Week 94

Hows it going you greasy gators?!

Another awesome week in the land of endless p-days and service haha

There isnt a whole lot of people up here. The second counsellor was telling us out of the 10 thousand homes up here only 3 thousand are occupied year round lol. The 4th of July Firework show is supposed to be the best in socal though so thats cool.

We had a good lesson with our only progressing investigator. She gave us some hippie stew lol, it had sweet potatoe and coconut

and goose in it. Dang good! 👌She also offered us a job so we had to tell her that we dont work haha.

But other than that we just did a lot of service and such, walked around a bit.

pce fam

Week 93

What up!

So big bear is pretty much the best place on earth, its like kalispell

but all the houses are cramped together overpopulated-Cali style.

We had some really good lessons with a lot of cool people. There are

so many granolas here haha! people talk to us about 'shakras' all the

time loool.

Mostly just pics to explain the week!

<3 you!

yea thats a dead chipmunk in someones living room

Week 92

whats up homies!

So i got transfered. 6 week shafted but I dont really consider it a shaft.

My mission dream has come true! Im in big bear! its only gonna be 6

weeks but oh well. Im with Elder Morton so we are gonna get some

serious work done!

Im super excited. I was gonna take some pics but it took us like 2

hours to drive from the mission office to here and we crashed, then I

unpacked (a little) and now Im crashing again.

Here is us in the family history center.

Also the closest missionaries to us are like 40 minutes away so we

pretty much isolated.

Wooo! Im pumped

Elder Ockey

Week 91

what up!

Memorial day was yesterday so we emailing on Tuesday. pretty exciting.

We went to a bbq at Sergios cuz he had the day off. Caught a little of

the Monaco Grand Prix but don't tell anyone ;) shhhhhhh

Man we were both sick this week so we don't have a whole lot to report on.

We have been working a ton with an excommunicated member. I don't

think I have ever wanted anyone to progress more in my live than him

right now. We got a super solid church commitment out of him for

sunday but then when church was a little into it we got a super long

text from him. it said something to the effect of, "Sorry Elders, I

don't think I can be forgiven. I don't know what to do anymore." but

really sad and heartfelt and we didn't know what to do.

We managed to catch him at home a little after church and had a crazy

talk with him.  It was hands down the most I have relied on the spirit my whole

mission. a lot was said and the spirit was felt. We are now going over

every night to make sure he has been reading at least a verse a day,

then we read a verse with him as well. Pretty awesome.  Now hes been

reading every day since and taking steps towards coming back! whoooooooo!

Elder Ockey