Greenville chapel in Costa Mesa. It was quite a gathering. They had
multiple rooms each dedicated to a different language. They had Samoan,
Tongan, English and Spanish. We watched most of conference in the
Spanish chapel. I couldn't understand everything, but I could decipher
the main idea. So that was an interesting experience. But the real
exciting part is that after the morning session on Saturday, I had my
first baptism. The name of the guy we baptized is Juan Audirac, he works
maintainence at the Honda Center and he is just a really nice and
receptive guy. I can barely speak Spanish, so I didn't really contribute
much to the teaching, but Elder Z. wanted me to perform the
the ordinance .I'll have to figure it out or later. But it was a neat
experience. We'll have to have baptisms more often. But after conference, I was
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| First Baptism Juan Audirac with Elder Z. |
President Bowen, and went over to the mission home and talked with him for about an hour and he gave me a priesthood blessing. So I felt a lot
better after that.
Answers to questions:
We email from a family history center room in the chapel in Costa Mesa.
I usually email for about an hour. I email you, and all my friends in
the field.
Now most of the member know that I hate vegetables, so they are pretty
accommodating.
See other email about the baptism
About 4-5 new contacts
The Spanish is not coming any easier
Elder Z. is ok. I can't really figure him out. He has a very
different personality type than I'm used to, but he's ok.
I think I'm buying a bike this week, could you make sure I have
sufficent funds on my card?
They gave us a mission credit card, which is where the $150 and the $60
for bags is.
Sleep is good. I have a terrible mattress, so my back is killing me.
The apartment is ok. The walls are paper thin, so we can hear almost
everything going on in our neighbor's room.
We did go to McDonalds the other day.
Yep, conference in Spanish
I share my testimony every day
Um, well at Ross today, I noticed that they have a lot of good dress
pants so I bought a few pairs. I think they might be too small so I'm
going to return them, but if you could maybe pick up some either at Ross
or Kohl's for cheap that would be awesome. I like the ones that are
somewhat on the border of conservative and flashy, like a nice charcoal
or something. I think I need a 34 waist now ( I know fat huh?) The Mish
Mall pants are not my style.
Oh and ties. Can't ever have enough ties. Elder Zamora has like 30. Ross
has some really good cheap ties.
I love you mommy. It means the world to me to have a family back home
who is behind me 100%. I love you guys. I'll try to find time to write
sometime today.
