One Great Week Down

What is up friends and family!! I had an amazing week, let’s hope this email does it justice!!!!

Monday- Preparation day was good! We had a cookout as a district and it was really good! We had great food and great company. That night we stopped by our friend Kyle and taught him a little bit more about prayer and help him realize the importance of building a relationship with our Father in Heaven!

Tuesday: District Council was awesome! We talked a lot about teaching by the spirit and the importance of faith! It was cool to reflect on times that I have been led by the spirit as well as the times in my mission that I have had high faith and the impact that it has on the work of God!! Then we had an awesome visit with our friend Jeff and he really loved The Family Proclamation to the World and we had Brother Allen there who is amazing!! Then we met Auggie!! He is super humble and I am excited to see his faith grow! Unfortunately his family had a struggle this week, so please pray for them so they can come to church!!!!!

Wednesday: We had MLC which took up a lot of the day. We were supposed to get a new car for the Elders in our zone while we were down there, but the new car had a broken transmission, so it is in the shop still. We have shared the car with the Elders that are in our complex, so I have gotten to bike a couple times and it is a lot of fun!! We had an awesome lesson with the Ramirez family, who need lots of prayers, but are willing to read the Book of Mormon and said, "We have seen a change in our family since you started coming by" which is amazing to hear!!!!

Thursday: I met a famous boxer!!! We were walking over on Ventura Ave. and walked up to Victor Cruiz. As we were talking with him he brought up how he was a pro boxer and told us to look him up. We gave him a Plan of Salvation Pamphlet and hopefully will be meeting up with him and his buddy this week!! We met with Auggie again and talked about prayer and how that can bring his family peace!!

Friday: I got to be with an old companion for the day, Elder Clawson! We had a lesson with our friend Ann who is very interesting. The first day we met her she had a giant bottle of Fireball whiskey, and told some crazy stories, but it was fun! We also met with the Ramirez family again, they are amazing!!!

Saturday: Pretty normal day. But we had an awesome lesson with our friend Alexis. Her and her two kids(Kiko and Alexander) are amazing and spoiler alert, they came to church!!! After our lesson with them, we went and met our friend Gustavo who is pretty cool, but said he will be hard to get in contact with.

Sunday: We had a crazy day. Both the wards we cover start at the same time 15 minutes away from each other. So we welcomed our friends to the family ward, sped over to the YSA ward, sat through sacrament, sped over to the family ward to see Alexis before she left and she had already left... But it was a fun little adventure. Then we met a kid named Caleb who wanted us to knock on his friends doors, so we did. And we met Arturo, who took a pamphlet and said we could go back!!!

Mosaih 25:24 "And they were called the people of God. And the Lord did pour out his Spirit upon them, and they were blessed, and prospered in the land."

I have truly seen the spirit be poured out upon the people of Ventura and the people in our whole mission. It's been amazing to see the miracles God is showing me and those I'm serving around!!!!

Love you all, have an awesome week!!!

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