New Address

14581 Agave Way

Adelanto California

92301

I'm living in a house! apparently it isn't the nicest in the mission but its pretty sick. Only spent a few minutes and now we gotta do some chores and such.

This is a google map image of the house. (Damon)

Week 26

I hit 6 months this week! Crazy.

Also we got transfer calls this morning and we hafta be at the mission office at 10:30 but I am going to the desert! Adelanto/Samoan ward (apparently I will be in a house as well)! Man the poly wards are crazy I am super psyched. This week was cool as well. Hopefully I dont forget to much.

Monday.. shoot I packed my planner. THis is all off of memory so Ill probably miss a lot. We had our usual p-day activity. It is honestly so hot here. it was 30 something that day and we were outside. I am so scared for the summer.

Tuesday was your basic d-meet day. We taught Daisy one last time (elder Bentley is in the same area but the YSA isnt covered by him anymore) which was fun. It sort of feels like we are at home when we teach YSA's because we just start talking about random stuff haha.

Wednesday we had exchanges with the ZL's again. Elder Nielsen came over with me. We were able to teach a few less actives and gave a blessing to a member from Washington who was visiting non-member family and somehow got our number. She went a little to in-depth with her life story though....

THursday we did service for a family. we tore up their lawn, reminded me of last summer diggin up our planters in the backyard haha. WE taught Patrice again that day, its a struggle because she has a solid testimony and everything, she just struggles with WoW.

Friday was awesome! I only remember seeing two people. We saw Brother and Sister Bramer, who are less active. They have a tonne of birds in their backyard. The birds were talking and laughing at us it was super cool/weird honestly we would teach them and a bird would say "Bob! Bob Bramer!"or "helloo!"and I would just bust out laughing it was awesome. Anyway that night Daisy and Azhley and Eduardo took us out to this super sketchy taco place, we were the only white people. Its just a tent set up behind a warehouse hidden by a bunch of semi-trucks because its not technically legal haha. We had a bunch of fun saying goodbye and such. (we sort of figured I was leaving)

Saturday was sort of a chaffa (lazy) missionary day. We had lunch and dinner with more YSA's, we got the call for me to pack my bags at lunch but they don't tell us were we are going until Monday morning so we only knew I was leaving. We were able to re-establish contact with the Investigator family with a gazillion kids under 11 years old which was nice. We watched the full length restoration and I am pretty sure she cried (whoops)

SUnday was crazy, I told a bunch of people I was leaving and we visited some people who werent at church. We had a lesson with some LA Tongans then they took a picture of us and sent it to my moms cell phone (idk if she got it or not). It was hilarious though because we were trying to talk them into going to ysa FHE the next day and the dialogue went a little like this:

Elders: "There will be food there"

Tongans: "Im on a diet"

active sister: "there will be single women"

Tongans pause: "Im gay"

Haha it was freakin hilarious. we all burst out laughing. But yea that was the last lesson I taught in Ontario for now.

Have a good week!

Elder Ockey

Week 24

Whats up fam? so this week was pretty basic, back to the normal missionary schedule. 

Monday we played soccer and rugby as a zone. (none of the sister came so it was a little violent haha) But then we had fhe and such. Regular monday

Tuesday was pretty good. We didnt have a dinner scheduled that day but we were blessed because one of the LA's we saw gave us lunch which was sweet. We are kind of lacking on the investigator teaching pool but our LA pool is huge so we spend a lot of time working on them. In the world-wide missionary broadcast they general authorities were saying that the less-active members were the gold mine for investigators, we just need to know how to mine the gold. SO thats kind of what we are doing I suppose.

Wednesday we had exchanges with the zone leaders. I went with Elder Reddish to his area. Sadly, most of our appointments fell through, but we were still able to teach one of their investigators who is 13 years old haha. He is a wild kid. We stopped by a family, right before exchanging back that night, who had about 15 cats in a one bedroom apartment. It smelt pretty bad. 

Thursday we were able to have a lesson with one of our most progressing investigators Patrice. She wont set a baptismal date until she has been coming to church for a whole year. Hopefully we can change that haha

Friday was your basic weekly planning day, not much happened.

Saturday was exchanges again. Elder Reese (E. Ludwigs comp) came to our area with me. Apparently in Ontario you can only do yard sales 4 time a year on certain weekends and this was one of those weekends so we just contacted at a bunch. Got a few golf clubs as well as a new investigator. 

Sunday was your basic church day, 7:00-4:30 for us. Gosh its a struggle staying awake. But anyway, the Negretes from the family ward (they also have a YSA son) invited us for dinner at 3, so we were a little late and only missed the first quarter of the superbowl haha. I know we are so apostate dont worry about me. We still got to see some lessactive tongans that night to bring back the spirit haha.

Thats a record number of "haha"s in a email for me I think. 

Have a great week! I love you guys!

Elder Ockey

Week 23

Dang I know I say this a lot but time on the mission goes by super fast. It seems like last week we were up in the desert switching comps but it was 3 weeks ago. wtheck. Anyway....

Monday was you basic p-day. We went to a park and played some rugby, touch of course, we aint breakin missionary rules here ;) 

Then we continued with the regular p-day schedule, since we are in YSA we have FHE at 7 so pretty much all day is chill haha.

Tuesday we didnt have district meeting because we have a zone conference last week so it made the day seem super long, but we got a lot done. We saw a less active that we havent seen in a few weeks and we think his girlfriend is living there... soooooo yea no good.

Wednesday was your average day, we did food bank and such in the morning. We saw a family who just found out that their father has acute leukemia which sucks but apparently he has a really high chance of surviving. The family is sort of on the edge of activity and the ward is really trying to help them out. As we were teaching their son (everyone else was at the hospital or asleep) their cat started nursing on E. Bentley's shirt super loudly it was hilarious. but anyway....

Thursday we didnt have any investigator appointments so we spent the whole day visiting less actives and were able to see a lot which was cool because people usually "aren't home."

Friday I don't even remember what happened, we saw a few people I suppose haha. Ever since E. Jennings left I haven't been as diligent in writing noteworthy things from each day so it makes the emails a little more boring... sorry

Saturday we had exchanges with the spanish elders. E. Glasgow came to our area with me. We start off every Saturday (usually) with a missionary coordination meeting, we meet with the ward mission leader and ward missionaries and talk about the work. Anyway we told them that E. Glasgow could only speak Spanish so they were all talking to him in spanish and translating for him. Then that night we had dinner with the ward mission leader and his family (who were all at the meeting) and E. Glasgow gave the message about the gift of tongues in spanish and bore his testimony in english. They all had this super surprised look on their faces until they realized what just happened haha. But apart from that prank we got some good work done I promise.

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Ockey

This is from exchanges with elder spaulding when we ate the really big sushi boat. he sent me the pics this week. its kinda blurry, the waitress who took the pic was buzzed haha. they were doing sake bombs