Week 75

sup fam,

sorry this week was really bad. I got the flu and was down for pretty much the whole week, that was miserable. Other than that just transfers happening and such. Staying in uptown.

We had exchanges, Elder Manfull came over to our area with me. This was our last productive day cuz the flu hit me real bad around lunch and I crashed.

We went to a less actives place and he gave us a huge box of snickers. like huge, he got them for free from the mars bars warehouse so he gave us a lot. He also showed us a bunch of sharp pointy swords and such. no pics though. sorry fam.

We had a missionary broadcast on wednesday, that was pretty good. A lot of recap from last year but they changed the missionary schedule. 

dang im sorry but nm else to say. Next week ;)

Elder Ockey

Week 74

hey fam! 

this week wasnt very eventfull im sorry. 

We tried by everyone we had but Satan is workin pretty hard on em so that sucks.  ALso the rain was pretty bad. I actually had to wear a jacket for once so that was cool. It was literally pouring and has been since thursday. 

I had my toe worked on again, it keeps getting ingrown which sucks. This is the third time on this toe. Just take the whole thing already amirite?

We had zone conference in Rancho on thursday which was cool. We talked a lot about ward mission plans which I honestly had no idea was a thing before the mission. You guys should totally check out your ward mission plan to help out the missionaries.

We stayed in a lot this week as per instructions from leaders and sickness. kinda boring. Ive been reading the scriptures a lot. good thing we have puzzles. 

Well fam im sorry but thats about it. 

Heres a pic of me and elder Dinges, taken 5 seconds ago. 

pce

Week 73

whaats uuuuuuuuuup!

man so many American holidays. so yesterday the biblioteca was closed

We had a pretty pimpin week, monday we had to rush over to our appt because it was getting pretty late (they say to just come by monday night) and we caught them home. Its a less active and her youngest kids but her 25 year old son is home from school until august. We talked in the living room and he sat down and participated and asked for a copy of the Book of Mormon, it was sweet! The mother was super surprised because she was always trying to get him to go to the church she goes to now but he wants to come to our church. freakin sweet.

so then we got a call one morning from this crazy less active that we have been trying to get in contact with. he wanted to donate his bike to the mission. We got on the topic of people stealing bikes from missionaries and I told him that we used u-lock. He got all exasperatted and told us thats what the government wants us to call them but they are actually called "kryptos" because they are made out of kryptonite, like the same material that harms superman. I tried to explain to him that was the name of a brand that makes the lock but he was firm in his argument. Man people in cali are crazy

there was an air show at the airport nearby which was cool, got some pics of the mountains on a clear day so thats nice. they are super small though. I miss my rockies :(

ON saturday the youth had something called 'Camp Helaman' so each missionary companionship got a youth for the day. Ours was pretty chill, we taught quite a few lessons and got in with a lot of people we had lost contact with.

Dinner on sunday was interesting, a member invited her friend over, who is from France. She was telling me about how to get a supermodel girlfriend after im done with my crazy youthful years of ski-bumming it was hilarious because she was dead serious but everyone else was losing it. So Ill disappear after I get home for a few years to ski bum for a while and then ill return with a model girlie with me. just you wait fam.

<3

Elder Ockey

Week 72

I just realized I open pretty much every email with the same thing so I changed it up this time.

Happy Birthday mom!🎂 I love you!

(what the heck all the party emojis are gone!  imagine all sorts of gift emojis and such inserted here)

This week went great, although a few of our appointments fell through we were able to meet with most of them. 

We established contact with a less active member who wants to become active again. the cool thing is his wife isnt a member and she wanted him to give her a blessing and thats what made him want to come back. so he can raise his fam with the priesthood and such so thats awesome.

We started to work with a family that is also part member, the mom is the longest running member but they all go to a different church, she is caught up on the verse in revelations 22:18. its so hard with people who just refuse to listen to the spirit and just try to understand everything temporally its so annoying, we could totally explain that that verse specifically says "this book" as in the book of revelations but noooooo. oh well. 

we helped a member in our ward with some service, he is a certified 'arborist' so he cuts trees. we helped him trim another members tree for service which was legit. hes got a pimpin wood chipper.

It actually got super hot here this week. I wore a short sleeve pretty much everyday. ug it was awful. I was sweaty and everything. are you all jelly yet? it started to rain this weekend and it hasnt stopped since... cali in a drought my butt. There was some crazy thunder last night at 3. it set off all the cars in the area and rattled our windows. it was scary. I wish it would snow instead.

sorry fam i dont have any pics

weve got another packed week this week. Its all good work but I feel like its boring to read about unless something crayyyz happens.

well, cya later

Elder Ockey

Week 71

Happy New Year! Its 2017 homies and my black-hole year is over.

We had a pretty interesting week. We helped a bunch of lesbian hoarders clean out there nasty house which smelt like a dirty litter box and now the sisters are going to start teaching them! its pretty funny. 

We did a lot of service this week and tried to get a lot of teaching done as well but it didnt work out. But an awesome miracle. We tried by a ton of peeps places, less actives, gators, formers, you name it. And we have more set appointments for this upcoming week than I have had ever in Upland! freakin awesome. I am so pumped for this upcoming week. 

New years was about normal. We were gonna eat with the spanish elders because we didnt have a dinner but we got a last minute phone call from some members so we took the spanish elders with us there. It was pretty nice.

Today we went on a hike which was pretty sweet, not as good as the gold mine in Wrightwood though so thats to bad. It was super icy and we almost died pretty much 100 times on our way down but its nbd. The library comps are super slow so I only have one pic from it for this week. unless a miracle happens.

Well, Ill let you know next week if all these appointments go through, which they will but Ill let you know how many we baptize on the freakin spot.

pce and love

Elder Ockey