Week 48 Letter

Week 48 Letter

(Sent June 3,2013)

All:

So Deb and Cameron moved today. Some elders in Santa Anna are going to get a really amazing referral. But aside from them we don't have really any promising investigators. We're working on it though.
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On Saturday we had a cool miracle experience. It was time for us to go out tracting, so Elder Webb and I prayed where we needed to go. I felt impressed to go to Sawgrass Creek ln. So we biked down there and started tracting on Castle Pines which hooks into Sawgrass. We reached the bottom of Castle Pines and I was feeling a little burnt out from tracting. Elder Webb reminded me "the whole reason we came down here was to knock Sawgrass..." so we did. As we were walking we ran into a father riding bikes in his driveway with a few kids. We talked with him for a little bit. He said his name was David, and that he was a less-active member. He told us about how his parents had the missionaries over all the time and asked us when church was. We talked for a bit and he said that he'd come next Sunday to church. As we were walking away Elder Webb heard him turn to one of his sons and say "hey, do you want to get baptized?" It was really cool, I love it when we can see the Spirit guiding us where we need to go. 

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Also on that street a super old guy talked to us for an hour. I would like to emphasize the "HE talked" part. He just kept going and going and going. We were standing there being blinded and baked by the sun. He was super nice, and had some cool things to say about how awesome God is and whatnot but I can't say that it was an overly pleasant experience. He wouldn't accept any invitations either, he just wanted someone to talk to, which is okay.

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We also found out what Elder Webb's problem with his back is. He went to see a chiropractor (waaaay over in Rubidoux (look it up on a map it's north of Riverside) so getting there has been an issue. Anyway, he has a "subluxation complex with acute radiating myocytis"... which interestingly enough is not caused by the wind.Practical applications of this. he needs to go back to the chiropractor a few more times this week (so we have to bum rides from members), not bend over, and ice his back 9 times a day! NINE times for 20 minutes with an hour in between. That's three hours by itself! It is really hard for us to do that on bikes because we live at the top of our area and no matter where we go it takes awhile to get home. We'll see how things work out.

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We also got to go to the temple this week (i sent a picture along) As always it was awesome, and I received some answers on what to do with certain things in our area. Which is great. I love the spirit of the temple. You can feel all of the stress just lift away when you walk in the doors.

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On the way home from the temple our ride wanted to take us to "The Hat" which apparently has "world famous pastrami sandwiches". I don't know if they were world famous or not but they were really good. The fries came in a huge bag too, like Five Guys but more. We were driving there on the freeway when I looked out the window and read the sign "Entering Rancho Cuchamunga (i can never spell it)" which incidentally is quite a ways into the San Bernadino mission... oops. Well, at least I can say that I've been to Cuchamunga, a very wild and exotic city deep in the urban jungle of California...

Anyway, I'm out of time. Thanks for reading this, and for your prayers. Please write.
Elder Bryce Johns