut and we went to pick up the ZLs to get some lunch and went to the beach as a district to play on the beach. Then a member in the UC 1st ward took us out to dinner and did some finding. Wednsday, we did our studies and went to the stake centre to do a baptismal interview for the Zone Leaders. Then we had lunch and went to do some finding until dinner with the Speeds. Then we did some more finding and went back to the flat to prepare for call-ins. Thursday, we went to go pick up some of the ASL Elders and went to the church for interviews with President. Then we did our studies and had lunch and went to the library to have Elder Chen do his MyPlan. Then we did some weekly planning and visited a less-active member but it turned ...

Two Asian Elders and One Big City - 3/13/18

 Tuesday, we exchange with Del Norte and went to the transfer meeting spot in Mission Valley. Then I got with my new-old compaion, Elder Chen and went to the place where we live to unpack. We live at a members home and it's both of us first time to live in a members home and white-wash an area. We went to lunch with one of my friends from bountiful, Cameron Auernig, Maddy Pettit and their friends from USU. Then we went shopping and finished unpacking and went to the church to play some sports and email. Then we met the older couple member who we live with and visted the bishop of the ward for the English and Mandarin branch since we are attending both. In my district, we have 6 Mormon Battalion Sisters, 3 YSA Sisters and 4 Elders including Elder Chen and I. Wednsday, we went to some flat complex to give a baptismal interview for the YSA Sisters. Then we had lunch and did language study. And Elder Chen did some MyPlan and did some finding until dinner with Sister Speed. Then we went...

New Language, District Leader, White Wash, Opd Companion (Elder Chen), Same Me - 3/6/18

 Tuesday, we did some laundry and went shopping. Then we went to the church to have multi-zone sports and had dinner. Then we tried some referrals and less-actives. Wednsday, we went to see a less-active who is in EMT training and needed to take our vials and had back-to-back service with a member and a former-investigator. Then we visited a few investigators and had dinner with Rosa who's a less-active member and had LH correlation. Thursday, we went to have lunch with the Del Norte elders at an all you can eat buffett and had weekly planning, writing a draft email to our DL to fix the issue with one of our ward mission leaders because he's a hypocrite and told us that we're not doing a good job, comparing us to the missionaries in Boston and he's not supportive. And that's pretty much the nicest way of putting it. And we worked on stake packets and visted a few investigators and did some finding. We had 3 appointments and one of them cancelled but both of them wen...

Almost Got Towed - 2/27/18

 Tuesday, for the rest of the day, we went to the temple and got some lunch. We had a multi-zone sports day so that was fun! Then we did some prep for the baptism for this Saturday. Wednesday, we cleaned our place up for inspections tomorrow morning. Then we did some service for someone in the ward and did some finding. Then we did some finding until dinner with the Krauses and visited a few families in the wards. We got a tow notice thing on our car. Then had a district video conference call. Thursday, we cleaned up our place before we got our flat inspected. Then we had a lesson with a part-member family but that fell through so we contacted a few people. We got another tow notice thing today. Then we had dinner with the Paynes and two good lesson in the evening. Friday, we did some service for someone who's right now a potential and then had district lunch and meeting. Then we went to dinner at the Trepeniers and visited a family. As we street contacted this guy and we talked to...

CNY in A Day in the Mission - 2/20/18

Tuesday, we did our laundry and went shopping. We came back to the flat to change and headed out to camp wildwood for sports. Then we did some finding until we exchange with the district leader. I got the greenie so I'll be training him tomorrow. Wednsday, we did some service for a former-investigator and then we did some finding until dinner with the De Guzmans and had a part member family lesson. Then we went to mutual and had a lesson with an investigator who is getting baptized next Saturday and had a district video conference and exchange back. Thursday, we did some weekly planning and visited an investigator who's going through a nasty trail next week. Then we did some more finding and had RB correlation. Friday, we helped an investigator and had a lesson with investigators. Then we had district meeting and lunch.Then we visited a part-member family and got the son set with a baptismal date for the 24th of March and had dinner with the Steinmans at this Vietnamese restaur...