Week 67

wassup familia?

This week was super chill. It was a lot of fun and we got a lot of work done (for Upland :P)

The creche festival (as of this year called the "Christmas Nativity Art and Music Festival") was super fun. We helped set up and we were there every night handing out cards and pamphlets and copies of the Book of Mormon. It was super successful. The whole church was filled with nativity scenes and a ton of people came. It was a struggle trying to distinguish members from non-members so there were a few awkward contacts but it was all trill. It was super fun. We got a lot of referrals and a few real promising potentials from it. Sadly I took no pictures but just imagine Christmas spirit throwing up all over the cultural hall and the chapel and such.

Other than that we had a successful week. We taught our gator FLoranette, she keeps saying that our message is true and anything from God is true, and then tells us we shouldnt teach out of anything but the Bible... Sigh... we are working on it. She just wont pray! 

We got two new gators. Shawn is a cool dude, the sisters tracted into him and passed him off to us. We talked with him a little bit but didnt teach a full lesson but he is super open and wants us to come by often.

Our other new gator we sorta picked up last night, he is the son of a member in our ward who is super cool. We had dinner with her last night and she said her son had taken lessons previously from missionaries and we are gonna pick them back up. 

So overall a pretty good week in Upland. Its starting to get not hot so thats nice.

GEtting real close to Christmas so that crazzyyy.

Luv ya

Elder Ockey

Me and elder Manfull. He came out at my year mark. so chill