April 28, 2014
Dear Family:
Hi! Well..... bike wasn't as bad as I thought it was going
to be. But I still hate it haha.
Monday.
Tuesday morning we drove to Riverside to give up our car:(
so we haven't had it since then. We got a ride bike from Elders Carr and
Montague. When we got back we got our bikes all fixed up and running and ate
lunch. President interviews after that. It was hard to get everybody there
without us having a car so when I was talking to President about it on the
phone he just said he would go to some
Elders apartment. I thought it was funny the ones he chose. On P day the day
before their apartment got wrecked. We pushed everything out of the way and
made a circle to wrestle in ha. Plus the like 12 boxes of trash in the front
room from cleaning out their apartment. I called them after and said they had
30 minutes to fix it before he got there. My interview was really good.
Unfortunately it was our last interview with him. We will see him a few more
times, it is still sad. We had a few good lessons. It was hard to get dinners
this week without a car. We met somebody at Panda.
Wednesday We had DLC and DDM. Elder Peterson asked me to
come and train in his DDM on member presents. We had a lesson with Michael. He
is still on board. I don't know if I told you but he got his answer and is
following the Word of Wisdom. We couldn't catch him on Saturday or Sunday
so he didn't come to church. He is always normally home so we don't know what
happened yet.
Thursday was boring as well. Still on bike haha. It is hard
to keep up with what we were doing in this area on bike. For some reason hardly
anyone was at home! Things are not going as well as I would like it in our
area. I don't know what we are doing wrong. I am excited for the end of this transfer
to take over the area and do things the way I like to ha. This is the first
time I have really been Jr. comp since I got trained so it is frustrating for
me. Also the first time I haven't gotten doubled into my area also. I don't
think I like getting regularly transferred in now. I like getting doubled in.
We had like 3 lessons that day. Some random member from Orem walked up to me
from Orem when I was at the church. He is here for the winter because of his
health. He is working on one of his neighbors right now. They live in the
neighboring ward. That night we stole the sister’s car to do exchanges. They
took my camera once and took some goofy pics so I printed one off and wrote on
the back and hid it in the car when I left. It was pretty funny when they found
it. They got us back with giving me a plank of wood and Elder Ringwood
ring pops with a stick taped on over the pop. They ate dinner at our house on
Saturday we were going to print off one of the pictures and put it in one of
the frames on the wall and see how long it took them to see it, but we didn't
have time.
Friday I went on exchanges with Elder Cook. That was really
fun. We went into his area. Elder Godfrey went into mine. We had service that
morning with the Spanish Elders. We talked a lot the night before that was fun.
My comp doesn't talk much. Every once and a while he will open up.
Saturday we had Mormon helping hands sort of. We couldn't
call it that because there was another church involved. It was fun. We got
jipped at first. I went with some other Elders way away from Main St. to the
other side of the lake to work on somebody’s trailer house and not where all
the cool stuff was happening on Main where everybody was. But they ran out of
stuff for us to do so we went back and painted/stood there and watched because
we didn't have enough ladders. It was a lot more fun over there we had people
to talk to. We biked a lot trying to get some lessons in. We only got one.
Every night this week except for Friday we had a team-up set up for us at night
so we could catch up for being on bike but things didn't really work cuz nobody
was home.
Sunday at lunch after church we got tracted into. It was
funny cuz we were the only ones at home so answer the door. It was from the
Agape church. They were pretty surprised when we opened the door. That made my
day. We went to a baptism in Wildomar Ward for somebody that Elder Ringwood
taught at the first of his mission. Then splits after that only Bro. Cassio
showed up. Nobody was home again. We took him to go talk to some more people in
the parking lot because we hadn't made all our OYMs. He talked to some people
for me in Spanish and did a really good job. Got return addresses and
numbers. It was cool I have never seen a member be bold enough to just talk to
random people with us.
Well that is pretty much it. Hopefully we get our car back
soon! Well love ya bye!
Elder Wood
