May 9, 2014
Dear Family:
Monday was normal p-day.
Tuesday some of the craziness of the week started. We only
ended up with 2 hours to go out and teach people so we only got in one lesson.
We had DLC and DDM. After that a whole bunch of missionaries had to go to
Riverside to get new debit cards because of a huge fraud thing that happened. I
don't know. Elder Ringwood had to go with them so I went with Elder Montague to lunch and do some stuff in his
area. When Elder Ringwood got back we had to take some Missionaries to Wildomar
and go give some letters to the Sisters that my comp picked up in Riverside. I
also felt really bad at this point of the day too. I said something to Sisters
Haycock and Sterner (the ones in our ward) that offended Sister Haycock so that
night I called and apologized. I tried to do it when we dropped the letters off
but it didn't work. We went and taught a lesson and then we had to go and help
somebody do service.
Wednesday. It was more normal until about dinner time.
Dinner was pretty weird. We ate with a lady named Claudia. She is a member in
our ward. We met her at a pizza shop with her boy friend who is older than
Claudia's mom. Anyways they are planning on getting
married. They were super nice and we had a good talk. After that we had splits.
I was with a brother I hadn't taken out before on splits. I wish Elder Ringwood
would have briefed me cuz he freaked out our investigators. He kept telling
them things like "You won't see me at church because I work with the
dead." And then not explain it. After he said that about 4 times he also
told them they would stick out at church. Other than that the lesson was good!
Thursday I went to Redlands to go to the doctor. I am going
to convert my doctor. He has a very Mormon perspective. He told me he thinks
the way that Satan is bringing down the family is by breaking up the family and
changing what the definition of family is. We had a good talk about that. He
liked our churches support for Prop 8. After Bro Hansen took us to Tommy's
Burger for lunch in Corona. I guess it is a super famous place in L.A. It is a
burger with a ton of chili on it and it is super good. We tried teaching Gus
again. He wife went in his room and called him out ha. She was doing everything
she could to get him to come out ended up just calling him a chicken. We didn't
get to teach many people that day.
Friday was a slow day too. I forgot to take notes that
day so I don't remember what happened.
Saturday was fun. We did service that morning to help out
Michelle. We should be teaching her mom Pat on Friday. After that we got in as
many lessons as we could cuz the rest of the day was shot. We went and picked
up Elders Cook and Godfrey to help them fill the font and stuff for Gary's baptism.
After that we went to Chili’s for dinner. After that we went to pie night. That
is where one member who loves missionaries always has missionaries over to eat
pie. We got to go so they could be there for transfer calls. Transfers were
good. I am getting Elder Hugie. He is from Oregon. I served around him in Riverside,
but I don't know him that well. He came out with me.
Sunday things got crazy. Church this time was the most chaotic
one I have ever been to because of our investigators. A little back story
though. Michael’s big problem with being baptized is the law of chastity. He
lost his virginity 6 years ago to someone he was engaged to but has been OK since. Anyways Bro Cassio wants us to talk to the
Bishop about it. Well that is pretty much the story. It just got a lot harder
to baptize Micheal, but we will get it done. I am out of time I need to go love
ya bye!!
Elder Wood
