Week 66 Letter

Jurupa Week 5

October 7, 2013

 I had a salad for two lunches this week (using fresh, organic spinach, carrots, apples, and roast beef. Yesterday I made home fries from raw potatoes. I felt very accomplished lol.

All:

So remember how last week I said we were praying (we also ended up fasting) for Adan to get work off permanently on Sundays? He did. He asked his boss (incidentally his dad. They run a small farm so they go to farmer's markets pretty much on a daily basis. Sunday is a pretty big day for that sort of thing.) and his boss allowed him Sundays off permanently. We were actually on exchanges that day so I wasn't there, but Elder Coleman told me about it.
Adan and Marybell attended the last session of general conference. They enjoyed it a lot and took a bunch of notes. They're super excited for their baptism on the 19th. We are as well.

Our other investigators Bryan and Jeffery (they're brothers and are 20 and 19 respectively) are also progressing in the gospel. They don't really have any religious background and come from a tough household situation, but they love coming to church, and they understand and want the blessings of the spirit in their lives. It's funny because the first thought you have when looking at them is "look at those punks..." but they are really cool. It's awesome to be able help people change and see them become happy. That's really what it's all about. Is helping people be happy, that's why I love being a missionary.

Cool quote from Elder Richard's training two weeks ago (I didn't catch the source)
"As a straw thrown up indicates the direction of the wind, even so the little things in our lives indicate the direction we're going" ~unknown

This last week Elder Coleman and I held our first zone meeting. It was my first one as a zone leader. It was a little weird coming up with the trainings and running the meeting etc. I'm not too sure how well it went, but hopefully the zone will start applying the things we talked about in their missionary work.

General conference was awesome as usual.  I really liked both of President Uchtdorf's talks especially His first one.
 I  really liked how bold the apostles were.

Well I'm out of time (as usual.)
Thank you for all of your support,
Elder Bryce Johns