Week 37 Mothers Day

🎊Happy Mothers Day 🎉

This week was pretty cool. A lot of things happened, I'll get right into it!

Monday we went up to Wrightwood (just the house) and we went hiking. It isnt very long but there is a gold mine at the end that we explored. it was pretty sick. The pictures inside the mine didn't turn out kosher though so we got some outside. It was super legit. We only explored about half of it though, gotta go back sometime. We also got to teach the Samasoni's, our afakasi part member fam in AppleValley.

Tuesday I gave a training in D-meet about praying with faith. I think it went well idk haha. We taught a lesson in Adelanto to the Mcquire family, (LA parents non-memebr kids) and everytime we go over it seems like there are more children. Their house is just a gathering spot for all the "hood-rat children" as E. Boltz puts it haha. Its cool though because they are all listening and interested.

Wednesday, the only thing that stood out was we pretty much got verbally molested by a medically LA member of Adelanto. She always says that missionaries are like her grandchildren and such but then this time as she shook my hand for a little to long she looked me in the eyes and said "I want to hug you so bad I can taste it." And then we planned to never go back #creepyfactor100000

Thursday we had a lesson with Lance in the morning so we had to leave early. AV is about 35 minutes from our house #thestruggle #everywhereisourarea  But then we were also able to teach Iris. Then we swung by the homeless shelter to help unload a truck. Pretty busy morning. We taught a few other people that afternoon.

Friday we weekly planned and had a super good day lined up. Then Satan worked his magic and nobody was home. It was alright though because we went to the funeral of our LA families father, who went to AoG. There was only 4 other members there other than us, the rest were JW, AoG, or 7th day. It was one of the weirdest experiences of my life. They all raised their hands in the air and kept shoutin "amen!" and "Praise the Lord!" then they did this weird chant at the beginning of every speaker. It was super funny, tried my hardest not to burst out laughing the whole time.

Saturday I went into the La Paz ward with E. Guerra. It was a weird exchange because we had service planned as a zone from 5am-1pm. We went to the huge salt flats (I think its salt?) where people drive hecka fast and we cleared some bushes off the side. It was super fun. To bad tiwi has a 90mph limit #killjoy  But then we pretty much just went to a spanish Mothers Day party and exchanged back. It was fun haha

Sunday we had no meeting before church so we tried by our gators to see if they were coming to church. Long story short, they didnt. A lot of them were down the hill so hopefully they went down there. We got to skype the fam after church though. It was super weird because it seems like I just skyped 'em a few weeks ago #missiontime 

But yea, crazy week. also I forgot my camera cord at home. The one time I actually have pictures to send home......😩 

Hope you all have a bless'ed week!

Elder Ockey