Week 14

Transfers today! I am staying same area same comp which is cool. The YSA is fun but also a struggle, low numbers and super needy but we make it happen.

Our address is:

910 W Phillips St

Apt #179

Ontario California

91762

How do they say it? Charity is the pure love of Christ? haha

This week was supposed to be good but it ended up being a little sub-par.

Last monday was pretty normal, week 6 pday you dont really buy anything because you may get transfers so we just played b-ball at the church pretty much all day. When we got back we found out a uhaul destroyed a carport in front of our apt, classic california drivers. I guess I'll use this as an opportunity to describe some things I have seen drivers do here for the past 3 months. 1. Drive through a stop sign with hazard lights on (I guess that makes it okay?) 2. At a light, be in the left turning lane, but go straight and cut off everyone else. 3. Buy a dumpy civic or similar car, slam it to the ground, install super loud muffler. Do nothin else so your car is super loud but super slow. 4. Join the 89% and by a mustang, literally we see 50 mustangs a day, I used to count. But yea, California.

Tuesday was basic d-meet day except Pres. Hobbs came to another districts meeting and was talking with everyone. Once he left you could see the relief on everyones face haha, kind of nerve racking like he is gonna call someone out for something. We tried to contact a bunch of refereals through knocking and also calling, they each answered but then hang up right away when we said missionaries #thestruggleisreal

Food bank wednesday! Doing service is always nice, we get to help out all these people, but at the same time it amazes me. All these people are begging for food and getting it for free but they complain when they get something they dont want, and then they just throw it in the trash. Honestly I lose a bunch of faith in humanity every food bank day. E. Hatch (one of our ward mates) accidently cut open a can of cranberry juice and it sprayed is white shirt, so now its all pink. We also had a lesson with Eunice and all her crazy little kids, we were really looking forward to it because we didnt meet her last week. She cancelled last minute though. :(

Turkey day! We had a ward turkey bowl in the morning but it ended up missionaries outnumbering ward members but we still had a lot of fun. Also a non-member from a part  member fam showed up which was awesome! WE only had one dinner which I am thankfull for, the tongan elders had 3 in 3 hours haha. We ended up staying at dinner a lot longer than we planned. We are encouraged to proselyte on thanksgiving but from the few people we tried and from E. Jennings experience it seems like although most people are home, they would rather spend time with their fams than listen to us preach. 

Friday we got to meet with Jason, who we havent seen in a long time. Turns out he got anti-ed super hard, he had notes and notes on how Joseph smith made the church to get rich and he stole from people and killed a bunch of people at Carthage jail. Wtheck Jason you showed so much promise! This got us worried because we had rescheduled with Eunice and her kids for friday but when we walked up to the door we saw the lights turn off and no-body answered. Hopefully we can get in this week, they are such a cool fam.

We had a Tongan member recently move into Ontario with his family who just got back from his mission in Samoa. Anyway he signed up for dinner Friday and said he would drop us off food. we were just expecting some sandwiches or something but then he drops off this huge feast which was awesome! Shout-out to Ean even though he doesn't know this exists, your the coolest!

Saturday we were supposed to do exchanges with the tongan elders because E. Aso's comp doesnt like seafood and my comp doesnt like seafood and we both really wanted seafood. Sadly that didnt end up happening. This transfer though for sure... maybe haha. We said goodbye to Jorge (the investigator I taught my very first lesson to... in spanish) because he was going back to Mexico that night. Other than that we saw a few investorgators and tried by Eunice again, same thing. I hope she wasnt anti-ed.

Sunday was your basic YSA sacrament, because we had so many people last week obviously we only had like 8 people this week. dang, just come to church you lazy people!

Tell the Remingtons and everyone else I miss those awesome thanksgivings.

Anyway, all is good here, staying another month and a bit. Crazy how fast this is going.

Elder Ockey